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Former Israeli intelligence officer Moshe Shemesh offers a fresh understanding of the complex history and politics of the Middle East in this new analysis of the Palestinian national movement. Sheme……続きを見る

Challenges, opportunities, and methodological issues in the creation of oral history archives in the Arab world Oral history archives have always been at the forefront of liberatory social movements……続きを見る

In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archive……続きを見る

This volume is an attempt to contextualise the coup attempt of 15 July 2016 in Turkey, within the framework of militarism and masculinities. The immediate aftermath of the 15 July in Turkey witnesse……続きを見る

This mid-2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. How does U.S. security assistance affect host nation democratization? This thesis analyze……続きを見る

This mid-2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study focuses on the official history collection program by the Islamic Revolutionar……続きを見る

In Being Kurdish in a Hostile World, Ayub Nuri writes of growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, of Saddam Hussein's chemical attack that killed thousands in Nuri's home town of Halabja, of civil war, ……続きを見る

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century Ottoman politics was filled with casual references to public opinion. Having been popularised as a term in the 1860s, the following decades witnessed a deluge of issues being brou……続きを見る

In the sixth century, Byzantine emperors secured the provinces of the Balkans by engineering a frontier system of unprecedented complexity. Drawing on literary, archaeological, anthropological, and ……続きを見る

Sufism and Early Islamic Piety: Personal and Communal Dynamics offers a new story about the formative period of Sufism. Through a fresh reading of diverse Sufi and non-Sufi sources, Arin Shawkat Sal……続きを見る

This book explores Irish participation in the British imperial project after ‘Southern’ Ireland’s independence in 1922. Building on a detailed study of the Irish contribution to the policing of the ……続きを見る

Due ricostruzioni storiche si fronteggiano circa i complessi, difficili e spesso ambigui rapporti tra ebrei e musulmani. Da un lato viene celebrata, venata da miti, la coesistenza andalusa medievale……続きを見る

While the international community and regional powers in the Middle East are focussing on finding a solution to Israel's 'external problem' - the future of the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip - an……続きを見る

The pre-Islamic warrior-poet 'Antarah ibn Shaddad, a composer of one of the Mu'allaqat, attracted the attention of the philologists who were active in Iraq at the nascence of the scholarly study of ……続きを見る

Gaza and the Language of Genocide is a c.48,000 word long scholarly work about how language can mask reality, be uncoupled from reality and help distort reality. The first half shows, using case stu……続きを見る

Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world. A UNESCO natural World Heritage Site, the island is home not only to birds, repti……続きを見る

The land on which the Dome of the Rock now stands is hallowed ground to three of the world's major religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. On this site originally stood a Jewish temple that wa……続きを見る

Interest in the plight of refugees is at an all-time high as US borders are closing to those most in need of refuge The UN Refugee Agency reported that in 2015, only 18 percent women of refugees and……続きを見る

A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the story In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Midd……続きを見る

Iran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel. At its peak in the twentieth century, the population numbered around 100,000; today about 25,000 Jews live in Ira……続きを見る

This book offers the reader a summary of the decisions and events leading into the British invasion of French Syria during 1941. It gives the reader an overview of the battle and all the countries i……続きを見る

CRUDO EMOZIONANTE COINVOLGENTE... SEMPLICEMENTE UNA STORIA VERA LA PRIMA SCONVOLGENTE TESTIMONIANZA DI UN MERCENARIO ARRIVATO INDENNE FINO AD OGGI DOPO 25 ANNI DI SERVIZIO ATTIVO: Un militare di lev……続きを見る

Telling a new story of modern Egypt, Mohammad Salama uses textual and cinematic sources to construct a clear and accessible narrative of the dynamics of Islam and culture in the first half of the tw……続きを見る

Is the Armenian Genocide a strictly historical matter? If that is the case, why is it still a topical issue, capable of causing diplomatic rows and heated debates? The short answer would be that the……続きを見る

The Deoband movementーa revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that quickly spread from colonial India to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and even the United Kingdom and South Africaーhas been po……続きを見る

Most of us associate Aphrodite – also known as Venus – with love, beauty, and fertility, but the symbolic value of this goddess is by far more complex than we would have known or dared to believe. A……続きを見る

Nel 1915 il governo dell’Impero Ottomano cominciò a scacciare gli armeni dalle terre dove i loro antenati avevano vissuto da tempi immemorabili. Gli uomini furono uccisi; donne, vecchi e bambini fur……続きを見る

One of the most powerful Islamic militant groups in Africa, Al-Shabaab exerts Taliban-like rule over millions in Somalia and poses a growing threat to stability in the Horn of Africa. Somalis risk r……続きを見る

Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar. Education City, home to the branch campuses of six elite America……続きを見る