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  • Waiting on Borders

    Exploiting Time in Syrian Refugee Informal Tent Settlements in Lebanon

    Series series Refugees and Migrants within the Middle East
    A powerful contribution to ongoing debates on refugees, borders, and camps and the politics of waitingThe Lebanese–Syrian borderscape is predominantly porous and ambiguous, without an actual border control, and is incessantly contested. Repeated internal displacement and refugee crises have been a pervading political condition in Lebanon since the early twentieth century, but the most ... Read more

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  • Syria, Revolt and War in the Digital Age

    An intimate portrayal of protest through images during the Syrian warNever before in history has a conflict been so extensively filmed by its own warring parties, generating a wealth of sound and image. From the start of the Syrian revolt in 2011, several million videos were posted online by demonstrators, activists, and militant fighters. Their prime objective was to work around the media ... Read more

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  • Becoming Adult on the Move

    Migration Journeys, Encounters and Life Transitions

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection situates the migration of children and young people into Europe within a global framework of analysis and provides a holistic perspective that encompasses cultural media, ethnographic research and policy analysis. Drawing on a unique study of young unaccompanied migrants who subsequently became ‘adult’ within the UK and Italy, it examines their different trajectories and how ... Read more

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  • Organizing Women

    Formal and Informal Women's Groups in the Middle East

    Edited by Dawn Chatty, Annika Rabo ...
    Series series Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
    With the creation of the modern nation-state in the Middle East and North Africa, women have been and continue to be manipulated to represent a cultural ideal of perfect womanhood. This is often greatly at odds with the realities of women's lives and aspirations. However, individual women, through careful manipulation of gender relations, often succeed in casting aside the culturally accepted ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

    Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development

    Series Book 10 - Forced Migration
    The second edition of this remarkable volume updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.The contributors to this book examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities who are forced to move or settle elsewhere to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity concerns. The case ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Syria

    The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State

    by Dawn Chatty ...
    The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread migrations that have indelibly marked the region throughout the last 150 years. Syria itself has harbored millions from its neighboring lands, and Syrian society has been ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

    Into the New Millennium

    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth ... Read more

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  • Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, Third Edition

    The substantially revised and updated third edition of Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East focuses on the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children from the region. Readers will gain a grassroots appreciation of Middle East life, culture, and society that recognizes the impact of wars and uprisings as well as changes to Islamic practice due to advances in technology. The book also ... Read more

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  • Deterritorialized Youth

    Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East

    Edited by Dawn Chatty ...
    Series Book 29 - Forced Migration
    The Sahrawi and Afghan refugee youth in the Middle East have been stereotyped regionally and internationally: some have been objectified as passive victims; others have become the beneficiaries of numerous humanitarian aid packages which presume the primacy of the Western model of child development. This book compares and contrasts both the stereotypes and Western-based models of humanitarian ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Deterritorialized Youth

    Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East

    Edited by Dawn Chatty ...
    Series Book 29 - Forced Migration
    The Sahrawi and Afghan refugee youth in the Middle East have been stereotyped regionally and internationally: some have been objectified as passive victims; others have become the beneficiaries of numerous humanitarian aid packages which presume the primacy of the Western model of child development. This book compares and contrasts both the stereotypes and Western-based models of humanitarian ... Read more

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  • 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

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    The Untold Stories of Egypt's Revolutionaries

    by Sherine Hafez ...
    An exploration of gender, the Arab Spring, and women's experiences of revolution, including firsthand accounts.In Women of the Midan, Sherine Hafez demonstrates how women were a central part of revolutionary process of the Arab Spring. Women not only protested in the streets of Cairo, they demanded democracy, social justice, and renegotiation of a variety of sociocultural structures. Women's ... Read more

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