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Becoming arab
Yossef rapoportHow late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clansDuring the later Middle Ages, peasants in Egypt and Greater Syria came to view themselves as members of Arab clans that had originated in the Arabian Peninsula. They expressed their Arab identity by...
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Fady joudahFinalist for the 2024 National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry PrizeA Reading the West Book Award FinalistFrom one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians.Fady Joudah’s power...
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The nightmare sequence
Omar sakr , Safdar ahmedAn extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo—poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed–that bears witness to the genocide in Gaza.The Nightmare Sequence is a searing response to the atrocities in Gaza and beyond since October 2023. Heartbreaking and humane, it is a necessary portrai...
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Reading herzl in beirut
Jonathan marc gribetzHow the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and IsraelIn September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Meanwhile, Israeli forces...
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Iran's grand strategy
Vali nasrFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia RevivalA gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats—external aggression and internal dissolutionIran pre...
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Slavery and the jews of medieval egypt
Craig perryA new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry mines a remarkable cache of fragmentary documents preserved in an Egyptian synagogue to write a n...
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Heaven looks like us
George abraham , Noor hindiA love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which there thrives a free, free Palestine. Poetry has always served as a mode of resistance in Palestinia...
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The last muslim conquest
Gábor ágostonA monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern EuropeThe Ottomans have long been viewed as despots who conquered through sheer military might, and whose dynasty was peripheral to those of Europe. The Last Muslim Conquest transforms ...
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The race for universal monarchy
Ebru turanEbru Turan explores the emergence of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires and the early phase of their rivalry within the broader Mediterranean world.
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Betrayal of the homeland
Samer abboudSamer Abboud argues that the Syrian regime sought to entrench its rule during wartime through bifurcating society into “loyal” and “disloyal” subjects—and punishing those it deemed treacherous.
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Palestine
John cherianThe book explores the events leading to the current genocide in Gaza and far-right Jewish settler onslaught in the occupied West Bank.
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Film diplomacy
Ayşehan jülide etemAyşehan Jülide Etem offers a powerful new account of how film shaped international relations and national identity, demonstrating how the United States and Turkey used educational films to align institutional agendas and geopolitical interests.
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Performing public confessions
Yeşim yaprak yıldızIt is widely thought that confessions from perpetrators of state violence promote accountability, reconciliation, and justice. Yeşim Yaprak Yıldız offers a challenge to this view through a critical examination of perpetrators’ narratives, analyzing them as performances that shape public perceptio...
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Being abbas el abd
Ahmed alaidy“The millennial generation’s most celebrated literary achievement.”—Al-Ahram Weekly “The first glimmer of hope for a true fictional renaissance—an instantly rewarding read embraced by an unprecedented range of literary figures”—The Daily Star What is madness?” asks the narrator of Ahmed Alaidy...
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The essential yusuf idris
Yusuf idris , Denys johnson-daviesYusuf Idris (1927–91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story. He studied and practiced medicine, but his interests were in politics and the support of the nationalist s...
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After repression
Elizabeth r. nugentHow differing forms of repression shape the outcomes of democratic transitionsIn the wake of the Arab Spring, newly empowered factions in Tunisia and Egypt vowed to work together to establish democracy. In Tunisia, political elites passed a new constitution, held parliamentary elections, and demo...
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The israeli republic
Jalal al-e ahmad , Samuel thrope , Simin daneshvar , Bernard avishaiThe Israeli Republic "suggests how the Iranian and Israeli leaders who feel such intense mutual hostility today actually mirror one another in certain ways, particularly in their foundational attitudes toward religious authority, political and economic populism and the West. That a writer such as...
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Islam through western eyes
Jonathan lyonsDespite the West's growing involvement in Muslim societies, conflicts, and cultures, its inability to understand or analyze the Islamic world threatens any prospect for East–West rapprochement. Impelled by one thousand years of anti-Muslim ideas and images, the West has failed to engage in any me...
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The arab economies in a changing world
Marcus noland , Howard pack , Mohamed a. el-erianThe tragic events of 9/11 and the subsequent war in Iraq have focused international attention on a nexus of problems involving economic underperformance, problematic internal politics, and externalization of domestic dissent in the Muslim world. This book examines the economics of the Middle East...
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Away from chaos
Gilles kepel , Henry randolphAway from Chaos is a sweeping political history of four decades of Middle East conflict and its worldwide ramifications. Gilles Kepel offers a clear and persuasive narrative of the long-term causes of tension while seamlessly incorporating on-the-ground observations and personal experiences from ...
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Starve and immolate
Banu barguTells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons.
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The holocaust and the nakba
Bashir bashir , Amos goldberg , Elias khoury , Jacqueline rose , Refqa abu-remaileh , Gil anidjar , Omer bartov , Omri ben-yehuda , Tal ben-zvi , Alon confino , Yochi fischer , Honaida ghanim , Hannan hever , Mustafa kabha , Nadim khoury , Mark levene , Amnon raz-krakotzkin , Yehouda shenhav , Raef zreikIn this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. It searches for a new historical and political grammar for relating and narrating their complicated intersections.
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Palestinians in the arab world
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The abraham accords
Elham fakhroThis book is a groundbreaking in-depth analysis of the Abraham Accords, shedding new light on their causes and consequences.
