Middle East category: 7830 books
Europe and Tunisia
Democratization via Association
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
This book is concerned with EU democracy promotion inside Tunisia, the first Arab signatory of an Association Agreement with the EU. Focusing on the content, context, mechanisms, and outcomes of democratization via association, the authors examine whether Tunisia’s specific mode of democratization...
Women, Islam and Modernity
Single Women, Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Contemporary Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
In popular debates about reproductive and sexual rights, formal religions, especially Islam, are seen as barriers providing institutional and ideological resistance to women's realization of reproductive and social autonomy. This book challenges this simplified view of Islam. Based on original fieldwork...
Social Media in the Arab World
Communication and Public Opinion in the Gulf States
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically empowered....
by Boris Senior
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2005
Although Boris Senior may not be well known outside Israel, he played an important, even vital, part in the formation of the Israel Air Force (IAF) and in the 1948 War of Independence. Those who are familiar with his efforts and dedication have an abiding respect and appreciation for this transplanted...
by James N. Sater
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Taking Morocco as its focus, this book looks at the political change in the country since 1990. It places particular emphasis on key topics, such as civil society, human rights and reform, as vital issues for understanding the developments in the contemporary Middle East.
On Time
Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph,...
by Andrew Jotischky
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Crusading and the Crusader States explores how the idea of holy war emerged from the troubled society of the eleventh century, and why Jerusalem and the Holy Land were so important to Europeans. It follows the progress of the major crusading expeditions, offering insights into initial success and...
The Political Economy of the Kurds of Turkey
From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In recent years, the persecution of the Kurds in the Middle East under ISIS in Iraq and Syria has drawn increasing attention from the international media. In this book, Veli Yadirgi analyses the socioeconomic and political structures and transformations of the Kurdish people from the Ottoman era through...
by Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall, Flavius Josephus
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
A well documented, historical account of the Order of the Assassins, a secret society that ruled with terror in the middle east.
Palestinian Activism in Israel
A Bedouin Woman Leader in a Changing Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
A close description of Amal El'Sana-Alh'jooj's experiences as a Palestinian Bedouin female activist, this book explores Amal's activism and demonstrates that activists' biographies provide a means of understanding the complexities of political situations they are involved in.
Society and Economy in Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean, 1600-1900
Essays in Honor of André Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In his long academic career, historian André Raymond has been one of the foremost scholars of urban history in the Arab world, and in particular of Cairo during the Ottoman period. His work was instrumental in changing orientalist views on the decline and stagnation of this region prior to the modern...
by Lord Eversley
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Towards the middle of the thirteenth century a small band or tribe of nomad Turks migrated from Khorassan, in Central Asia, into Asia Minor. They were part of a much larger body, variously estimated at from two to four thousand horsemen, who, with their families, had fled from their homes in Khorassan...
by Giovanni Saladino
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Le Donne del Paradiso di Giovanni Saladino, che ha per tema il primo universo femminile musulmano, illustra un aspetto significativo della biografia di Maometto. Il saggio delinea la fisionomia privata e familiare dell’ultimo (in senso cronologico) dei profeti, la cui vita pubblica si estese per...
Dáesh
La lucha en nombre de la yihad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Dáesh, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Comprender los motivos que llevaron a la radicalización de algunos grupos suníes a través de un repaso histórico...