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Conflict Mediation in the Arab World
Av Ibrahim Fraihat, Isak Svensson
Häftad, 2023
654 kr
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The Middle East and North Africa region has been plagued with civil wars, international interventions, and increasing militarization, making it one of the most war-affected areas in the world today. Despite numerous mediation processes and initiatives for conflict resolution, most have failed to …
This Complicated Form of Life
Essays on Wittgenstein
Häftad, 1999
427 kr
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Wittgenstein has most often been treated as a thinker whose ideas can be discussed independently of any intellectual tradition. The thrust of these essays, by America's leading authority on Wittgenstein's thought, is to insist on the mutual relevance of Wittgenstein's work and the tradition of …
Duties Beyond Borders
On Limits and Possibilities of Ethical International Politics
Häftad, 1981
219 kr
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Can moral behaviour exist in a world of states? Under what conditions? Where if at all, do norms for moral behavior, considerations of right and wrong, fit in the relations between states?Drawing upon many historical examples, Stanley Hoffmann examines the complex questions of whether or not …
Come with Me from Lebanon
An American Family Odyssey
Inbunden, 1994
415 kr
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Ann Kerr’s is a personal account of an American family during the most tumultuous years of Beirut’s political strife. It begins with the tragic assassination of her husband Malcolm Kerr, one of the most respected scholars of Middle East studies, in 1984, seventeen months after he became president …
Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History
Häftad, 1996
227 kr
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The eighteen essays in this volume cover a wide range of material and reevaluate women's studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shari'a courts, the Ottoman household, Dhimmi communities, children and family law, morality, and violence.
Come with Me from Lebanon
An American Family Odyssey
Häftad, 1996
234 kr
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Ann Kerr’s is a personal account of an American family during the most tumultuous years of Beirut’s political strife. It begins with the tragic assassination of her husband Malcolm Kerr, one of the most respected scholars of Middle East studies, in 1984, seventeen months after he became president …
Painting the Middle East
Inbunden, 2002
122 kr
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The watercolours in this volume are an expression of the author's affection and fascination for the Middle East, painted during her many sojourns there starting in the mid-1950s and continuing to today. They are unashamedly romantic and the antithesis of the turmoil in the region. The 89 …
One Family's Response to Terrorism
A Daughter's Memoir
Häftad, 2010
274 kr
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On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirul and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the back of the head as he stepped out of an elevator on his way to work. ""One Family's Response to Terrorism"" is a stunning portrait of the intimate way …
Improbable Women
Five Who Explored the Middle East
Inbunden, 2013
345 kr
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Improbable Women examines the lives of five women writers, all upper-class British women, who rebelled against the conventions of their own societies and lived, travelled and explored the Middle East.
Mizrahi Era of Rebellion
Israel's Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle, 1948-1966
Häftad, 2026
314 kr
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During the postwar period of 1948–56, over 400,000 Jews from the Middle East and Asia immigrated to the newly established state of Israel. By the end of the 1950s, Mizrahim, also known as "Oriental Jewry," represented the ethnic majority of the Israeli Jewish population. Despite their large …
Deference and Defiance
Status Seeking in Gulf-United States Politics
Inbunden, 2027
1358 kr
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Why do the Gulf Cooperation Council monarchies so often lend their support to American foreign policy—and why do they sometimes push back? In Deference and Defiance, Tyler B. Parker offers a compelling answer rooted in the politics of prestige. For over three decades, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, …
Deference and Defiance
Status Seeking in Gulf-United States Politics
Häftad, 2027
365 kr
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Why do the Gulf Cooperation Council monarchies so often lend their support to American foreign policy—and why do they sometimes push back? In Deference and Defiance, Tyler B. Parker offers a compelling answer rooted in the politics of prestige. For over three decades, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, …
In the Wake of Uprisings
Revisiting Political Islam After 2011
Inbunden, 2027
948 kr
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When the 2011 Arab uprisings toppled long-entrenched autocrats in Egypt and Tunisia, plunged Libya and Yemen into armed conflict, and ignited Syria’s devastating civil war, they also transformed the political terrain for Islamist movements across the Middle East and North Africa. Suddenly …
Making a Compliant Minority
The Druze and the Israeli State
Av Amal Jamal
Inbunden, 2027
1490 kr
