Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law
The New Pythian Voices: Women Building Capital in NGO's in the Middle East
1st Edition
By Cathryn Magno
August 19, 2015
Over the past 10-15 years, there has been a flowering of politically-motivated women's non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Israel. This study examines three aspects relating to this new NGO sphere: the reasons for the growth of NGOs, the kind of learning that occurs in these new political ...
Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity: Legal Philosophy in Contemporary Iran
1st Edition
By Ashk Dahlen
April 23, 2015
This study analyses the major intellectual positions in the philosophical debate on Islamic law that is occurring in contemporary Iran. As the characteristic features of traditional epistemic considerations have a direct bearing on the modern development of Islamic legal thought, the contemporary ...
The Discourse of Palestinian-Israeli Relations: Persistent Analytics and Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Sean F. McMahon
December 11, 2013
Many observers have portrayed the Oslo Process as a milestone in the peacemaking process between Palestinians and Israelis. In this controversial and groundbreaking new work, McMahon challenges the interpretation of the Oslo Process as a breakthrough or new beginning in Palestinian-Israeli ...
War and Migration: Social Networks and Economic Strategies of the Hazaras of Afghanistan
1st Edition
By Alessandro Monsutti
December 05, 2012
Focusing on the case of the Hazaras, a population from central Afghanistan, this book shows how migration studies and transnationalism are at the heart of theoretical and methodological debates which animate anthropology....
Gender, Literacy, and Empowerment in Morocco
1st Edition
By Fatima Agnaou
November 14, 2012
This book's concept concerns the positive correlation between literacy and women's development and empowerment in developing countries....
Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel: The Necessary "Others" in the Making of a Nation
1st Edition
By Riad M. Nasser
November 14, 2012
The book examines the process of national identity formation. It argues that identity, whether of a small community, a nation, an ethnic group, or a religious community, requires an Other against whom it becomes meaningful. In other words, identity develops via difference from Others against whom...
Diplomacy and Displacement: Reconsidering the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations, 1922–1934
1st Edition
By Onur Yildirim
September 10, 2012
This study presents a comprehensive, balanced and factually grounded narrative of the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations as a historic event that has been the subject of much distortion in the historiographical traditions of nationalist lore in Greece and Turkey, as well as in scholarly ...
Organizations, Gender and the Culture of Palestinian Activism in Haifa, Israel
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Faier
September 10, 2012
This book, based on 25 months of anthropological fieldwork, examines activists and activism in Palestinian nongovernmental organizations in Israel. It concentrates on the ways organizations enable certain processes of self-identification based on activists' constructions of modernity....
Palestine and the Gulf States: The Presence at the Table
1st Edition
By Rosemarie Said Zahlan
July 27, 2012
This final book from Rosemarie Said Zahlan, renowned scholar of Middle East Politics and History, explores the relationships between Palestine and the Gulf since the 1930s. These relationships have ebbed and flowed, crisscrossed barriers and events, and taken on different forms. They...
Trapped Between the Map and Reality: Geography and Perceptions of Kurdistan
1st Edition
By Maria Theresa O'Shea
July 27, 2012
Kurdistan exists as a cultural and political concept on many levels of discourse. Despite Kurdistan's divisions, lack of definition and the absence of a unified struggle for a Kurdish state, the concept survives the reality as a powerful mixture of myths, reality and ambition. This thesis analyses ...
Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey: Kemalist Identity in Transition
1st Edition
By Omer Taspinar
September 12, 2011
This text is an attempt to study Turkey's national and secular identity in light of the challenges posed by Kurdish nationalism and political Islam....
Sharaf Politics: Honor and Peacemaking in Israeli-Palestinian Society
1st Edition
By Sharon D. Lang
June 10, 2010
This book examines the Arabic conflict resolution method known as "sulha." In this process, notable male elders mediate conflicts between and within Arab communities. A lengthy process of political jockeying culminates in a ceremony that peaks when "enemies" shake hands and publicly forgive the ...