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Middle Eastern Studies eBook Series

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  • Displacement of the Hazara People of Afghanistan

    Complex Histories

    by Dr Khadija Abbasi, PhD, Reza Hussaini, Atefeh Kazemi, Abdullah Mohammadi, Professor T. Alexander Aleinikoff, JD, Professor Laura Hammond, PhD ...
    Series series Middle Eastern Studies
    How can the experiences of the Hazara diaspora show how discrimination, persecution and poverty can drive migration, often following migrants through the countries they travel and settle in?Displacement of the Hazara People of Afghanistan uses lived experiences to explore the often-neglected facets of migration: that sometimes one can be a migrant without moving, that many migrants are forced to ... 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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  • Popular Culture and Political Identity in the Arab Gulf States

    Edited by Robert Springborg, Alsharekh Alanoud ...
    Series Book 6 - SOAS Middle East Issues S.
    As the Gulf assumes an ever more important identity in the global political economy, we see the emergence of a new popular and political culture underpinning its increasingly self-confident national identities. This volume explores the new dynamism of the Gulf, reflected not just in high-rise buildings and booming stock markets, but also manifested in the realms of art, ideas and expression, and ... Read more

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  • The Hazaras and the Afghan State

    Rebellion, Exclusion and the Struggle for Recognition

    by Niamatullah Ibrahimi ...
    The Hazaras of Afghanistan have borne the brunt of many of the destructive forces unleashed by the establishment of the Afghan monarchy in 1747. The history of their relationship with the Afghan state has been punctuated by frequent episodes of ethnic cleansing, mass dispossession, forced displacement, enslavement and social and economic exclusion. Mostly Shia in a country dominated by Sunni ... Read more

    $35.99 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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  • Arab Dawn

    Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring

    by Bessma Momani ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    In the West, news about the Middle East is dominated by an endless stream of reports and commentary about civil war, sectarian violence, religious extremism, and economic stagnation. But do they tell the full story? For instance, who knew that university enrolment in the war-torn Palestinian territories exceeds that of Hong Kong, or that more than a third of Lebanese entrepreneurs are women?Change ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Bazaar Politics

    Power and Pottery in an Afghan Market Town

    by Noah Coburn ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly paradoxical situation, exploring how the town's local politics maintained peace despite a long, violent ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • We Are Still Here

    Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard

    Edited by Nahid Shahalimi ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERA collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban.**After decades of significant progress, the prospects of women and girls in Afghanistan are once again dependent on radical Islamists who reject gender equality. When the United States announced the end of their twenty-year occupation and the Taliban seized ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Evolving Arab City

    Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development

    Edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation.This collection reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order. The eight cities which form the core of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Tribalism and Political Power in the Gulf

    State-Building and National Identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE

    by Courtney Freer, Alanoud al-Sharekh ...
    Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal. However, in discussions of state building and national identity, the role of tribalism and tribal identity is often overlooked. This book analyses the political role of tribes in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE aiming to understand the degree to which tribes hinder or advance popular participation in government and to what extent they exert ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Troubled Waters

    Insecurity in the Persian Gulf

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    Series series Persian Gulf Studies
    Troubled Waters looks at four dynamics in the Persian Gulf that have contributed to making the region one of the most volatile and tension-filled spots in the world. Mehran Kamrava identifies the four dynamics as: the neglect of human dimensions of security, the inherent instability involved in reliance on the United States and the exclusion of Iraq and Iran, the international and security ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • 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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