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Oriental Neighbors Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine
ISBN: PB: 9781512600063, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2016
286 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Focusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbors in Mandatory Palestine, this book analyzes the meaning of the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity that existed among Oriental Jews, and discusses their unique role as political, social,...
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£28,00
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Gateways to the World Port Cities in the Persian Gulf
ISBN: PB: 9781849045636, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Persian Gulf region has become home to some of the world's fastest growing, most impressive cities, many of them with global aspirations. "Gateways to the World" presents an in-depth, systematic, and multi-disciplinary appr...
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£25,00
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Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers The Rise of the Arab Gulf
ISBN: HB: 9780300192346, Yale University Press, October 2016
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A lively analysis of the Arab Gulf states' stunning rise to global power over the last half-century and of the daunting challenges they confront today Once just sleepy desert sheikdoms, the Arab Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emir...
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£20,00
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Saudi Arabia A Kingdom in Peril
ISBN: PB: 9781849047227, Hurst Publishers, October 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom's influential clerics conveniently declared al...
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£14,99
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Pearl of Khorasan A History of Herat
ISBN: HB: 9781849046541, Hurst Publishers, September 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The city of Herat in western Afghanistan long sat at the edge of empires and served as a hub for trade and a conduit for armies. Yet it has been much more than simply a staging post or plaything of political ambition. It has be...
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£30,00
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Rock Between Hard Places Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity
ISBN: PB: 9781849045698, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! What has driven neighbouring states to intervene in the Afghan conflict? This book challenges mainstream analyses which place Afghanistan at the centre – the so-called "heart" – of a large pan-Asian region whose fate is predica...
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£35,00
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Tribes and States in a Changing Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9781849043458, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! At the outset of the twenty-first century and in the midst of the Arab Spring, tribe-state relations are a useful frame of reference through which to analyse the Middle East on a state-by-state basis. "Tribes and States in a Ch...
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£45,00
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Unfinished Revolutions Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia After the Arab Spring
ISBN: HB: 9780300215632, Yale University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
Post-revolution states often find that once dictators have been deposed, other problems arise, such as political polarization and the threat of civil war. A respected commentator on Middle Eastern politics, Ibrahim Fraihat examines three countries gr...
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£30,00
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Impossibility of Palestine History, Geography, and the Road Ahead
ISBN: HB: 9780300215625, Yale University Press, April 2016
312 pp., 21x14 cm
The "two-state solution" is the official policy of Israel, the United States, the United Nations, and the Palestinian Authority alike. However, international relations scholar Mehran Kamrava argues that Israel's "state-building" process has never ris...
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£25,00
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Algeria Modern From Opacity to Complexity
ISBN: HB: 9781849045872, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Spared by the Arab revolts, Bouteflika's Algeria continues to intrigue observers. How does its political system function? Who really governs? Who are behind the protests? How strong are the Islamists? Are there alternatives to...
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£45,00
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