Routledge Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa : Routledge : 9781138807679 : 1138807672 : 07 Nov 2016 : Recent events such as 'Iran's Green Revolution' and the 'Arab Uprisings' have exploded notions that human rights are irrelevant to Middle Eastern and North African politics. Increasingly seen as a global concern, human rights are at the fulcrum of the region's on-the-ground politics, transnational intellectual debates, and global political intersections. 'The Routledge Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa': Emphasises the need to consider human rights in all their dimensions, rather than solely focusing on the political dimension, in order to understand the structural reasons behind the persistence of human rights violations. Explores the various frameworks in which to consider human rights - conceptual, political and transnational/international. Discusses issue areas subject to particularly intense debate - gender, religion, sexualit