Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen's University,Eva Pfostl, Scientific Director, Department of Law, Istituto di Studi Politici S. Pio V, Rome

Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. His work, translated into 34 languages, has focused on how democratic countries address issues of ethnic, racial and religious diversity, with a special focus on the theory and practice of multicultural citizenship. He is the author of seven books published by Oxford University Press, including Multicultural Citizenship (1995), and Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007).


Eva Pfostl is Scientific Director in the Department of Law and Economics at the Istituto di Studi Politici S. Pio V, Rome, Contract Professor at the University LUSPIO Rome and LUISS University Rome, and Adviser of the Tibetans in Exile. Her research interest focus on comparative constitutional law with a special focus on minority and group rights in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. She is author of several publications among them La questione tibetana. Autonomia e non indipendenza. Una proposta realistica, Marsilio Editore 2009.

Joshua Castellino, Middlesex University
Kathleen Cavanaugh, University of Ireland, Galway
Francesca Maria Corrao, LUISS University, Rome
Zaid Eyadat, University of Jordan
Hassan Jabareen, Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights, Israel
Janet Klein, University of Akron, Ohio
Will Kymlicka, Queen's University, Kingston
Sebastiano Maffettone, LUISS University, Rome
Nicholas Lawrence Mcgeehan, Mafiwasta
Jacob Mundy, Colgate University
Brendan O'Leary, University of Pennsylvania
Eva Pföstl, Istituto di Studi Politici S. Pio V, Rome
Joseph Yacoub, Catholic University of Lyons

Drawing on original and a well-established mix of both multidisciplinary approaches and authors' different backgrounds, this volume tells a story that is much more complex than the stereotypical images of State-minority issues in the Arab world. The editors have in effect been able to combine historical and theoretical perspectives with a number of detailed case studies. In other words, this book does not provide a catalogue of various polices adopted in the Arab countries in relation to minorities. Rather, it focuses the attention on the cultural frames and normative assumptions that shape how State-minority relationships are ruled in this peculiar (historical and geopolitical) context. ~Francesco Alicino , Faculty of Law, LUM "Jean Monnet", Bari, Italy