Description:
This comprehensive reference volume covers every country in North Africa and West Asia, offering reliable demographic information and original interpretative essays by indigenous scholars and practitioners. It maps patterns of growth and decline, assesses major traditions and movements, analyses key themes and examines current trends.
Brief description: Mariz Tadros is Professor and Co-Leader of the Power and Popular Politics Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She is author of Copts at the Crossroads: The Challenges of Building an Inclusive Democracy in Contemporary Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2016) and The Muslim Brotherhood in Contemporary Egypt: Democracy Redefined or Confined? (Routledge, 2012). She is editor of Women in Politics: Gender, Power and Development (Zed Books, 2014).
Review Quotes: A welcome addition to the growing scholarship on Christianity in North Africa and West Asia. In an accessible style the forty contributors, most of whom are from the region, paint a broad picture of contemporary Christianity in North Africa and West Asia, including Cyprus, Sudan, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, preceded by an excellent introduction by Mariz Tadros.--Heleen Murre-van den Berg "Journal of Eastern Christian Studies"