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Middle East

Laessing Ulf

ISBN: PB: 9781849048880, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why has Libya fallen apart since 2011? The world has largely given up trying to understand how the revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi has left the country a failed state and a major security headache for Europe. Gaddafi's...

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Middle East

Revisiting the Arab Uprisings The Politics of a Revolutionary Moment

Lacroix Stephane

ISBN: PB: 9781849048873, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since 2013, the Middle East has experienced a double trend of chaos and civil war, on the one hand, and the return of authoritarianism, on the other. That convergence has eclipsed the political transitions that occurred in the...

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Middle East

Jerusalem 1900 The Holy City in the Age of Possibilities

Lemire Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780226188232, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 1 table

Perhaps the most contested patch of earth in the world, Jerusalem's Old City experiences consistent violent unrest between Israeli and Palestinian residents, with seemingly no end in sight. Today, Jerusalem's endless cycle of riots and arrests appear...

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Religion, Empire, and Torture The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226251875, ISBN: HB: 9780226481968, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 11 line drawings, 13 tables

How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in "Religion, Empire, and Torture", Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Per...

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Middle East

Military

Ashes of Hama The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

Lefevre Raphael

ISBN: HB: 9781849042857, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba'athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "Syrian Muslim Brotherhood" and its "al-Qaeda affiliates". But who are these Isla...

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Islam

Political Science

Shi'ism and Politics in the Middle East

Louer Laurence

ISBN: HB: 9781849042024, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Although Iran's Islamic Revolution had an electrifying effect on Shiite movements in Lebanon, Iraq, the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, there exists a tendency to explain away much of Shiite politics in the Middle East as inextricably l...

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Middle East

Political Science

Transnational Shia Politics Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf

Louer Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9781849042147, Hurst Publishers, February 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This timely book illuminates the historical origins and present situation of militant Shia transnational networks by focusing on three key countries in the Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, whose Shia Islamic groups are t...

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Middle East

Pakistan Beyond the "Crisis State"

Lodhi Maleeha

ISBN: PB: 9781849041355, ISBN: HB: 9781849041348, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Seen through the lens of the outsider, Pakistan has often been reduced to a caricature. Its diversity and resilience have rarely figured in the single-issue focus of recent literature on the country, be it journalistic or schol...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Architect of Global Jihad The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri

Lia Brynjar

ISBN: PB: 9781850659914, Hurst Publishers, May 2009
510 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! With more than 35 years experience of jihadist activism, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri remains the foremost theoretician in the global jihadist movement today, despite his capture in Pakistan in late 2005. After having participated in the...

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