01278nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800630007608200120013910000180015124500820016926000380025130000240028936500080031352006730032165000200099465000160101465000250103070000170105520250121122852.0250121b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9788175418707  a: Samyak Vidyasagarb: Ghaziabadc: BOS-000468d: 3/1/2025  a327 SIN  aSingh, Priya.  aRe-envisaging West Asia b:looking beyond the Arab uprisings.c/ Priya Singh.  aDelhi, India b: Shipra c , 2016  axxx, 290p.c: 24cm.  b697  aIn the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, there have been constant attempts at rethinking or reimagining the region. However, this is not the first time that a re-envisaging of West Asia or the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is taking place. The construction and deconstruction of the region has been a recurrent feature and the region as a concept is a comparatively modern as well as an unsteady construction. The Arab uprisings (2010) inducted a period of contentious politics, which has restructured the landscape of regional politics and defied the presumptions and conjectures that have dominated the literature on the comparative politics of the Middle East.  a Re-envisaging   aMiddle East  aContentious politics  aPriya Singh.