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Hardcover. In the run-up to, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts addressing that context were produced, circulated and viewed as taking a position for or against the invasion, or contributing political insights. This book provides an in-depth survey of such texts to examine what they reveal about the condition of literature. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 2AB; DSBH; HBWS5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230278752
ISBN
9780230278752
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.61

Hardcover. This book takes a novel look at the modern Middle East through the prisms of six cascading negative critical turning points. It identifies the seeds of a potential seventh in the collective dignity deficits generated by poor governance paradigms and exacerbated by geopolitical competition for the region's natural resources. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JPSL; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230251502
ISBN
9780230251502
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.53

Hardcover. An examination of why and how Fascist Italy sought to increase its influence in the Middle East, and why Italian efforts ultimately failed. Offering fresh insights into Fascist Italy's foreign and colonial policies, this book makes an important contribution to the complex history of relations between Europe and the Arab world. Num Pages: 269 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FB; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230231603
ISBN
9780230231603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardcover. Examining how lesbian and gay Israelis negotiate the linguistic performance of their sexualities and the constraints of Israeli national ideologies, this book broadens current understandings of the uses and effects of variation in language and details the interconnections between language use and sexual, national and political identities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; CFB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230227965
ISBN
9780230227965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardcover. Yakinthou throws light on the challenges of adopting political settlements in frozen conflicts and divided societies by focusing on the conflict in Cyprus, the resolution of which has for years been held up, in large part by elite intransigence. The book offers answers for why elites in Cyprus are so unwilling to adopt a power-sharing solution. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVC; 1FB; GTJ; HBJF1; JPA; JPB; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230223752
ISBN
9780230223752
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.07

Hardcover. This book investigates the role and the impacts of armies and military regimes in the Middle East. It argues that one of the main causes of the slow and stagnated economic development in the region is high military expenditure perpetuated by strong grips of armies on the politics of the region. Num Pages: 183 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JW; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230220171
ISBN
9780230220171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Hardcover. This book looks at the provision of finance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by the IMF and World Bank in return for economic liberalization, exploring the political motivations of funding and geo-politics in recipients. The effectiveness of funding is questioned, with evidence from four MENA countries. Num Pages: 237 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JKSR; KCM; KFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230211964
ISBN
9780230211964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.41

Hardcover. Henry Gurney was the last Chief Secretary of the Mandate Government of Palestine. From mid-March to mid-May 1948, at his HQ in Jerusalem's King David Hotel, he wrote his diary under fire from Jews and Arabs alike, with both groups taking aim at the British Administration as the Mandate drew to a close and the country spiralled into violence. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJPG; BJ; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230209862
ISBN
9780230209862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This study shows the promise of Israeli-Palestinian peace from the perspective of former combatants who transform themselves, each other, and those around them through moral conviction and action that reclaims the dignity of both peoples. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; GTJ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120846
ISBN
9780230120846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.15

Hardcover. Explores how American youth are indoctrinated with Zionist mythology and how to intervene in that process by teaching about Palestine. It argues that as the relationship between Zionist education and the Israel lobby continues to be strong, it is necessary to correct the misrepresentations that infiltrate Western culture. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 1KBB; HBJF1; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116887
ISBN
9780230116887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 47.41

Hardcover. This book presents an overview of psycho-social research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, presents and analyzes people-to-people activities in the region, and offers new conceptualizations for Israeli-Palestinian co-creation of a grassroots peace and social justice processes. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; GTJ; JMH; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115088
ISBN
9780230115088
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Paperback. Negin Nabavi brings together essays written by experts and scholars that shed light on the many transformations that Iran has experienced in the thirty years under the Islamic Republic and speculate on the import of the developments of 2009 and beyond. Editor(s): Nabavi, Negin. Num Pages: 201 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 4. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230114692
ISBN
9780230114692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

Hardcover. This book tells the story of how Shari'ati developed a language of political Islam, speaking in an idiom intelligible to the Iranian public and subverting the Shah's regime and its claim to legitimacy. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HRH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113336
ISBN
9780230113336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 47.41

Paperback. This is the first book to be primarily directed at analyzing the evolving solution to the Kurdish problem in Iraq and Turkey. Although this solution remains cautiously fragile, it does represent a strikingly positive future that until recently seemed so bleak. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1FBQ; JPA; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112872
ISBN
9780230112872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Hardcover. This book is a detailed and comprehensive work which reviews the origins of Israel's Mediterranean identity, starting with its Zionist ideological origins and tracing the path up to the present, as Israel struggles with what it means to be a post-ideological Mediterranean country. Num Pages: 226 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112766
ISBN
9780230112766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 46.88

Hardcover. This book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Situating the Gulf within the evolution of capitalism at a global scale, it presents a novel theoretical interpretation of this important region of the Middle East political economy. Num Pages: 266 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1FBX; JPS; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 207 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110779
ISBN
9780230110779
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.03

Hardcover. Focusing substantially on the relation between the concept of constitutionalism and Islamic Law in general and how such relation is specifically reflected in the Shiite jurisprudence, this volume explores the juristic origins of constitutionalism, especially in the context of 1905 Constitutional Revolution in Iran. Series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJ; HRAX; HRH; LAFS; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110731
ISBN
9780230110731
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.82

Hardcover. Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the twentieth-century Iranian new wave. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376. The Chaotic Imagination. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. 248 pages. Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the twentieth-century Iranian new wave. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSBH5. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 18. Weight: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108127
ISBN
9780230108127
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

Hardcover. An interpretative history of the emergence and consolidation of the modern state in Jordan, this book examines the resilience of the Hashemite monarchy and the economic sources of social power under Ottoman, British, and post-colonial Hashemite rule. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FBJ; HBJF; HBLW3; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108011
ISBN
9780230108011
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.55

Hardcover. Nabih Barri is a key figure in the Lebanese and Shi'ite politics for the last three decades. As the leader of the Shi'ite Amal movement since 1980 and as the Lebanese Speaker since 1992, Barri played a major role in all political events and processes in Lebanon between the early 1980's and today, including the current severe Lebanese crisis. Series: Middle East in Focus. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBL; BGH; HBJF1; JPF; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230105355
ISBN
9780230105355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

Hardcover. This book analyzes why and how the Israeli army did not succeed in finding the appropriate way to fight terrorism since the creation of the Israeli state. Translator(s): Schoch, Cynthia. Series: The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Num Pages: 196 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJP; 3JMC; JPWL; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230104440
ISBN
9780230104440
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardcover. Combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality of culture. Through its style and content, the text challenges the Orientalist bifurcation between tradition and modernity in the Arab world, revealing instead tradition's own dynamism and its coexistence alongside modernity. Translator(s): Selim, Samah. Series: Theory in the World. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230103610
ISBN
9780230103610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This book explores the complexity of women's social status in the Middle East and North African region and fills a gap in the existing literature by providing an up-to-date and comprehensive portrait of women's status from a theoretical and socio-demographic perspective. Num Pages: 228 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; JFSJ2; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230103504
ISBN
9780230103504
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

Paperback. A fascinating demonstration of how U.S. representations of veils, harems, and belly dancers have operated as nostalgic and exotic symbols to help rationalize dominant U.S. narratives about power and progress. Num Pages: 249 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342. The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S. 256 pages, illustrations. A fascinating demonstration of how U.S. representations of veils, harems, and belly dancers have operated as nostalgic and exotic symbols to help rationalize dominant U.S. narratives about power and progress. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1KBB; JFSJ1. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230103306
ISBN
9780230103306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

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