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Book SynopsisDaryoush Mohammad Poor is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS), London, and he is a lecturer for its Department of Graduate Studies. His first monograph, Authority without Territory: The Aga Khan Development Network and the Ismaili Imamate (2014), is a fresh theoretical engagement with contemporary institutions of the Ismaili imamate. As part of the Diamond Jubilee publications of the IIS, with Daniel Beben he edited and translated the autobiography of Aga Khan I, under the title of The First Aga Khan: Memoirs of the 46th Ismaili Imam (2018).Table of ContentsIntroduction English translation Persian edition of the text Index

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Book SynopsisChristopher Phillips is Reader in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London, U.K and associate fellow at Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa Programme. He has written for The Guardian, The Washington Post, Newsweek and CNN, among others. He has also made numerous media appearances on outlets including BBC Newsnight, Radio 4's Today Programme, BBC News, Al-Jazeera, Sky News and Channel 4 News. He is the author of The Battle for Syria: International Rivalry in the new Middle East (2016).Michael Stephens is a Senior Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), and an Associate Fellow at RUSI where he previously worked as the Research Fellow for Middle East Studies. Michael was seconded to the Foreign and Commonwealth in 2017 serving as the Senior Research Analyst for Lebanon and Syria. He is a regular broadcast commentator and has written for many of the world's top news publications.Trade ReviewA timely and trusted guide - smart thinking from respected scholars who understand the past and provide impressive insight into the future of a fast-changing map of Britain and the Middle East. Here are the right questions, and the right kind of answers with rigorous analysis and advice. * Lyse Doucet, BBC Chief International Correspondent *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Map of the Middle East Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Christopher Phillips & Michael Stephens PART ONE: Still searching for a role – The UK in the Middle East from East of Suez to Brexit 2. Britain and the Middle East since 1971 Rosemary Hollis 3. Britain’s Foreign Policy Landscape in the Post-Brexit Era Michael Clarke 4. Still Special? The UK and US in the Middle East Michael Stephens PART TWO: Principles and Pragmatism – the debates over the UK's Middle East priorities 5. The third wheel? “Values” in British foreign policy in the Middle East James Lynch 6. Prosperity David Butter 7. Security Louise Kettle PART THREE: Britain and the non-Arab powers 8. Turkey Bill Park 9. Israel Ian Black 10. Iran - Bridging Opportunities and Challenges Sanam Vakil PART FOUR: Britain and the Middle Eastern Arab states 11. Syria and the Levant Christopher Phillips 12. Iraq Jack Watling 13. The Gulf Tobias Borck and Michael Stephens 14. Egypt Emma El-Badawy 15. Conclusion Christopher Phillips & Michael Stephens

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Book SynopsisEnno Maessen is Lecturer in History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He has (co-)authored articles and reviews in Patterns of Prejudice, Middle Eastern Studies, The Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, Journal of World History, and International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity.Trade ReviewAn original and fresh look at the urban history of Istanbul and particularly of Beyoglu. * YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies *“Maessen’s original work shows how an allegedly cosmopolitan urban environment becomes a new, contested laboratory for the social and cultural production of space. Memories of late Ottoman pluralism and refractions of the Cold War, nation-building ethos and minorities’ right to the city: all embedded in a landscape whose legitimate “owners” are still being questioned.” * Paolo Girardelli, Bogaziçi University, Turkey *"Enno Maessen provides a welcome addition to the growing literature on post-1945 urban history. In introducing us to the clubs, cinemas and international schools of a cosmopolitan Istanbul district he also sheds fresh light on European identities on the margins of the continent." * Moritz Föllmer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Istanbul and Beyoglu in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries 2. Bosphorus Germans and the Teutonia Club 3. Yesilçam Street or Turkish Hollywood: Novel Cultural Industries in Beyoglu 4. A Francophone National Institution: Galatasaray High School 5. Beacon of Britishness: the English High School for Girls 6. The Pivot of German Cultural Diplomacy in Turkey: The German High School Conclusion and Epilogue

