Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East

by Asef Bayat

Book Overview

In the popular imagination, the Muslim Middle East is frozen in its own traditions and history--a land of mosques and minarets, veiled women, despotic regimes, and desert sand. But this assumption fails to recognize that social and political change comes in many guises. In this eye-opening book, Asef Bayat reveals how under the shadow of the authoritarian rule, religious moral authorities, and economic elites, ordinary people can make meaningful change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804769249
• ISBN13: 9780804769242
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"