Islam Without Illusions

Ed Hotaling

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Hotaling describes how Muhammad created the first Islamic state. He was an innovative general and diplomat who respected women's rights. Hotaling draw... Lees meer

Improbable Women

William Woods Cotterman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Zenobia was the third-century Syrian queen who rebelled against Roman rule. Before Emperor Aurelian prevailed against her forces, she had seized almos... Lees meer

The Crystallization of the Arab State System, 1945-1954

Bruce Maddy-Weitzman

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• This volume contains a comprehensive examination of the crucial first ten years of the Arab League and of the continuing dilemma it faces in juggling ... Lees meer

Colonial Jerusalem

Thomas Philip Abowd

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core... Lees meer

Speaking Stones

Shaul Mishal, Reuben Aharoni

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• The Intifada inspired a new kind of Palestinian radicalism, a radicalism borne on young shoulders, a radicalism that conducts its dialogue with Israel... Lees meer

Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran

Habib Ladjevardi

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Ladjevardi follows the rise and ebb of political development in Iran from 1906 to the recent past by looking at one aspect of political growth: the em... Lees meer

Turkish Islam and the Secular State

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• In the first book of its kind, M. Hakan Yavuz and John L. Esposito explore recent reformations of Islam and culture in Turkey and the successful Islam... Lees meer

Iraqi Migrants in Syria

Sophia Hoffmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• During the decade that preceded Syria's 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival of I... Lees meer

Toward an Islamic Reformation

Abdullahi An Na'im

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Toward an Islamic Reformation is an ambitious attempt to modernize Islamic law, calling for reform of the historical formulations of Islamic law, comm... Lees meer

Egypt from Independence to Revolution, 1919-1952

Selma Botman

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• This text offers an interpretation of Egypt's so-called liberal era and an understanding of contemporary Egyptian society. It analyses both mainstream... Lees meer

The Kurds and the State

Denise Natali

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• In tracing the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, Denise Natali shows that, contrary to popular theories, there is nothing natural or fixed about Kurdi... Lees meer

The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan

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• This volume comprises the work of some of the leading authorities in Southwest Asian and Middle Eastern studies concerning the state-initiated interve... Lees meer

Lebanon in Crisis

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• This book will serve as a guide for those who wish to understand the Lebanese conflict-expert and general reader alike-and for those, as well, who wou... Lees meer

Come with Me from Lebanon

Ann Zwicker Kerr

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Ann Kerr's is a personal account of an American family during the most tumultuous years of Beirut's political strife. It begins with the tragic assass... Lees meer

Life on Drugs in Iran

Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• When they initiated a war on drugs in 1979, Iran developed a reputation as having some of the world's harshest drug penalties and as an opponent of ef... Lees meer

Egypt's Other Wars

Nancy Gallagher

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940's killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century. Egypt's Other W... Lees meer

Cultural Criticism in Egyptian Women's Writing

Caroline Seymour-Jorn

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• The five iinfluential women writers discussed in Seymour-Jorn's timely work--Salwa Bakr, Nemat el-Behairy, Radwa Ashour, Etidal Osman, and Ibtihal Sal... Lees meer

Being There, Being Here

Maurice Ebileeni

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue. More than a century after the early... Lees meer

War Remains

Yasmine Khayyat

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memor... Lees meer

Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History

Amira Sonbol

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• The eighteen essays in this volume cover a wide range of material and reevaluate women's studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shar... Lees meer

Turkey's State Crisis

Bülent Aras

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• What accounts for the regression of Turkey's stature from a "model" country to one riddled with state crisis and conflict? Unable to adapt to the chal... Lees meer

The Middle East from the Iran-Contra Affair to the Intifada

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Significant developments in the Middle East from 1985 to 1989, especially the Iran-Contra affair and the Intifada, had a major impact on the domestic ... Lees meer

Reveal and Conceal

Andrea Rugh

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• This book is an exciting study of clothing as a complex cultural expression. The author analyses contemporary social meanings found in the symbols of ... Lees meer

Making the New Middle East

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Demands for freedom, justice, and dignity have animated protests and revolutions across the Middle East in recent years, from the Iranian Green Moveme... Lees meer