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Book SynopsisGhoncheh Tazmini recently completed her term as Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics, UK. Educated at the University of British Columbia, the LSE and the University of Kent, she holds a PhD in international relations. She is the author of Khatami's Iran (2007, 2009), and Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran (2012).Trade ReviewA subtle and sophisticated exploration of one of the more apparently mismatched alignments of our era, presaging an epochal shift in the structure of international politics. The material and structural aspects of the Russo-Iranian relationship are examined, but Tazmini also creatively explores the ideational and civilisational factors that contribute to the perception of ontological security of this odd couple. A brilliant and perceptive analysis. Essential reading. * Richard Sakwa, Professor, University of Kent, UK *Ghoncheh Tazmini's Power Couple is essential for obtaining an accurate understanding of the complex Russian-Iranian relationship—especially as it has evolved since the outset of the Russian-Ukrainian war. * Mark N. Katz, Professor, George Mason University, USA *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Building an Interpretative Framework Chapter 2: Chequered Past, Chequered Perceptions Chapter 3: Expanding Russian-Iranian Relations Chapter 4: Untangling Russian-Iranian Relations Chapter 5: The War in Ukraine: A Catalyst for Closer Cooperation Chapter 6: Resurgence and Ascendance in the Middle East Chapter 7: Russian-Iranian Alignment in the Middle East156 Conclusion Bibliography Endnotes

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Book SynopsisVartan Matiossian is a historian and literary scholar living in the United States. He received his PhD from the Academy of Sciences of Armenia and has taught Armenian history and language in Buenos Aires and New Jersey from 1988-2004 on primary, secondary and college levels. He has authored four books in Armenian three books in Spanish, has edited or co-edited three volumes (Spanish, English, and Armenian), and translated 12 volumes from Armenian into Spanish.Trade ReviewVartan Matiossian’s book is an erudite overview of the uses of the Armenian word Yeghern across the ages and an in-depth study of the systematic misuses of this same word in translation within the languages of the civilized world, especially in the last few decades, allegedly for the sake of reconciliation or for more obscure political reasons. The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide offers its readers a superb demonstration of the fact that, at least in the cases where genocidal will is at work, an event can acquire a historical existence only through its meaningful reception. This is yet another confirmation of the Hegelian law according to which there can be reality only there where some sense is involved, albeit retrospectively. * Marc Nichanian, author of The Historiographic Perversion (2009) *Matiossian offers an analytical narrative of the changing uses of “Medz Yeghern,” one of several terms used by Armenians to denote the genocide they suffered a generation before Lemkin invented that English term. Immersed in the historical record as well as the contemporary archives of Armenian genocide memorialization, Turkish denial and American collaboration with that effort, Matiossian offers a matchless analysis of texts ranging from newspaper articles and books to 114 monuments and shows how diplomats seeking to evade the moral and legal consequences of fully acknowledging the genocide sought to use the Armenian term for shameful camouflage. His compelling analysis is a unique contribution and its two lengthy Appendices offer a matchless record for future investigations of the links between language and politics. * Khachig Tölölyan, Emeritus Professor of Letters, Wesleyan University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Introduction Silencing the Name Part I Language and History Chapter 1 Yeghern until the Late Nineteenth Century Chapter 2 Yeghern before and after 1915 Chapter 3 Medz Yeghern and “Genocide” in Armenia and the Diaspora Part II Politics and Language Chapter 4 Vatican: “From the Depths of the Metz Yeghérn” Chapter 5 Turkey: “The Denial of the Great Catastrophe” Chapter 6 United States: “Genocide of the Armenians” and “Meds Yeghern” Chapter 7 From Uruguay to the United States: On Words of Recognition Conclusion Unsilencing the Name Appendix A The Meaning of Yeghern in Scholarship Appendix B Yeghern and “Genocide” in Memorial Inscriptions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGabriel Polley is an activist and historian with a particular interest in the Middle East, colonialism and liberation struggles, and the environment. He holds a doctorate in Palestine studies from the University of Exeter.Table of ContentsChapter One. ‘Holy Land on the Brain’: Introduction Chapter Two. ‘The Places So Remarkable’: Edward Robinson and the Birth of Biblical Palestine