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URI DAVIS, Citizenship and the State: A Comparative Study of Citizenship Legislation in Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon (Reading: Ithaca Press, 1997). Pp. 250. $75.00 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2002

LAMA ABU-ODEH
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Uri Davis has written a valuable book in which he advances a very progressive project indeed. Davis is first and foremost committed to human rights. Whereas he acknowledges that liberalism, the ideological narrative of Western universalism, informs this discourse, Davis dismisses the critique of human rights as mere cultural imperialism from the West. Human rights, according to Davis, are spared what may otherwise be a justifiable critique of liberalism by virtue of their incorporation into the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In other words, this declaration is universal law, and state membership in the United Nations necessarily implies respect for it.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , August 2001 , pp. 460 - 461
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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