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The Arab Economies in a Changing World by Marcus Noland
RRP: £20.95£15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881323931Author Marcus NolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute for... -
Merchants And Faith: Muslim Commerce And Culture In The Indian Ocean by Patricia A. Risso
RRP: £38.99£38.44`This book with its felicitous title brings together with great skill and sensitivity a large amount of current historical scholarship on the trade and civilization of the Indian Ocean during the Islamic centuries. It will be welcomed by both students... -
Walls Built On Sand: Migration, Exclusion, And Society In Kuwait by Anh Nga Longva
RRP: £39.99£38.44When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the sight of tens of thousands of non-Kuwaiti Arabs, Indians, East Asians, and Westerners fleeing or trapped under occupation made the outside world suddenly aware of a singular fact of Kuwaiti society,that Kuwaitis are... -
One Land, Two Peoples: The Conflict Over Palestine Deborah J Gerner 9780813321806
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has once again captured world attention?this time because of the coming together of Arafat and Rabin as a result of the secret Oslo Accords and the reactions ensuing from this historic?and challenging?event. One Land, Two... -
The Sunni Tragedy in the Middle East: Northern Lebanon from al-Qaeda to ISIS by Bernard Rougier
RRP: £22.00£17.36Northern Lebanon is a land in turmoil. Long under the sway of the Assad regime in Syria, it is now a magnet for Sunni Muslim jihadists inspired by anti-Western and anti-Shi'a worldviews. The Sunni Tragedy in the Middle East describes in harrowing detail... -
Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising by Don Peretz
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book is intended as an overview of the uprising of the Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza, territories occupied by Israel since the June 1967 war. It describes the background, origins, and causes of the uprising and examines the prospects... -
New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-uprising Syria: Volume 1 by Billie Jeanne Brownlee
RRP: £32.00£22.33The Arab Spring did not arise out of nowhere. It was the physical manifestation of more than a decade of new media diffusion, use, and experimentation that empowered ordinary people during their everyday lives. In this book, Billie Jeanne Brownlee offers... -
South Yemen: A Marxist Republic In Arabia by Robert W Stookey
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explains why the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen has embarked on an unexpected path, providing a cogent outline of its venerable and turbulent history and a succinct description of its geography, culture, natural resources, and economy... -
Sectarian Politics in the Persian Gulf by Lawrence G. Potter
RRP: £25.00£22.03Long a taboo topic, as well as one that has alarmed outside powers, sectarian conflict in the Middle East is on the rise. The contributors to this book examine sectarian politics in the Persian Gulf, including the GCC states, Yemen, Iran and Iraq, and... -
Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East by Khaled Hroub
RRP: £25.00£22.03Over the past decade or so religious broadcasting in the Middle East has been one of the chief beneficiaries of new, transnational media flows and the now commonplace availability of satellite broadcasting technology. Dozens of Muslim, Christian and... -
Migration Diplomacy: Egyptians Abroad and Interstate Relations in a Changing Middle East by Gerasimos Tsourapas
RRP: £85.00£60.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526132093Author Gerasimos TsourapasFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Manchester University PressPublisher Manchester University Press -
Gender, Governance and Islam by Deniz Kandiyoti
RRP: £105.00£95.39Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of reference for an analysis of the intersections between global, state, non-state and popular actors and their... -
Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon by Nicola Pratt
RRP: £71.00£61.89When women took to the streets during the mass protests of the Arab Spring, the subject of feminism in the Middle East and North Africa returned to the international spotlight. In the subsequent years, countless commentators treated the region’s gender... -
What Next for Britain in the Middle East?: Security, Trade and Foreign Policy after Brexit Michael Stephens (RUSI, UK) 9780755617159
RRP: £80.00£70.20As the UK enters a period of intense public introspection in the wake of Brexit, this book takes on one of the key questions emerging from the divisive process: what is Britain's place in the world? The Middle East is one of the regions the UK has been... -
Fluid Modernity: The Politics of Water in the Middle East Gilberto Conde 9781032412252
RRP: £45.99£37.53Fluid Modernity offers an innovative, encompassing, historical grasp of the politics of water in the Middle East in the context of modern capitalism and world politics. Drawing upon conceptions of power by Foucault and Agamben, it examines how water,... -
Contested Sites in Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Old City Initiative Tom Najem 9781138666641
RRP: £43.99£38.44Contested Sites in Jerusalem is the third and final volume in a series of books which collectively present in detail the work of the Jerusalem Old City Initiative, or JOCI, a major Canadian-led Track Two diplomatic effort, undertaken between 2003 and... -
The Iraq War: Origins and Consequences James DeFronzo 9780813343914
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book explains why the Iraq War took place, and the war's impacts on Iraq, the United States, the Middle East, and other nations around the world. It explores conflict's potential consequences for future rationales for war, foreign policy, the United... -
Israel On The Road To Peace: Accepting The Unacceptable by Ziva Flamhaft
RRP: £29.99£26.64An in-depth study of the effects of Israel's internal struggles on the Arab-Israeli peace process, this book examines how Israel's leaders and citizens have reacted to the various proposals in the post?Camp David era, including the 1982 Reagan plan, the... -
Saudi Arabia: Guarding The Desert Kingdom Anthony H Cordesman 9780813332420
RRP: £58.99£51.08Since the Gulf War, Saudi Arabia's tenuous security situation has been altered by an ongoing U.S. presence. This volume provides detailed analysis of the state of the Saudi economy and military forces, its growing internal security problems and the... -
