Civil society in the Middle East / edited by Augustus Richard Norton.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Vol. 1. Introduction / Augustus Richard Norton -- Civil Society and Prospects for Democratization in the Arab World / Saad al-Din Ibrahim -- Economic Pressures for Accountable Governance in the Middle East and North African / Alan Richards -- Modern Islamic Fundamentalist Discourses on Civil Society, Pluralism and Democracy / Ahmad s. Moussalli -- Civil Society in Formation: Tunisia / Eva Bellin -- "In the Beginning was the State ... ": The Quest for Civil Society in Jordan / Laurie Brand -- The Utility of Tradition: Civil Society in Kuwait / Neil Hicks and Ghanim al-Najjar -- State, Civil Society, and Political Change in Syria / Raymond A. Hinnebusch -- Palestinian Civil Society / Muhammad Muslih -- A Civil Society in Egypt? / Mustafa Kamil al-Sayyid -- Vol. 2 : Authoritarian secularism and Islamist politics: the case of Turkey / Nilüfer Göle -- Civil society and the authoritarian temptation in Algerian politics: Islamic democracy vs. the centralized state / John P. Entelis -- Civil society in Turkey / Binnaz Toprak -- Civil society and Iranian politics / Farhad Kazemi -- The Destruction of civil society in the Sudan / Ann Mosely Lesch -- Two civil societies and one state: Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel / Gideon Doron -- Civil society in the Gaza Strip: obstacles to social reconstruction / Sara Roy -- Civil society in the Arabian Gulf / Jill Crystal -- Yemen between civility and civil war / Sheila Carapico.