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ajiss-1958	Bokhari, Kamran Asghar	Challenges to Democracy in the Middle East: By William Harris, Amatzia Baram, Ahmad Ashraf, Heath Lowry, and Yesim Aral. (Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner Publishers, 1997. 132 pages.)	2002.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	266	9	40	Many scholars have attempted to tackle the question of why democracy has seemingly failed to take root in the Islamic milieu, in general, and the pre ­ dominantly Arab Middle East, in particular, while the rest of the world has witnessed the fall ofpax-authoritaria especially in the wake of the demer cratic revolution triggered by the failure of communism. The first composition in this omnibus is The Crisis of Democracy in Twentieth Century Syria and Lebanon, authored by Bill Harris, senior lee- 128 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 19:1 Ashraf, and Arat place emphasis on cultural factors.	cache/ajiss-1958.pdf	txt/ajiss-1958.txt