Current Contents of Periodicals on the Middle East
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Publisher :
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Israel
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Amazigh Politics in the Wake of the Arab Spring
Author : Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1477324844
Book Description
On television, the Arab Spring took place in Cairo, Tunis, and the city-states of the Persian Gulf. Yet the drama of 2010, and the decade of subsequent activism, extended beyond the cities—indeed, beyond Arabs. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman brings to light the sustained post–Arab Spring political movement of North Africa’s Amazigh people. The Amazigh movement did not begin with the Arab Spring, but it has changed significantly since then. Amazigh Politics in the Wake of the Arab Spring details the increasingly material goals of Amazigh activism, as protest has shifted from the arena of ethnocultural recognition to that of legal and socioeconomic equality. Amazigh communities responded to the struggles for freedom around them by pressing territorial and constitutional claims while rejecting official discrimination and neglect. Arab activists, steeped in postcolonial nationalism and protective of their hegemonic position, largely refused their support, yet flailing regimes were forced to respond to sharpening Amazigh demands or else jeopardize their threadbare legitimacy. Today the Amazigh question looms larger than ever, as North African governments find they can no longer ignore the movement’s interests.
Is There a Middle East?
Author : Abbas Amanat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0804775273
Book Description
This book offers diverse debates on the possible manifestations and meanings of the term "Middle East."
The Press in the Arab Middle East
Author : Ami Ayalon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 1995-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0195087801
Book Description
Middle Eastern newspapers evolved in the 19th century and were shaped during a period of accelerated change into a unique political, social and cultural role. Drawing on a wealth of sources, this study explores the press as a fundamental Middle Eastern institution.
Digital Middle East
Author : Mohamed Zayani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190934875
Book Description
In recent years, the Middle East's information and communications landscape has changed dramatically. Increasingly, states, businesses, and citizens are capitalizing on the opportunities offered by new information technologies, the fast pace of digitization, and enhanced connectivity. These changes are far from turning Middle Eastern nations into network societies, but their impact is significant. The growing adoption of a wide variety of information technologies and new media platforms in everyday life has given rise to complex dynamics that beg for a better understanding. Digital Middle East sheds a critical light on continuing changes that are closely intertwined with the adoption of information and communication technologies in the region. Drawing on case studies from throughout the Middle East, the contributors explore how these digital transformations are playing out in the social, cultural, political, and economic spheres, exposing the various disjunctions and discordances that have marked the advent of the digital Middle East.
Lebanon’s Jewish Community
Author : Franck Salameh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319996673
Book Description
This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations. It gives voice to personal testimonies, family archives, private papers, recollections of expatriate and resident Lebanese Jewish communities, as well as rarely tapped archival sources. With unique access to the Jewish communities in Lebanon and the Greater Middle East, the author presents both history and memory of Lebanon’s Jews, considering what, how, and why they choose to remember their Lebanese lives. The work retells the history of Lebanon by placing Lebanese Jews into the country’s narrative from the 1920s to 1970s, including an examination of the role they played in the construction of Lebanon’s multi-sectarian system.
The Sunna and Shi'a in History
Author : O. Bengio
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137495065
Book Description
Sunni-Shi'i relations have undergone significant transformations in recent decades. In order to understand these developments, the contributors to the present volume demonstrate the complexity of Sunni-Shi'i relations by analyzing political, ideological, and social encounters between the two communities from early Islamic history to the present.
The Middle East in the World
Author : Lucia Volk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1317501748
Book Description
The Middle East in the World offers students a fresh, comprehensive, multidisciplinary entry point to the broader Middle East. After a brief introduction to the study of the region, the early chapters of the book survey the essentials of Middle Eastern history; important historical narratives; and the region's languages, religions, and global connections. Students are guided through the material with relevant maps, resource boxes, and text boxes that support and guide further independent exploration of the topics at hand. The second half of the book presents interdisciplinary case studies, each of which focuses on a specific country or sub-region and a salient issue, offering a taste of the cultural distinctiveness of the particular country while also drawing attention to global linkages. Readers will come away from this book with an understanding of the larger historical, political, and cultural frameworks that shaped the Middle East as we know it today, and of current issues that have relevance in the Middle East and beyond.
The Middle East Today
Author : Dona J. Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2008-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135980799
Book Description
The new edition of The Middle East Today provides an accessible and comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate students of Middle East Studies, Middle East politics and geography. This updated and revised edition features a host of pedagogical features to assist students with their learning, including; detailed maps and images, case studies on key issues, boxed sections and suggestions for further reading. The book highlights the current issues facing the Middle East, linking them to the rich political, geographical and cultural history of the region. The author examines the crises and conflicts, both current and potential, likely to dominate the region in coming years. The second edition has been fully updated and revised to include discussion of such recent events as: the effects of the Arab Spring Turkey’s growing influence in the region the dramatic increase in Iran’s nuclear capabilities Osama bin Laden’s death and declining support for violent extremist movements in the Middle East. Further supplemented by a companion website containing sample chapters, a selection of maps formatted for use in presentations, and annotated links to online resources and websites, The Middle East Today is an essential resource for all students of Middle East Studies, Middle East politics and geography.
Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa
Author : Ussama Makdisi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2006-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253217981
Book Description
Explores the relation between histories of violence and their contemporary commemoration.
