TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin,Kevin W.
TI  - Syria's democratic years: citizens, experts, and media in the 1950s 
T2  - Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
SN  - 9780253018939
AV  - DS98.2 .M385 2016eb
U1  - 956.9104/2 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Bloomington and Indianapolis
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Civil society
KW  - Syria
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Middle East
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - World
KW  - Middle Eastern
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1946-1971
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The virtuous citizen and the postcolonial state -- Syria during the democratic years -- The citizen and the law -- Social justice and the patriarchal citizen -- Punishing the enemies of Arabism -- Making the martial citizen -- The magic of modern pharmaceuticals -- Sex and the conjugal citizen -- Citizens on the tenth day
N2  - The years 1954-1958 in Syria are popularly known as "The Democratic Years," a brief period of civilian government before the consolidation of authoritarian rule. Kevin W. Martin provides a cultural history of the period and argues that the authoritarian outcome was anything but inevitable. Examining the flourishing broadcast and print media of the time, he focuses on three public figures, experts whose professions-law, the military, and medicine-projected modernity and modeled the new Arab citizen. This experiment with democracy, however abortive, offers a model of governance from Syria's historical experience that could serve as an alternative to dictatorship
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ER  -