Will Kymlicka is Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Eva Pföstl is Contract Professor in Political Science at LUISS University, Rome, Italy.

• 1. Minority politics in the Middle East and North Africa: the prospects for transformative change 2. A turning point? The Arab Spring and the Amazigh movement 3. The Middle East’s majority problems: minoritarian regimes and the threat of democracy 4. Tribal hands and minority votes: ethnicity, regionalism and elections in Iran 5. Unheard voices: state-making and popular participation in post-Ottoman Iraq 6. The potential of history textbooks and curriculum reform in Iraqi Kurdistan within a conflict transformation frame: dealing with the past from a processual and dynamic perspective 7. Beyond the cross and the crescent: plural identities and the Copts in contemporary Egypt 8. The ‘Coptic question’ in post-revolutionary Egypt: citizenship, democracy, religion

Will Kymlicka is Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Eva Pföstl is Contract Professor in Political Science at LUISS University, Rome, Italy.

• 1. Minority politics in the Middle East and North Africa: the prospects for transformative change 2. A turning point? The Arab Spring and the Amazigh movement 3. The Middle East’s majority problems: minoritarian regimes and the threat of democracy 4. Tribal hands and minority votes: ethnicity, regionalism and elections in Iran 5. Unheard voices: state-making and popular participation in post-Ottoman Iraq 6. The potential of history textbooks and curriculum reform in Iraqi Kurdistan within a conflict transformation frame: dealing with the past from a processual and dynamic perspective 7. Beyond the cross and the crescent: plural identities and the Copts in contemporary Egypt 8. The ‘Coptic question’ in post-revolutionary Egypt: citizenship, democracy, religion

Will Kymlicka is Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Eva Pföstl is Contract Professor in Political Science at LUISS University, Rome, Italy.

• 1. Minority politics in the Middle East and North Africa: the prospects for transformative change 2. A turning point? The Arab Spring and the Amazigh movement 3. The Middle East’s majority problems: minoritarian regimes and the threat of democracy 4. Tribal hands and minority votes: ethnicity, regionalism and elections in Iran 5. Unheard voices: state-making and popular participation in post-Ottoman Iraq 6. The potential of history textbooks and curriculum reform in Iraqi Kurdistan within a conflict transformation frame: dealing with the past from a processual and dynamic perspective 7. Beyond the cross and the crescent: plural identities and the Copts in contemporary Egypt 8. The ‘Coptic question’ in post-revolutionary Egypt: citizenship, democracy, religion