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Choreographies of shared sacred sites
Elazar barkan , Karen barkeyExplores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria
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Inside salafi-jihadist governance
Marta furlanThis book is a groundbreaking comparative exploration of Salafi-Jihadist governance, drawing on in-depth case studies of the Islamic State in western Iraq and eastern Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in northwestern Syria, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in southern Yemen.
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The emergence of iranian nationalism
Reza zia-ebrahimiReza 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 appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "disloca...
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For land and culture
Peyman vahabzadehThis book offers a fascinating and historically important account of the little-known struggle of Iran’s Turkmen peasant movement for collective control over land, democracy and cultural revival.
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Your sons are at your service
Aaron y. zelinAaron Y. Zelin uncovers the history of Tunisian involvement in the jihadi movement and offers an in-depth examination of the reasons why so many Tunisians became drawn to jihadism following the 2011 revolution. Your Sons Are at Your Service is a meticulously researched account that challenges sim...
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Class, politics, and ideology in the iranian revolution
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Global alert
Boaz ganorDescribes the motivations that lead to modern Islamist terrorism and the different stages in the execution of a terrorist attack.
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From black gold to frozen gas
Michael d. tusiani , Anne-marie johnsonThis book explores how Qatar became a major player in the global energy market. Part historical analysis, part in-the-room narrative, it is the definitive account of oil and gas development in Qatar.
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Syria divided
Ora szekelyOra Szekely draws on sources including in-depth interviews, conflict data, and propaganda distributed through social media to examine how competing narratives of the civil war in Syria have shaped the course of the conflict.
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Captive society
Saeid golkarAn unprecedented look into the Basij militia in Iranian society.
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The suspended disaster
Thomas serresAfter Algeria’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for a fifth term in early 2019, a popular peaceful uprising erupted calling for change. Thomas Serres offers new insights into the last years of Bouteflika’s rule and the factors that shaped the emergence of an unexpect...
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The evolution of the global terrorist threat
Bruce hoffman , Fernando reinaresWorld-renowned experts on terrorism track the evolution of global jihad from the attack on the World Trade Center to the death of Osama bin Laden.
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Local politics in jordan and morocco
Janine a. clarkJanine A. Clark examines why Morocco decentralized while Jordan did not and evaluates the impact of their divergent paths in order to explain how authoritarian regimes can use decentralization reforms to consolidate power. Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco challenges our understanding of autho...
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In search of the lost orient
Olivier roy , C. jon delogu , Jean-louis schlegel , Olivier monginIn this book-length interview, Olivier Roy, a leading expert on political Islam, tells the story of how his many adventures and discoveries have shaped his understanding of the Islamic world. In Search of the Lost Orient is both a significant intellectual autobiography and a compelling travelogue.
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The politics of secularism
Murat akanMurat Akan reframes the question of secularism, exploring its presence both outside and inside Europe and offering a rich empirical account of how it moves across borders and through time. Akan uses France and Turkey to analyze comparative discussions of secularism, struggles for power, and histo...
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The kurds
Mandana hendessiA contemporary overview and critical analysis of the Kurds quest for national identity and statehood from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the modern day.
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Sectarian politics in the gulf
Frederic m. wehreyOne of Foreign Policy's Best Five Books of 2013, chosen by Marc Lynch of The Middle East ChannelBeginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq and concluding with the aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings, Frederic M. Wehrey investigates the roots of the Shi'a-Sunni divide now dominating the Persian Gul...
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Lumbering state, restless society
Nathan j. brown , Shimaa hatab , Amr adlyLumbering State, Restless Society offers a comprehensive and compelling understanding of modern Egypt. Nathan J. Brown, Shimaa Hatab, and Amr Adly guide readers through crucial developments in Egyptian politics, society, and economics from the middle of the twentieth century through the present.
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Anchoring reform with a us-egypt free trade agreement
Ahmed galal , Robert z. lawrenceThe relationship between the United States and the Muslim/Arab world has deteriorated since September 11, 2001. The United States is widely perceived as targeting Arab nations for their oil, especially in the wake of the war in Iraq. Measures are needed on both sides to build a more peaceful, pro...
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Oil powers
Victor mcfarlandVictor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia’s huge oil reserves. Oil Powers traces the growth of the alliance through a dense web of political, economic, and social connections that bolstered royal and ...
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The economy of the gulf states
Matthew grayThe six Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf – Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – have a disproportionate importance in the global economic system because of their enormous reserves of oil and gas.Matthew Gray provides a brief yet comprehensive profile of the...
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Mayors in the middle
Diana b. greenwaldThrough a historically informed, empirically nuanced analysis of towns and cities across the West Bank, Diana B. Greenwald offers a new theory of local government under indirect rule.
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Reengaging egypt
Barbara kotschwar , Jeffrey j. schottThe success of the United States' Middle East strategy depends importantly on the future course of US-Egypt economic relations. Deepening bilateral commercial and investment ties can pay both commercial and political dividends as the Obama administration refocuses US strategy in the Middle East. ...
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The impossible state
Wael b. hallaqWael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of premodern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the...
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The arab and jewish questions
Bashir bashir , Leila farsakhThis book brings together leading scholars to consider how the “Jewish Question” and the “Arab Question” are entangled historically and in the present day. It offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish rights alongside Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish considerations of...
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