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  • A New Arab Social Contract?

    Institutional Perspectives for Economic Reform in Arab Countries

    by Maximilian Benner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This monograph offers a unique conceptual bridge between economic geography and Middle Eastern political economy. Arab economies are confronted with enormous structural difficulties such as high rates of youth unemployment in a challenging demographic context, exacerbated by intense spatial disparities. These structural problems demonstrate the breakdown of the "Arab social contract", a social ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Beyond the Arab Spring in North Africa

    by Dina Abdelrahman, Maximilian Benner, Christian Donath, Ncube Gibson, Muhammad Atif Khan, Ola Raddaoui, Veronika Sobotkova, Daniel Krížek, Jan Záhorík0, Zbynek Tarant1, Alexander Maxwell2 ...
    This book deals with the waves of revolutions in North Africa labelled as the Arab Spring. Each of the countries in the region was affected by the Arab Spring and has experienced specific processes and consequences. Due to the complexity of the phenomenon, any kind of comprehensive research and analyses need an interdisciplinary approach to deal with the Arab Spring from multiple perspectives. ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
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  • The 51 Day War

    Ruin and Resistance in Gaza

    by Max Blumenthal ...
    On July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza, followed by a ground invasion. The ensuing fifty-one days of war left more than 2,200 people dead, the vast majority of whom were Palestinian civilians, including over 500 children. During the assault, at least 10,000 homes were destroyed and, according to the United Nations, nearly 300,000 Palestinians were displaced. Max ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Two-State Delusion

    Israel and Palestine--A Tale of Two Narratives

    by Padraig O'Malley ...
    **Padraig O'Malley is the subject of the new acclaimed documentary The Peacemaker“A thoughtful autopsy of the failed two-state paradigm . . . Evenhanded, diplomatic, mutually respectful, and enormously useful.”—Kirkus, starred review**Disputes over settlements, the right of return, the rise of Hamas, recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, and other intractable issues have repeatedly derailed ... Read more

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  • The New Arab Wars

    Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East

    by Marc Lynch ...
    Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed states, and civil wars. Egypt's epochal transition to democracy ended in a violent military coup. Yemen and Libya collapsed into civil war, while Bahrain erupted in smothering sectarian repression. Syria proved the greatest victim of all, ripped apart by ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fateful Triangle

    The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    "One of the definitive works on the Israeli Palestinian conflict" from the celebrated New York Times–bestselling author of Hopes and Prospects (Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! and author of Breaking the Sound Barrier).From its establishment to the present day, Israel has enjoyed a unique position in the American roster of international friends. In Fateful Triangle, Noam Chomsky explores the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emerge!

    The Rise of Functional Democracy and the Future of the Middle East

    by Elza S. Maalouf ...
    In the Middle East, turmoil has spread quickly. Oppression, inequality, and violence have been keyed in to the very makeup of its society. But what causes a culture to emerge and prosper or stagnate and fail? How can the people take charge of their own inalienable rights to growth, freedom, and life—to keep from backsliding into the grasp of old, unhealthy ideologies and meet their need for ... Read more

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  • Apartheid Israel

    The Politics of an Analogy

    Edited by Sean Jacobs, Jon Soske ...
    In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy, eighteen scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary Israel, with an eye to strengthening and broadening today’s movement for justice in Palestine. ... Read more

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  • The Second Arab Awakening

    And the Battle for Pluralism

    by Marwan Muasher ...
    This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending into future decades when—if the dream is realized—a new Arab world defined by pluralism and tolerance will emerge. Marwan Muasher, former foreign ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    by Francesca Borri ...
    Translated by Anne Milano Appel ...
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  • The Contemporary Islamic Governed State

    A Reconceptualization

    by Joseph J. Kaminski ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a normative reconceptualization of a modern Islamic governed state. First, Joseph Kaminski surveys the historical context of the trajectory of Islamic thought, and offers a unique discursive framework for reconceptualizing an Islamic governed state that rejects secular Enlightenment liberalism and instead is heavily grounded in Ancient Greek ideals of politics and political ... Read more

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