For sale in CIS only! The Maghreb – the region that today encompasses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya – is a region apart within the larger Muslim and Arab world. Today the focus of popular uprisings for democracy and participation, it underwent...

For sale in CIS only! In some countries of the Persian Gulf as much as 85 to 90 per cent of the population is made-up of expatriate workers.Unsurprisingly, all of the concerned states spend inordinate amounts of their political energies managing the...

For sale in CIS only! At more than 150 million people, Muslims are the largest Indian minority but are facing a significant decline in socio-economic as well as political terms – while waves of communal violence have affected them over the last twen...

For sale in CIS only! In a world dominated by nation-states, expressions of private violence have generally been neglected: either as relics of a more disorganised world or as marginal nuisances to states themselves. The prevalence and centrality of...

For sale in CIS only! In the humanitarian field those we rather mockingly call 'French doctors' seem always to be in the vanguard, the first to arrive in any critical situation. If they hold such a position in modern humanitarian intervention it is...

For sale in CIS only! This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs, translated from Pashto, are more than just a personal account of his extraordinary life. "My Life with the Taliban" offers a co...

For sale in CIS only! The conflict in Cote d'Ivoire has the characteristics of Shakespearean drama – the key figures are larger than life, each with a fatal flaw, and the self-destructive path each is following is clearly visible to all but themselv...

For sale in CIS only! This book seeks to dispel the myth that we have ever been embroiled in some "clash of civilisations". Adib-Moghaddam traverses various intellectual disciplines in order to find a pathway through the conceptual maze that has hab...

For sale in CIS only! This volume offers a comprehensive overview of scholarship on Somalia and Somali land, one that transcends the usual boundaries and presents readers with a timely, incisive and compelling introduction to Somali culture, history...

For sale in CIS only! We fail to understand Islam', writes Roger Hardy in the introduction to this book, 'and we are paying a high price for our failure'. "The Muslim Revolt" explains, in layman's language, a phenomenon that still seems to madden an...