Chapter Three. ‘A Jerusalem of Their Own’: Victorian Travellers in a Holy City Chapter Four. ‘Labourers in the Field of Abraham’: The Farm at Kerem Avraham Chapter Five. ‘Down with the Bell!’: The Nablus Uprising of 1856 Chapter Six. ‘The Prince of the Samaritans’: The Life and Times of Ya’qub al-Shalabi Chapter Seven. Laurence Oliphant in The Land of Gilead Chapter Eight. ‘Palestine is Thus Brought Home to England’: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisMichael Mason is Director of the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, where he is also Associate Professor in Environmental Geography. He publishes on global environmental governance, politics and security. He is author of The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility across Borders (2005) and Environmental Democracy (1999), co-author of Transparency in Global Environmental Governance (2014) and co-editor of Renewable Energy in the Middle East (2009).Muna Dajani is Research Officer at the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. For over 9 years, she has worked in the fields of environment and development in Palestine, working with grassroots initiatives, NGOs, universities and governmental bodies. She received her PhD from the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE.Munir Fakher Eldin is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and CultTrade ReviewThe Untold Story of the Golan Heights is one of very few books about this region. But what distinguishes this volume is the fact that it is a collaborative endeavor authored by Jawlanis and their allies, thereby giving readers a chance to learn from the truest of experts. -- Lisa Hajjar, University of California – Santa Barbara, USATable of Contents1 Introduction: Representing the occupied Jawlan/Golan, Muna Dajani, Lancaster University, UK; Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit University, Palestine; and Michael Mason, LSE, UK I: EVERYDAY COLONIZATION Chapter 2: The Politics of Lifeworld Colonisation in the occupied Golan: Michael Mason, LSE, UK Reflection 1: The 1982 General Strike, Bassel Rizqallah, Birzeit University student, Palestine II: THE POLITICS OF THE GOVERNED Chapter 3: Mapping the Politics of the Governed among the Jawlanis: A Semiotic Approach, Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit University, Palestine Reflection 2: The occupied Syrian Golan and Birzeit University: A Story of Solidarity, Diaaeddin Horoub, journalist and researcher, Palestine Reflection 3: The occupied Syrian Golan Heights after 2011: The Constant and Variable, Aram Abu Saleh, Syrian writer and activist, occupied Syrian Jawlan III: THE POLITICS OF JAWLANI ART Chapter 4: Sculptures in Jawlani Public Places: Reflections on the Work of Identity, Wael Tarabieh, Jawlani artist, and Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit University, Palestine Reflection 4: The Jawlani Art and Cultural Scene, Abdel Qader Thweib, Birzeit University student, Palestine Reflection 5: The Role of Literature and Folk Music in Resisting Israelization of the Jawlan, Nadine Musallam, journalist IV: THE POLITICS OF JAWLANI YOUTH AND EDUCATION Chapter 5: Israeli Education Policies as a Tool for the Ethnic Manipulation of the Arab Druze, Amal Aun, independent researcher Reflection 6: How to Counter-map the Jawlani Lands: Visualizing Memory, Place and Identity, Jumanah Abbas, independent researcher Reflection 7: The Concept of ‘Jawlani Youth’: Between Colonial Policies and Society, Ali Aweidat, Syrian researcher and activist, occupied Syrian Jawlan V: A JAWLANI POLITICAL ECOLOGY Chapter 6: Being in Place: On the Jawlan Formation and Agroecological History of Highlands, Omar Tesdell, Birzeit University, Palestine, Muna Dajani, Lancaster University, UK; and Alaa Iktash, Palestinian researcher, Al Quds (Jerusalem) Reflection 8: From Jabal al-Shaykh to Mount Hermon Ski Resort, Alaa Iktash, Palestinian researcher, Al Quds (Jerusalem) 7 Conclusion: The Jawlan as Counter-Geography, Muna Dajani, Lancaster University, UK; Munir Fakher Eldin, Birzeit University, Palestine; and Michael Mason, LSE, UK

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Book SynopsisTalar Chahinianholds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and lectures in the Program for Armenian Studies at UC Irvine, USA, where she is also Visiting Faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature. She has served as assistant editor of the Armenian Review (2010-2017) and is currently co-editor of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. Sossie Kasbarian is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Stirling, UK. She is co-editor of Diaspora- A Journal of Transnational StudiesTsolin Nalbantian is a University Lecturer in Modern Middle East History at Leiden University working on the social and cultural history of the Middle East. Nalbantian is co-series editor of Critical, Connected Histories (Leiden University Press) and