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Youth and Education in the Middle East
Shaping Identity and Politics in Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The uprisings that were seen throughout the Middle East during 2010 and 2011, make it difficult to over-state the role of educated youth in the region's politics. Daniele Cantini combines an analysis of young people in Jordan, of its relevance and of its perceived crisis, with one which looks at education...
Nip/Tuck
Television That Gets Under Your Skin
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Promoted as a 'disturbingly perfect' and 'deeply shallow' television drama and created by Ryan Murphy, who is also behind the teen musical show Glee, Nip/Tuck has been one of the most popular and controversial shows on cable TV. The misadventures and soap opera-esque entanglements of the lives of...
The State of Algeria
The Politics of a Post-Colonial Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Algeria's current politics are influenced by its colonial period under the French to an extent not seen in other North African and Middle Eastern states. Indeed, Malika Rebai Maamri argues that Algeria's postcolonial history and politics are, in fact, a series of attempts to come to terms with the...
Killing the Enemy
Assassination Operations During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
During World War II, the British formed a secret division, the 'SOE' or Special Operations Executive, in order to support resistance organisations in occupied Europe. It also engaged in 'targeted killing' – the assassination of enemy political and military leaders. The unit is famous for equipping...
Edmund
In Search of England's Lost King
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines? The ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds are a memorial to the largest Romanesque church ever built. This Suffolk market town is now a quiet place, out of the way, eclipsed by its more...
Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England
A History of Sorcery and Treason
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed...
Turkey and the Politics of National Identity
Social, Economic and Cultural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In the first decade of the twenty-first century Turkey experienced an extraordinary set of transformations. In 2001, in the midst of financial difficulties, the country was under IMF stewardship, yet it has recently emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. And on the international...
Islamism and Intelligence in South Asia
Militancy, Politics and Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
State sponsorship of terrorism is a complex and important topic in today's international affairs - and especially pertinent in the regional politics of the Middle East and South Asia, where Pakistan has long been a flashpoint of Islamist politics and terrorism. In Islamism and Intelligence in South...
The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden
Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures The Georgian garden has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water – a landscape for contemplation. But...
by Reza Shah-Kazemi
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
When asked which religion was most loved by God, the Prophet of Islam refrained from naming a specific religion, and instead referred to a quality which should infuse the faith of all believers: 'The primordial, generously tolerant faith'. Through compelling historical illustration and careful theological...
Islam under the Palestine Mandate
Colonialism and the Supreme Muslim Council
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Concerns about the place of Islam in Palestinian politics are familiar to those studying the history of the modern Middle East. A vital part of this history is the rise of Islamic opposition to the British in Mandate Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s. Colonial officials had wrestled with the question...
The Eternal Revolution
Hardliners and Conservatives in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
More than three decades have passed since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. In that time, theories of modern revolution would suggest a retreat from ideological goals, heralding a phase of institutional development. However, Hamad Albloshi argues that Iran is unique: the current...
Remapping the Ottoman Middle East
Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
As a result of the formation of the modern Turkish state, nationalist narratives of the Ottoman Empire's collapse are commonplace. Remapping the Ottoman Middle East, on the other hand, examines alternative and disparate routes to modernity during the nineteenth century. Pursuing a comparison of different...
by Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Throughout the Middle East, and in the west as well, there has been much discussion concerning the notion of Islamic rule and the application of shari'ah by the state. Central to these debates are the three key themes that Mohammad Abed al-Jabri looks at in this book: democracy, human rights and law....