TY - BOOK AU - Singh, Priya. AU - Priya Singh. TI - Re-envisaging West Asia : :looking beyond the Arab uprisings SN - 9788175418707 U1 - 327 SIN PY - 2016/// CY - Delhi, India PB - : Shipra KW - Re-envisaging KW - Middle East KW - Contentious politics N2 - In 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 ER -