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Human Rights - universal rights held to belong to individuals by virtue of their being human, encompassing civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights and freedoms, and based on the notion of personal human dignity and worth. Conceptually derived from the theory of natural law and originating in Greco-Roman doctrines, the idea of human rights appears in some early Christian writers'


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    Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics » Read Now

    by Ann Elizabeth Mayer. 258 pgs.

    Revised and updated, this edition offers critical assessments of recent Islamic human-rights schemes that dilute or eliminate the human-rights protections afforded by international law and compares these with Islamic legal heritage and human-rights law.
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    Islamism, Secularism, and Human Rights in the Middle East » Read Now

    by Mahmood Monshipouri. 252 pgs.

    ...Islamism, Secularism, and Human Rights in the Middle East Islamism, Secularism, and Human Rights in the Middle East Mahmood Monshipouri...Islamism, secularism, and human...
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    Islam, Democracy and Human Rights: The Continuing Debate in the West, in Middle East Policy » Read Now

    by Mahmood Monshipouri, Christopher G. Kukla. 18 pgs.

    ...notion of "human rights" cannot be...concept in the political parlance of the Middle East. Nonetheless...Voices: The Human Rights in the Middle East (Berkeley...Voices:...
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    Judaism, Human Rights, and Human Values » Read Now

    by Lenn E. Goodman. 204 pgs.

    Following on the heels of his critically acclaimed God of Abraham (Oxford, 1996), Lenn E. Goodman here focuses on rights, their grounding in the deserts of beings, and the dignity of persons. In an incisive contemporary dialogue between reason and revelation, Goodman argues for ethical standards and...
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    Iraq: Sanctions and Beyond (Chap. 6 "The 'Periphery': Political Alienation and Abuse of Human Rights") » Read Now

    by Anthony H. Cordesman, Ahmed S. Hashim. 400 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Cordesman provides a net assessment of the political, economic, energy, security (internal and external), and military trends in Iraq.
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    U.S. Complicity in Israel's Gross Violations of Human Rights, in Middle East Policy » Read Now

    by Shaw J. Dallal. 7 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...example Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1986-1992 . Submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House...15 The 1992 Report , p...
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    Living without a Constitution: Civil Rights in Israel (Chap. 2 "Strengthening the Government at the Expense of Civil Rights: The First Years of Statehood" and Chap. 9 "Was the Failure to Enact a Basic Human Rights Law Inevitable?") » Read Now

    by Daphna Sharfman. 192 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...as akin to political liberalism, which advocated human rights and democracy. At the same time, however, they had reservations about...Ben Gurion worked to win the support...
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    Human Rights and Third World Development (Chap. 7 "A Human Rights Settlement: The West Bank and Gaza") » Read Now

    by George W. Shepherd Jr., Ved P. Nanda. 334 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...China, one the Middle East, and two Africa...El Salvador," the first of the three...times in massive human rights violations. Through...Africa, and the Middle East, the...
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    Negotiating Culture and Human Rights (Chap. 11 "Israel and Other Cases") » Read Now

    by Lynda S. Bell, Andrew J. Nathan, Ilan Peleg. 416 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    "Negotiating Culture and Human Rights" provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to the discussion is the "Asian values debate, " so named because of the culturally relativist ideals embraced by some key Asian governments. By analyzing...
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    A Western Question to the Middle East: 'Is There a Human Rights Discourse in Islam?', in Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) » Read Now

    by John Strawson. 28 pgs.

    ...western question to the Middle East: Is there a human rights discourse in Islam...as if there is no human rights discourse within the Middle East. All appear to...
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    The External Relations of the Arab Human Rights Movement, in Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) » Read Now

    by Ibrahim Awad. 17 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Conservative. 18. Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), A Report on CIHRS Activities in the Year 1995. (Cairo, n.d.). 19. Rabbani...Conference of the...
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    Theoretical Issues in the Arab Human Rights Movement, in Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) » Read Now

    by Mustapha K. Al-Sayyid. 8 pgs.

    ...countries agreed to divide the Arab East amongst the two of them. Britain promised Palestine...Empires. 9. Cairo Institute for Human Rights (CIHR). Sawasiya (March 1995...
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    Sovereign Rights, Human Rights, in The Middle East » Read Now

    by The Middle East. 2 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...from the Middle East) that they...to improve the human condition...that human rights are indivisible...regimes in the Middle East and elsewhere...objection to the double...
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    Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy » Read Now

    by Margaret E. Crahan, John Goering, Thomas G. Weiss. 249 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    'If I had the power to do so, I would make this book compulsory reading for all who exercise political power in our world today! Instead, I will keep my fingers crossed that it will be read by as many members of Congress and of the current US administration as possible, and by a wide cross-section...
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    Rights Not a Reward for Good Behavior, but a Basic Entitlement of All Human Beings, in Washington Report on Middle East Affairs » Read Now

    by John Gee. 1 pgs.

    ...rights of the Palestinian...halt Israeli human rights violations...exercise certain rights simply because they are the entitlement of al human beings. This...good for the...

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