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A Lebanon Defied: Musa al-Sadr and the Shi'a Community by Majed Halawi 9780367012366
RRP: £135.00£117.68The 1980s were a watershed in the history of the Shi'a community in Lebanon. From the attacks on Israeli forces in South Lebanon in the aftermath of the 1982 invasion, through the final withdrawal of the multinational force from Beirut in March 1984, the... -
Between Qur'an And Crown: The Challenge Of Political Legitimacy In The Arab World by Tamara Sonn 9780367012182
RRP: £135.00£117.68The struggle for political legitimacy in many Middle Eastern countries today poses a dilemma for ruling elites. In order to maintain authority, leaders often must capitulate to Islamic universalist dogma, which may conflict with their own views of the... -
Afghanistan And The Soviet Union: Collision And Transformation by Milan Hauner 9780367012168
RRP: £135.00£117.28Since the dramatic events of a decade ago-the revolutions in Kabul and Teheran, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the Gulf War- "Greater Central Asia" has recaptured the imagination of academia. Historians, Islamicists, anthropologists,... -
Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution by John Foran 9780367011574
RRP: £135.00£118.28This book traces the transformation of Iran's social structure from the rise of the Safavid dynasty in 1501 to the dramatic social movements of the twentieth century. Rooted in the current debates in the sociology of development, the book offers a new... -
Cry Palestine: Inside The West Bank by Said K Aburish 9780367010874
RRP: £135.00£117.68Cry Palestine provides a unique perspective, a glimpse into the world behind the intifada from both the Palestinian and Israeli points of view. Said K. Aburish was born in the West Bank village of Bethany and lived there until he was fifteen. He has a... -
Democratization And The Islamist Challenge In The Arab World by Najib Ghadbian 9780367010270
RRP: £135.00£117.28The rise of Islamic movements in the Arab world over the last decade coincided with a move toward democratization throughout the region, yet after hopeful early signs, progress toward democratization has stalled or has even been reversed in all but a few... -
Colonial Bridgehead: Government And Society In Alexandria, 1807-1882 by Michael J Reimer 9780367010263
RRP: £135.00£117.68At the end of the eighteenth century, Alexandria was a small unimposing town; less than a century later, the city had become a busy hub of Mediterranean commerce and Egypt's master link to the international economy. This is the first study to examine... -
Am I A Murderer?: Testament Of A Jewish Ghetto Policeman by Calel Perechodnik 9780367010171
RRP: £135.00£67.74In this moving memoir, a young Polish Jew chronicles his life under the Nazis. In the vain hope of protecting himself and his family, Calel Perechodnik made the wrenching decision to become a ghetto policeman in a small town near Warsaw. The true tragedy... -
Israel's Changing Society: Population, Ethnicity, And Development by Calvin Goldscheider 9780367009878
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book provides the most up-to-date assessment of Israel's society today, portraying the country's ethnic diversity, its economy, and demographic changes. Revealing linkages between demographic transformation and socioeconomic change, Goldscheider... -
Middle East Politics: The Military Dimension by J. C. Hurewitz 9780367020903
RRP: £135.00£118.28The Arab-Israel Six Day War in June 1967 riveted world attention on the huge quantities of sophisticated weapons amassed in the arsenals of the Middle East - and left in its wake tangled political-military dilemmas and the intensification of the most... -
Local Politics and Development in the Middle East by Louis J. Cantori 9780367018757
RRP: £135.00£117.28Although development at the local level is a primary goal of most assistance schemes, most development agencies and banks know little of politics at the local level in developing countries. As a result, assistance programs generally lack relevance to... -
Development And Disenchantment In Rural Tunisia: The Bourguiba Years by Mira Zussman 9780367016029
RRP: £135.00£117.68My first introduction to the lower Medjerda Valley was in 1976 byWerner Kiene, then director of economic development programs in NorthAfrica for the Ford Foundation, and by professors Ali Ben Zaid Salmi andMoneeGBP Ben Said, codirectors of the Department... -
Kuwait: Trade And Investment by Ragaei El Mallakh 9780367020767
RRP: £135.00£117.68Although small geographically, Kuwait casts a disproportionately large shadow in the areas of international finance, energy, and trade. It enjoys a capital-surplus economy, but is still a developing country and one of the fastest growing markets for... -
Between Lausanne And Geneva: International Conferences And The Arab-israeli Conflict by Abraham Ben-Zvi 9780367003678
