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Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt
The Politics of Hegemony
Av Sara Salem
Häftad, 2022
471 kr
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This study presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century. Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt explores the country's first postcolonial project, arguing that the enduring afterlives of anticolonial politics, …
Cosmopolitan Radicalism
The Visual Politics of Beirut's Global Sixties
Av Zeina Maasri
Häftad, 2022
452 kr
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Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in Beirut from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, this compelling interdisciplinary study critically examines a global conjuncture in Lebanon's history, marked by anticolonial struggle and complicated by a Cold War order. Against a …
Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis
State and Politics in the Middle East
Häftad, 2020
351 kr
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An important and topical contribution to the field of Middle East studies, this innovative, provocative, and timely study tackles head-on the main assumptions of the foundation of Israel as a Jewish state. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, Yaacov Yadgar provides a novel analysis of …
Money, Markets, and Monarchies
The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East
Av Adam Hanieh
Häftad, 2018
432 kr
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Framed by a critical analysis of global capitalism, this book examines how the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are powerfully shaping the political economy of the wider Middle East. Through unprecedented and fine-grained empirical research - encompassing sectors such as agribusiness, …
Global 1979
Geographies and Histories of the Iranian Revolution
Av Arang Keshavarzian, Ali Mirsepassi
Häftad, 2021
452 kr
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The Iranian revolution of 1979 not only had an impact on regional and international affairs, but was made possible by the world and time in which it unfolded. This multi-disciplinary volume presents this revolution within its transnational and global contexts. Moving deftly from the personal to the …
Fixing Stories
Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria
Häftad, 2023
392 kr
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News 'fixers' are translators and guides who assist foreign journalists. Sometimes key contributors to bold, original reporting and other times key facilitators of homogeneity and groupthink in the news media, they play the difficult but powerful role of broker between worlds, shaping the creation …
A Social History of Modern Tehran
Space, Power, and the City
Inbunden, 2023
1641 kr
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Tehran, the capital of Iran since the late eighteenth century, is now one of the largest cities in the Middle East. Exploring Tehran's development from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi paints a vibrant picture of a city undergoing rapid and dynamic social …
A Social History of Modern Tehran
Space, Power, and the City
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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Tehran, the capital of Iran since the late eighteenth century, is now one of the largest cities in the Middle East. Exploring Tehran's development from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi paints a vibrant picture of a city undergoing rapid and dynamic social …
The Making of Persianate Modernity
Language and Literary History between Iran and India
Inbunden, 2023
1741 kr
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From the ninth to the nineteenth centuries, Persian was the pre-eminent language of learning far beyond Iran, stretching from the Balkans to China. In this book, Alexander Jabbari explores what became of this vast Persian literary heritage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Iran and South …
Heroes to Hostages
America and Iran, 1800-1988
Inbunden, 2023
1514 kr
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It is easy to forget, given the oppositional dynamic between Iran and the United States of the last 50 years, that these two countries once shared productive partnership. Tracing US-Iran relations over two turbulent centuries, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet considers when and how this relationship went …
Heroes to Hostages
America and Iran, 1800-1988
Häftad, 2023
455 kr
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It is easy to forget, given the oppositional dynamic between Iran and the United States of the last 50 years, that these two countries once shared productive partnership. Tracing US-Iran relations over two turbulent centuries, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet considers when and how this relationship went …
The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran
Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production
Häftad, 2025
459 kr
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Modernist Iranian art represents a highly diverse field of cultural production deeply involved in discussing questions of modernity and modernization as practiced in Iran. This book investigates how artistic production and art criticism reflected upon the discourse about gharbzadegi …
The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran
Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production
Inbunden, 2023
1569 kr
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Modernist Iranian art represents a highly diverse field of cultural production deeply involved in discussing questions of modernity and modernization as practiced in Iran. This book investigates how artistic production and art criticism reflected upon the discourse about gharbzadegi …
Mandatory Madness
Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine
Inbunden, 2023
1777 kr
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Mandatory Madness offers a new perspective on a pivotal period in the history of modern Palestine, by putting mental illness and the psychiatric encounters it engendered at the heart of the story. Through a careful and creative reading of an eclectic mix of archival and published material, …
Mandatory Madness
Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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Mandatory Madness offers a new perspective on a pivotal period in the history of modern Palestine, by putting mental illness and the psychiatric encounters it engendered at the heart of the story. Through a careful and creative reading of an eclectic mix of archival and published material, …
Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies
Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman
Häftad, 2026
605 kr
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This book shifts the analysis of economic development in Oman from the traditional focus on oil to the perspective of labour. Focusing on the experiences of workers, jobseekers, and the governance of labour markets, Crystal A. Ennis offers a fresh perspective on regional development and rentier …
Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey
Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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What does it mean for a government to declare its citizens 'dead' while they still live? Following the failed 2016 coup, the Turkish AKP government implemented sweeping powers against some 152,000 of its citizens. These Kanun hükmünde kararnameli ('emergency decreed') were dismissed from their …
Labor Unions and Democratic Unrest in North Africa
Protest and Resistance in Tunisia and Morocco
Inbunden, 2025
1861 kr
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The political upheavals witnessed in North Africa during the 2011 Arab uprisings brought renewed attention to the region. This book focuses on the inconspicuous yet critical role of labor unions in shaping protest success (and failure) during this period. Drawing on a comparison between Tunisia and …
Diasporic State-Building
Transnational Networks and the Making of Post-2003 Iraq
Av Oula Kadhum
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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The Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 brought exiles of Hussein's tyrannical reign flooding back to their native land, bringing with them the flavours and customs from adopted homes and with it sweeping, transnational power. 'Handing over power to the Iraqis' …
Challenging the Caliphate
Wahhabism and Mahdism in the Late Ottoman Empire
Av Ömer Koçyiğit
Inbunden, 2026
1610 kr
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How did steam transportation and print culture reshape the Ottoman Empire's centre-periphery relations in the nineteenth century? Challenging the Caliphate offers a fresh perspective on modernization in the Muslim world, exploring how these developments in infrastructure, technology, and …
State Matters
Theorizing State Fragmentation and Consolidation from Iraq
Av Nida Alahmad
Häftad, 2026
500 kr
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Why does the state matter to its people? How do people know and experience the state? And how did the state come to be both desired and dreaded by its subjects? This study offers a historically grounded social theoretical account of state consolidation in Iraq, from the foundation of the country as …
State Matters
Theorizing State Fragmentation and Consolidation from Iraq
Av Nida Alahmad
Inbunden, 2026
1610 kr
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Why does the state matter to its people? How do people know and experience the state? And how did the state come to be both desired and dreaded by its subjects? This study offers a historically grounded social theoretical account of state consolidation in Iraq, from the foundation of the country as …
Syrian Intellectuals in Exile
The Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving
Inbunden, 2026
1610 kr
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In the wake of the 2011 uprising in Syria, a number of Syrian intellectuals were forced into exile. Many of these intellectuals played a crucial role in mobilising people in the early days of the movement, but once in exile an irreconcilable tension emerged between their revolutionary narratives …
Monarchies of Extraction
The Gulf States in the Global Food System
Häftad, 2026
536 kr
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In a region known for its export of oil, Monarchies of Extraction explores how the Gulf states are simultaneously defined by the importation of food. Charting the economics and politics of the Gulf through an examination of its food system, Christian Henderson demonstrates how these states …
Monarchies of Extraction
The Gulf States in the Global Food System
Inbunden, 2026
1529 kr
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In a region known for its export of oil, Monarchies of Extraction explores how the Gulf states are simultaneously defined by the importation of food. Charting the economics and politics of the Gulf through an examination of its food system, Christian Henderson demonstrates how these states …
Leaping Decolonization
North Africa in the Global 1960s and 1970s
Inbunden, 2026
1610 kr
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In the wake of independence from French colonialism, a generation of North African nationalist leaders and progressive thinkers reimagined their futures through essays, periodicals, and publishing networks. Leaping Decolonization explores how these debates unfolded from the early 1960s to the early …
European Shiʿism
Peripheral Engagement and Religious Retention
Häftad, 2026
496 kr
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The presence of Shiʿite communities in Western Europe dates to the late nineteenth century, with Britain as the primary destination for immigration, as well as notable communities developing in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. Exploring selected encounters of …
European Shiʿism
Peripheral Engagement and Religious Retention
Inbunden, 2026
1563 kr
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The presence of Shiʿite communities in Western Europe dates to the late nineteenth century, with Britain as the primary destination for immigration, as well as notable communities developing in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Scandinavia. Exploring selected encounters of …
Iranian Non-Muslim Communities
Negotiating Social Space during the Constitutional Revolution, 1891-1911
Häftad, 2026
529 kr
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In the years surrounding the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, major non-Muslim communities of Zoroastrians, Christians, Jews, and Bahaʾis negotiated identities, rights, and power structures. Using primary documents from Iranian, British, and French archives, Saghar Sadeghian sheds light on an …
Iranian Non-Muslim Communities
Negotiating Social Space during the Constitutional Revolution, 1891-1911
Inbunden, 2026
1563 kr
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In the years surrounding the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, major non-Muslim communities of Zoroastrians, Christians, Jews, and Bahaʾis negotiated identities, rights, and power structures. Using primary documents from Iranian, British, and French archives, Saghar Sadeghian sheds light on an …
