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THE INVISIBLE ARAB
The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions
- By Marwan Bishara -
ISBN: 9781568587080
Publisher: Nation Books, New York, United States
Published: 2012
Binding: HARDcover with Dustjacket 258 pages
Condition: UNread & displayed condition! HERE in MELBOURNE! A retired display
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Edition: FIRST EDITION: 1st printing COMPLETE NUMBER LINE
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SYNOPSIS ....
The Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al Jazeera English and the anchor of the program “Empire”, combines on-the-ground reporting, extensive research and scholarship, and political commentary in this book on the complex influences that made the revolutions possible. Bishara argues that the inclusive, pluralistic nationalism that motivated the revolutions are indispensable to their long-term success.
The Invisible Arab is a voyage in time from the Arab world’s 'liberation generation’ through the 'defeated' and 'lost generations', arriving at today’s 'miracle generation'. Bishara unpacks how this new generation, long seen as a demographic bomb, has proved to be the agent of progress, unity and freedom. It has in turn used social networks to mobilize for social justice.
Bishara discusses how Israel, oil, terrorism and radical Islam have affected the interior identity of the region as well as Western projections upon it. Protection of Israel, Western imperial ambition, a thirst for oil, and fear of radicalism have caused many Western regimes and media to characterize Arab countries and people as unreceptive to democracy or progress. These ideas are as one-dimensional as they are foolhardy. Bishara argues that the Arab revolutions present a great window of opportunity for reinventing and improving Arab ties with the rest of the world— notably the West—on the basis of mutual respect and mutual interest.
The revolutions will be judged by how they realize freedom and justice, and how they can pave the way for reconciling and accommodating nationalism and Islam with democracy. Bishara argues that these pillars—liberty and justice reconciled with religion and nationalism, form the bedrock that will allow stability and progress to flourish in the Arab world and beyond.
About the Author
Marwan Bishara is Al Jazeera English's senior political analyst and the editor & host of “Empire”, a program on the channel that examines global powers and their agendas. He was previously a professor of International Relations at the American University of Paris and a fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes et Sciences Sociales. Bishara's writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, The Guardian, Le Monde and The Nation, among other outlets. He is also the chairman of The Galilee Foundation, a UK based charity that provides over one hundred students annually with university scholarships. He lives in Washington DC, Paris, and Dohar.
Marwan Bishara (b. Nazareth) is a Palestinian journalist. A former professor of International Relations at the American University in Paris and Research Fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; currently, he works for Al Jazeera, as the senior political analyst. Marwan is a brother of Azmi Bishara (an Arab Christian politician; former member of the Israeli Knesset representing the Balad party). Bishara is an author who writes extensively on global politics, he is widely regarded as a leading authority on the Middle East and international affairs. [1]
"Growing up in Nazareth, an Arab in a Jewish state, a secular Christian in a traditional Muslim society, a leftist in a Baptist school, I learned firsthand how managing ideological, religious and national differences helps us evolve peacefully. Succumbing to them generates fundamentalism and antagonism. Applying brute force to overcome them-as Israel, my country, has done to my people, the Palestinian Arabs-fails utterly." [2]
Very Informative & Interesting read!
Reviews
“There have been few events as consequential in recent history as the Arab Spring, and if one wants to understand its genesis, one should read this book. Engaging in a regionwide analysis with a concentration on Egypt and Tunisia, Bishara brings out little-known aspects of the tremors that have been felt around the world…. Bishara presents a clear-eyed assessment of the dictatorships that have blighted the Arab landscape.” - Foreign Policy in Focus
“Bishara tears down the Western media's narrative of the Arab revolutions….[The Invisible Arab] helps make all that was invisible to the Western eye about the Arab Spring visible.”- London School of Economics Review of Books
“The Invisible Arab is a small book that pulls a lot of punches …. Bishara's analysis is thoughtful and detailed.” - Foreign Affairs
“[I]nformed and engaging…” - Thinking Fits (blog)
“Marwan Bishara's The Invisible Arab… sings like a canary…. The Invisible Arab is at its most resonant when reconstructing the building blocs of Arab misery that pinned down much of the 20th century.” Library Journal, Starred Review
“Remarkably informative and thorough.” - Publisher's Weekly
“An engaging new book…[Bishara] delivers a sweeping, provocative and at times entertaining tale, revolution jokes and all….The Invisible Arab is an insightful and absorbing read for inquiring minds, and a valuable tool for students of the Middle East. As globally resonant events continue to unfold in the region, a sequel is clearly in order.” - Huffington Post
“Avoiding the pitfall of seeing the revolution in isolation, Bishara elegantly charts how the potent forces of national-ism, Islamism, and Western intervention all mixed to create last year's revolutions.” - Newsweek / Daily Beast
ID: International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs“ [The Invisible Arab] is a must-read for students and scholars of the Middle East and the Arab world….The book does an excellent job of documenting the efforts at change, and suggesting how change might ultimately occur.” - Wisconsin State Journal
This is an insightful and well written documentation .... of the recent political and cultural revolutions in the Arab world. The author Marwan Bishara benefits from his long service as a political writer for Al Jazeera T.V. He was documenting the both the dependency of the Arab states and the apparent docility of the Arab masses before the outbreaks of last years. He new and had interviewed many of the youthful leaders.
