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Cultural Encounters in the Arab World
In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic, …
The New Arab Journalist
The Arab media is in the midst of a revolution that will inform questions of war and peace in the Middle East, political and societal reform, and relations between the West and the …
Beyond Islam
In this magisterial work, Sami Zubaida draws on a distinguished career's worth of experience trying to understand the region to address the fundamental question in Middle East …
Modernity and the Stateless
The Kurds are the largest stateless nation in the world. They live under the jurisdiction of four sovereign states - Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria - which deny their national …
Building a State Under Occupation
In the wake of the settlement of the Oslo Accords in 1993, billions were pledged and disbursed by international donors in support of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. As a …
Iraq and Syria
The ties between Syria and Iraq are complex and often fraught and, with both facing significant internal turmoil, their relationship is one that is central to stability in the …
Honour Killings
Leyla Pervizat argues that honour killings are a form of extrajudicial execution which can only be challenged by looking at its socio-political and economic contexts. Focusing on …
Imagining Palestine
All national identities are somewhat fluid, held together by collective beliefs and practices as much as official territory and borders. In the context of the Palestinians, whose …
A Broken Trust
Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner in Mandatory Palestine (1920-1925) and only the second Jew after Disraeli to have reached such a high position in the …
The Makers of Modern Syria
In the aftermath of World War I, Syria paved a path towards democracy. Initially as part of the French Mandate in the Middle East and latterly as an independent republic, Syria put …
Workers and Working Class in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic
This study investigates the growth of the industrial workforce in the Ottoman empire and Turkey in the period from 1840 to 1940, when the Industrial Revolution began to have a …
Religion, Culture and Politics in Iran
This is a new and original interpretation of the social history of religion in Iran from the 1870s to the 1970s. Iranians have always had an ambivalent attitude to religion. …