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  • 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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  • 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 MENA Region and COVID-19

    Impact, Implications and Prospects

    Edited by Zeina Hobaika, Lena-Maria Möller, Jan Claudius Völkel ...
    Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which comprises some of the world’s richest countries next to some of the poorest, this book offers excellent insights into the discriminatory consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.With a geographic focus on the MENA region, the multidisciplinary case studies collected in this edited volume reveal that the coronavirus’s impact patterns ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Markets of Dispossession

    NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo

    by Julia Adams, George Steinmetz, Julia Elyachar ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the benefits of the market and access to the rewards of globalization. Markets of Dispossession is a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Missions Impossible

    Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World

    by John Waterbury ...
    A rigorous examination of higher education policymaking in the Arab worldNone of the momentous challenges Arab universities face is unique either in kind or degree. Other societies exhibit some of the same pathologies—insufficient resources, high drop-out rates, feeble contributions to research and development, inappropriate skill formation for existing job markets, weak research incentive ... 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

  • Big Capital in an Unequal World

    The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

    by Rosita Armytage ...
    Series Book 29 - Dislocations
    Inside the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of Pakistan’s elite.Benefitting from rare access and keen analytical insight, Rosita Armytage’s rich study reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The New Post-oil Arab Gulf

    Managing People and Wealth

    Edited by David Weir, Zeinab Karake-Shalhoub ...
    The sharp increase in oil revenues since 2002 has left the Arab Gulf States with billions of petro-dollars. But how will these countries fare in the post-oil era? The rulers of these states are taking serious measures to ensure the survival of their economies, and indeed their regimes, in a world with scarce mineral resources. This volume explores the extent to which these countries have been and ... Read more

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  • Breakdown in Pakistan

    How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action

    by Masooda Bano ...
    Thirty percent of foreign development aid is channeled through NGOs or community-based organizations to improve service delivery to the poor, build social capital, and establish democracy in developing nations. However, growing evidence suggests that aid often erodes, rather than promotes, cooperation within developing nations. This book presents a rare, micro level account of the complex decision ... Read more

    $40.49 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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