has published articles in Mashriq & Mahjar, MESA Review of Middle East Studies, and History Compass. Her book, Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon TheTrade ReviewThis book fills a gap in the social science literature on the Armenian diaspora. It is masterfully edited by three representatives of the younger generation of Armenian American academics: Talar Chahinian, Sossie Kasbarian and Tsolin Nalbantian. All three embody the renewal of diasporic Armenian research, as well as sharing common concerns, passions and aspirations. * CIVILNET *Table of ContentsIn Lieu of an Introduction Talar Chahinian, Sossie Kasbarian, Tsolin Nalbantian I. “The Logic of the Sedentary”: Complicating Notions of Home and Homelands Chapter 1 In search of the Sedentary: Armenian Diaspora Homelands between Addis Ababa, Jerusalem, Valence and Paris, Boris Adjemian Chapter 2 Armenian Displaced Persons: From Displacement to a Diaspora Community, Gegham Mughnetsyan Chapter 3 Diaspora-Homeland relations Re-examined: The case of Syrian Armenian in the Netherlands, Nare Galstyan II. “Diasporic Social Formation”: Leadership Elites, Institutions, and Transnational Governmentality Chapter 4 Forging Diasporic Identity in the Fin de Siècle Armenian Periodical Press in Europe, Hasmik Khalapyan Chapter 5 Transnational Politics and Governmental Strategies in the Formative Years of the Post-Genocide Armenian Diaspora (1920s-1930s), Vahe Sahakyan Chapter 6 Defiant Adherence: Cultural Critiques in Late Twentieth Century Armenian Diaspora Literature, Lilit Keshishyan Chapter 7 Liturgical Subject of the Armenian Apostolic Church: Recent Waves of Migration, Christopher Sheklian III. “The Social Text of Diaspora”: Diasporic Becoming and Legibility in Diaspora’s Semantic Domain Chapter 8 Sounding Armenian: The Contours of the Diasporic Musical Imaginary, Sylvia Alajaji Chapter 9 "Toward the Diaspora": The Performative Powers of Vahé Oshagan's Poetry, Karen Jallatyan Chapter 10 The Armenians in Turkey: From autochthonous people to diaspora, Talin Suciyan Chapter 11 Are Istanbul Armenians Diasporic? Unpacking the Famous Debate, Hrag Papazian Afterword, Khachig Tölölyan Epilogue, Sebouh Aslanian

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Book SynopsisChristian Windler is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He specializes in the social and cultural history of diplomacy, religious practices, and global entanglements from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. His publications include La diplomatie comme expérience de l'Autre: Consuls français au Maghreb (1700-1840) (2002), a pioneering study in new diplomatic history.Since the early 2000s, he has broadened his interest in cultural intermediaries by focusing on missionaries as cultural brokers and glocal actors.He has been principal investigator on several externally funded projects in new diplomatic history and in the history of religious practices in Europe and beyond.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHumor in Iran provides a remarkably rich medley of Persian prose and poetry, spanning eleven hundred years, in equally delectable translations into English, offering a rare view into how Iranian poets and writers have dealt with subjects as varied as human foibles, tyranny, politics, religion, forbidden desire, and social taboos. * Nasrin Rahimieh, Professor, University of California, USA *Humour in Iran is the record of a quest, a journey through over a millennium of Persian literature, focusing on the lighter side of Persian culture. It is a compendium of all varieties of satire including “hajv” (lampoon) and “hazl” (ribaldry), with ample examples provided in Persian with English translations. * M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, USA *Homa Katouzian, with his diverse scholarly interests and acumen, is the ideal candidate to expand upon the existing body of research on Persian Humour. This undertaking involves meticulous exploration of classical and contemporary texts that span over a millennium looking for wit and witty wisdom. Humour in Iran: Eleven-hundred Years of Satire and Humour in Persian Literature, with its rich tapestry of narratives, serves as an enlightening, captivating, and all-encompassing narrative that interests both general readers and experts in the field. * Kamran Talattof, Professor, The University of Arizona, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and note on transliteration Preface Introduction 1. The First Three Centuries 2. Rumi, Sa‘di, Hafiz 3. Obeyd Zakani 4. From the Classics to the Neoclassics 5. The Neoclassical Period: Bazgasht-e Adabi 6. Iraj and Bahar 7. Dehkhoda and Eshqi 8. Aref, Seyyed Ashraf, Parvin E‘tesam, etc. 9. Satirical Fiction 10. The satirical Press

