Madmen at the helm : pathology and politics in the Arab Spring / Muriel Mirak-Weissbach.
A watershed in Arab history, the Arab spring gave young protesters the impetus to challenge established and entrenched dictatorial regimes for the first time, and to demand representative government. Mirak-Weissbach examines the public statements, speeches, interviews and courses of actions of the f...
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Reading, UK :
Ithaca Press,
©2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Narcissus on the throne
- Muammar Quaddafi: king of kings
- Hosni Mubarak: a modern Ramses
- Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali: all in the family
- Ali Abdullah Saleh: a Shakespearian tragic figure
- Bashar al-Assad: the great pretender
- Postscript: the American Narcissus
- The good ruler.