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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “alda benjamen”
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  • Minorities and the Modern Arab World

    New Perspectives

    by Joel Beinin, Alda Benjamen, David Bond, Liora R. Halperin, Yasmeen Hanoosh, Samuel Liebhaber, Hiroko Miyokawa, Jacob Norris, Aline Schlaepfer, Peter Sluglett, Lucia Volk ...
    Series series Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
    In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays gathered in Minorities and the Modern Arab World seek to challenge this representation with a nuanced exploration of the ways in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Assyrians in Modern Iraq

    Negotiating Political and Cultural Space

    by Alda Benjamen ...
    Examining the relationship between a strengthened Iraqi state under the Baʿth regime and the Assyrians, a Christian ethno-religious group, Alda Benjamen studies the role of minorities in twentieth-century Iraqi political and cultural history. Relying on extensive research in Iraq, including sources uncovered at the Iraqi National Archives in Baghdad, as well as in libraries and private collections ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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  • Minorities in the Middle East

    A History of Struggle and Self-Expression, 2d ed.

    by Mordechai Nisan ...
    The struggle for independence by minorities in the Middle East (those people who are non-Arab or non-Muslim) is affecting the political climate around the world. War and terrorism are threatening the safety of many minority communities and repression of minorities still remains standard state policy in some countries.This updated and revised edition of the 1991 original provides a wealth of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Becoming Turkish

    Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey 1923-1945

    by Hale Yilmaz ...
    Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    Becoming Turkish deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post—Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Yilmaz asks how the reforms were mediated on the ground and how ordinary citizens received, reacted to, and experienced them. She traces the experiences of the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Analysis of Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples

    by Bryan Gibson, Brown ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Few works of history make as well-structured a case for the importance of studying continuity, rather than change, than Albert Hourani's A History of the Arab Peoples.Hourani’s work had three major aims: to refute the idea that Arab society stagnated between 1000 and 1800; to study the period through the lens of diverse Arab, rather than Muslim, history; and to stress intellectual and cultural ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East

    by Dawn Chatty ...
    Series Book 5 - The Contemporary Middle East
    Dispossession and forced migration in the Middle East remain even today significant elements of contemporary life in the region. Dawn Chatty's book traces the history of those who, as a reconstructed Middle East emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century, found themselves cut off from their homelands, refugees in a new world, with borders created out of the ashes of war and the fall of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Kurdish Question Revisited

    Edited by Mohammed Shareef, Gareth Stansfield ...
    The Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years. The contributors to The Kurdish Question Revisited offer insights into how this once seemingly intractable, immutable phenomenon is being transformed amid the new political realities of the Middle East. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Modernity and Culture

    From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean

    Edited by Leila Fawaz, C. A. Bayly ...
    Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic, and cultural changes that had been set in motion at least since the early nineteenth century. As the age of pre-colonial empires gave way to colonial and national states, there was a sense that a particular liberalism of culture and economy ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Secret History of Iran

    How Iran is the Key to both the Survival and the Destruction of the Islamic World

    by Hamad Subani ...
    Iran is an ancient place of extreme contrasts. It is both blessed and cursed. It is home to both Islam and anti-islam. This book attempts to trace out the Secret History of Iran, from 500 B.C. to present. This book covers the largely unknown secret groups and cabals that continue to dominate Iran, from the remnants of Mystery Babylon and the Sabaeans to crypto-Byzantines. Their little known role ... Read more

    $7.37 USD

  • The End of Modern History in the Middle East

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    Bernard Lewis looks at the new era in the Middle East. With the departure of imperial powers, the region must now, on its own, resolve the political, economic, cultural, and societal problems that prevent it from accomplishing the next stage in the advance of civilization. There is enough in the traditional culture of Islam on the one hand and the modern experience of the Muslim peoples on the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Atatürk

    An Intellectual Biography

    by M. Şükrü Hanioğlu ...
    A biography of the founder of modern Turkey that chronicles the ideas that shaped himWhen Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science—and by the personality cult Atatürk created around himself—would reign supreme as the new religion. This book provides the first in-depth ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Iraq

    A History

    by John Robertson ...
    Series series Short Histories
    Cities, scripts, literature, the rule of law – all were born in Iraq. That so many see this ancient land as nothing more than a violent backwater steeped in chaos is a travesty. This is the place where, for the first 5,000 years of human history, all innovations of worth emerged. It was the cradle of civilization.In this unrivalled study, John Robertson details the greatness and grandeur of Iraq’s ... Read more

    $7.99 USD