Questa serie si addentra nella ricca trama delle società e culture del Medio Oriente e islamiche. Esamina criticamente come i paesaggi sociali e politici modellano diverse espressioni culturali, comprendenti forme islamiche, nazionaliste e secolari. Ogni volume indaga le intricate relazioni tra le forze economiche globali, la governance locale, le identità comunitarie e l'evoluzione della cultura in tutta la regione. Con un focus dalla Seconda Guerra Mondiale ad oggi, la collezione offre ricerche all'avanguardia sulla dinamica zona dal Marocco al Pakistan.
Debunks the many myths that surround the United States' special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as 'the deal': oil for security. This book shows how oil led the US government to follow the company to the kingdom, and how oil and ARAMCO quickly became America's largest single overseas private enterprise.
The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact. In this book, noted author Asef Bayat--whose Life as Politics anticipated the Arab Spring--uncovers why this occurred, and what made these uprisings so distinct from those that came before. Revolution without Revolutionaries is both a history of the Arab Spring and a history of revolution writ broadly. Setting the 2011 uprisings side by side with the revolutions of the 1970s, particularly the Iranian Revolution, Bayat reveals a profound global shift in the nature of protest: as acceptance of neoliberal policy has spread, radical revolutionary impulses have diminished. Protestors call for reform rather than fundamental transformation. By tracing the contours and illuminating the meaning of the 2011 uprisings, Bayat gives us the book needed to explain and understand our post-Arab Spring world.
This book looks anew at the vexing question of whether Islam is compatible with democracy, examining histories of Islamic politics and social movements in the Middle East since the 1970s.
Moving beyond conventional political and strategic analyses of the Israeli-Iranian conflict, Iranophobia shows that Israeli concerns are emblematic of contemporary domestic fears about Israeli identity and society.
In this sequel to his landmark exploration of the Arab uprisings, The People Want, Gilbert Achcar assesses the present stage of the revolutionary process and its possible outcomes.
Digital Militarism considers how social media has become a crucial site in which the Israeli military occupation is supported and sustained.
This book examines the political challenge that pluralism raises to ideologies of national citizenship in contemporary Turkey.
This book chronicles the local histories written by modern Palestinians about their villages that were destroyed in the 1948 war.
This book examines political, social, and cultural changes in Palestine and Israel from the 1993 Oslo Accords through the second Palestinian uprising and the death of Yasser Arafat. It also explains the failures of the Oslo process and considers the prospects for a just and lasting peace in the region.
A study of policing and security practices in the Gaza Strip during the period of Egyptian rule (1948-67), Police Encounters explores the complicated effects on Gazans of an extensive security apparatus guided by intersecting concerns about national interest, social propriety, and everyday illegality.
Revolutionary Womanhood explores state feminism through a close look at how the Nasser regime took up the woman question as part of the attempt to build a modern Egyptian nation-state.
Set in a Palestinian camp in Lebanon, Refugees of the Revolution is both an ethnography of everyday life and a provocative critique of nationalism, exploring how material realities and evolving solidarity networks are reconstituting identity and political belonging in exile.