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  • Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty

    Refugee Governance in Lebanon

    by Nora Stel ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Ignorance Studies
    Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita worldwide and is central to European policies of outsourcing migration management. Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty is the first book to critically and comprehensively explore the parallels between the country’s engagement with the recent Syrian refugee influx and the more protracted Palestinian presence.Drawing on ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Refugee Reception and Camps

    Local and Global Perspectives

    by Jonathan Darling, Nora Stel, Ankur Datta, Melora Keopke, Elena Maria Reichl, Nanneke Winters, Jessica Collins-Bojovic, Claudio Minca, Erin M. Barbato, Andrew Burridge, Evan Easton-Calabria, René Kreichauf, Bram Jansen, Nina Kolowratnik, Johannes Pointl ...
    Series series Global Migration and Social Change
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This edited collection provides new insights into refugee reception and camps by focusing on the overlap between local and global dynamics in the governance of camps.Contributors examine how camps are (re)placed within their local contexts across regions including Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. They explore how local ... Read more

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  • Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey

    by M. Hakan Yavuz ...
    Series Book 28 - Cambridge Middle East Studies
    In 2002 the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept to power in Turkey. Since then it has shied away from a hard-line ideological stance in favour of a more conservative and democratic approach. In this book, M. Hakan Yavuz negotiates this ambivalence asking whether it is possible for a political party with a deeply religious ideology to liberalise and entertain democracy or whether, as ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Life as Politics

    How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition

    by Asef Bayat ...
    Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Arab Uprisings Explained

    New Contentious Politics in the Middle East

    Edited by Marc Lynch ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
    Why did Tunisian protests following the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi lead to a massive wave of uprisings across the entire Arab world? Who participated in those protests, and what did they hope to achieve? Why did some leaders fall in the face of popular mobilization while others found ways to survive? And what have been the lasting results of the contentious politics of 2011 and 2012? The ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Iraqi Migrants in Syria

    The Crisis before the Storm

    by Sophia Hoffmann ...
    During the decade that preceded Syria’s 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival of Iraqi migrants and a flood of humanitarian aid to handle the refugee emergency. International aid organizations, the media, and diplomats alike praised the Syrian government for keeping open borders and providing a safe haven for Iraqis fleeing the ... Read more

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  • Nostalgia for the Modern

    State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey

    by Esra Özyürek, George Steinmetz, Julia Adams ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority of the secularist Turkish state were challenged by the rise of political Islam and Kurdish separatism on the one hand and by the increasing demands of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank on the other. While the Turkish government had long limited Islam—the religion of the overwhelming majority of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon

    Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power

    by Joanne Randa Nucho ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
    What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too often, the answer is sectarianism—popularly viewed as a timeless and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how wrong this perspective can be. Through in-depth research with local governments, NGOs, and political parties in Beirut, she demonstrates how ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Canada and the Middle East

    In Theory and Practice

    Edited by Paul Heinbecker, Bessma Momani ...
    Series series Studies in International Governance
    Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada’s diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada’s relationship with the Middle East and the challenges Canada faces there. The contributors examine Canada’s ... Read more

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  • Talking to Arab Youth

    Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt and Tunisia

    by Nur Laiq ...
    A new IPI book maps the civic and political activism of youth in postrevolutionary Egypt and Tunisia. Who are the youth activists of Egypt and Tunisia? What are their ideas, and what types of action are they taking? As key protagonists of revolution in 2011, what capacity do they now have to sustain their political and civic engagement over the long term? The book examines the competing narratives ... Read more

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  • For the War Yet to Come

    Planning Beirut's Frontiers

    by Hiba Bou Akar ...
    Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. But with unclear state structures and outsourced public processes, urban planning has instead become a contest between ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Women and War in the Middle East

    Transnational Perspectives

    by Isis Nusair, Riina Isotalo, Shahrzad Mojab, Spike Peterson, Sophie Richter-Devroe, Martina Kamp ...
    Women and War in the Middle East provides a critical examination of the relationship between gender and transnationalism in the context of war, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East. Critically examining the ways in which the actions of various local and transnational groups - including women's movements, diaspora communities, national governments, non-governmental ... Read more

    $28.19 USD