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1. Saudi Arabia

   Modernisation and Conservatism in a Changing Kingdom

   Edited by Ulrike Freitag

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   Due to its regional weight and its enormous oil wealth the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plays an increasingly important role on the political map, not only of the Middle East but of the wider world. This book examines the strains and contradictions inside contemporary Saudi Arabia as it pushes to...

   To Be Published December 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. The City in the Ottoman Empire

   Migration and the making of urban modernity

   Edited by Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler

   Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East

   The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city as a destination of human migration, throwing new light on the question of...

   Published November 22nd 2010 by Routledge