Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia Moving from the Periphery
Author/editor: Katlyn Quenzer; Maria Syed and Elisabeth Yarbakhsh
Year published: 2018
Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia: Moving from the Periphery provides fresh analysis and cutting-edge critique of phenomena and events across the region. Working out of diverse disciplinary traditions, the authors call on varied theoretical frameworks in order to…
Egyptians in Revolt: The Political Economy of Labor and Student Mobilizations
Author/editor: Ghafar, AA
Year published: 2017
Egyptians in Revolt investigates the political economy of the Egyptian labor and student movements. Using elements of social movement theory within a broad political economy framework, it assesses labor and student mobilizations in four eras of contemporary Egyptian history: the pre-1952 era, the…
Afghanistan and its Neighbors after the NATO Withdrawal
Author/editor: Saikal, A & Nourzhanov, K. (eds)
Year published: 2016
The planned reductions in NATO troop numbers in Afghanistan through 2015 and a final withdrawal at the end of 2016 brings up numerous pressing questions about the security and national interests of not just Afghanistan, but of the broader region itself. The problem of a chaotic Afghanistan—or of an…
Frankenstein à Bagdad
Author/editor: Saadawi, A, Meyer, F
Year published: 2016
Translated into French by FRANCE MEYER Ahmed Saadawi modern-day Frankenstein novel set in Baghdad won the Arab world's top prize for fiction in 2014. Frankenstein in Baghdad captures the impossibility of justice in the aftermath of decades of war and violence in Iraq. Rather than focusing on…
Iran at the crossroads
Author/editor: Saikal, A.
Year published: 2016
In this incisive analysis, Amin Saikal, a leading expert on Iranian politics, traces Iran s transition from pro-Western monarchy to Islamic Republic and explores the choices open to Rouhani s moderate reformist government. The Islamic Republic has endured a difficult journey throughout its…
Saudi Clerics and Shi'a Islam
Author/editor: Ismail, R
Year published: 2016
The Saudi "ulama" are known for their strong opposition to Shi'a theology, Shi'a communities in Saudi Arabia, and external Shi'a influences such as Iran and Hezbollah. Their potent hostility, combined with the influence of the 'ulama' within the Saudi state and the Muslim world, has led some…
Sokut-e Kohan-e Ayeneha, (The Silence of the Ancient Mirrors: Alamtaj Ghaem-Maghami’s life and poetry)
Author/editor: Taheri, Z.
Year published: 2016
Soviet Nation Building in Central Asia: The making of the Kazakh and Uzbek nations
Author/editor: Ubiria, G
Year published: 2016
The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in new state-led nation-building projects in Central Asia. The emergence of independent republics spawned a renewed Western scholarly interest in the region’s nationality issues. Presenting a detailed study, this book examines the state-led nation-…
The Arab World and Iran: A Turbulent Region in Transition
Author/editor: Saikal, A.
Year published: 2016
This volume focuses on interpreting the changing domestic and regional dynamics in the Arab world and Iran. Its chapters discuss an array of countries, events, actors, and issues - from an examination of the Arab Spring and the Tunisian democratic transition, to an exploration of the role of Saudi-…
The US-Iran Relationship: The Impact of Political Identity on Foreign Policy
Author/editor: Kinch, P
Year published: 2016
Since the Revolution of 1978/79, which eventually brought to power Ayatollah Khomeini and his circle of conservative, though politically active, clerics, the relationship between Iran and the USA has represented one of the world's most complex and hostile international entanglements. In this book,…