Living in Romantic Baghdad

Ida Donges Staudt

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• In 1924, an adventurous young couple accepted a commission to open an American school for boys in Baghdad. Setting foot on Iraqi soil the very day tha... Lees meer

Ottoman Children and Youth During World War I

Nazan Maksudyan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Described by historians as a "total war," World War I was the first conflict that required a comprehensive mobilization of all members of society, reg... 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

Khul-Khaal

Nayra Atiya

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• "Our people prefer boys, because a girl's life is difficult. It's difficult in every sore of family and among all nationalities. A girl's life is not ... Lees meer

Iraqi Migrants in Syria

Sophia Hoffmann

• Paperback | 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

Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950

Ilkim Büke Okyar

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• The emergence of Turkish nationalism prior to World War I opened the way for various ethnic, religious, and cultural stereotypes to link the notion of... Lees meer

Kurds in Dark Times

Ayça Alemdaroglu

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• With an estimated population of 35 million, Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without an independent state of their own. The majority of... Lees meer

Colonial Jerusalem

Thomas Philip Abowd

• Hardcover | 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

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

Victims of Commemoration

Eray Çayli

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• "Confronting the past" has become a byword for democratization. How societies and governments commemorate their violent pasts is often appraised as a ... 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

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

Reveal and Conceal

Andrea B 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

The Myth of Middle East Exceptionalism

Peyman Vahabzadeh, Abigail B. Bakan, Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Navid Pourmokhtari, Juan Cole, Mariam Georgis, Tariq Ali, Bessma Momani, Melissa Finn

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• More than a decade after the birth of contemporary social movements in the Middle East and North Africa scholars are asking what these movements have ... Lees meer

Bitter Legacy

Paul Salem Salem

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Ideology has been described as the single most powerful driving force in modern Arab politics. In this analysis, Salem examines the rise and fall of t... Lees meer

Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn

Amira El-Zein

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• According to the Qur'an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the jinn... Lees meer

One Family's Response to Terrorism

Susan Kerr Van de Ven

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the bac... Lees meer

We Are Iraqis

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• While the occupation of Iraq and its aftermath has received media and political attention, we know very little about the everyday lives of Iraqis. Ira... Lees meer

Preserving the Old City of Damascus

Faedah Totah

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and a major cultural and religious center, Damascus is a repository of numerous civilizat... Lees meer

Political Muslims

• Hardcover | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world. Spe... 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

Crossing Borders

Judith Caesar

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• In the five years that Judith Caesar taught literature in Saudi Arabia and Egypt during the 1980s, key events took place that changed the face of Midd... 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

Law of Desire

Shahla Haeri

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Law of Desire explores an institution in which sexuality, morality, religious rules, secular laws, and cultural practices converge. Drawing on rich in... Lees meer