Food, farming, and freedom : sowing the Arab spring

Author(s)

• Zurayk, Rami
• Khalidi, Rashid

Bibliographic Information

Food, farming, and freedom : sowing the Arab spring

by Rami Zurayk ; with photographs by the author and a foreword by Rashid Khalidi

Just World Books, c2011

• : [pbk.]

Note

Description based on 3rd printing, 2012

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The wave of anti-government protests that swept through the Arab world from December 2010 on started to transform politics and society in the Middle East. The protests came as a surprise to many observers-- but not to Rami Zurayk, an veteran Lebanese agronomist and social activist who had been analyzing the collapse of traditional agricultural livelihoods in the Middle East since the late 1980s. In 2007, Zurayk started writing the "Land and People" blog, which charts food-policy and agricultural policy issues throughout the Middle East. Food, Farming, and Freedom presents his choice of the best of the posts in the blog from 2007 through April 2011. It concludes with a chapter tracking the early months of the Arab Spring.

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Details

• NCID: BB22469247
• ISBN:
  • 9781935982197
• LCCN: 2011920665
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Charlottesville, Va.
• Pages/Volumes: 248 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD2114.Z8
  • DC22 : 330.956
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Agriculture and state -- Arab countries
  • LCSH : Land use -- Arab countries
  • LCSH : Arab countries -- Politics and government