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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:949205528
Author : Michael Richard Thomas Dumper,Bruce Stanley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576079201
The first work to offer 5,000 years of authoritative historical coverage of ancient and modern cities in the Middle East and North Africa—from their founding to the present—highlighting each city's cultural, social, political, and economic significance. Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work on major ancient and modern cities in the Middle East and North Africa from their beginnings to today. In an unprecedented work of historical research, renowned experts Bruce Stanley and Michael Dumper provide 5,000 years of authoritative historical coverage as they trace the full trajectory of each city, discuss ties to other cities, and present a comparative analysis of the region through the lens of its cities. The A–Z entries feature extensive information about each city's location, geography, demographics, climate and environmental issues, ancient and classical history, Islamic history, post–1800 C.E. history, architecture, religious significance, cultural issues, society, municipal features, economic issues, and contemporary trends. Introductory essays explore urban general history and historiography, urban planning and modernization, poverty, interaction between cities, social welfare, culture, identity issues, and the place of these cities within the world economy.
Author : G.H. Blake,R.I. Lawless
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317265115
The Middle East, defined here as extending from Morocco to Iran and Turkey to Sudan, lies at the crossroads of three continents – Africa, Asia and Europe. With the largest reserves of petroleum in the world its importance is well beyond its physical size and population. Rapid urban growth has radically transformed Middle Eastern society in recent decades, but the associated problems are incompletely understood. This volume, first published in 1980, highlights some of the major issues of Middle Eastern urbanisation and provides a comprehensive statement about the current position of research. Urban origins and the nature of urban growth are discussed to provide a background to considerations of migration, employment, housing and retailing. The contributors suggest that planning strategies have hitherto proved inadequate with small towns being largely overlooked, historic quarters rapidly disappearing and water in short supply. Future research into all these problem areas is considered essential, but the research must be coordinated and utilised. Concentrating on practical problems, achievements and challenges for research, the contributions in this book, specially commissioned from active researchers in the field, will prove a valuable guide to recent ideas and developments in the Middle East.
Author : Ahmed Bin Shabib,Rashid Bin Shabib
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Africa
ISBN : 3037785446
Through a series of essays, photographs, and archival content, this book highlights the diverse young and old diaspora communities of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) around the world. Drawing on topics from the ten-year archive of Brownbook magazine a publication dedicated to covering stories on the contemporary culture of the wider MENA region and its diaspora, including people, architecture, and more than fifty cities the book is driven by the magazine's expansive research and content. And in light of the recent refugee crisis, it is an urgent testament that migration from the region isn't something new. Diaspora of the Middle East and North Africa is a gateway to the communities who have planted roots in adoptive cities where they now seamlessly blend, from the nine million strong Arab community in Brazil that arrived from modern-day Lebanon and Syria in the late 1880s, to the Singaporean descendants of Yemen who have helped shape the city state's urban fabric through trade and development for nearly two centuries. The book also covers the small but significant diaspora communities who have formed enclaves across the world, such as the Kurdish residents with barber shops and food joints in Nashville and the Assyrians in Sodertalje, Sweden who place equal importance on integration and preserving their history through local institutions and social clubs. SELLING POINTS: * This book draws on topics from the archive of this magazine, a publication dedicated to covering stories on the contemporary culture of more than 50 cities in the wider Middle East and North Africa region. * This book is extremely current especially in light on the recent refugee crisis. * Using essays, interviews, architectural profiles, Q and As, photo essays, and travel stories, this book highlights the culture of these Diaspora communities around the world.
Author : V. F. Costello
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1977-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 052121324X
Textbook on the causes and consequences of urbanization in North Africa and the Middle East - studies the social implications, demographic aspects and political aspects and economic factors of modern urban development, considers rural migration and occupations and social structure within towns, and examines cultural change, behavioural and social change resulting from urbanization, etc. Bibliography pp. 114 to 118, graph, maps and statistical tables.
Author : Haim Yacobi,Mansour Nasasra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317231189
Presenting the current debate about cities in the Middle East from Sana’a, Beirut and Jerusalem to Cairo, Marrakesh and Gaza, the book explores urban planning and policy, migration, gender and identity as well as politics and economics of urban settings in the region. This handbook moves beyond essentialist and reductive analyses of identity, urban politics, planning, and development in cities in the Middle East, and instead offers critical engagement with both historical and contemporary urban processes in the region. Approaching "Cities" as multi-dimensional sites, products of political processes, knowledge production and exchange, and local and global visions as well as spatial artefacts. Importantly, in the different case studies and theoretical approaches, there is no attempt to idealise urban politics, planning, and everyday life in the Middle East –– which (as with many other cities elsewhere) are also situations of contestation and violence –– but rather to highlight how cities in the region, and especially those which are understudied, revolve around issues of housing, infrastructure, participation and identity, amongst other concerns. Analysing a variety of cities in the Middle East, the book is a significant contribution to Middle East Studies. It is an essential resource for students and academics interested in Geography, Regional and Urban Studies of the Middle East.