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] remarkable account of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) . . . For the Love of Humanity, conveys the complexity of both the WTI's endeavor and the universalist ideals that continue to engender humanitarian, cosmopolitan, rights-based, and imperialist moral-political projects around the world." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Part of what makes this book so impressive is that its radical vision is sustained and deepened by sophisticated reference to the ideas of many of the leading European political philosophers of the last 100 years and by a social science methodology that relies on an ethnographic record compiled by a participant observer who doubles as author. This fine, memorable book possesses a theoretical and practical significance that extends well beyond the confines of the World Tribunal on Iraq experience." * London Review of International Law *"What is the legacy of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI)? How can "for the love of humanity" be understood when it is used for both imperialist and anti-war arguments? These issues are elegantly interrogated by Ayca Cubukcu," * Middle East Journal *"This remarkable book about the World Tribunal on Iraq (set up shortly after the U.S. invasion by a multinational network of activists and scholars) is at once a valuable ethnography and a timely history of the present. It forces the reader to confront the conflicts between the legal and political perspectives that dominate our understanding of international affairs. For anyone concerned with global justice, For the Love of Humanity is essential-because thought-provoking-reading." * Talal Asad, The Graduate Center, City University of New York *"In this breakthrough ethnography of the World Tribunal on Iraq, Ayça Çubukçu raises new questions about the contemporary politics of human rights. She challenges the ease with which many hew to noble aspirations, as if crimes and mistakes in name of human rights were merely incidental perversions. Anyone concerned with the fate of cosmopolitanism in our era of the love of humanity and perpetual war must read this book." * Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World *"Mixing ethnographic material on the conduct of the World Tribunal on Iraq with analysis grounded in political theory and international law, Ayça Çubukçu's outstanding book offers thought-provoking arguments alongside first-hand reflections on the WTI's deliberations." * Stephen Hopgood, University of London *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Constituting Multitude: Founding a World Tribunal Chapter 2. Whose Tribunal? Chapter 3. Constituting Constitutions: The Fact of Iraqi Constitution, the Fatalism of Human Rights Intermezzo. Can the Network Speak? Chapter 4. "Humanity Must Be Defended" Afterword Appendices Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] remarkable account of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) . . . For the Love of Humanity, conveys the complexity of both the WTI's endeavor and the universalist ideals that continue to engender humanitarian, cosmopolitan, rights-based, and imperialist moral-political projects around the world." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Part of what makes this book so impressive is that its radical vision is sustained and deepened by sophisticated reference to the ideas of many of the leading European political philosophers of the last 100 years and by a social science methodology that relies on an ethnographic record compiled by a participant observer who doubles as author. This fine, memorable book possesses a theoretical and practical significance that extends well beyond the confines of the World Tribunal on Iraq experience." * London Review of International Law *"What is the legacy of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI)? How can "for the love of humanity" be understood when it is used for both imperialist and anti-war arguments? These issues are elegantly interrogated by Ayca Cubukcu," * Middle East Journal *"This remarkable book about the World Tribunal on Iraq (set up shortly after the U.S. invasion by a multinational network of activists and scholars) is at once a valuable ethnography and a timely history of the present. It forces the reader to confront the conflicts between the legal and political perspectives that dominate our understanding of international affairs. For anyone concerned with global justice, For the Love of Humanity is essential-because thought-provoking-reading." * Talal Asad, The Graduate Center, City University of New York *"In this breakthrough ethnography of the World Tribunal on Iraq, Ayça Çubukçu raises new questions about the contemporary politics of human rights. She challenges the ease with which many hew to noble aspirations, as if crimes and mistakes in name of human rights were merely incidental perversions. Anyone concerned with the fate of cosmopolitanism in our era of the love of humanity and perpetual war must read this book." * Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World *"Mixing ethnographic material