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When Parliaments Ruled the Middle East: Iraq and Syria, 1946-63 Matthieu Rey 9781649031167
RRP: £60.00£49.04An essential study of parliamentary politics in postwar Iraq and Syria, before the consolidation of authoritarian rule under the Ba'th PartyWhen Parliaments Ruled the Middle East explores three main interrelated issues to clarify what happened between... -
The JDP and Making the Post-Kemalist Secularism in Turkey by Pinar Kandemir
RRP: £119.99£109.55This book is an analytical study of secularism in contemporary Turkey by tracing its historical trajectory within the context of political transformation in a country that experienced a social and cultural rupture in its formative years. Its principal... -
Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920-1958 by Dylan Baun
RRP: £22.99£20.66By the mid-twentieth century, youth movements around the globe ruled the streets. In Lebanon, young people in these groups attended lectures, sang songs, and participated in sporting events; their music tastes, clothing choices and routine activities... -
The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria: The Democratic Option of Islamism Naomi Ramirez Diaz 9781138701717
RRP: £135.00£117.28Anyone who follows world events has heard of the Muslim Brotherhood. Usually considered a fundamentalist religious organisation opposed to secular regimes, the so-called Arab Spring began to challenge this conception, and showed the MB's commitment to... -
The Middle East and the United States: History, Politics, and Ideologies David W. Lesch 9780813350585
RRP: £45.99£40.53The Middle East and the United States brings together scholars and policy experts to provide an empirical and balanced assessment of US policy in the Middle East primarily from the end of World War I to the present. Carefully edited by David W. Lesch and... -
The Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings by Melani Cammett
RRP: £32.99£31.69In this Westview Press Spotlight, Melani Cammett and Ishac Diwan explore the impact of the Arab Spring and subsequent events in the region. The Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings analyzes the ways in which salient socioeconomic and political factors... -
The Iranian Revolution Then And Now: Indicators Of Regime Instability by Dariush Zahedi
RRP: £43.99£38.44In The Iranian Revolution Then and Now, Dariush Zahedi assesses the Islamic Republic's potential for revolution through an in-depth, theoretically informed, comparative analysis of the present with 1979 pre-Revolutionary Iran. Zahedi discusses how the... -
Political Ascent: Contemporary Islamic Movements In North Africa by Emad Shahin
RRP: £32.99£29.16Islamic movements in North Africa have historically been distinguished from their counterparts in other parts of the Arab world because they have demonstrated a marked willingness to work within the political system and have at times even been officially... -
Kuwait: Recovery And Security After The Gulf War by Anthony H. Cordesman
RRP: £52.99£51.08With the thoroughness that this recently spotlighted nation requires, this volume examines Kuwait's internal and external security situation after the turbulent days of the Gulf War and investigates continued Western involvement in its safekeeping. It... -
Legal Dualism: The Absorption Of The Occupied Territories Into Israel by Eyal Benvenisti
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the various methods by which Israeli law is being applied to the occupied territories and their inhabitants. It discusses the legal situation of the territories from the point of view of the positive law that is in effect there.Book... -
Triumph Of The Image: The Media's War In The Persian Gulf, A Global Perspective by Hamid Mowlana
RRP: £135.00£117.68The triumph of image over reality and reason is the theme of this book. New communication technologies have made possible the transportation of images and words in real time to hundreds of millions of people around the world. We thought we witnessed the... -
The Iranian Revolution And The Muslim World by David Menashri
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book delineates the Islamic revolution's impact mainly on the Muslim Middle East and examines the first decade of the revolution. It deals with the repercussions of the revolution in several Shi'i communities and examines Sunni polemical writings on... -
When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversion in Israel by Michal Kravel-Tovi
RRP: £62.00£48.22Religious conversion is often associated with ideals of religious sincerity. But in a society in which religious belonging is entangled with ethnonational citizenship and confers political privilege, a convert might well have other motives. Over the last... -
