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After Abu Ghraib : exploring human rights in America and the Middle East
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After Abu Ghraib : exploring human rights in America and the Middle East

Author: Shadi Mokhtari
Publisher: Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series: Cambridge studies in law and society.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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This work traverses three pivotal human rights struggles of the post-September 11th era. It presents snapshots of human rights being appropriated, promoted, claimed, reclaimed, and contested within and between the American and Middle Eastern contexts.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Shadi Mokhtari
ISBN: 9780521767538 0521767539
OCLC Number: 262943639
Description: ix, 252 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: American imaginings of human rights and the Middle East --
The human rights challenge from within --
The Middle Eastern gaze on American human rights commitments --
American imprints and the Middle East's new human rights landscape --
From the ashes of the post-September 11th era : lessons for the human rights project.
Series Title: Cambridge studies in law and society.
Responsibility: Shadi Mokhtari.
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Presents human rights struggles within and between the United States and the Middle East in the post-September 11th era.  Read more...

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'Mokhtari's comparative study of human rights in the US and Middle East is very original. She has conducted empirical research in Jordan and Yemen and writes about the subject with intimate knowledge Read more...

 
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