I compared the accounts with recent testimonies given for example by Tunisian labor activists touring in the U.S., and with well informed commentary on the revolutionary developments by writers from the area.
Marwan Bishara has it just right. He describes well the over twenty year efforts at organizing against political repression in several key countries including Egypt and Tunisia. The Arab Spring was built upon decades of hard work by sincere democrats. His description of the economic and political dependency of Arab oligarchs on U.S. funding and U.S. policies are well developed.
His own experience at Al Jazeera provides a valuable addition to the Western accounts of a social media revolution. Those watching for a facebook revolution need to recognize the transformative nature of non government satellite T.V. prior to the Arab Spring. This is well document in other sources including the U.S. government's own criticisms of Al Jazeera in covering the war in Iraq. The broad Arab populist first learned of alternative views and options often from AL Jazeera and only later adopted Facebook, Google and You tube technologies to tell their stories. The two inter dependent media forms restructured the narrative of the Middle East and broke the ideological dominance of the repressive states and families. To primarily focus on social media and only the last two years is to misunderstand the social forces in play.
Of course much remains unsettled. The Tunisian revolution opened the doors, and the Egyptian revolution is substantially unfinished. It will probably take years. At the same time it is vital that U.S. readers understand what is transforming the middle east so as to not simply fall in line with the vested interests in the U.S. State Department and U.S. capital that are projecting a particular political line. We don't know how the Arab Springs will be resolved. But, we need to learn and to know that U.S. intervention, both militarily and through advocacy groups are based primarily on the interests of U.S. forces, including oil and military. We should be promoting a democratic, non intervention policy. It will take years, perhaps decades for the several Arab states to resolve their revolutions. We as democrats should respect that. How many Arabs intervened in the U.S. War of Independence.
There are many U.S. and western pundits giving us advice. If we believe in democracy and development we need to read and understand a number of Arab voices on the rapidly changing situations from Baharain, to Iraq, to Syria, Lebanon and the West Bank. Marwan Bishara has provided an introduction to several of the important complex issues.
Much of my own work has been in the area of U.S. relations with Latin America. It has been a constant source of struggle to understand Latin America from sources other than those of the U.S. foreign policy establishment in both political parties.
Reading The Invisible Arab: the Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolution convinces me that we in the U.S. have a similar problem in our understanding of the dynamic changes occurring in the Arab lands. Probably our most important role from the U.S. will be to oppose or prevent U.S. military and economic interventions against the democratic efforts of forces in the Arab Spring.
Author. Choosing Democracy: a practical guide to multicultural education. 2010.\
Very informative .... This book has helped me to understand even more the complexity of the society and societues in the Arab speaking world.
More excellent analysis from Marwan Bishara. … The first third of this book is dedicated to a useful (and head-spinning) summation of all the ills that the Middle East has been subject to since the break up of the Ottoman Empire and how these events led to the inception of the Arab Spring. This section also outlines the depraved acts that the recently deposed dictators enacted on their populations, as well as the selfishness of Western complicity in supporting these regimes.
Overall I liked the book. .... It started slowly but about one-third through it started to have some meat.
Although the history in the book had a positive spin about the Arab Spring I already knew the result of their quest for freedom which is mostly negative. The viewpoint from an Arab was quite interesting even though he did not predict the future very well. I suppose he was hoping that this time the revolts and demonstrations would work. I do feel sorry for the author though as he really thought it would work. The most interesting part of the book was the author's criticism, an educated Arab, of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. How Obama constantly backed the wrong groups and aided too late those that would have been our friends; leading from behind. That criticism was charitable compared to the ineptitude of Ms. Clinton. I think the author should write the sequel next year.
An interesting point of view … especially when one is used to Western media coverage of these same events.
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