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  • Women and Shari'a Law

    The Impact of Legal Pluralism in the UK

    by Elham Manea ...
    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. Building on her knowledge of the situation for women in Middle Eastern and Islamic countries, she ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Arab State and Women's Rights

    The Trap of Authoritarian Governance

    by Elham Manea ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
    Researchers studying gender politics in Arab societies have been puzzled by a phenomenon common in many Arab states – while women are granted suffrage rights, they are often discriminated against by the state in their private lives.This book addresses this phenomenon, maintaining that the Arab state functions according to a certain ‘logic’ and ‘patterns’ which have direct consequences on its ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Yemeni Civil War

    The Arab Spring, State formation and internal instability

    by Elham Manea ...
    This book suggests an innovative theoretical framework to understand the meltdown and civil wars of countries such as Yemen, Syria, and Libya after their 2011 uprisings, using Yemen as a case study. The interaction between different types of state formation and regional rivalry can explain, respectively, the civil wars of these countries and the preservation of the Bahraini system, despite its ... Read more

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  • The Pakistan Paradox

    Instability and Resilience

    by Christophe Jaffrelot ...
    Pakistan was born as the creation of elite Urdu-speaking Muslims who sought to govern a state that would maintain their dominance. After rallying non-Urdu speaking leaders around him, Jinnah imposed a unitary definition of the new nation state that obliterated linguistic diversity. This centralisation - 'justified' by the Indian threat - fostered centrifugal forces that resulted in Bengali ... Read more

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  • Arab Spring: The Making of the New Middle East

    by Hichem Karoui ...
    This is a collection of essays written about the Arab revolts, and trying to answer the questions many people are raising: why did such revolts occur? Were they preceded by precursory signs? What role played the domestic political elite in toppling the dictators? What role played the foreign powers? What were the claims of the protesters? Were they manipulated? How about the political process that ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Politics in the Middle East

    by Beverley Milton-Edwards ...
    The fourth edition of this dynamic and popular text provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East. Fully revised and updated throughout, it features a new chapter on the Arab Spring and its aftermath, plus a wide range of vibrant case studies, data, questions for class discussion and suggestions for further reading.Purposefully employing a clear thematic ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey

    Kemalist Identity in Transition

    by Omer Taspinar ...
    Series series Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law
    This text is an attempt to study Turkey's national and secular identity in light of the challenges posed by Kurdish nationalism and political Islam. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Understanding Turkey's Kurdish Question

    by Djene Rhys Bajalan, Oral Çalislar, Umut Özkirimli, Cengiz Çandar, Kilic Bugra Kanat, Hugh Pope, Gökhan Bacik, Bezen B. Coskun, Mustafa Gurbuz, Dogan Koç, H. Akin Ünver, Joshua W. Walker, Fuat Keyman, Michael M. Gunter ...
    This edited volume, comprising chapters by leading academics and experts, aims to clarify the complexity of Turkey’s Kurdish question. The Kurdish question is a long-standing, protracted issue, which gained regional and international significance largely in the last thirty years. The Kurdish people who represent the largest ethnic minority in the Middle East without a state have demanded autonomy ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East

    by John Chalcraft ...
    The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the importance of contentious politics in the Middle East and North Africa. John Chalcraft's ground-breaking account of popular protest emphasizes the revolutionary modern history of the entire region. Challenging top-down views of Middle Eastern politics, he ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Zone of Crisis

    Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq

    by Amin Saikal ...
    The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis. Characterised by fractured and dysfunctional political elites, fraught economic policies, and ideological struggles between the forces of authoritarianism and democratisation, neo-fundamentalism and pluralism, they embody a mosaic of ethnicities. Amin Saikal, a distinguished ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring

    Triumphs and Disasters

    Edited by Adam Roberts, Michael J. Willis, Rory McCarthy, Timothy Garton Ash ...
    Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010. It won some notable victories: popular movements helped to bring about the fall of authoritarian governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Yet these apparent triumphs of non-violent action were ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The international politics of the Middle East

    Second edition

    by Raymond Hinnebusch ...
    Series series Regional International Politics
    One of the major internationally recognised works on the international politics of the Middle East, this book systematically combines international relations theory and Middle East case studies to provide a macro overview of the international relations of the region. The book has been widely used at both undergraduate levels, Masters degree and PhD levels. In providing a unique interpretation of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD