War, conflict and terrorism define the face of contemporary West Asia at popular level. However, there are far more other important issues and challenges that are currently troubling the governments of West Asian nations. These include (a) political, economic and social challenges, (b) Islamic militancy, (c) growing unemployment, (d) democratic reforms, (e) human rights, (f) living conditions of expatriates, and (g) urbanization. Added to this list are environmental risks with such dimensions as overfishing, soil and water pollution by petroleum industry, scarcity of fresh water and desertification.
This book-containing 11 contributions by scholars in the field-deals with these internal challenges of the region.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anwar Alam
Anwar Alam is currently Professor and Director, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has served as a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), and Assistant and Associate Professor at the Centre for West Asian and African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He has been awarded the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship (1991), International Visitor Programme (Islamic) Scholarship, USA, (2002) and Indo-French Social Scientist Exchange Programme Fellowship (2003) and alexandor von Humboldt Post Doctoral Fellowship (2004-2006). He has been Visiting Fellow at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, Centre for Citizenship and Ethnicity, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK and at International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden, Netherlands. He has authored 4 books. Besides, he has contributed several articles in national and international referred journals and chapters in edited books. His areas of research interest include International Politics, Political Theory, Religion and Politics, Political Islam, Globalization and Muslim Society.
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