Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

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1. The Accidental Tourist, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882

   By Michael Berdine

   Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

   This fascinating account highlights the extent the world's major powers will go to as they seek to insure their own interests and agendas, despite the wishes of those whose countries they invade and occupy. The Accidental Tourist profiles Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's involvement in the so-called Arabi...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Legislating Authority

   Sin and Crime in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

   By Ruth Miller

   Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

   Legislation Authority addresses issues of law, state violence, and state authority within the Ottoman and Turkish context....

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. War and Migration

   Social Networks and Economic Strategies of the Hazaras of Afghanistan

   By Alessandro Monsutti

   Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

   Focusing on the case of the Hazaras, a population from central Afghanistan, this book shows how migration studies and transnationalism are at the heart of theoretical and methodological debates which animate anthropology....

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Palestinian Identity in Jordan and Israel

   The Necessary "Others" in the Making of a Nation

   By Riad M. Nasser

   Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

   The book examines the process of national identity formation. It argues that identity, whether of a small community, a nation, an ethnic group, or a religious community, requires an Other against whom it becomes meaningful. In other words, identity develops via difference from Others against whom...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
5. Gender, Literacy, and Empowerment in Morocco

   By Fatima Agnaou

   Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

   This book's concept concerns the positive correlation between literacy and women's development and empowerment in developing countries....

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Diplomacy and Displacement

   Reconsidering the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations, 1922–1934

   By Onur Yildirim

   Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

   This study presents a comprehensive, balanced and factually grounded narrative of the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations as a historic event that has been the subject of much distortion in the historiographical traditions of nationalist lore in Greece and Turkey, as well as in scholarly...

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Organizations, Gender and the Culture of Palestinian Activism in Haifa, Israel

   By Elizabeth Faier

   Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

   This book, based on 25 months of anthropological fieldwork, examines activists and activism in Palestinian nongovernmental organizations in Israel. It concentrates on the ways organizations enable certain processes of self-identification based on activists' constructions of modernity....

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Palestine and the Gulf States

   The Presence at the Table

   By Rosemarie Said Zahlan

   Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

   This final book from Rosemarie Said Zahlan, renowned scholar of Middle East Politics and History, explores the relationships between Palestine and the Gulf since the 1930s. These relationships have ebbed and flowed, crisscrossed barriers and events, and taken on different forms. They...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
9. Trapped Between the Map and Reality

   Geography and Perceptions of Kurdistan

   By Maria Theresa O'Shea

   Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

   Kurdistan exists as a cultural and political concept on many levels of discourse. Despite Kurdistan's divisions, lack of definition and the absence of a unified struggle for a Kurdish state, the concept survives the reality as a powerful mixture of myths, reality and ambition. This thesis analyses...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey

    Kemalist Identity in Transition

    By Omer Taspinar

    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....

    Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge