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Europe's Relations with North Africa
Politics, Economics and Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The rapid evolution of events in the European, Middle Eastern, and North African spheres has reinvigorated the debate on Euro-Mediterranean relations. Since 1995 these relations have operated under the auspices of the Barcelona Process, which laid the foundations for three initiatives that define...
Deng Xiaoping
The Man who Made Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Deng Xiaoping has generally been given the credit for the reforms of the late 1970s that put China on the path to spectacular economic growth and development, a process that has turned it into one of the greatest powers of the twenty-first century. His 'Four Modernisations' - reform in agriculture,...
Media Power and Global Television News
The Role of Al Jazeera English
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The Middle East has been a particular focus of global crisis reporting. Yet, international coverage of these conflicts has historically been presented through a 'Western' perspective. The absence of Arab voices in the global public sphere has created a discursive gap between the Middle East and the...
Andreas Papandreou
The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
A generation after his death and still no monument adorns Andreas Papandreou's grave at the First Cemetery of Athens. This puzzling absence exemplifies the enigma surrounding the man who was arguably the most remarkable, and certainly the most controversial Greek politician of the post-World War II...
Peacekeeping in Africa
Politics, Security and the Failure of Foreign Military Assistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
In recent decades, African states have developed an impressive infrastructure for training their peacekeepers. In addition, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and associated areas of conflict resolution have become significant areas of employment. Marco Jowell has spent a decade working in peacekeeping training...
Migration from Turkey to Sweden
Integration, Belonging and Transnational Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The 'refugee crisis' and the recent rise of anti-immigration parties across Europe has prompted widespread debates about migration, integration and security on the continent. But the perspectives and experiences of immigrants in northern and western Europe have equal political significance for contemporary...
Forming National Identity in Iran
The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Modern Iran is a country with two significant but competing discourses of national identity, one stemming from ancient pre-Islamic customs and mythology, the other from Islamic Shiite practices and beliefs. This has left an often confused notion of identity in Iran. Ali Mozaffari explores the complex...
Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States
Networks of Science in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Officials and religious scholars in the Gulf states have repeatedly banned the teaching and researching of the theory of evolution because of its association with atheism. But Jörg Matthias Determann argues here that, despite official prohibition, research on biological evolution has flourished,...
Power, Sect and State in Syria
The Politics of Marriage and Identity amongst the Druze
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The Syrian state's rhetoric of Arab nationalism left little room for the official recognition of minority identities in pre-war Syria. Yet in practice, the state continually engaged with the Druze and other minorities to reinforce its legitimacy, often through cultural policy. Uncovering this neglected...
Faith and Fashion in Turkey
Consumption, Politics and Islamic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularly regarding its religious communities. As individuals with pious identities have increasingly gained access to state power and accumulated economic...
Ancient Persia in Western History
Hellenism and the Representation of the Achaemenid Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
The Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century, was at its height the largest empire the world had yet seen, stretching across Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Because this first Persian Empire fought a series of wars against the Ancient Greek city-states, it has often...
by Naomi Sakr
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
There is a great deal at stake for everyone in the future of Arab television. Political and social upheavals in this central but unsettled region are increasingly played out on television screens and in the tussles over programming that take place behind them. Al-Jazeera is of course only one player...
Perceptions of Iran
History, Myths and Nationalism from Medieval Persia to the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
From the Sasanian to the Safavid Empire, and from Qajar Iran to the current Islamic Republic, the history of Iran is one which has been coloured by a rich tradition of myths and narratives and shaped by its wealth of philosophers, cultural theorists and political thinkers. Perceptions of Iran dissects...
Authorship and the Films of David Lynch
Aesthetic Receptions in Contemporary Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
This fresh contribution to studies on authorship and film explores the ways in which shared and disputed opinions on aesthetic quality, originality and authorial essence have shaped receptions of David Lynch's films. It is also the first book to approach Lynch as a figure composed through language,...