What is it about?
This chapter studies the different concepts, notions and visions of the civil state in the post–Arab Spring countries of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. It includes analyses of the transformations, changes and challenges to the proper understanding of the term “Dawla Madaniyya” (civil state) in these countries
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Why is it important?
onsider cultural, social and political factors and contexts, in order to understand the different interpretations of dawla madaniyya (civil state) and to what extent the different factors have contributed to challenges facing the civil state of Arab Spring countries such as Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
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Dr Ibrahim Natil is currently a fellow at Institute for Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction, Dublin City University. He is a former visiting fellow at School of Politics and International relations, University College Dublin-UCD. He holds his Ph.D. in politics and history from Coventry University. He authored and published several articles and book chapters on a wide range of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, human security, NGOs, revolutionary movements, political violence, and the Middle East in Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Routledge, Pluto, Palgrave, Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security, Inter-Disciplinary Press and Springer. He is the book author: Hamas Transformation Opportunities and Challenges, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. He presented over 25 papers at conferences during the last four years throughout Europe. He also writes to Independent Australia. In addition to his scholarly work, he is being nominated for Tällberg Foundation Global Leadership Prize 2016. He is an international development consultant and worked for many international NGOs and the founder of the Society Voice Foundation in Palestine (2002). He also launched and managed various range of human rights, women’s empowerment and peacebuilding programmes and projects since 1997.
Dr Ibrahim Natil
Dublin City University
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This page is a summary of: Civil State in the Post–Arab Spring Countries: Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-57177-9_10.
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