Leaving without Losing: The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan by Mark N. Katz
RRP: £23.00£20.35As the United States withdraws its combat troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, politicians, foreign policy specialists, and the public are worrying about the consequences of leaving these two countries. Neither nation can be considered stable, and progress... -
Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920–1958 by Dylan Baun
RRP: £79.99£72.16By the mid-twentieth century, youth movements around the globe ruled the streets. In Lebanon, young people in these groups attended lectures, sang songs, and participated in sporting events; their music tastes, clothing choices and routine activities... -
Actors and Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict's Middle Phase: Between Contentious Politics, Militarization and Regime Resilience by Jasmine K. Gani
RRP: £135.00£109.25This volume covers the "middle" time period of the Syrian uprising, roughly from 2012 when Syria's peaceful protest began to mutate into a violent insurgency and civil war until roughly 2018 when the conflict took on features of a "frozen... -
Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an: Tafsir and Social Concerns in the Twentieth Century by Majid Daneshgar
RRP: £135.00£117.28Shaykh Tantawi Jawhari was an Egyptian exegete known for having produced a scientific interpretation of the Qur'an. A pioneering scholar in terms of familiarising the people of his time with many previously neglected matters regarding Islam and science,... -
Maghreb Regional and Global Integration - A Dream to Be Fulfilled by Gary Clyde Hufbauer
RRP: £20.00£15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881324266Author Gary Clyde HufbauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson... -
Armenians And The Iranian Constitutional Revolution Of 1905-1911: The Love For Freedom Has No Fatherland Houri Berberian 9780813338170
RRP: £49.99£43.50Drawing upon original sources, this study provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of the issue of Armenian politicization and participation in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911). Houri Berberian traces the political, economic,... -
Overcoming Tradition And Modernity: The Search For Islamic Authenticity Robert D. Lee 9780813327983
RRP: £43.99£38.44"Authenticity" has begun to rival "development" as a key to understanding the political aspirations of the Islamic world. Almost everywhere modernity has laid waste to tradition, those habits and practices deemed to be timeless and true. Imperialism... -
A Sense Of Siege: The Geopolitics Of Islam And The West by Graham E. Fuller
RRP: £43.99£38.44"The clash of civilizations" has become a common phrase in discussions of U.S.-Middle East relations. This book explores the nature of the friction between the Muslim world and Western states, looking at legitimate perceptions and grievances on... -
Islamic Fundamentalism Abdel Salam Sidahmed 9780813324302
RRP: £49.99£43.50The phenomenon of political Islam continues to dominate the political and social map of the Arab world, with the increasingly open struggle between ruling elites and Islamists becoming the main source of political instability in many states. This volume... -
Middle East Patterns: Places, People, and Politics by Colbert C. Held
£67.62Now in its sixth edition, Middle East Patterns continues to be the most comprehensive and authoritative geographical study of the region. Colbert C. Held and John Thomas Cummings introduce the Middle East from a topical perspective and then provide... -
Perilous Prospects: The Peace Process And The Arab-israeli Military Balance by Anthony H Cordesman
RRP: £135.00£117.68Nobody understands the delicate and dangerous balance of power in the Middle East better than Anthony Cordesman. In Perilous Prospects, he supplies the first account of the military and security concerns arising out of the Israeli-Palestinian peace... -
Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, And The Uae: Challenges Of Security by Anthony H. Cordesman
RRP: £135.00£117.68This volume examines the changing economic and internal security challenges faced by the Gulf countries and the problems they face with Iran, Iraq, and other Gulf states. The special military and security needs of Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United... -
A Social History Of Women And Gender In The Modern Middle East by Margaret Lee Meriwether