The Kurdish Women's Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities by Isabel Kaser 9781009011112
RRP: £22.99£20.66Amidst ongoing wars and insecurities, female fighters, politicians and activists of the Kurdish Freedom Movement are building a new political system that centres gender equality. Since the Rojava Revolution, the international focus has been especially on... -
Shimon Peres: An Insider’s Account of the Man and the Struggle for a New Middle East by Avi Gil 9780755617012
RRP: £80.00£77.09The late Israeli Foreign Minister, Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres was a towering figure in Israeli and Middle Eastern politics. But what drove the hawkish statesman behind Israel's nuclear deterrence and early settlement policy to stake his... -
The Rise and Fall of Greater Syria: A Political History of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party Carl C. Yonker 9783110728477
RRP: £19.50£15.58The Syrian Social Nationalist Party devoted itself to reviving and unifying the Syrian nation and establishing this nation's complete independence over its historical homeland, Greater Syria. It continues its struggle today, influencing and shaping... -
Den of Lions by Terry Anderson 9780345467928
RRP: £23.00£17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345467928Author Terry AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)... -
Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba by Ronit Lentin 9780719095672
RRP: £19.99£17.61The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees... -
Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an: Tafsir and Social Concerns in the Twentieth Century Majid Daneshgar (University of Otago) 9780367281052
RRP: £43.99£38.44Shaykh 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,... -
The Palestinian Prisoners Movement: Resistance and Disobedience by Julie M. Norman
RRP: £37.99£33.38Providing a contemporary history of the Palestinian prisoners movement, this book illustrates the centrality of the movement in the broader Palestinian national struggle. Based on direct interviews with former prisoners and former security sector... -
Days of the Fall: A Reporter's Journey in the Syria and Iraq Wars Jonathan Spyer 9781138561205
RRP: £36.99£32.53Days of the Fall takes the reader into the heart of the terrible wars in Syria and Iraq. The book combines frontline reporting with analysis of the deeper causes and effects of the conflict. Over five years, Jonathan Spyer reported from the depths of the... -
A Question Of Interest: The Paralysis Of Saudi Banking by Peter Wilson 9780367165840
RRP: £37.99£33.38In Saudi Arabia today a classic confrontation between Islamic fundamentalism and modernism has brought the Saudi banking system virtually to a state of paralysis. The debate is between those upholding the traditional Islamic prohibition against charging... -
Triumph Of The Image: The Media's War In The Persian Gulf, A Global Perspective Hamid Mowlana 9780813316109
RRP: £43.99£38.44THE 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... -
Power Sharing in Lebanon: Consociationalism Since 1820 by Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book studies the origins and evolution of power sharing in Lebanon. The author has established a relationship between mobilization, ethnurgy (ethnic identification), memory and trauma, and how they impact power sharing provisions. The book starts... -
Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Maziyar Ghiabi
RRP: £36.99£25.45Iran has one of the world's highest rates of drug addiction: estimated to be between 2 and 7 percent of the entire population. This makes the questions that this book asks all the more salient: what is the place of illegal substances in the politics of... -
Nasser's Peace: Egypt's Response to the 1967 War with Israel Michael Sharnoff 9780367182540
RRP: £43.99£38.44Gamal Abdel Nasser was arguably one of the most influential Arab leaders in history. As President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970, he could have achieved a peace agreement with Israel, yet he preferred to maintain his unique leadership role by affirming... -
Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters by Adam Roberts 9780198749028
£50.17Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010. It won some notable victories: popular movements... -
Routledge Handbook on the Kurds by Michael Gunter
RRP: £43.99£38.84With an estimated population of over 30 million, the Kurds are the largest stateless nation in the world. They are becoming increasingly important within regional and international geopolitics, particularly since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Arab... -
Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society under Authoritarianism by Nora Derbal
RRP: £90.00£81.43In this innovative study of everyday charity practices in Jeddah, Nora Derbal employs a 'bottom-up' approach to challenge dominant narratives about state-society relations in Saudi Arabia. Exploring charity organizations in Jeddah, this book both offers... -
Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed by Professor of Sociology Misagh Parsa 9780674545045
RRP: £44.95£36.32The Green Movement protests that erupted in Iran in 2009 amid allegations of election fraud shook the Islamic Republic to its core. For the first time in decades, the adoption of serious liberal reforms seemed possible. But the opportunity proved... -
Fascism in the Middle East: Nationalism, Islamism, and Imagining Other Futures Saladdin Bahozde 9781032398006
RRP: £49.99£42.49Following decades of brutal campaigns against left forces, fascism in its nationalist and religious forms has been dominating Turkish, Iranian, and Arab politics for over half a century. At first, with key enemies vanquished, military generals assumed... -
Iran’s Rise and Rivalry with the US in the Middle East Mohsen M. Milani 9780861548422
RRP: £25.00£21.25The 1979 Islamic Revolution triggered a cold war between Iran and the United States – former fast friends. Despite the US’s relentless efforts at containment, Iran has risen as a formidable power in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Gaza. Its newfound... -
Journalism in the Grey Zone: Pluralism and Media Capture in Lebanon and Tunisia Research Professor Kjetil Selvik 9781399515825
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Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil: Histories and Ethnographies of Black Gold Nelida Fuccaro 9781399506151
RRP: £24.99£21.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399506151Author Nelida FuccaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press