Human rights in the Arab world: independent voices

Introduction: Human Rights and Agency in the Arab World

Part I. Human Rights, Islam, Islamists

1. The Tail and the Dog: Constructing Islam and Human Rights in Political Context

2. A Question of Human Rights Ethics: Defending the Islamists

Part II. Globalization and the Impact of Human Rights

3. Globalization and Human Rights: On a Current Debate Among Arab Intellectuals

4. Transnational Human Rights Networks and Human Rights in Egypt

5. Women, Citizenship, and Civil Society in the Arab World

Part III. Problems of Human Rights NGOs and Activism

6. Human Rights in the Arab World: Reflections on the Challenges Facing Human Rights Activism

7. Human Rights NGOs and the "Foreign Funding Debate" in Egypt

8. Justice in Heaven

Part IV. Country-Specific Case Studies

9. Some Yemeni Ideas About Human Rights

10. Got Rights? Public Interest Litigation and the Egyptian Human Rights Movement

11. When the Time Is Ripe: The Struggle to Create an Institutional Culture of Human Rights in Morocco

Conclusion: Normative and Political Dimensions of Contemporary Arab Debates on Human Rights

Appendix 1. Documents

Appendix 2. Treaty Ratifications, Notable Reservations, Understandings, and Declarations

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments