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As Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the U
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Peter Bergamin’s, new book, The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology (
Ibrahim Fraihat’s latest book, Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic Conflict (Edinburgh Universit
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World (Basic Book, 202
Asaf Elia-Shalev's book Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth
Since coming to power in 2002, Turkey’s governing party, the AKP, has made poverty relief a central
In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed pea
European colonialism was often driven by the pursuit of natural resources, and the resulting colonis
In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a g
In Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020) anthropologist and a
The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and 'Medz Yeghern' (Bloomsbury, 2021
In Iran and Palestine: Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2019), Seyed Ali Alavi (SOAS University
Arjen F. Bakker's book The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill, 2023
In a broken world, in which even God Himself is in a state of deep crisis, what is required in order
Sari Nusseibeh's book Avicenna's Al-Shifā': Oriental Philosophy (Routledge, 2018) deals with the phi
The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza
In 1974 the government of Jordan established a new ministry to oversee a nationwide scheme to buy an
Charles Blaha, a former State Department expert on the vetting of U.S. weapons transfers to other co
In 1960s Egypt, a group of writers exploded onto the literary scene, transforming the aesthetic land
