The Oxford Handbook Of Contemporary Middle Eastern And North African History

Author : Jens Hanssen,Amal N. Ghazal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191652790

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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African History by Jens Hanssen,Amal N. Ghazal Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History critically examines the defining processes and structures of historical developments in North Africa and the Middle East over the past two centuries. The Handbook pays particular attention to countries that have leapt out of the political shadows of dominant and better-studied neighbours in the course of the unfolding uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. These dramatic and interconnected developments have exposed the dearth of informative analysis available in surveys and textbooks, particularly on Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria.

Author : Julia Ann Clancy-Smith,Charles D. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : OCLC:1345629685

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The Modern Middle East and North Africa by Julia Ann Clancy-Smith,Charles D. Smith Pdf

Explores the underlying theme of unity in diversity, utilizing a mix of documents--including photographs, posters, diaries, diplomatic records, archival sources, and literary works. Offers a compromise between conventional political and diplomatic histories and those focusing on social and cultural history. The authors demonstrate how the Middle East and North Africa have participated in and shaped the grand currents of global history during the past two centuries. --From back cover.

Author : Francesco Cavatorta,Lise Storm,Valeria Resta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000293302

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Routledge Handbook on Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa by Francesco Cavatorta,Lise Storm,Valeria Resta Pdf

This comprehensive Handbook analyses the political parties and party systems across the Middle East and North Africa. Providing an in-depth, empirically grounded and novel study of political parties, the volume focuses on a region where they have been traditionally and often erroneously dismissed. The book is divided into five sections, examining: the trajectories of Islamist, Salafi, leftist, liberal, nationalist, and personalistic parties drawing from different countries; the role political parties play in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian countries; the centrality of political parties in democratic or democratising settings; the relationship between parties and specific social constituencies, ranging from women to youth to tribes and sects; and the policy positions of parties on a number of issues, including neo-liberal economics, identity, foreign policy and the role of violence. This wide-ranging and systematic analysis is a key resource for students and scholars interested in party politics, democratization and authoritarianism, and the Middle East and North Africa. Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780429269219

Author : Philip Mattar
Publisher : MacMillan Reference Library
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119949068

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Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa: D-K by Philip Mattar Pdf

Contains entries that provide information about significant people, places, and events in the history of the Middle East and North Africa since 1800; arranged alphabetically from Dabbagh to Kuwait University.

Author : Beth Baron,Jeffrey Culang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190072742

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History by Beth Baron,Jeffrey Culang Pdf

The essays in this Oxford Handbook rethink the modern history of one of the most important and influential countries in the Middle East--Egypt. For a country and region so often understood in terms of religion and violence, this work explores environmental, medical, legal, cultural, and political histories. It gives readers an excellent view of the current debates in Egyptian history.

Author : Sean Yom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429016943

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The Societies of the Middle East and North Africa by Sean Yom Pdf

This new textbook explores the societies and populations of the Middle East and North Africa. Presenting original chapters written by the world’s leading Middle East scholars, it analyzes the social fabric of the region’s varied countries to uncover the organizing structures, human vulnerabilities, and dynamic forces that shape everyday lives. The volume can be used in conjunction with The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa textbook for a comprehensive overview of the region. Whether used as a companion text or a standalone volume, this work provides the historical and cultural context necessary for understanding the peoples inhabiting Arab world, Israel, Turkey, and Iran, since the early twentieth century. Linking past to present to future, it also ascertains the ongoing developmental trajectories of these societies, including their overall stability and prosperity. The chapters are clearly structured, and contain insightful case studies, illustrative photographs, and visualized data. They also end with discussion questions and annotated bibliographies to help spark further research. Among the rich topics covered are the following: Rural life Civil society and personal identities Economic challenges, oil legacies, environmental harm Religious movements, women and gender, and youth politics. The Societies of the Middle East and North Africa is written in an accessible way, prioritizing social, cultural and economic dimensions. As such this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the field and will be invaluable to students of Middle Eastern politics and society, as well as sociology, history, economics and anthropology.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103223976X

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The Routledge Handbook to the Middle East and North African State and States System by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Providing comprehensive coverage of the history and role of the state in the Middle East and North African region, this handbook explores the main debates, theoretical approaches and accumulated empirical research to explain the remarkable resilience of MENA states despite continued conflict and instability.

Author : Eugene Rogan
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465032488

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The Arabs by Eugene Rogan Pdf

The internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Atlantic -- now updated to cover the latest developments in the Middle East In this groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on five centuries of Arab sources to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context. This landmark book covers the Arab world from North Africa through the Arabian Peninsula, exploring every facet of modern Arab history. Starting with the Ottoman conquests of the sixteenth century, Rogan follows the story of the Arabs through the era of European imperialism and the superpower rivalries of the Cold War to the present age of American hegemony, charting the evolution of Arab identity and the struggles for national sovereignty throughout. In this updated edition, Rogan untangles the latest geopolitical developments of the region. The Arabs is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the modern Arab world.

Author : Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755601417

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State-Building in the Middle East and North Africa by Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou Pdf

Why have state-building projects across the MENA region proven to be so difficult for so long? Following the end of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1920s, the countries of the region began a violent and divisive process of state formation. But a century later, state-building remains inconclusive. This book traces the emergence and evolution of state-building across the MENA region and identifies the main factors that impeded its success: the slow end of the Ottoman Empire; the experience of colonialism; and the rise of nationalistic and religious movements. The authors reveal the ways in which the post-colonial state proved itself authoritarian and formed on the model of the colonial state. They also identify the nationalist and Islamist movements that competed for political leadership across the nascent systems, enabling the military to establish a grip on the security apparatus and national economies. Finally, in the context of the Arab Spring and its conflict-filled aftermath, this book shows how external powers reasserted their interventionism. In outlining the reasons why regional states remained hollow and devoid of legitimacy, each of the contributors shows that recent conflicts and crises are deeply connected to the foundational period of one century ago. Edited by Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, the volume features contributions by stellar scholars including Faleh Abdel Jabar, Lisa Anderson, Bertrand Badie, François Burgat, Benoit Challand, Ahmad Khalidi, Henry Laurens, Bruce Rutherford, Jordi Tejel and Ghassan Salamé.