RRP: £135.00£117.28In this important new work, Margaret Meriwether and Judith Tucker synthesize and make accessible the results of the extensive research on women and gender done over the last twenty years. Using new theoretical approaches and methodologies as well as... -
Politics And Change In Alkarak, Jordan: A Study Of A Small Arab Town And Its District by Peter Gubser
RRP: £39.99£35.06When Politics and Change in AI-Karak, Jordan first appeared in 1985, it was part of a sparse, but growing, literature about intermediate-level politics in the Arab Middle East. A number of works had been written on national politics, focused primarily on... -
Palestinians In Kuwait: The Family And The Politics Of Survival by Shafeeq N Ghabra
RRP: £39.99£35.06Originally published in 1987. This study is an investigation of the strategies of survival and adaptation employed by a displaced population; the Palestinians in Kuwait. Dispersal, up-rootedness, and the destruction of many Palestinian villages and... -
The Clash of Values: Islamic Fundamentalism Versus Liberal Nationalism by Mansoor Moaddel
RRP: £30.00£23.29Much of the Middle East and North Africa still appears to be in a transitional period set in motion by the 2011 Arab uprisings, and the political trajectory of the region remains difficult to grasp. In The Clash of Values, Mansoor Moaddel provides... -
The Longer, Shorter Path Moshe Bogie Ya'alon 9789657023006
RRP: £30.99£20.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657023006Author Moshe Bogie Ya'alonFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Gefen Publishing HousePublisher Gefen Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 1078g -
Iraq's Democratic Moment by Hadid Foulath
RRP: £35.00£31.64In 1936, a coup d'etat brought the nationalist forces to power amid great public jubilation, only for the coup to fail when its leaders fell out among themselves. In 1941, the Iraqi army went to war with the British for violating the terms of the... -
Congress And The Shaping Of The Middle East by Kirk J. Beattie
RRP: £19.99£13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609805616Author Kirk J. BeattieFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 727g -
An Introduction to Middle East Politics by Benjamin MacQueen
RRP: £121.00£97.89This new edition of An Introduction to Middle East Politics continues to provide an expansive survey of Middle East politics, thoroughly revised and restructured in response to events currently taking place. Written in a lively and accessible manner,... -
The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies by Gerasimos Tsourapas
RRP: £30.99£22.85In this ground-breaking work, Gerasimos Tsourapas examines how migration and political power are inextricably linked, and enhances our understanding of how authoritarian regimes rely on labour emigration across the Middle East and the Global South. Dr... -
Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers by Mohammed Arkoun
RRP: £39.99£35.06A Berber from the mountainous region of Algeria, Mohammed Arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of Islamic thought. In this book, he advocates a conception of Islam as a stream of experience encompassing majorities and minorities, Sunni and... -
Bahrain: The Modernization Of Autocracy by Fred H. Lawson
RRP: £37.99£33.38This study provides an overview of trends on Bahrain islands and of the social and historical context from which they have emerged. It is intended as an introduction to Bahraini affairs for the general reader and thus makes use of the existing literature... -
U.S. Strategic Interests In The Gulf Region by Wm. J. Olson
RRP: £39.99£35.06An area vital to US interests, the Gulf bas long been a volatile region. The vulnerability of Western interests is illustrated by such destabilizing influences as the political power of OPEC, the fall of the Shah of Iran, the Soviet invasion of... -
Constantinople by Dwight
RRP: £39.99£36.06First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138991644Author DwightFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 1093g -
Contemporary Approaches to the Qur'an and its Interpretation in Iran Ali Akbar 9781032087061
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book sets out how contemporary Iranian scholars have approached the Qur'an during recent decades. It particularly aims to explore the contributions of scholars that have emerged in the post 1979-revolution era, outlining their primary interpretive... -
The Persian Gulf: An Introduction To Its Peoples, Politics, And Economics by David E. Long
RRP: £39.99£35.06Since the energy crisis of 1973, the political, economic, and strategic importance of the Persian Gulf to U.S. interests has become readily apparent. Yet little has been written on the area or on policy considerations toward it. This book, in its second,...