Nationalism

Using the life and writings of Cyril III Ibn Laqlaq, 75th patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, along with a variety of Christian and Muslim chroniclers, this study explores the identity and context of the Christian community of Egypt and its relations with the leadership of the Ayyubid dynasty in the early thirteenth century.

In 2018, island-monkeys Becca and Louise got invited to Valletta, the European Capital of Culture in Malta.

TERRA FIRMA is set in a not-so-distant Beckettian future years after a conflict known as the Big War, in which a tiny kingdom wrestles with the problems of running a nation and opposing notions of what makes a citizen, a country, and a civilization.

An outrageous Brechtian parable that explores the lines we draw between ourselves and other people.

Anna is starting to think she made a mistake in moving to Hull.

Building the Wall is a gripping political thriller from Robert Schenkkan, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright and Academy award nominee.

We live in a time where old orders are collapsing: from the postcolonial nation states of the Middle East, to the EU and the American election.

At every home game of FC Barcelona, at 17 minutes and 14 seconds of play, the 100,000-capacity Camp Nou stadium is filled by the roar of "e;IN-DE-PEN-DEN-CI-A!

At every home game of FC Barcelona, at 17 minutes and 14 seconds of play, the 100,000-capacity Camp Nou stadium is filled by the roar of "e;IN-DE-PEN-DEN-CI-A!

Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous.

The crisis in Greece has elicited the full spectrum of responses - from optimism for a left parliamentary politics inspired by Syriza's electoral victory, to pessimism about the intransigence of the EU and calls for the reinstatement of full national sovereignty in Europe.

The crisis in Greece has elicited the full spectrum of responses - from optimism for a left parliamentary politics inspired by Syriza's electoral victory, to pessimism about the intransigence of the EU and calls for the reinstatement of full national sovereignty in Europe.

Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'.

Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'.

What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world?

The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

The crisis of the neoliberal order has resuscitated a political idea widely believed to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban.

This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban.

*Shortlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize, 2017* 'Belonging' is both a fundamental human emotion and a political project that affects millions.

*Shortlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize, 2017* 'Belonging' is both a fundamental human emotion and a political project that affects millions.

This study analyses Kurdish Hizbullah as a social movement, charting Hizbullah's development from its origins in violent militancy to its move towards a more ambiguous 'civic' mode of engagement.

James Crossley holds a mirror up to English politics, examining how Christianity is often used to legitimise ideological positions and parties.

James Crossley holds a mirror up to English politics, examining how Christianity is often used to legitimise ideological positions and parties.

This book upturns the conventional understanding of heritage, challenging widespread notions about how we relate to and why we preserve the past.

This book upturns the conventional understanding of heritage, challenging widespread notions about how we relate to and why we preserve the past.

After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid.

After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid.

What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world?

Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous.

The activities of pro-Israel pressure groups and lobbyists in the US are well-known.

The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9.

From 1924 to 1946 the Republic of Turkey was in effect ruled as an authoritarian single-party regime.

Civil society is often seen as male, structured in a way that excludes women from public and political life.

The twentieth century saw dramatic changes in the once Kurd-dominated Kirkuk region of Iraq.

South Sudan, the world's youngest country, has experienced a rocky start to its life as an independent nation.

Winner of the Whitfield Book Prize 2020On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts.

Armenian national identity has long been associated with what has come to be known as the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement was one of the defining moments in the history of the modern Middle East.

Inequality is widening.

Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularly regarding its religious communities.

In response to recent media controversy and public debate about legal pluralism and multiculturalism, Manea argues against what she identifies as the growing tendency for people to be treated as 'homogenous groups' in Western academic discourse, rather than as individuals with authentic voices.

It was the conflict that shocked America and the world, but the struggle for peace is central to the history of the Vietnam War.

Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart.

The question of belonging has formed the basis of the political, religious and cultural tensions in Lebanon, to the point that sectarian conflict on the country's future contributed significantly to the outbreak of civil war in 1975.

On 22 February 2006, the main dome of the al-Askariyya shrine in Samarra was blown up.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Hungary was the site of a national awakening.

Civil society is often seen as male, structured in a way that excludes women from public and political life.

Winner of the Whitfield Book Prize 2020On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts.

In 1903 Tsar Nicholas II issued a decree allowing the confiscation of Armenian Church property, marking the low point in relations between imperial Russia and its Armenian subjects.