Explores the obstacles to multiculturalism and minority rights in Arab states, including the history of European manipulation of minority politics.

• 1: Will Kymlicka and Eva Pföstl: Introduction


• PART I: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives


• 2: Janet Klein: Minority Rights and Multiculturalism in the Arab World: A View from History and the Kurdish Periphery


• 3: Joshua Castellino and Kathleen Cavanaugh: Transformations in the Middle East: The Importance of the Minority Question


• 4: Zaid Eyadat: Minorities in the Arab World: Faults, Fault-lines and Co-existence


• 5: Francesca Maria Corrao and Sebastiano Maffettone: Arab Minorities, Liberalism, and Multiculturalism


• PART II: Case Studies


• 6: Jacob Mundy: Bringing the tribe back in? The Western Sahara dispute, ethno-history, and the imagineering of minority conflicts in the Arab world


• 7: Eva Pföstl: The Role of the Amazigh Movement in the Processes of Political Reform in Postcolonial Algerian Society


• 8: Nicholas McGeehan: The Gulf's Servant Class


• 9: Hassan Jabareen: Hobbesian Citizenship: How the Palestinians Became a Minority in Israel


• 10: Brendan O'Leary: The Federalization of Iraq and the Break-Up of Sudan


• 11: Joseph Yacoub: How does the Arab World Perceive Multiculturalism and Treat its Minorities? The Assyro-Chaldeans of Iraq as a Case Study

Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. His work, translated into 34 languages, has focused on how democratic countries address issues of ethnic, racial and religious diversity, with a special focus on the theory and practice of multicultural citizenship. He is the author of seven books published by Oxford University Press, including Multicultural Citizenship (1995), and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007).
Eva Pföstl is Scientific Director in the Department of Law and Economics at the Istituto di Studi Politici S. Pio V, Rome, Contract Professor at the University LUSPIO Rome and LUISS University Rome, and Adviser of the Tibetans in Exile. Her research interest focus on comparative constitutional law with a special focus on minority and group rights in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. She is author of several publications among them La questione tibetana. Autonomia e non indipendenza. Una proposta realistica, Marsilio Editore 2009.