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204 produkter
Lebanese Connection
Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic
Inbunden, 2012
419 kr
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Long before Mexico, Colombia, and Afghanistan became notorious for their contributions to the global drug traffic, Lebanon was a special target of U.S. drug agents for harboring the world's greatest single transit port in the international traffic in narcotics. In the words of one American …
Hamas Contained
A History of Palestinian Resistance
Av Tareq Baconi
Häftad, 2022
252 kr
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Hamas has ruled Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there since 2006. Hamas Contained, first published in 2018, offers a history of the group, drawing on interviews with organization leaders and their publications. Tareq Baconi maps Hamas's thirty-year transition from fringe …
Politics of Art
Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan
Av Hanan Toukan
Häftad, 2021
309 kr
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Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanctions, and large-scale economic developments have reshaped the region, this cohort of cultural producers has also found themselves at the center of …
State of Lebanon
Popular Politics and Institution Building in the Wake of Independence
Häftad, 2026
396 kr
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Lebanon gained its formal political independence in 1943. During the dozen years that followed, women and men across class, sectarian, geographic, and ideological divides built, challenged, and reformed the institutional arrangements that would shape the country. With this book, Ziad Abu-Rish …
Struggle for Sovereignty
Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005
Av Joel Beinin, Rebecca L. Stein
Inbunden, 2006
1636 kr
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After the 1993 Oslo Accords people across the world anticipated the onset of peace and an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For Israelis, the Accords generated massive economic growth and a sense of security. For Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they led to a dramatic rise …
Struggle for Sovereignty
Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005
Av Joel Beinin, Rebecca L. Stein
Häftad, 2006
397 kr
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After the 1993 Oslo Accords people across the world anticipated the onset of peace and an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For Israelis, the Accords generated massive economic growth and a sense of security. For Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they led to a dramatic rise …
America's Kingdom
Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
Inbunden, 2006
361 kr
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America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States's "special relationship" with Saudi Arabia, or what is less reverently known as "the deal": oil for security. Taking aim at the long-held belief that the Arabian American Oil Company, ARAMCO, made miracles happen in the …
Creative Reckonings
The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt
Häftad, 2006
343 kr
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The Egyptian art world is the oldest and largest in the Arab Middle East. Its artists must reckon with the histories of ancient Egypt, European modernism, anti-colonial nationalism, and state socialism-all in the context of a growing neoliberal economy marked by American global dominance. At this …
Making Islam Democratic
Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn
Av Asef Bayat
Häftad, 2007
303 kr
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Whether Islam is compatible with democracy is an increasingly asked question, but ultimately a misguided one. In this book, Asef Bayat proposes that democratic ideals have less to do with the essence of any religion than with how it is practiced. He offers a new approach to Islam and democracy, …
Invisible Cage
Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon
Häftad, 2008
189 kr
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The Invisible Cage uncovers the hidden history of the cycle of labor migration and return of hundreds of thousands of un- and semi-skilled Syrian workers in Lebanon. It traces how Syrians came to comprise a significant proportion of Lebanon's workforce during the 1950s and 1960s, the ways in which …
Surrounded
Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military
Inbunden, 2008
316 kr
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An estimated 3,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel currently volunteer to serve in the Israeli military, a force fighting other Palestinians just miles away in occupied territories. Surrounded takes a close look at this controversial group of soldiers, examining the complex reasons these people join …
Autumn of Dictatorship
Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt Under Mubarak
Inbunden, 2011
1238 kr
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The Egyptian protests in early 2011 took many by surprise. In the days immediately following, commentators wondered openly over the changing situation across the Middle East. But protest is nothing new to Egypt, and labor activism and political activism, most notably the Kifaya (Enough) movement, …
Iranophobia
The Logic of an Israeli Obsession
Av Haggai Ram
Inbunden, 2009
1250 kr
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Israel and Iran invariably are portrayed as sworn enemies, engaged in an unending conflict with potentially apocalyptic implications.Iranophobia offers an innovative and provocative new reading of this conflict. Concerned foremost with how Israelis perceive Iran, the author steps back from …
Iranophobia
The Logic of an Israeli Obsession
Av Haggai Ram
Häftad, 2009
302 kr
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Israel and Iran invariably are portrayed as sworn enemies, engaged in an unending conflict with potentially apocalyptic implications.Iranophobia offers an innovative and provocative new reading of this conflict. Concerned foremost with how Israelis perceive Iran, the author steps back from …
Surrounded
Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military
E-bok, 2008
364 kr
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An estimated 3,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel currently volunteer to serve in the Israeli military, a force fighting other Palestinians just miles away in occupied territories. Surrounded takes a close look at this controversial group of soldiers, examining the complex reasons these people join …
Iranophobia
The Logic of an Israeli Obsession
Av Haggai Ram
E-bok, 2009
375 kr
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Israel and Iran invariably are portrayed as sworn enemies, engaged in an unending conflict with potentially apocalyptic implications.Iranophobia offers an innovative and provocative new reading of this conflict. Concerned foremost with how Israelis perceive Iran, the author steps back from …
Palestinian Village Histories
Geographies of the Displaced
Inbunden, 2010
1287 kr
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Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques and churches put to other uses, and cemeteries plowed under, Palestinian communities were left geographically dispossessed. Palestinians have since …
Palestinian Village Histories
Geographies of the Displaced
Häftad, 2010
311 kr
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Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques and churches put to other uses, and cemeteries plowed under, Palestinian communities were left geographically dispossessed. Palestinians have since …
Business Networks in Syria
The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience
Inbunden, 2011
1403 kr
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Collusion between business communities and the state can lead to a measure of security for those in power, but this kind of interaction often limits new development. In Syria, state-business involvement through informal networks has contributed to an erratic economy. With unique access to private …
Revolutionary Womanhood
Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt
Av Laura Bier
Inbunden, 2011
1275 kr
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The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s …
Revolutionary Womanhood
Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt
Av Laura Bier
Häftad, 2011
311 kr
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The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s …
Refugees of the Revolution
Experiences of Palestinian Exile
Av Diana Allan
Inbunden, 2013
1238 kr
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Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way …
Refugees of the Revolution
Experiences of Palestinian Exile
Av Diana Allan
Häftad, 2013
302 kr
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Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way …
One-State Condition
Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine
Inbunden, 2012
1238 kr
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Since the start of the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel's domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this rule—both in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic …
One-State Condition
Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine
Häftad, 2012
302 kr
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Since the start of the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel's domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this rule—both in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic …
Bazaar Politics
Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town
Av Noah Coburn
Inbunden, 2011
1275 kr
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After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly …
Bazaar Politics
Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town
Av Noah Coburn
Häftad, 2011
311 kr
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After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly …
Palestinian Village Histories
Geographies of the Displaced
E-bok, 2010
375 kr
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Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques and churches put to other uses, and cemeteries plowed under, Palestinian communities were left geographically dispossessed. Palestinians have since …
Autumn of Dictatorship
Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt Under Mubarak
E-bok, 2011
364 kr
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The Egyptian protests in early 2011 took many by surprise. In the days immediately following, commentators wondered openly over the changing situation across the Middle East. But protest is nothing new to Egypt, and labor activism and political activism, most notably the Kifaya (Enough) movement, …
Business Networks in Syria
The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience
E-bok, 2011
410 kr
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Collusion between business communities and the state can lead to a measure of security for those in power, but this kind of interaction often limits new development. In Syria, state-business involvement through informal networks has contributed to an erratic economy. With unique access to private …
