Gender and Identity in North Africa

Abdelkader Cheref

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies | nr. 94
• Literary fiction has always provided an outlet for social and political critique. In the writing of key North African women authors, the dissection of... Lees meer

Arab Media and Political Renewal

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• People are on the move across the Arab world, organizing politically in new ways. The Arab media have also undergone a transformation and are still in... Lees meer

Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• Violent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines why they play... Lees meer

Hadhramaut and Its Diaspora

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• The Hadhramis of Yemen have migrated for centuries in large numbers, establishing a diaspora that extends around the Indian Ocean, Saudi Arabia and th... Lees meer

Foreign Policy in Iran and Saudi Arabia

Robert Mason

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• Saudi Arabia, with its US alliance and abundance of oil dollars, has a very different economic story to that of Iran, which despite enormous natural g... Lees meer

Women and Media in the Middle East

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies | nr. 41
• Is today's changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women's a... Lees meer

Afghanistan

Peter Marsden

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• As the battle for Afghanistan intensifies, with humanitarian workers increasingly finding themselves on the frontline, aid expert Peter Marsden draws ... Lees meer

The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia

David Commins

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• Wahhabism has been generating controversy since it first emerged in Arabia in the 18th century. In the wake of September 11th instant theories have em... Lees meer

Creating an Islamic State

Vanessa Martin

• Hardcover | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• This text analyzes the ideological roots of an Islamic state as conceived by the Ayatollah Khomeini. The author makes a relevant contribution on the d... Lees meer

Arab Subcultures

Tarik Sabry, Layal Ftouni

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• What is 'Arab' about Arab subcultures? This is the first book to set out to delineate different ways of studying and theorising Arab subcultural group... Lees meer

Policy-Making in the Gcc

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• The GCC is a major player in the post-2011 reordering of the Middle East. Despite the rise in prominence of individual Gulf states - especially Kuwait... Lees meer

Stateless in the Gulf

Claire Beaugrand

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• The Kuwaiti population includes around 100,000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often con... Lees meer

Living Islam

Ayse Saktanber

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• How and why have women come to play a central role in the political project of Islamic revivalism and in the power struggles between Islamic and secul... Lees meer

Saudi Arabia and Iran

Simon Mabon

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies | nr. 132
• In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight. Amongst the most-a... Lees meer

Dissent and Revolution in a Digital Age

David Faris

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• During the Arab uprisings of early 2011, which saw the overthrow of Zine el-Abadine Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the role of digital... Lees meer

Rethinking Islamist Politics

Salwa Ismail

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• In an atmosphere of growing concern over the threat posed by Islamist violence, political Islamism has become the most important of geopolitical issue... Lees meer

Imagining Palestine

Tahrir Hamdi

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• All national identities are somewhat fluid, held together by collective beliefs and practices as much as official territory and borders. In the contex... Lees meer

Intellectuals and Civil Society in the Middle East

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• What is the nature of intellectual activity in the Middle East, and what is its role in politics and society? While much scholarly attention has been ... Lees meer

Language and Identity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Camelia Suleiman

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• The conflict between Israel and Palestine is, and remains to be, one of the most widely- and passionately-debated issues in the Middle East and in the... Lees meer

Water, Power and Politics in the Middle East

Jan Selby

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies | nr. 25
• Jan Selby draws on numerous sources, from testimonies of local water engineers and administrators, to narrative accounts of citizens, and eyewitness a... Lees meer

Arab Occidentalism

Eid Mohamed

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, his foreign policy was at first seen to be the antithesis of that of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Eid Moham... Lees meer

Palestine and World War I

Haim Goren, Eran Dolev, Yigal Sheffy

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• The Palestine Campaign has become one of the most glorified military campaigns of the twentieth century. The last campaign fought by the Ottoman Army,... Lees meer

Gender and Violence in Islamic Societies

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies | nr. 134
• As a result of the uprisings that spread across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011, the issue of state public violence against bot... Lees meer

Creating an Islamic State

Vanessa Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Middle East Studies
• How did the Ayatollah Khomeini create his Islamic state? What were the ideas which drove him and his movement? What organization and methods helped br... Lees meer