TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haghighat,Elhum
TI  - Demography and democracy: transitions in the Middle East and North Africa 
SN  - 9781108448390
U1  - 304.620956 22
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Demographic transition
KW  - Middle East
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Africa, North
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Population
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - BUSBOL
KW  - February2023
KW  - Reading book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Demographically, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has one of the highest population growth rates in the world. The demographic shifts have profoundly affected economic, political, and social institutions. Furthermore, the recent period of unprecedented political turbulence has complicated the picture. In 2010, MENA political uprisings and resistance movements began in Tunisia and spread to Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Civil uprisings erupted in Bahrain and Syria; in Bahrain it was short-lived while in Syria it has evolved into a continuous and violent crisis. More uprisings emerged in different countries of the MENA such as Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon, and clashes arose along the borders of the Israeli and Palestinian territories. Granted, uprisings are not new phenomena in the MENA region, but the timing, the domino effect, and the level of intensity of the current shifts in culture, politics, and economics deserve critical evaluation
ER  -