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1. Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran: Interior Revolutions of the Modern Era

   By Pamela Karimi

   Since 1979 the focus on Iran’s internal politics and its foreign relations has distracted attention from more subtle transformations, which took place prior to and in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution. This book explores Iranian domesticity and consumer culture from before the revolution...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-78183-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Modern Turkey: People and State in a Globalising World

   By Bill Park

   This book provides a wide ranging overview of Turkey and its people in the contemporary world. In particular it seeks to place them within the context of a rapidly globalizing world and includes chapters on politics, economics, international relations, the Turkic world, religion and recent...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-44371-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. The Companion to Modern Israel

   Edited by Alain Dieckhoff

   This book provides a comprehensive profile of contemporary Israel. It is a unique in-depth survey of that country’s politics, international relations, society, economy, role in the Middle East and culture....

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-57392-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. God, Jews and the Media: Religion's Impact on Israel's Media

   By Yoel Cohen

   The book examines the interactions between Jewish identity and mass media. As such, it covers the Diaspora populations of the US and UK as well as Israel itself. Also included are chapters on journalism, broadcasting, advertising and the internet....

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-47503-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Israeli Space: Periphery, Identity and Protest

   By Haim Yacobi, Erez Tzfadia

   This book examines the issue of Israeli space and in particular looks at cities, suburbs, development towns and Zionist agricultural landscape. Taking a multidisciplinary approach it contributes to the field of planning theory, political science, urban sociology, critical geography and...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57324-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. The Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist Politics in the Middle East

   By Mariz Tadros, Akram Habib

   The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, has become the world’s largest, most influential Islamist group. After eight decades surviving as a populist religious movement, banned from political participation in many Arab countries, in recent years it has moved towards becoming a political...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-46596-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The Transformation of the Gulf: Politics, Economics and the Global Order

   Edited by David Held, Kristian Ulrichsen

   This book examines the political, economic and social transformation of the six member-states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the ways in which these states are both shaping and being reshaped by, the processes of globalization. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the volume ...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57452-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Iranian Music: A Century of Popular Entertainment from Motrebi to Losanjelesi

   By Gay Breyley, Sasan Fatemi

   This book provides broad coverage of popular music in Iran in the twentieth century right up to the present day. It includes an examination of the role of popular music in Iranian society and culture as well as its ongoing development and genres....

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-57512-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Memory and Conflict in Lebanon: Remembering and Forgetting the Past

   By Craig Larkin

   This book examines the legacy of Lebanon’s civil war and how the population has learnt to cope. The author explores the efforts of those who wish to forget and those who wish to remember, so as not to repeat past mistakes, shedding new light on trauma and the persistence of ethnic...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-58779-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Challenging Islamic Fundamentalism: The Three Principles of Mulla Sadra

    By Colin Turner

    This is the first translation into English of Seh Asl (Three Principles) by the important sixteenth century thinker Mulla Sadra. It contains a detailed introduction by Colin Turner that contextualizes the work and a footnoted commentary on the text itself. Also included is an epilogue and...

    January 2011 | 978-0-415-38389-9 | Hardback (Routledge)