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book analyzes the concept of an international conference as referred to by the major parties involved to resolve at least one facet of the Arab-Israel predicament. The restrictive type of conference has proved to be effective in resolving or... -
Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Don Peretz 9780367003623
RRP: £135.00£117.68"This book is intended as an overview of the uprising-the Intifada of the Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza, territories occupied by Israel since the June 1967 war. In the two years since the Intifada began during December 1987, it has acquired... -
Iran And Iraq At War by Shahram Chubin 9780367003180
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book attempts to understand both the nature and the consequences of the current conflict between Iraq and Iran. It is based on a research project initiated by the auspices of the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies in Geneva... -
National Security And Public Opinion In Israel by Asher Arian 9780367003555
RRP: £135.00£117.28National Security and Public Opinion in Israel undertakes to depict the patterns of public opinion in Israel regarding national security policy. It analyzes some of the issues involved in the relationship between public opinion and the decisionmakers on... -
Notes From The Minefield: United States Intervention In Lebanon And The Middle East, 1945-1958 by Irene L Gendzier 9780367007959
RRP: £135.00£118.28Irene Gendzier's critically acclaimed, wide-reaching analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in Lebanon posits that the politics of oil and pipelines figured far more significantly in U.S. relations with Lebanon than previously believed. In 1958 the... -
Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey Into Revolutionary Iran by Edward Shirley 9780367007119
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book gives an account of Shirley's trip into Iran as a spy to provide an insight into Iranian character. It is a vivid, firsthand portrait of the clash of Western and Muslim civilizations. The book portrays Iranians in a way different from what the... -
Middle East Oil Crises Since 1973 by Benjamin Shwadran 9780367005962
RRP: £135.00£117.68The production and consumption of oil has emerged as a major factor in international economics in general and in regional and national development in particular. The struggle for access to oil and gas resources has become even more fierce, affecting the... -
Mass Culture, Popular Culture, And Social Life In The Middle East by Georg Stauth 9780367005429
RRP: £135.00£117.68The papers in this collection have a common theme in the question of modernity and mass culture. Two papers, those by Chaney and Featherstone respectively, discuss aspects of this theme in a general, global context, all the others are concerned more... -
Jordan's Palestinian Challenge, 1948-1983: A Political History by Clinton Bailey 9780367005368
RRP: £135.00£117.28Two-thirds of all Palestinians are Jordanian citizens living on the East and West Banks; a sizable number also reside and work in various parts of the Arabian Peninsula. With the questions of ultimate sovereignty over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip... -
The Plight of the Palestinians: A Long History of Destruction by W. Cook 9780230100374
RRP: £44.99£44.43A collection of voices from around the world that establishes in both theoretical and graphic terms the slow, methodical genocide taking place in Palestine beginning in the 1940s. Voices decrying in startling, vivid, and forceful language the calculated... -
The Endless Quest for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: A Reflection from No Man's Land by Robert Serry 9783319457529
RRP: £89.99£89.87In this book a former United Nations Envoy offers an insider perspective on conflict management and peace efforts during the three most recent failed peace initiatives and three wars in Gaza. Robert Serry shares his reflections on walking the tight rope... -
The Shah of Iran, the Iraqi Kurds, and the Lebanese Shia Arash Reisinezhad 9783030079017
RRP: £119.99£107.58This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran's connections with non-state entities in the Middle East. Iran's involvement with political-militant non-states has been at the heart of international and regional security policy for... -
The Kurds in a New Middle East: The Changing Geopolitics of a Regional Conflict by Cengiz Gunes 9783030005382
RRP: £54.99£49.36This book examines the Kurds' rise as new regional actors in the Middle East and the impact this is having on the regional order. Kurdish political activism has reached a new height in the beginning of the 21st Century with Kurdish movements in Iraq,... -
The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game: Foreign Policy Under the Assads by Bente Scheller 9781849042864
RRP: £35.00£31.24Syrian foreign policy, always opaque, has be- come an even greater puzzle during the Syrian revolt. Irrespective of the regime's international isolation in the wake of its violent response to domestic protest, it has paid lip-service to international... -
Shocks and Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa by Imad Mansour 9781626167674
RRP: £108.00£95.36Shocks and Rivalries in the Middle East and North Africa is the first book to examine issue-driven antagonisms within groups of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) states and their impact on relations within the region. The volume also considers how... -
How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in Egypt and Tunisia by Nathaniel Greenberg 9781474453950
RRP: £105.00£95.79On January 28 2011 WikiLeaks released documents from a cache of US State Department cables stolen the previous year. The Daily Telegraph in London published one of the memos with an article headlined 'Secret US Backing for Egyptian rebels'. The effect of... -
The Arab Uprisings: Catalysts, Dynamics, and Trajectories Fahed Al-Sumait 9781442239012
RRP: £45.00£25.77The uprisings of 2011 have radically altered the political, economic, and social landscapes of the Middle East and North Africa. A clearer view of the recent past now provides greater perspectives on the causes and the consequences of these events. This... -
The Elections in Israel 2015 by Michal Shamir 9781412865265
RRP: £135.00£117.28The newest volume in the Elections in Israel series focuses on the twentieth Knesset elections held in March 2015 following the collapse of the third Netanyahu government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main opposition party, the Zionist Camp, ran a... -
An Uncertain Ally: Turkey under Erdogan's Dictatorship by David L. Phillips 9781412865388
RRP: £135.00£117.28Under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey has descended into a dictatorship, promotes the Islamist agenda, abuses human rights, limits freedom of expression in the press, and wages war against the Kurds. While Turkey has historically been important... -
Arab Nationalism: A Critical Enquiry by Bassam Tibi 9781349208043
RRP: £41.99£37.94In this new edition Professor Tibi analyses the impact and function of nationalism and its contribution to social and political change in the Third World, taking the rise of nationalism in the Middle East as a historical example. He concentrates on the... -
Routledge Handbook of EU–Middle East Relations by Dimitris Bouris 9781032132167
RRP: £43.99£38.84EU–Middle East relations are multifaceted, varied and complex, shaped by historical, political, economic, migratory, social and cultural dynamics. Covering these relations from a broad perspective that captures continuities, ruptures and entanglements,... -
Secularism Confronts Islamism: Divergent Paths of Transitional Negotiations in Egypt and Tunisia by Mohammad Affan 9781032133751
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book provides in-depth examination of the recent confrontation between Islamists and secularists in Egypt and Tunisia. Presenting a new approach to understand Islamism and secularism, the research addresses the variables that could affect the... -
Elections and Public Opinion in Turkey: Through the Prism of the 2018 Elections by Ali Çarkoğlu 9780367762353
RRP: £39.99£35.06The volume sheds light on the backsliding process of Turkish democratization from the early 2010's until 2018. In addition to historical contextualization, the book analyzes data collected through a nationally representative survey of Turkish voters... -
Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East: Discontinuity and Turbulence by Tareq Y. Ismael 9781032052540
RRP: £35.99£31.69This exciting new edition of the successful textbook for students of Middle Eastern politics provides a highly relevant and comprehensive introduction to the complexities of a region in constant flux. Combining a thematic framework for examining patterns... -
Mind Your Colour by Judith February 9781138883888
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book is essentially about stereotypes as found in the literature and culture of South Africa. It deals specifically with those people referred to in the South African racial legislation as `coloureds'. The book is also an illustration of the way in... -
Presidentialism in Turkey: Instability and Change by Serap Gur 9781138236066
RRP: £54.99£47.72Parliamentarism has been a presiding characteristic of the Turkish political tradition since the 1876 Ottoman constitution. In 1923, with the founding of the Turkish Republic, modern parliamentarism was implemented in Turkey. Since that time, Turkish... -
Islam and the State by P. J. Vatikiotis 9781138219847
RRP: £32.99£29.16Examining the theoretical problems which arose when the modern European ideology of nationalism was adopted by Muslim societies organized into formally modern states, this book, first published in 1987, also deals with the practical difficulties arising...