This book aims to shift the limited and often negative popular understanding of the Middle East's place in the world by chronicling the region's contributions to the international order rather than disorder, and to the development of the international human rights system. It elucidates the many paradoxes that make the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region both a troubling place and also a region brimming with great potential for peace, prosperity and progress. By demonstrating the paradox of human rights progress amid regress, the book tells a radically new and more hopeful side of the story of the region that has largely been obfuscated and omitted from the chronicles of history. In so doing, it shows that fostering a human rights culture is not only possible for all universally, it is inevitable.

Autorentext
Mishana Hosseinioun is an International Relations and Middle East scholar at the University of Oxford, UK, and President of MH Group, a global consultancy specializing in high profile international legal and diplomatic case files before such platforms as the African Commission and Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

Inhalt

1. The Human Rights Turn.- 2. The Cultural Relativism Trap.- 3. The Universality Test.- 4. A Regional Rights Regime.- 5. Egypt.- 6. The United Arab Emirates.- 7. The Islamic Republic of Iran.- 8. The Paradox of Progress.