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For decades, the Druze in Israel have been viewed through a single narrative: a loyal minority defined by military service and allegiance to the state. In Making a Compliant Minority, Amal Jamal dismantles that portrayal, revealing a community shaped instead by a far more complex process of …
Lebanon in Crisis
Participants and Issues
Av P Edward Haley, Lewis W Snider
Häftad, 1979
227 kr
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This book will serve as a guide for those who wish to understand the Lebanese conflict-expert and general reader alike-and for those, as well, who would work to bring peace to that tormented land. From Palestinian, Syrian, and Israeli intervention to delicate inter-Arab relations, the Arab-Israeli …
Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran
Inbunden, 1985
475 kr
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Ladjevardi follows the rise and ebb of political development in Iran from 1906 to the recent past by looking at one aspect of political growth: the emergence of labor unions. Presenting a history of the labor movement in Iran, he begins with the genesis of the movement from 1906 to 1921 and then …
Reveal and Conceal
Dress in Contemporary Egypt
Inbunden, 1986
534 kr
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This book is an exciting study of clothing as a complex cultural expression. The author analyses contemporary social meanings found in the symbols of dress and shows the way groups and individuals use the symbols like a language to reveal or conceal significant aspects of their personal identities. …
Extremist Shi'ites
The Ghulat Sects
Av Matti Moosa
Inbunden, 1988
518 kr
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Little is known in the West about the division of the Islamic world into Shiites and Sunnites and even less about the stratification of these two groups, with most of the attention going to the Sunnites. Moosa's comprehensive study of the origins and cultural aspects of the different extremist, or …
Rise of Egyptian Communism, 1939-1970
Av Selma Botman
Inbunden, 1988
357 kr
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Selma Botman examines the virtually unknown history of communism in Egypt during the twentieth-century. In an original and well-documented study, the author has traced the development of the revolutionary left using political court cases, interviews with political activists, and literature from the …
State, Religion, and Ethnic Politics
Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan
Av Ali Banuazizi, Myron Weiner
Häftad, 1988
219 kr
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Egypt's Other Wars
Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health
Inbunden, 1990
357 kr
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Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940’s killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century. Egypt’s Other Wars vividly reconstructs the nation’s struggle against malaria, relapsing fever, and cholera and explores the unique combination of forces that put …
Speaking Stones
Communiqués from the Intifada Underground
Av Shaul Mishal, Reuben Aharoni
Häftad, 1993
227 kr
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This work provides a selection of underground documents (never before translated) of the two leading bodies of the Intifada: the United National Command and the Islamic Resistance Movement, known as Hamas. Communiques or leaflets were an essential element of Palestinian political life and served as …
Bitter Legacy
Ideology and Politics in the Arab World
Av Paul Salem
Inbunden, 1994
518 kr
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Ideology has been described as the single most powerful force in modern Arab politics. In this analysis, Salem examines 20th-century nationalist, Marxist, and Islamic movements in the Arab world. He uses a multidisciplinary approach and a breadth of theoretical work from the fields of sociology, …
Islam
Continuity and Change in the Modern World
Häftad, 1994
206 kr
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This is a single-volume history of Islam. The opening chapters briefly discuss the historical background of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century, through the rise of the Islam in 18th through 20th centuries. The final two chapters cover the significant events of the 1980s and 1990s.
Arabic Novel
An Historical and Critical Introduction
Av Roger Allen
Häftad, 1995
253 kr
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This edition includes new material on the Arabic novel up to 1993. It is a survey of the Arabic novel and its development from its beginnings in the 19th century until today. It traces the origin, early cultivation and the mature period after World War II of the Arabic novel.
Oil, Power, and Principle
Iran's Oil Nationalization and Its Aftermath
Av Mostafa Elm
Häftad, 1994
219 kr
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This text analyses the causes and far-reaching consequences of Iran's oil nationalization during the 1950s, focusing on the extensive and misguided involvement of the United States and Great Britain.
Second Message of Islam
Häftad, 1996
219 kr
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A translation from the Sudanese of Taha’s major work in which he outlines the main features of his teachings. Mahmoud Mohamed Taha had long been known for his radical reinterpretation of Islam. His reputation, along with his vigorous opposition to the Islamization program, ultimately led to his …