Author : Luna Khirfan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773549777
As Middle Eastern cities weather the second decade of the twenty-first century, they face a number of challenges to their economic resilience, competitiveness, and internal stability. In this uniquely tense realm for the urban public, an understanding of the dynamics of decision-making processes, citizen power, and the rule of law is critical to the direction of policy in the future. In Order and Disorder, Luna Khirfan weaves a cross-national comparison of Amman and Cairo that dissects the many layers and complexities of urban governance. Through case studies on a diverse array of development projects and their associated challenges, the contributors demonstrate how three actors – the state, the market, and civil society – interact with each other within the same urban political space. First, they argue that interplay between the state and civil society reveals the potential of urban majorities and the discords within current participatory planning. She then delves into the neoliberal dynamics between the state and the market, stressing the impact of economic push and pull factors on urban landscapes. The final chapters explain why the market’s relationship with civil society oscillates between exclusion and alienation. Throughout the book, Khirfan identifies the role of an authoritarian bargain in governing every one of these interactions. In light of current regional political instability in the Middle East and North Africa, Order and Disorder offers an arena for extrapolating lessons from urban governance to the wider political sphere.
Author : Peter Sluglett
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815650638
The great cities of the Middle East and North Africa have long attracted the attention and interest of historians. With the discovery and wider use over the last few decades of Islamic court records and Ottoman administrative documents, our knowledge of Middle Eastern cities between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries has vastly expanded. Drawing upon a treasure trove of documents and using a variety of methodologies, the contributors succeed in providing a significant overview of the ways in which Middle Eastern cities can be studied, as well as an excellent introduction to current literature in the field.
Author : Ussama Makdisi,Paul A. Silverstein
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0253217989
Explores the relation between histories of violence and their contemporary commemoration.
Author : Michael G. Menosian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : IND:30000120418540
Author : Victor Gervais,Saskia van Genugten
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030252298
This book examines the changing dynamics of stabilisation efforts in the Middle East and North Africa. Written by recognised scholars and practitioners in the field, this volume provides a rich overview of the broader spectrum of stabilisation. The topics range from a comprehensive set of lessons learned in Afghanistan and Iraq to transitional justice and reconciliation efforts in Tunisia and international attempts to protect the region’s cultural heritage. Ultimately, this edited collection presents a comprehensive look at the attempts to increase stability in the MENA region.
Author : Anthony M. Orum
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 2919 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118568453
Provides comprehensive coverage of major topics in urban and regional studies Under the guidance of Editor-in-Chief Anthony Orum, this definitive reference work covers central and emergent topics in the field, through an examination of urban and regional conditions and variation across the world. It also provides authoritative entries on the main conceptual tools used by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and political scientists in the study of cities and regions. Among such concepts are those of place and space; geographical regions; the nature of power and politics in cities; urban culture; and many others. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies captures the character of complex urban and regional dynamics across the globe, including timely entries on Latin America, Africa, India and China. At the same time, it contains illuminating entries on some of the current concepts that seek to grasp the essence of the global world today, such as those of Friedmann and Sassen on ‘global cities’. It also includes discussions of recent economic writings on cities and regions such as those of Richard Florida. Comprised of over 450 entries on the most important topics and from a range of theoretical perspectives Features authoritative entries on topics ranging from gender and the city to biographical profiles of figures like Frank Lloyd Wright Takes a global perspective with entries providing coverage of Latin America and Africa, India and China, and, the US and Europe Includes biographies of central figures in urban and regional studies, such as Doreen Massey, Peter Hall, Neil Smith, and Henri Lefebvre The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies is an indispensable reference for students and researchers in urban and regional studies, urban sociology, urban geography, and urban anthropology.
Author : Anthony Gorman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474430630
The first book to look critically at digital technologies and the role they play within queer lives in contemporary India
Author : Alena Strohmaier,Angela Krewani
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048541508
A few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (2009-2001), the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic engagement, new social dynamics, inclusive societies and new opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs, became more evident than ever. Simultaneously, cartography received new considerable interest as it merged with social media platforms. In an attempt to rearticulate the relationship between media and mapping practices, whilst also addressing new and social media, this interdisciplinary book abides by one relatively clear point: space is a media product. The overall focus of this book is accordingly not so much on the role of new technologies and social networks as it is on how media and mapping practices expand the very notion of cultural engagement, political activism, popular protest and social participation.
Author : Mariam F. Alkazemi,Claudia E. Youakim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793617675
By providing migration experiences of Arabs to various nation-states, this volume examines socio-historical factors that allowed Arab communities to settle in several places, including Latin America, Singapore, the United States, Europe and Africa. It bridges several fields to provide context that is useful in today’s globalized world.