Lays out the Middle East's previously underappreciated contributions to the international system Highlights the trends of progress that still exist in the region in spite of the ongoing blight of regress on rights and freedoms
Provides actionable policy recommendations for strengthening the region's nascent human rights regime and harmonizing it with the existing regional and international rights mechanisms

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.