on the conduct of the World Tribunal on Iraq with analysis grounded in political theory and international law, Ayça Çubukçu's outstanding book offers thought-provoking arguments alongside first-hand reflections on the WTI's deliberations." * Stephen Hopgood, University of London *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Constituting Multitude: Founding a World Tribunal Chapter 2. Whose Tribunal? Chapter 3. Constituting Constitutions: The Fact of Iraqi Constitution, the Fatalism of Human Rights Intermezzo. Can the Network Speak? Chapter 4. "Humanity Must Be Defended" Afterword Appendices Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account of space's centrality to confronting state-endorsed violence, this volume draws upon ethnographic research gathered throughout the first half of the 2010s, the period of Turkey's quickly deteriorating global image.

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Book SynopsisPapyri nos 4803-4843. This volume adds to previously published early Christian texts four new papyri of the Gospel of John and also includes fragments of a lost play by Sophocles (Epigonoi), two prose works on Hellenistic historians and Hellenistic kings, a rhetorical exercise on speeches in Thucydides, and a lost novel with an Ionian setting.

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Book SynopsisThis book challenges and enriches existing knowledge about law, human rights, and childhood, in and beyond the Israel/Palestine context. It is indispensable for scholars and practitioners interested in human rights, international and comparative law, socio-legal studies, childhood studies, military and terrorism studies, and Israel/Palestine.Trade Review'Outstandingly original in its conceptual and methodological claims, this book exposes how international and national law collude with norms, myths, and narratives of globalized childhood to pathologize protest and promote the regulation, disciplining, and incarceration of Palestinians. Hedi Viterbo provides a key lesson for theorists and practitioners on how and why claims to and about childhood do particular legal and institutional work in the perpetuation of disempowerment.' Erica Burman, Professor of Education, University of Manchester'Hedi Viterbo presents a startlingly novel and deeply researched challenge to taken-for-granted distinctions between 'children' and 'adults.' By laying bare how each category can have deleterious consequences for Palestinians on both sides of this fetishized age divide or even be weaponized to further Israeli state violence, this book demands and directs a rethinking of juridical and human rights conceptions of child law as a protective shield for the young.' Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara'In this groundbreaking book, Hedi Viterbo offers a powerful account of the legal construction of childhood in Israel/Palestine. Drawing on a rich array of previously unexamined sources, and subjecting them to an imaginative interdisciplinary analysis, he sheds new and piercing light on the broader political significance of childhood policy and practice, calling into question many of the dominant assumptions underpinning academic debates both in and beyond Israel/Palestine.' Nicola Lacey, School Professor of Law, Gender, and Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science'In this monumental study, ... Viterbo uses Palestine ... as a place to make theory from, in order to understand how colonial and imperial methods of control, such as the construction of childhood, and with it the depoliticization of Palestinian resistance, are embedded into the racialized practices of liberal counterinsurgency. Viterbo's unique method ... is a rigorous reading of archives of the state (many revealed for the first time) against and through reports of human rights organizations and international bodies. ... Viterbo [lays bare] how the category of childhood is constructed through the mutual interests of the Israeli legal system and human rights organizations. This is a major contribution of the book, not only for the case of Palestine, but for understanding the mechanisms that create the co-dependence and mutuality between human rights organizations and states.' Yael Berda, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem'Hedi Viterbo's book ... is interdisciplinary in the deepest sense of the word. ... Viterbo's critique is anchored in rich and varied empirical research based on hundreds of previously unstudied documents. ... The book's central contribution, apart from problematizing ... children's rights, is ... its critique of the human rights discourse and international human rights law, which the Israeli authorities employ to depict certain practices as humanitarian when in fact they reinforce violence. ... This contribution extends beyond the Israeli/Palestinian context and is relevant to other Global South contexts.' Rawia Aburabia, Assistant Professor of Law, Sapir