Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East by Asef Bayat

Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East

Asef Bayat

320 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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...

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