"Acknowledgements" [2018] ELECD 411; in Butenschøn, A. Nils; Meijer, Roel (eds), "The Middle East in Transition" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) xii

Book Title: The Middle East in Transition

Editor(s): Butenschøn, A. Nils; Meijer, Roel

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781788111126

Section Title: Acknowledgements

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Acknowledgements This volume is one of two books produced as the result of the collaboration between Nils Butenschøn of The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), Faculty of Law, University of Oslo and Roel Meijer of Islam Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen. The work started under the impression of the Arab Uprisings in 2011 and what appeared to us as a deep crisis of trust and confidence between rulers and the ruled in the region. This brought up the centrality of citizenship as the approach in our study. We wrote a stateof-the-art paper on citizenship as a field of study in the Middle East and invited colleagues from different parts of the world to join in developing the field further and to contribute to publications. The initiative was met with great interest among Middle Eastern scholars, and progressed into a large multidisciplinary project. The basic idea was to introduce and apply the citizenship approach both thematically and to case studies, including countries from across the region. The project developed into two main stages, the first with a particular view to challenges in the Arab region, the second with an extended perspective to include non-Arab countries, namely Turkey, Iran, and Israel. The editorial work commenced aiming at publishing two volumes: The Crisis of Citizenship in the Arab World (published by Brill in 2017), and the present volume with a broader perspective, Middle East in Transition: The Centrality of Citizenship. Maarten Danckaert ...