Middle East

Islam, the Middle East, and the New Global Hegemony
Simon W. Murden

Simon Murden investigates how Muslim societies in the Middle East are being affected by globalized politics and economics, and how they are adapting to it.   Murden describes how a    More >

Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions
Israel Gershoni, Hakan Erdem, and Ursula Wokock, editors

Reflecting cutting-edge scholarship and covering more than two centuries of change, this seminal collection represents key trends in the historiography of the modern Middle East. The    More >

Embattled Neighbors: Syria, Israel, and Lebanon
Robert G. Rabil

Israel's ongoing dispute with Syria and Lebanon gravely undermines the potential for peace in the Middle East. Charting the course of this triangular relationship since 1948, Robert    More >

Economic Policy and Performance in the Arab World
Paul Rivlin

What drives economic policymaking and performance in the Arab states? Paul Rivlin finds that domestic and international pressures have combined in the past decade to simultaneously foster    More >

Palestinian Women: Patriarchy and Resistance in the West Bank
Cheryl A. Rubenberg

Cheryl Rubenberg's richly textured analysis provides a case study of the multifaceted and deleterious effects of patriarchy among Palestinians living in the rural villages and refugee    More >

"Pariah States" and Sanctions in the Middle East: Iraq, Libya, Sudan
Tim Niblock

Now Available in Paperback! UN sanctions have become an increasingly popular weapon in the political armory of the international community—a supposedly effective means, short of war,    More >

Turkey in World Politics: An Emerging Multiregional Power
Barry Rubin and Kemal Kirisci, editors

Once characterized by an avoidance of foreign entanglements, Turkey's diplomacy has changed dramatically in the present era of regional agreements and organizations. Tracing the    More >

Turkey in the Middle East: Oil, Islam, and Politics
Alon Liel, translated by Emanuel Lottem

At the turn of the century, modern Turkey remains torn between the secular heritage of its founder, Kemal Ataturk, and the political and social trends that challenge that legacy. Alon Liel    More >

The Cross and the River: Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile
Haggai Erlich

The ongoing Egyptian-Ethiopian dispute over the Nile waters is potentially one of the most difficult issues on the current international agenda, central to the very life of the two    More >

Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt
Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.

Scholars and writers often encounter problems when conducting research on Asian and African countries because of the scarcity or inaccessibility of information about the lives of significant    More >

A Feast in the Mirror: Stories by Contemporary Iranian Women
Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami and Shouleh Vatanabadi, editors

In the present golden era of Iranian fiction, women writers—contrary to what many in the West perceive—are making a powerful contribution to the literary scene. Reflecting this,    More >

Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories
Ghassan Kanafani, translated by Barbara Harlow and Karen E. Riley

"Politics and the novel," Ghassan Kanafani once said, "are an indivisible case." Fadl al-Naqib reflected that Kanafani "wrote the Palestinian story, then he was    More >

From Herzl to Rabin: The Changing Image of Zionism
Amnon Rubinstein

Amnon Rubinstein traces the history of the Israeli state, and of Zionism, moving deftly between the roles of objective historian and persuasive politician.    More >

Middle East Monarchies: The Challenge of Modernity
Joseph Kostiner, editor

Though monarchies have been deemed obsolete by many observers, recent history testifies to their profound resilience. This volume offers an in-depth discussion of the fundamentals and    More >

Legislative Politics in the Arab World:  The Resurgence of Democratic Institutions
Abdo Baaklini, Guilain Denoeux, and Robert Springborg

The vitality and significance of parliaments in the Arab world is one of the essential—but overlooked—stories of political life in the 1990s. Baaklini, Denoeux, and Springborg    More >

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