Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society
About the Book Series
This new series seeks to examine the various developments and changes in contemporary Middle East society. From a variety of disciplinary approaches it includes books on issues such as globalization, the impact of economic, religious and political change on people’s lives, the family and gender relations in the region.
Everyday Life in the Old City of Jerusalem: Historical Transformations and Biographical Emplacements
1st Edition
By Johannes Becker
February 17, 2026
Everyday Life in the Old City of Jerusalem: Historical Transformations and Biographical Emplacements offers an intimate, ground-level exploration of everyday life in one of the world’s most contested and symbolically charged urban spaces. Moving beyond the dominant focus on Jerusalem’s political ...
Child Marriage in Türkiye: Analysis of Experienced Women’s Narratives
1st Edition
By Esra Bayhantopçu
August 29, 2025
This book provides a critical examination of the problem of underage marriage in Türkiye through a sociological perspective considering gender perceptions, cultural norms, and historical and political contexts. The author conducts a comprehensive analysis of the problem by focusing on the lived ...
Rifian Society, Culture and Politics in Mediterranean Morocco
1st Edition
By Stefan Festini Cucco
January 31, 2025
This book explores the Moroccan Rif and the city of Al Hoceima, combining local voices and ethnographic insights to provide a comprehensive and unique overview of the multifaceted dynamics of the Mediterranean region. The focus of the book is on the society, culture, and people of the region, ...
Settlements and Displacement in Turkey: Struggle and Rejuvenation
1st Edition
Edited
By Özlem Erdoğdu Erkarslan, Ela Alanyalı Aral
December 18, 2024
This book explores the complex relationship between urban space and displacement in Turkey. It evaluates how the displacement of people and cultures has affected the spatiotemporal landscapes of the nation at different periods of contemporary Turkey, with an emphasis on various narratives of the ...
Female Youth in Contemporary Egypt: Post-Islamism and a New Politics of Visibility
1st Edition
By Dina Hosni
January 29, 2024
Based on interview material, observations and content analysis, this book captures the everyday life structures of a cohort of Muslim/ex-Islamist female youth in Egypt who have joined or established new networks that share the common interest of doing ‘good’ to the society based on their religious ...
Iranian Immigration to Israel: History and Voices, in the Shadow of Kings
1st Edition
By Ali L. Ezzatyar
January 29, 2024
Exploring the fascinating history behind Iranian-Jewish immigration to Israel, this book offers a rare and untold history of one of Israel’s Middle Eastern Jewish populations. Over the 20th century, thousands among Iran’s Jewish community left their ancestral homes and immigrated to the Jewish ...
The MENA Region and COVID-19: Impact, Implications and Prospects
1st Edition
Edited
By Zeina Hobaika, Lena-Maria Möller, Jan Claudius Völkel
January 29, 2024
Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which comprises some of the world’s richest countries next to some of the poorest, this book offers excellent insights into the discriminatory consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a geographic focus on the MENA region, the ...
Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Tali Hayosh, Elie Cohen-Gewerc, Gilad Padva
September 30, 2021
Providing an inclusive, yet multi- layered perspective on leisure cultures in dynamic hegemonic, subcultural, and countercultural communities, this volume investigates the disciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects of leisure studies in the age of mass migration, nationalism, cultural wars, and ...
Post-Conflict Transition in Lebanon: The Disappeared of the Civil War
1st Edition
By Lyna Comaty
March 31, 2021
Addressing one of the most pressing issues of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) that is still unresolved almost 30 years later, this book adopts a political, sociological, and anthropological approach to look at periods of transition from conflict to peace in Lebanon. Inducing a set of ...
Syrian Refugee Children in the Middle East and Europe: Integrating the Young and Exiled
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle Pace, Somdeep Sen
August 14, 2020
Since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Syrian refugee children have withstood violence, uncertainty, fear, trauma and loss. This book follows their journeys by bringing together scholars and practitioners to reflect on how to make their situation better and to get this knowledge to as ...
A Political Economy of Arab Education: Policies and Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
By Mohamed Alaa Abdel-Moneim
December 12, 2019
The failure of reform policies in areas of critical importance to Arab populations such as health and education played a central role in igniting the Arab Awakening, yet this policy perspective has been largely absent from recent studies of the region. Arab regimes most reliant on repression to ...
Israeli Identity: Between Orient and Occident
1st Edition
Edited
By David Tal
January 12, 2018
For many years before and after the establishment of the state of Israel, the belief that Israel is a western state remained unchallenged. This belief was founded on the predominantly western composition of the pre-statehood Jewish community known as the Yishuv. The relatively homogenous membership...