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This text presents an overview of the actions and policies of the United States and the Soviet Union in the Middle East, revealing how their intense rivalry on a global level led to self-defeating ignorance of important regional considerations.

This work provides a selection of underground documents of the two leading bodies of the Intifada: the United National Command and the Islamic Resistance Movement, known as Hamas. Mishal analyses these documents in order to understand the forces that turned the wheels of the Palestinian uprising.

This work on Islam and politics updates major country case studies and adds coverage of Tunisia, Algeria, the Taliban of Afghanistan and HAMAS. It also addresses the issues of democratization and the clash of civilization debate.

The essays in this work illustrate the various ways in which women in the Middle East fall short of being vested with the rights and privileges that would define them as fully enfranchised citizens. They offer an examination of national legislation on personal status, penal law and labour.

"Our people prefer boys, because a girl's life is difficult. It's difficult in every sore of family and among all nationalities. A girl's life is not like a man's life. She has no assurance of being happy in her marriage. And her main purpose in life is to marry and to have children. A girl's and a woman's lives are a trial whatever happens. I don't know why."--Om Gad Their stories are fresh and vivid, recording the various roles of being co-wife in a polygamous marriage, the complications of divorce, the rituals of female circumcision and marriage, the loss of children, life-long hate and its source, the position of witchcraft and superstition in their daily lives, primitive health practices, and managing a family's meager resources, including the gold or silver khul-khaal anklets worn by married women. These self-portraits are fascinating reading and a mine of information for anyone interested in understanding contemporary Egyptian life. A foreword by anthropologist Andrea Rugh and photographs by Asma el-Bakry are included.

Examining Kurdish nationalism as a function of diverse political spaces, this book analyzes the formation of Kurdish national identity. In tracing the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, the author shows that, contrary to popular theories, there is nothing natural or fixed about Kurdish identity or the configuration that Kurdish nationalism assumes.

This text offers an interpretation of Egypt's so-called liberal era and an understanding of contemporary Egyptian society. It analyses both mainstream and conventional political and social forces and political activism among people from widely differing backgrounds.

Examines the state-initiated interventions to restructure the socio-political order in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. The contributors focus on the profound transformations of this region, particularly since the Communist coup in Afghanistan and the Islamic revolution in Iran in the 1970s.

Based on primary sources and personal contacts and interviews, this book examines the origin, evolution, and the role of the Communist party in Egypt. It paints a detailed picture of Egyptian domestic politics. The authors examine the developments of communism in Egypt as a dynamic response to a corrupt political system and to deplorable economic and social conditions that beset most Egyptians.

This introduction to Islam aims to unmask the tie between Islam and modern terrorism. Here, Ed Hotaling explores the radical challenge posed by terrorists to the religion they claim to follow and their threat to the world at large.

A firsthand account of the socio-political atmosphere of the pre-Saddam Hussein era of Iraq, when the country first struggled with the establishment of a nation-state.

Ladjevardi follows the rise and ebb of political development in Iran from 1906 to the recent past by looking at one aspect of political growth: the emergence of labor unions. Presenting a history of the labor movement in Iran, he begins with the genesis of the movement from 1906 to 1921.

This work examines reformations of Islam and culture in Turkey and the successful Islamic modernist Fethullah Gulen movement.

Chronicles the United Nations Relief and Works Agency's (UNRWA) significant role at the core of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Originally established in 1950 as a temporary, ""non-political"" response to the Palestinian refugee crisis, it has become a fixture in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

This is a critical study of the evolution of Arab political thought since the beginning of the 20th century. The author places ideology in a comparative and dialectical framework, approaching the work from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This study examines cities built before the general modernization of Iran that began after World War II, in the light of specifically Iranian environmental factors.

While the occupation of Iraq and its aftermath has received media and political attention, we know very little about the everyday lives of Iraqis. Iraqi men, women, and children are not merely passive victims of violence, vulnerable recipients of repressive regimes, or bystanders of their country's destruction. In the face of danger and trauma, Iraqis continue to cope, preparing food, sending their children to school, socializing, telling jokes, and dreaming of a better future. Within the realm of imagination and creative expression, the editors find that many Iraqi artists have not only survived but have also sought healing. In We Are Iraqis, Al-Ali and Al-Najjar showcase written and visual contributions by Iraqi artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, and activists. Contributors explore the way Iraqis retain, subvert, and produce art and activism as ways of coping with despair and resisting chaos and destruction. The first anthology of its kind, We Are Iraqis brings into focus the multitude of ethnicities, religions, and experiences that are all part of Iraq.

Identifies 91 fundamentalist groups now active in the Arab world, as well as large organisations such as the Muslim Brotherhood. This edition seeks to explain the increase in violence within the Islamic world and reflects developments in the area over the past nine years.

A portrait of the intimate way in which violence pulls lives apart, of an American family caught on the stage of Middle East politics, and of the moral choices required in seeking justice.

These essays are based on contemporary fieldwork in Iran by scholars of Iranian culture. The contributors cover topics such as civil society, foreign relations, Islamism, religious-secular debates and women's issues. These essays challenge stereotypes that have developed about modern-day Iran.

Drawing upon the teachings and writings of the Sudanese reformer, Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, this study aims to provide the intellectual foundations for a total reinterpretation of the nature and meaning of Islamic public law.

These essays provide insightful reflection on both the experience and the condition of experiencing another culture experiencing another culture. The author offers a palpable picture of a place little known to the West while raising questions about the stereotyping of people and places.

The Rural Social Centres of the German-educated Ahmed Hussein were the cornerstones of his project initiatives, encouraging integrated social services through complete community participation. Amy J. Johnson analyses his career and the development of ideas of social reform in Egypt.

women's employment and issues related to poverty in Iran

In Reading Arabia, Long explores the change in the tradition of British Orientalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He examines the role of mass print culture, including travel literature, newspapers, and silent films, in the construction of the British public's perception of "Arabia".