College'Hedi Viterbo's Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine is both a fascinating book and an outstanding scholarly accomplishment. In it, Viterbo deconstructs childhood, the law, court rulings, and the work of human rights organizations in order to expose how childhood has become a form of governmentality. ... Using Israel/Palestine as his case study, ... Viterbo [brings to light how] the law and human rights are profoundly implicated in the social production of childhood ... and how ... childhood is ... an instrument of management and control that can be used to repress the young people it claims to represent. ... Viterbo's arrows are not only directed against [Israeli authorities] ...; he also ... [exposes how] human rights organizations ... affirm in their reports the provisions [of] ... human rights conventions even when the children ... they 'represent' reject these provisions and tell the human rights defenders that they prefer not to be governed by them.' Neve Gordon, Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London'[The book] equally scrutinizes the state for its violence as well as the human rights community for its advocacy. ... In addition to offering a damning critique of hyper legality, [the book] ... also disrupts legal distinctions between children/adults, ... thus making radical claims among legal advocates and human rights communities, ... for whom these distinctions constitute a foundation of their critique, and more broadly, their world view.' Noura Erakat, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Rutgers University'Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine breaks important new ground in bringing legal scholars into the social constructionism debate on childhood, while at the same time exposing Israel's misuse of international law to justify and get away with children's rights abuses against Palestinians … [It] is a highly organized and coherent book which is meticulously footnoted and based on over a decade of research, much of it in the never looked at Israeli military courts. Hedi Viterbo makes law accessible and relevant to scholars of all disciplines … Many of the issues addressed in the book have international comparisons from modern history, such as armed conflict, young people's rights, and mistreatment of colonized people, racialized minorities and non-citizens.' Heidi Morrison, University of Wisconsin La Cross, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family'The book offers both breadth and depth of context and analysis, [and] it is highly original, insightful, and thought-provoking in its deconstruction and critique of law, rights, and childhood … Combining critiques on the international and local levels, it scrutinizes both universalist discourses of childhood, victimhood, and trauma, and localized ideologies of nationalism and nativism, with nuance and cultural richness. The various political uses of childhood by the privileged and the underprivileged are thoroughly fleshed out.' Smadar Ben-Natan, University of Washington, Law & Society Review'Hedi Viterbo's book … poses a challenge to dominant narratives about law, human rights, and childhood, not just in the context of Israel/Palestine but also well beyond that space. … The book is impressively interdisciplinary, … conceptually groundbreaking, … [and] incredibly important.' Aoife Daly, University College Cork Ireland, International Journal of Children's Rights'Hedi Viterbo's remarkable and innovative new book … makes readers think profoundly about some of the pillars of liberal thought, exposing their dark implications for Palestinians at the receiving end of Israel's … settler colonialism … The book unfolds through eight chapters covering a vast range of themes … [This] is an impressive book that must be reckoned with, not only by scholars, but also by activists and advocates … Viterbo's brilliant book offers a timely analysis.' Pietro Stefanini, University of Edinburgh, Critical Studies on Terrorism'Hedi Viterbo's book is … important, … provocative, … astute … and valuable … The book extends work in critical legal and human rights studies, settler colonial studies and child/youth studies that challenge the liberal turn to rights and the strategies of regimes that dominate through instrumentalizing liberal or progressive concepts.' Sunaina Maira, Children & Society'Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine offers a compelling and insightful account of the relationship between law, childhood, and state violence. Using Israel/Palestine as a case study, the book reveals the ways in which law and children's rights discourses operate as a means of domination … … The book's theoretical framework … is unique in that it combines an understanding of both law's indeterminacy, with insights into interdisciplinary studies on childhood … This analytical framework … provides strong grounds for challenging key pillars of child law, ones that are uncritically