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Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent by Jillian Schwedler
RRP: $30.95$26.88A National Endowment for Democracy Notable Book of 2022 Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have been... -
The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis by Robert R. Reilly 9781610170024
RRP: $24.45$14.80The book you must read to understand the Islamist crisis-and the threat to us all.Robert R. Reilly's eye-opening book masterfully explains the frightening behavior coming out of the Islamic world. Terrorism, he shows, is only one manifestation of the... -
Power Couple: Russian-Iranian Alignment in the Middle East by Ghoncheh Tazmini 9780755640454
RRP: $25.79$21.34Cooperation between Iran and Russia has expanded to unprecedented levels. Following the Russian offensive in Ukraine, their partnership has undergone a significant transformation, altering power dynamics and elevating Iran from a junior partner to an... -
The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon Bassel F Salloukh (Lebanese American University) 9780745334134
RRP: $36.11$27.83The wave of popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world starting in December 2010 rattled regimes from Morocco to Oman. However, Lebanon's sectarian system proved immune to the domestic and regional pressures unleashed by the Arab Spring. How can... -
War and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa by Ahram
RRP: $24.50$21.76For much of the last half century, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seemed the outlier in global peace. Today Iraq, Libya, Israel/Palestine, Yemen, and Syria are not just countries, but synonyms for prolonged and brutal wars. But why is MENA... -
The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya by Frederic Wehrey
RRP: $15.47$13.24The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic... -
Rafiq Hariri and the Fate of Lebanon by Marwan Iskandar 9780863563706
RRP: $21.92$14.89On Valentine's Day 2005 self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister, was assassinated in Beirut by a massive bomb that destroyed his motorcade. The Lebanese people subsequently took to the streets, and the United Nations Security... -
Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings by Abdullah Ocalan
RRP: $28.32$23.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064466Author Abdullah OEcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Communalism PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm... -
Egypt's Diplomacy in War, Peace and Transition Nabil Fahmy 9783030263874
RRP: $23.21$15.66Written from the perspective of an insider of the most prominent events in the Middle East over the last fifty years, this book examines Egypt's diplomacy in transformative times of war, peace and transition. The author offers unique insights, first-hand... -
Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism by Gilbert Achcar
RRP: $12.89$8.77In this collection of essays, Gilbert Achcar examines the controversial relationship of Marxism to religion, to Orientalism and its critique by Edward Said, and to the concept of cosmopolitanism. A compelling range of issues is discussed within these... -
Hezbollah: A Regional Armed Non-State Actor by Hadi Wahab 9781032215280
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book examines Hezbollah's transition from a domestic into a regional armed non-state actor (ANSA). Taking its point of departure in Hezbollah's historiography on the military and political levels in Lebanon, it focuses on the participation of... -
Flight from Afghanistan: Tella's Story by Tella Omeri 9781849954341
RRP: $16.76$14.20'In clear and utterly compelling English, this moving memoir tells the story of the agony, and the ecstasy, of one refugee - and of every refugee. A must read for anyone interested in the triumph of Afghanistan's spirit over its seemingly endless... -
New Perspectives on Middle East Politics: Economy, Society, and International Relations by Robert Mason 9781617979903
RRP: $38.69$31.17An ideal primer on contemporary Middle East Politics, covering the entire MENA region from an interdisciplinary perspective This compelling volume examines important and cross-cutting themes in the study of contemporary Middle East and North African... -
Kurdish Identity, Islamism, and Ottomanism: The Making of a Nation in Kurdish Journalistic Discourse (1898-1914) by Deniz Ekici 9781793612618
RRP: $45.15$39.93A major common misconception in scholarship on Kurdish journalistic discourses is that Kurdish intellectuals of the late Ottoman period cannot be portrayed as Kurdish nationalists. This theory prevails because of the belief that they not only endorsed... -
A Concise History of the Middle East Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. 9780813350912
RRP: $64.49$57.41A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this turbulent region. Spanning from pre-Islam to the present day, it explores the evolution of Islamic institutions and culture, the influence of the West,... -
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Dov Waxman 9780190625320
RRP: $70.95$52.31No conflict in the world has lasted as long, generated as many news headlines, or incited as much controversy as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, despite, or perhaps because of, the degree of international attention it receives, the conflict is... -
Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice by Azmi Bishara
RRP: $25.80$23.01In January 2020, US President Donald Trump announced his 'deal of the century'. Supposedly intended to 'resolve' the Palestine-Israel conflict, it accepted Israeli occupation as a fait accompli. Azmi Bishara places this normalisation of occupation in its... -
States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan by Jose Ciro Martinez
RRP: $30.95$26.88On any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz 'arabi-the slightly leavened flatbread known to many as pita. Some rely on this bread to avoid starvation; for others it is a customary pleasure... -
Energy Kingdoms: Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf by Jim Krane 9780231179300
RRP: $36.12$28.12After the discovery of oil in the 1930s, the Gulf monarchies-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Bahrain-went from being among the world's poorest and most isolated places to some of its most ostentatiously wealthy. To... -
The Stillborn: Notebooks of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt by Arwa Salih
