The authors provide a systematic analysis of looking beyond the abuses of human rights in the Middle East with a view toward problematizing traditional doctrinal thinking and concepts in the region, ascertaining comparative and historical roots of human rights abuses in the Middle East.
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PART I: PROBLEMS WITH THE CURRENT FRAMEWORKS Framing the Human Rights Discourse: The Role of Natural Localism and the Power of Paradigm; L. Davidson Islam and Human Rights: Ideals and Practices; M. Dorraj Human Rights through the Lens of Legal Thought; H. Rane Defamation of Religious and Incitement to Religious Hatred in International Human Rights; T. Kayaoglu PART II: COMMON GOALS AND CASE STUDIES Human Rights and the Kurdish Question in the Middle East; N. Entessar The Janus Nature of Human Rights in Iran: Limited Progress on Human Rights since the Revolution; B. Rieffer-Flanagan From Omission to Reluctant Recognition: Political Parties' Approach to Women's Rights in Turkey; Z. F. K. Arat Minority Rights and Marginalized Communities in the Middle East; M. Monshipouri & J. Whooley Sexual Rights, the Muslim World, and Why Pushing the Envelope is Essential to Human Rights Global Resonance; A. T. Chase PART III: STRATEGIES Which Strategies to Improve Human Rights in the Arab World? ; B. E. Hassan Shrinking Islamist-Secular Divides on Human Rights in the Post-September 11 Era; S. Mokhtari Migrant Workers and Their Rights in the United Arab Emirates; M. Monshipouri & A. Assareh Health and Human Rights in Palestine: The Siege and Invasion of Gaza and the Role of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement; J. Ghannam
