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  • Lives in Limbo

    Syrian Youth in Turkey

    by Maissam Nimer, Ayşen Üstübici, Amal Abdulla, Rebecca Bryant ...
    Series Book 49 - Forced Migration
    More than a decade since the start of the war in Syria, Turkey is home to almost four million of that country’s displaced citizens. Youth is one of the most vulnerable groups within the refugee population, as they struggle with language and education barriers and demands on them to assimilate while retaining their own culture. Lives in Limbo gives voice to the dreams of Syrian youth who have ... Read more

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  • Qatar

    Small State, Big Politics

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran Kamrava explains in this knowledgeable and incisive account of ... Read more

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  • The Limits of Whiteness

    Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race

    by Neda Maghbouleh ...
    When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and others from the Middle East are white. Indeed, a historical myth circulates even in immigrant families like Roya's, proclaiming Iranians to be the "original" white race. But based on the treatment Roya and her family receive in American ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Nation-Building, State and the Genderframing of Women's Rights in the United Arab Emirates

    by Vania Carvalho Pinto ...
    The extensive changes to Emirati women's traditional rights and roles have been one of the most visible transformations taking place in the United Arab Emirates throughout its almost forty years of modern history. This book offers an interpretation of why and how these modifications came about. Its aim is to analyse the promotion of educational, employment and political rights for women as ... Read more

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  • Afghanistan Remembers

    Gendered Narrations of Violence and Culinary Practices

    by Parin Dossa ...
    Although extensive literature exists on the violence of war, little attention has been given to the ways in which this violence becomes entrenched and normalized in the inner recesses of everyday life. In Afghanistan Remembers, Parin Dossa examines Afghan women’s recall of violence through memories and food practices in their homeland and its diaspora. Her work reveals how the suffering and trauma ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Social Change in the Gulf Region

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Md Mizanur Rahman, Amr Al-Azm ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book, comprising thirty-nine chapters divided into social, cultural, economic, and political spheres, offers a unique opportunity to dive into the complex, dynamic, and sometimes contradictory transformation of Gulf societies in the last few decades. Whilst the Gulf region has at times been seen as impervious to this natural phenomenon of transformation—timeless, never changing, ... Read more

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  • Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan

    by Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili ...
    Despite vast efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan explores the rules governing these organizations to explain why they can provide public goods. Instead of withering during decades of conflict, customary authority adapted to become more responsive and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon

    Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power

    by Joanne Randa Nucho ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
    What causes violent conflicts around the Middle East? All too often, the answer is sectarianism—popularly viewed as a timeless and intractable force that leads religious groups to conflict. In Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon, Joanne Nucho shows how wrong this perspective can be. Through in-depth research with local governments, NGOs, and political parties in Beirut, she demonstrates how ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Waiting for Dignity

    Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan

    by Florian Weigand ...
    In August 2021, Taliban fighters entered the presidential palace in Kabul, ending twenty years of international efforts to build a democratic state in Afghanistan. Did the Taliban’s success rest on coercion and violence alone, or did they win the battle for public support through ideology and better services? Or did most people in the country not believe in the idea of the state at all, trusting ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Coping with Uncertainty

    Youth in the Middle East and North Africa

    Edited by Ralf Hexel, Jörg Gertel ...
    Seven years after the Arab uprisings, the social situation has deteriorated across the Middle East and North Africa. Political, economic and personal insecurities have expanded while income from oil declined and tourist revenues have collapsed due to political instability. Against a backdrop of escalating armed conflicts and disintegrating state structures, many have been forced from their homes, ... Read more

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  • The Kurdish Question in Turkey

    New Perspectives on Violence, Representation and Reconciliation

    Edited by Cengiz Gunes, Welat Zeydanlioglu ...
    Series series Exeter Studies in Ethno Politics
    Almost three decades have passed since political violence erupted in Turkey’s south-eastern regions, where the majority of Turkey’s approximately 20 million Kurds live. In 1984, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) initiated an insurgency which intensified in the following decades and continues to this day. Kurdish regions in Turkey were under military rule for more than a decade and the conflict ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Cairo Securitized

    Reconceiving Urban Justice and Social Resilience

    by Deen Sharp, Noura Wahby ...
    Series series Middle East Urban Studies
    "A compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page."—Contemporary SociologyA rich examination of the securitization of the everyday lives of the citizens of Cairo and how to build a more equitable urban orderUntil the year 2000, Cairo had been a model megacity, relatively crime ... Read more

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