RRP: $25.80$21.90Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, which was founded in the wake of the Arab-Israeli War and the Egyptian student movement of the early 1970s. Written more than a decade after Salih quit the party and... -
The New Testament in Muslim Eyes: Paul's Letter to the Galatians by Shabbir Akhtar
RRP: $54.17$47.41This book explores Christian origins by examining a key New Testament epistle, Paul's letter to the Galatian churches, seen by Christians as the charter of Christian liberty from the inherited Jewish law. The New Testament in Muslim Eyes provides a close... -
Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics Ann Elizabeth Mayer 9780813344676
RRP: $56.75$49.59Islam and Human Rights is a probing examination of how the Islamic tradition has been exploited for political ends by regimes and institutions seeking to legitimize policies inimical to human rights. Ann Elizabeth Mayer critically appraises Islamic human... -
Serkeftin: A Narrative of the Rojava Revolution by Marcel Cartier 9781789040128 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$6.80In the Spring of 2017, activist, journalist and hip-hop artist Marcel Cartier was given exclusive access to the structures set up in the predominately Kurdish areas in northern Syria. Over the course of more than a month, Cartier travelled across the... -
Serkeftin: A Narrative of the Rojava Revolution Marcel Cartier 9781789040128
RRP: $14.18$12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789040128Author Marcel CartierFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Zero BooksPublisher Zero Books -
The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation by Reza Zia-Ebrahimi
RRP: $28.38$22.39Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an... -
The Wall Between Us: Notes from the Holy Land by Matthew Small 9781910266304 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$2.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910266304Author Matthew SmallFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 183g -
The Wall Between Us: Notes from the Holy Land Matthew Small 9781910266304
RRP: $12.89$9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910266304Author Matthew SmallFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 183g -
Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen: Egypt's Road to Revolt by Hazem Kandil
$30.56One of the most momentous events in the Arab uprisings that swept across the Middle East in 2011 was the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. As dramatic and sudden as this seemed, it was only one further episode in an ongoing power struggle between... -
From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics Jerome Drevon 9780197765166
$40.34This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The Syrian regime... -
Struggle for Alliance: Russia and Iran in the Era of War in Ukraine Abdolrasool Divsallar 9780755653508
RRP: $25.79$22.72This book provides a comprehensive study of the complex impacts of the war in Ukraine on Russo-Iranian relations, and the resulting consequences for the international relations of the Middle East. In contrast to dominant academic approaches, which view... -
Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus Moshe Shokeid 9781805397212
RRP: $30.90$25.14Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian Intifada... -
Beyond the Blocs: Jewish Settlement East of Israel's Security Barrier and How to Avert the Slide to a One-State Outcome by David Makovsky 9781538182956
RRP: $69.66$60.86Springtime in Israel has been marked by instability, from a spate of deadly terrorist attacks to the resignation of Idit Silman from the coalition government and violent clashes in Jerusalem. Yet these developments do not change the fundamental... -
Home and Sense of Belonging among Iraqi Kurds in the UK by Ali Zalme 9781793617545
RRP: $104.49$91.67In Home and Sense of Belonging among Iraqi Kurds in the UK , Ali Zalme explores how Iraqi Kurdish generations in the UK conceptualise home and belonging. Zalme challenges the essentialist and nationalist approach that often dominates discussions of... -
Arab Worlds Beyond the Middle East and North Africa by Mariam F. Alkazemi 9781793617682
RRP: $38.70$34.42Just like people around the world have done for generations, Arab people from the Middle East and North African (MENA) region have immigrated to various nations around the world. A number of ‘push’ factors account for why groups have left their homeland... -
Turkish-Qatari Relations: From Past to Present in a Turbulent Geopolitical Landscape by OEzgur Pala 9781666901726
RRP: $109.65$96.12This book examines domestic and regional geopolitical dynamics behind Turkish-Qatari relations from the past to the present. Utilizing arguments of practical geopolitical reasoning, OEzgur Pala and Khaled Al-Jaber situate their analysis of evolving... -
Turkey-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Deepening Cooperation and Heightening Competition amid Systemic Turbulence by Muhammet Kocak 9781666915730
RRP: $99.33$91.44Turkey and Russia are two of the most significant powerhouses in Eurasia. The foreign policies of two countries directly impact the regional dynamics in Black Sea, Central Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Balkan regions. The changes in the... -
Between Resistance, Sharia Law, and Demo-Islamic Politics by Michael Schulz 9781538146095
RRP: $144.48$126.10Despite the fact that many researchers have focused on Hamas’ armed resistance activities, surprisingly few have theorised about the political choices and dilemmas that Hamas has faced in the context of the changing overarching conflict between Israelis... -
HAMAS: The Quest for Power Beverley Milton-Edwards (Queens University Belfast) 9781509564934
RRP: $23.21$15.66Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that scorched Israel and transformed the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How did a small... -
The Gulf Cooperation Council in Transition by Tarik M. Yousef 9780815739531
RRP: $49.02$43.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815739531Author Tarik M. YousefFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
Saudi Arabia: A SWOT Analysis of a Family-Wahhabi Nationalism Case Study by Gadi Hitman 9781666909319
RRP: $94.17$82.79This book analyzes the process of national development in Saudi Arabia through the use of the SWOT model, which examines the kingdom's strengths and weaknesses as well as the opportunities and threats it faces in internal and external arenas. This book...