Author : Omnia El Shakry
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299327606

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Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East by Omnia El Shakry Pdf

Many students learn about the Middle East through a sprinkling of information and generalizations deriving largely from media treatments of current events. This scattershot approach can propagate bias and misconceptions that inhibit students’ abilities to examine this vitally important part of the world. Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East moves away from the Orientalist frameworks that have dominated the West’s understanding of the region, offering a range of fresh interpretations and approaches for teachers. The volume brings together experts on the rich intellectual, cultural, social, and political history of the Middle East, providing necessary historical context to familiarize teachers with the latest scholarship. Each chapter includes easy- to-explore sources to supplement any curriculum, focusing on valuable and controversial themes that may prove pedagogically challenging, including colonization and decolonization, the 1979 Iranian revolution, and the US-led “war on terror.” By presenting multiple viewpoints, the book will function as a springboard for instructors hoping to encourage students to negotiate the various contradictions in historical study.

Author : Stephanie Cronin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838603984

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Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa by Stephanie Cronin Pdf

The concept of the 'dangerous classes' was born in a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nineteenth century Europe. It described all those who had fallen out of the working classes into the lower depths of the new societies, surviving by their wits or various amoral, disreputable or criminal strategies. This included beggars and vagrants, swindlers, pickpockets and burglars, prostitutes and pimps, ex-soldiers, ex-prisoners, tricksters, drug-dealers, the unemployed or unemployable, indeed every type of the criminal and marginal. This book examines the 'dangerous classes' in the Middle East and North Africa, their lives and the strategies they used to avoid, evade, cheat, placate or, occasionally, resist, the authorities. Chapters cover the narratives of their lives; their relationship with 'respectable' society; their political inclinations and their role in shaping systems and institutions of discipline and control and their representation in literature and in popular culture. The book demonstrates the liminality of the 'dangerous classes' and their capacity for re-invention. It also indicates the sharpening relevance of the concept to a Middle East and North Africa now in the grip of an almost permanent sense of crisis, its younger generations crippled by a pervasive sense of hopelessness, prone to petty crime and vulnerable to induction as foot soldiers into drug and people smuggling, petty gangsterism and jihadism.

Author : Larbi Sadiki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351692595

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Routledge Handbook of Middle East Politics by Larbi Sadiki Pdf

Drawing on various perspectives and analysis, the Handbook problematizes Middle East politics through an interdisciplinary prism, seeking a melioristic account of the field. Thematically organized, the chapters address political, social, and historical questions by showcasing both theoretical and empirical insights, all of which are represented in a style that ease readers into sophisticated induction in the Middle East. It positions the didactic at the centre of inquiry. Contributions by forty-four scholars, both veterans and newcomers, rethink knowledge frames, conceptual categories, and fieldwork praxis. Substantive themes include secularity and religion, gender, democracy, authoritarianism, and new "borderline" politics of the Middle East. Like any field of knowledge, the Middle East is constituted by texts, authors, and readers, but also by the cultural, spatial, and temporal contexts within which diverse intellectual inflections help construct (write–speak) academic meaning, knowing, and practice. By denaturalizing notions of singularity of authorship or scholarship, the Handbook plants a dialogic interplay animated by multi-vocality, multi-modality, and multi-disciplinarity. Targeting graduate students and young scholars of political and social sciences, the Handbook is significant for understanding how the Middle East is written and re-written, read and re-read (epistemology, methodology), and for how it comes to exist (ontology).

Author : Sari Hanafi,Rigas Arvanitis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317364108

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Knowledge Production in the Arab World by Sari Hanafi,Rigas Arvanitis Pdf

Over recent decades we have witnessed the globalization of research. However, this has yet to translate into a worldwide scientific network, across which competencies and resources can flow freely. Arab countries have strived to join this globalized world and become a ‘knowledge economy,’ yet little time has been invested in the region’s fragmented scientific institutions; institutions that should provide opportunities for individuals to step out on the global stage. Knowledge Production in the Arab World investigates research practices in the Arab world, using multiple case studies from the region with particular focus on Lebanon and Jordan. It depicts the Janus-like face of Arab research, poised between the negative and the positive and faced with two potentially opposing strands; local relevance alongside its internationalization. The book critically assesses the role and dynamics of research and poses questions that are crucial to further our understanding of the very particular case of knowledge production in the Arab region. The book explores research’s relevance and whom it serves, as well as the methodological flaws behind academic rankings and the meaning and application of key concepts such as knowledge society/economy. Providing a detailed and comprehensive examination of knowledge production in the Arab world, this book is of interest to students, scholars and policy makers working on the issues of research practices and status of science in contemporary developing countries.

Author : John Parker,Richard Reid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199572472

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History by John Parker,Richard Reid Pdf

"This collection of essays ... will allow readers to explore various aspects ... of the continent's history over the last two hundred years."--Book jacket.

Author : Camron Michael Amin,Benjamin C. Fortna,Elizabeth Brown Frierson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:501335227

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The Modern Middle East by Camron Michael Amin,Benjamin C. Fortna,Elizabeth Brown Frierson Pdf