Middle Eastern history

This book's central claim is that a close reading of Augustine's epistemology can help political theologians develop affirmative accounts of political liberalism.

This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient.

Brian Bantum says that race is not merely an intellectual category or a biological fact.

Everyone is paying attention to Pope Francis, and that includes the most unlikely of admirers: a female Baptist pastor.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;A Short History of The World (Unabridged)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Afghanistan's Experiences is a sweeping analysis of the historic events and interplay between politics, religion, and terrorism in Afghanistan, the southeastern region of the country, and beyond.

Third Man Out is a suspense mystery filled with action.

With a new introduction by Adi Ophir: An early and fierce critique of Zionism from a Jewish child of Palestine who argued against nationalism and injustice.

This edited volume explores the history and evolution of Turkish paramilitarism from the late Ottoman period to the 2010s.

Following the horrific attack on October 7, support for a devastating military retaliation and resolution has taken center stage.

Losing Istanbul offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in Istanbul.

Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism.

The true story of a vigilante group of Holocaust survivors who conspired to kill six million Germans Nakam (Hebrew for "e;vengeance"e;) tells the story of "e;the Avengers"e; (Nokmim), a group of young Holocaust survivors led by poet and resistance fighter Abba Kovner, who undertook a mission of revenge against Germany following the crimes of the Holocaust.

This is the fantastical, yet real, story of the merchants of Bethlehem, the young men who traveled to every corner of the globe in the nineteenth century.

Many enter the academy with dreams of doing good; this is a book about how the institution fails them, especially if they are considered "e;outsiders.

Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-94) was a renowned Palestinian poet and a committed communist activist.

The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development.

A study of the Saudi Arabian monarchy's efforts to construct and disseminate a historical narrative to legitimize its rule.

The inside story of political protest in Saudi Arabia-on the ground, in the suburbs, and in the face of increasing state repression.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the charismatic leader of the Chabad Hasidic movement and its designated Messiah.

From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement.

Permanent Revolution concisely describes the development and workings of capitalism and its influence on the broader society.

"e;A valuable addition to the new wave of critical studies on the history of oil and energy policy"e;-and a bracing corrective to longstanding myths (James M.

Egypt has undergone significant economic liberalization under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, USAID, and the European Commission.

For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world.

The international refugee regime is fundamentally broken.

At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Central Asians made the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning.

A study of the effect that the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1967 to the early 1980s had on left-wing activism in America.

"e;Opens new windows onto the changing socioeconomic realities and values of Jews in a major port city of the late Ottoman Empire.

Waste Siege offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it depicts the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Palestinians are obliged to forge their lives.

"e;This ingenious study .

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transimperial port city, under nominal Ottoman and unofficial British imperial rule.

A Middle East scholar shares an inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic.

"e;Lyrical, intelligent, and passionately written, Whisper Tapes reignites a long dormant conversation about the urgency of global feminism.

In April 1909, two waves of massacres shook the province of Adana, located in the southern Anatolia region of modern-day Turkey, killing more than 20,000 Armenians and 2,000 Muslims.

Anyone who has ever experienced a sporting event in a large stadium knows the energy that emanates from stands full of fans cheering on their teams.

More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal education can find lucrative employment.

The Discovery of Iran examines the history of Iranian nationalism afresh through the life and work of Taghi Arani, the founder of Iran's first Marxist journal, Donya.

A biography of the "e;Cinderella"e; of Egyptian cinema-the veneration and rumors that surrounded an unparalleled career, and the gendered questions that unsettled Egyptian society.

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact.

Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality.

The Oldest Guard tells the story of Zionist settler memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine.

Each year, billions of dollars are spent on global humanitarian health initiatives.

A multivocal account of why Egypt's defeated revolution remains a watershed in the country's political history.

In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police.

There is a tendency to think of Korean American literature-and Asian American literature writ large-as a field of study involving only two spaces, the United States and Korea, with the same being true in Asian studies of Korean Japanese (Zainichi) literature involving only Japan and Korea.

Taha Hussein (1889-1973) is one of Egypt's most iconic figures.

A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq.

Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans.