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Driving Culture in Iran
Law and Society on the Roads of the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Reza Banakar is Professor and Director of Research in the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University. He has previously held the positions of Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the Department of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of Westminster and Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal...
Gender and Violence in Islamic Societies
Patriarchy, Islamism and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
As a result of the revolutions and movements of resistance that spread across the Middle East and North Africa after 2011, the issue of public violence by the state against both men and women dominated the headlines. But gender-based violence, in both its public and private forms, has for the most...
Arab Cultural Studies
Mapping the Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Arab Cultural Studies:Mapping the Field is the first attempt to explore ways of conceptualising and theorising the nascent field of Arab cultural studies. It reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, epistemology,...
Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance
Orientalism, Race and the Idea of the Arabian Nights
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the 'war on terror'. But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist representations of Sheherazade and the Arabian Nights in Hollywood and American popular culture, have prevailed for much longer. Here Somaya Sabry...
Stateless in the Gulf
Migration, Nationality and Society in Kuwait
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The Kuwaiti population includes around 100,000 people – approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals –whose legal status is contested. Often considered 'stateless', they have come to be known in Kuwait as biduns, from 'bidun jinsiyya', which means literally 'without nationality' in Arabic....
Democracy and Youth in the Middle East
Islam, Tribalism and the Rentier State in Oman
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
The leaders of the oil-rich rentier states of the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf, have hitherto often predicated their legitimacy on a tacit social contract with their (much poorer) populations. This social contract consists of little or no direct taxation, with some sort of subsidised...
Architecture and the Turkish City
An Urban History of Istanbul since the Ottomans
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case in the modern Turkish Republic. By exploring Istanbul's modern architectural and urban history, Murat Gül highlights the dynamics of political and social...
by Naomi Sakr
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Egypt's revolutionary uprising in 2011 raised important questions about the kind of journalism that would be viable in the country's changing political dynamics. Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of action against...
The UAE
Geopolitics, Modernity and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
The seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates were little known until the spectacular success of Dubai. The branding of the city not only raised awareness of Dubai, and brought Emiratis one of the highest standards of living in the world, it also spread positive representations of the UAE...
Britain and the Defeated French
From Occupation to Liberation, 1940-1944
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The four years between the military defeat of France by Nazi Germany and D-Day were vital, dramatic and eventful years in Anglo-French relations. These years saw the first armed clashes between France and Britain since the Napoleonic Wars, including the infamous Royal Navy attack on the French fleet...
A New Humanism
The University Addresses of Daisaku Ikeda
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
'The natural sympathy and understanding of people everywheremust be the soil in which the new humanism can thrive.'
For Daisaku Ikeda, whose words these are, education has long been one of the fundamental priorities of his work and teaching. His emphasis on the intellectual legacy bequeathed...
Weak States, Strong Societies
Power and Authority in the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the previously well-established organisation of world politics has been thrown into disarray. While during the Cold War, the bipolarity of the world gave other powers a defined structure within which to vie for power, influence...
Destruction Rites
Ephemerality and Demolition in Postwar Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
In the early sixties, crowds gathered to watch rites of destruction – from the demolition derby where makeshift cars crashed into each other for sport, to concerts where musicians destroyed their instruments, to performances of self-destructing machines staged by contemporary artists. Destruction,...
Wealth in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans
A Socio-Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Wealth in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans demonstrates the economic and social transformations wrought by wars, state centralization, European expansion and the gradual Ottoman withdrawal from the Balkans. As a new middle class emerged, and the power of religion faded, Ottoman and post-Ottoman...