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Required Readings-9 Castellino and Cavanaugh, Minority Rights in the Middle East, chapter 6   The Assignment: Remember that in this Module, we are focusing on human rights in Lebanon.  Identify TWO themes from material assigned for Readings 9.  Then, explain why you consider these to be particularly interesting or important themes in terms of how they help us better understand challenges facing Lebanon in the area of human rights.   Reflection posts: These should be 500 words in length.  The purpose of these postings is to enable you to think critically about what youre learning as well as foster an intellectual community of discussion. You are required to integrate readings and themes from the course into your reflections in a coherent fashion. In other words, demonstrate that you have undertaken the readings relevant to the weekly assignment in a timely fashion and that you have critically reflected on these readings. The idea is that you are reflecting on readings and themes for the week. When referring to readings, make sure that they include the readings for the week you are reflecting on! Reflections will be evaluated for thoughtfulness, engagement with the material, integrity, organization, and accuracy of information.MINORITY RIGHTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST This page intentionally left blank Minority Rights in the Middle East JOSHUA CASTELLINO and KATHLEEN A. CAVANAUGH 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Joshua Castellino and Kathleen A. Cavanaugh, 2013 Th e moral rights of the authors have been asserted First Edition published in 2013 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer Crown copyright material is reproduced under Class Licence Number C01P0000148 with the permission of OPSI and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available ISBN 978–0–19–967949–2 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. 1 In Memory of Lian Abu Hussein نيسح وبأ نايل ىركذل This page intentionally left blank Table of Contents Table of Case Law ix Table of Legislation x United Nations Documents xii Table of International Organizations’ Documents xvi Introduction 1 1 Th e Contemporary Middle East 9 Introduction 9 1 Th e Territorial Ambit 11 2 Th e Crucial Peace and Security Questions 14 3 Islam, the Middle East and Human Rights Law 29 4 Constructing Minorities 47 5 Approach to Human Rights by Middle Eastern States 54 Conclusion 78 2 Minority Identities in the Middle East: Religious Minorities 79 Introduction 79 1 Non-Muslim Religious Minorities 82 2 Islamic Minorities 127 Conclusion 140 3 Minority Identities in the Middle East: Ethno-national and Other Minorities 141 Introduction 141 1 Trapped Minorities 142 2 Ethnic/National Minorities 165 3 Political Minorities 176 4 Majo