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Dissent and Revolution in a Digital Age
Social Media, Blogging and Activism in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
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 media and social networking tools was widely reported. This was also recognized by the very authorities fighting against popular pressure for change,...
Imagining Kurdistan
Identity, Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
From the First Gulf War to the present upheaval in Syria, the Kurdish question has been a crucial issue within the Middle East region and in international politics. Spread across several countries, the Kurds constitute the largest stateless nation in the world. In this context, a striking question...
The Struggle for the State in Jordan
The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Why do the states of the Arab world seem so unstable? Why do alliances between them and with outside powers change so suddenly? Jamie Allinson argues that the answer lies in the expansion of global capitalism in the Middle East. Drawing out the unexpected way in which Jordan's Bedouin tribes became...
Saudi Arabia and Iran
Power and Rivalry in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight. Amongst the most-affected was the relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The existence of a new regime in Tehran led to increasingly vitriolic confrontations between...
Churchill's Last Stand
The Struggle to Unite Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
After the Second World War, with much of Europe in ruins, the victorious Winston Churchill swore to build a peace across Europe that would last a generation.
Ottoman Haifa
A History of Four Centuries under Turkish Rule
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Under Ottoman rule, the city of Haifa, located at the southern point of the largest bay on the coast of Israel, was transformed from a scarcely-inhabited fortress town to a major modern city. Today the city is the third-largest in Israel and has over 250,000 inhabitants.
This book details the...
Oil and American Identity
A Culture of Dependency and US Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
American dependence on foreign oil has long been described as a serious threat to U.S. national security, and continues to be a political flashpoint even as domestic fracking eases the US' reliance on imported energy. Oil and American Identity offers a fresh perspective on the subject by reframing...
Socially Engaged Art after Socialism
Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The post-1989 period has seen artists in Central and Eastern Europe embrace socially engaged practices. Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity...
Resolving Cyprus
New Approaches to Conflict Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Over the past fifty years the Cyprus Problem has come to be regarded as the archetype of an intractable ethnic conflict. Since 1964, the United Nations has been at the forefront of efforts to find a political solution to the dispute between the island's Greek and Turkish communities. And yet, despite...
A Passage to Peace
Global Solutions from East and West
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
The seas do not separate us; rather, they bring us closer together.' Daisaku Ikeda's opening words to this consistently wide-ranging dialogue set the scene for what follows. For the overarching theme of the book is that of the insights and meeting of minds that follow interaction between peoples who...
Constitution in Crisis
The New Putney Debates
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
The debates that began at St Mary's Church, Putney on 28 October 1647 pioneered the liberal, democratic settlement in England: a written constitution, universal suffrage, freedom of conscience and equality before the law. Four centuries later, the 2016 Brexit referendum raised fundamental questions...
The Phoney Victory
The World War II Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Was World War II really the `Good War'? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the `Good War'. Whilst not...
Persian Pictures
From the Mountains to the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
'Her remarkable intellectual abilities and masculine demeanour make Persian Pictures, her first publication on an Eastern subject , all the more interesting.' - Geoffrey Nash
When Gertrude Bell's uncle was appointed Minister in Tehran in 1891, she declared that the great ambition of her life...
by M.A. Draz, Abdel Haleem
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A BRILLIANT SURVEY OF THE QUR'AN BY A TOWERING MUSLIM AUTHORITY, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK.
What is new in the Qur'an? What was the nature of the Qur'anic revelation? Was the Qur'an the product of the mind of Muhammad or the influence of Jewish or Christian teachings? Was it...