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Lebanon and the Split of Life
Bearing Witness through the Art of Nabil Kanso
Meriam Soltan
This scholarly biography explores the act of bearing witness through the politically charged, mural-scale art of Lebanese-Americanactivist and neo-expressionist, Nabil Kanso.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839989636
March 2023
Forthcoming
£24.99 / $24.99This scholarly biography explores the act of bearing witness through the politically charged, mural-scale art of Lebanese-Americanactivist and neo-expressionist, Nabil Kanso.
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British Encounters with Syrian-Mesopotamian Overland Routes to India, 1751-1795
Rethinking Enlightenment Improvement
Mohammad Sakhnini
The book examines the relationship between the Enlightenment idea of improvement and eighteenth-century travel writings about Middle Eastern overland routes to India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279362
March 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00The book examines the relationship between the Enlightenment idea of improvement and eighteenth-century travel writings about Middle Eastern overland routes to India.
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Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine
Legal Chicanery on a World Stage
John Quigley
When Britain took control of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War 1, it tried to find a way to gain a legal right both to govern Palestine and to facilitate a Jewish national home there. It never found one. As a result, the changes it brought about in Palestine lack a legal basis.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984631
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00When Britain took control of Palestine from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in World War 1, it tried to find a way to gain a legal right both to govern Palestine and to facilitate a Jewish national home there. It never found one. As a result, the changes it brought about in Palestine lack a legal basis.
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Victorian Ladies in the Ottoman Empire
Lifting the Veil
Elisabetta Marino
Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to modern-day Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus) during the reign of Queen Victoria, this volume analyzes the multi-faceted, often ambivalent and conflicting ways their encounters with Otherness articulated itself to the masses.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985829
March 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to modern-day Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus) during the reign of Queen Victoria, this volume analyzes the multi-faceted, often ambivalent and conflicting ways their encounters with Otherness articulated itself to the masses.
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Islamic Leadership and the State in Eurasia
Galina Yemelianova
The book presents the first integrated study of the relationship between official Islamic leadership (muftiship), non-official Islamic authorities, grassroots Muslim communities and the state in post-Communist Eurasia. It employs a history-based perspective and compares this relationship to that in both the Middle East and Western Europe.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980510
February 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00The book presents the first integrated study of the relationship between official Islamic leadership (muftiship), non-official Islamic authorities, grassroots Muslim communities and the state in post-Communist Eurasia. It employs a history-based perspective and compares this relationship to that in both the Middle East and Western Europe.
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Ethical Teachings of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī
Economics of Happiness
Sami Al-Daghistani
This book studies the interplay of economic philosophy and moral conduct as reflected in the writings of one of the most renowned scholars in Islamic history, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). Al-Ghazālī contributed to Islamic theology, philosophy, and Sufism but is also regarded as one of the forerunners of classical economic thought in Islamic tradition.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275302
February 2021
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book studies the interplay of economic philosophy and moral conduct as reflected in the writings of one of the most renowned scholars in Islamic history, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). Al-Ghazālī contributed to Islamic theology, philosophy, and Sufism but is also regarded as one of the forerunners of classical economic thought in Islamic tradition.
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Foreign Aid to the Gaza Strip between Trusteeship and De-Development
Ahmed Tannira
One of the very few books that focus on the political economy of Gaza under the foreign aid regime that has emerged post Oslo Agreement 1993.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275708
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00One of the very few books that focus on the political economy of Gaza under the foreign aid regime that has emerged post Oslo Agreement 1993.
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Teaching Palestine on an Israeli University Campus
Unsettling Denial
Daphna Golan-Agnon
The word “occupation” is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The “war outside” is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students unsettle this denial for the first time in a practice-led course on human rights in the reality around them.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275012
November 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00The word “occupation” is not heard in classrooms on the Hebrew University campus, at the heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem. The “war outside” is not spoken of. Israeli and Palestinian students unsettle this denial for the first time in a practice-led course on human rights in the reality around them.
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Theater in the Middle East
Between Performance and Politics
Edited by Babak Rahimi
The collected essays from noteworthy dramatists and scholars in this book represent new ways of understanding theater in the Middle East not as geographical but transcultural spaces of performance. What distinguishes this book from previous works is that it offers new analysis on a range of theatrical practices across a region, by and large, ignored for its dramatic traditions and histories, and it does so by emphasizing diverse performances in changing socio-political contexts.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274466
July 2020
Active
£125.00 / $125.00The collected essays from noteworthy dramatists and scholars in this book represent new ways of understanding theater in the Middle East not as geographical but transcultural spaces of performance. What distinguishes this book from previous works is that it offers new analysis on a range of theatrical practices across a region, by and large, ignored for its dramatic traditions and histories, and it does so by emphasizing diverse performances in changing socio-political contexts.
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Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture
Essays by Hamid Dabashi
Edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan
"Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" brings together the work of a theorist of modern and contemporary arts to map out more universal issues of concern to art theory and criticism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089192
March 2019
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£130.00 / $130.00“Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi” brings together the work of a theorist of modern and contemporary arts to map out more universal issues of concern to art theory and criticism.
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American Arabists in the Cold War Middle East, 1946–75
From Orientalism to Professionalism
Teresa Fava Thomas
This book examines US State Department’s Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle East hands, showing how their backgrounds and education differed crucially from that of their predecessors. This study focuses on these individuals’ transformative role in US foreign relations from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085088
July 2016
Active
£115.00 / $115.00This book examines US State Department’s Middle East area experts during the Cold War, known as Arabists or Middle East hands, showing how their backgrounds and education differed crucially from that of their predecessors. This study focuses on these individuals’ transformative role in US foreign relations from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations.
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Performing the Iranian State
Visual Culture and Representations of Iranian Identity
Edited by Staci Gem Scheiwiller
This book discusses what it means to “perform the State,” what this action means in relation to the country of Iran and how these various performances are represented.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857282934
February 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00This book discusses what it means to “perform the State,” what this action means in relation to the country of Iran and how these various performances are represented.
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FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Popularity and Neglect
Edited by Adrian Poole, Christine van Ruymbeke, William H. Martin, Sandra Mason
For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGerald’s ‘Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ (1859) has been largely ignored by the academic establishment. This volume explores the reasons for both its popularity and neglect.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857287816
July 2011
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£115.00 / $115.00For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGerald’s ‘Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ (1859) has been largely ignored by the academic establishment. This volume explores the reasons for both its popularity and neglect.
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Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger
An Anthology
Edited by Geoffrey P. Nash
An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843317920
July 2009
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£115.00 / $115.00An invaluable compendium of writing on the Middle East including extracts from canonical and less well known travellers’ works.