Chapter 4. Adapting to Shifting Ground: The Alawites of the Northern Levant

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1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. CONTRIBUTORS ix
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I: ETHNIC AND LINGUISTIC MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE ARAB SPRING
7. Chapter 1. Re-Considering Minorities’ Position in the Middle East: The Kurdish Case in Syria 17
8. Chapter 2. The Amazigh in post-Revolution Libya: A Century of Struggle 45
9. Chapter 3. The Armenian Christian Minority in Greater Syria and the Arab Spring 79
10. PART II: RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE ARAB SPRING
11. Chapter 4. Adapting to Shifting Ground: The Alawites of the Northern Levant 101
12. Chapter 5. The Druze and the Arab Spring 129
13. Chapter 6. Syrian Ismailis and the Arab Spring: Seasons of Death and White Carnations 147
14. Chapter 7. The Christians of Syria and the Arab Spring 175
15. Chapter 8. The Christians of Lebanon and the Arab Spring 203
16. Chapter 9. The Easy Enemy: The Shia and Sectarianism in the Arab States of the Gulf and Yemen during the Arab Spring 227
17. PART III: OTHER MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE ARAB SPRING
18. Chapter 10. Palestinians at Home and in the Diasporas and the Arab Spring 261
19. Chapter 11. A Spring Abroad: Exploring the Case of Tunisian Diasporas in Europe 277
20. CONCLUSION 307
21. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 309
22. INDEX 327