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Revisiting the Arab Uprisings The Politics of a Revolutionary Moment
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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£25,00
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Red Star and the Crescent China and the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781849048217, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Red Star and the Crescent" provides an in-depth and multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolving relationship between China and the Middle East. Despite its increasing importance, very few studies have examined this dynamic...
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£25,00
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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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Religion, Empire, and Torture The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib
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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£20,00
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£34,00
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Reading Clocks, Alla Turca Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780226257723, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 table
Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal culture. However, this began to change rather dramatically during the nineteenth century, as the Ottoman Empire was incr...
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£44,00
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Revolt in Syria Eye-Witness to the Uprising
ISBN: PB: 9781849044509, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
176 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! In January 2011 President Bashar al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal that Syria was "stable" and immune from revolt. In the months that followed, and as regimes fell in Egypt and Tunisia, thousands of Syrians took to the stre...
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£14,99
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Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781849041331, ISBN: HB: 9781849041324, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! During the decade prior to the Arab Spring dozens of Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious channels were established across the Middle East, advocating different forms of religiosity and shaping public perceptions through thei...
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£45,00
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River Jordan The Mythology of a Dividing Line
ISBN: HB: 9780226319575, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones
As the site of several miracles in the Jewish and Christian traditions, the Jordan is one of the world's holiest rivers. It is also the major political and symbolic border contested by Israelis and Palestinians. Combining biblical and folkloric studi...
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£39,00
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Red Star Over Iraq Iraqi Communism Before Saddam
ISBN: HB: 9781849041010, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Recent outbursts of sectarian and ethnic violence in Iraq have made many observers question the viability of the state itself. It is said that due to the artificiality of the state and a lack of deep-seated political institutio...
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£50,00
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Rescuing Afghanistan
ISBN: HB: 9781850658467, Hurst Publishers, August 2006
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Compared to post-invasion Iraq, Afghanistan seems a success story; but first impressions can be misleading. The country remains on a knife-edge, and the loss of momentum in its transition from the Taliban regime puts Afghanista...
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£15,00
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