employed within the child's rights movement, in Israel/Palestine and beyond. … The empirical methodology that the book adopts is no less valuable … Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine … presents a compelling argument … [and] succeeds in provoking a wide range of difficult questions.' Lama Karamé, Palestine Yearbook of International Law'The book is highly original. Viterbo's analysis has the rare quality of both documenting … [previously unknown] realities … and providing eye opening and oftentimes surprising insights … His methodology is a hybrid of empirical, philosophical, and socio-legal approaches, and it is in and of itself an impressive achievement … Terms such as 'childhood' and 'children's rights,' as Viterbo persuasively argues, can be weaponised against children … Despite the focus on Israel/Palestine, this book also makes a unique and highly original contribution to the field of childhood studies in general, and especially to socio-legal studies … [This book] is an exceptional work of academic scholarship.' Zvi Triger, Child and Family Law QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Conceptual and theoretical foundations; 2. Casting the first stone: the Israeli legal system, its human rights critics, and their approaches to young Palestinians; 3. The age of governing: young age as a means of control; 4. Boundary governance: amending childhood and separating Palestinians; 5. Stolen childhood: voice, loss, and trauma in human rights reports; 6. Sights of violence: childhood in the visual battlefield; 7. Infantilization and militarism: soldiers as children, children as soldiers; 8. Unsettling children: Israeli law and settlers' childhood.

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length treatment of the history and political thought of Israel's Declaration of Independence and its drafting process - a momentous text and a pivotal moment in twentieth-century history. The authors examine the political and theoretical dilemmas faced by the founders of Israel as they prepared to declare independence.

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Book SynopsisReveals that Late Antique monasteries in Egypt and Palestine were actively engaged in regional societies, contradictory to the traditional understanding of monastic life as 'isolated'. Draws on the rich corpus of textual sources and archaeological remains and brings together scholars from across traditional disciplinary divides.

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Book SynopsisIt is easy to forget, given the oppositional dynamic between Iran and the United States of the last 50 years, that these two countries once shared productive partnership. Tracing US-Iran relations over two turbulent centuries, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet considers when and how this relationship went awry. With careful attention to social and cultural as well as diplomatic developments, Kashani-Sabet shows that the rift did not originate in flashpoints of crisis, like the 1953 coup or the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but was instead long in the making. Drawing from a wealth of English and Persian-language sources, many of which were previously unavailable or unacknowledged, this book considers the relationship from the vantage point of Iranian society and the experiences of an evolving Iran that strived to accommodate American and great power politics. Following these two nations through wars, decolonization, and revolution, Kashani-Sabet presents an invaluable history of a diplomatic rivalry thTrade Review'Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet analyses and historicises the broken bridges within the US-Iranian relationship. She weaves a story that is both personal and political, rich in detail and insight that is placed within a broader Middle Eastern scope. The book challenges stereotypes of Iran and Islam, moves away from simplistic explanations for the present, and holds governments and leaders on both sides accountable. She restores humanity in history and seeks common ground from which some mutual understanding can emerge.' Rowena Abdul Razak, London School of Economics'A fascinating account of a vital relationship. Kashani-Sabet's penetrating and balanced analysis of the US-Iran relationship over the last two centuries illuminates and contextualises a relationship which is far more complex, nuanced and interesting than the current political mythology would have us believe.' Ali Ansari, University of St Andrews'Based on meticulous research, this book is a panoramic, authoritative, and richly detailed account of the U.S.-Iran relationship over the past two centuries. It pays careful attention to the changing cultural, societal, and political conditions that shaped each side's narratives of its own, and the other's, stance and interests at every stage in the course of this fraught relationship.' Ali Banuazizi, Boston College'This is a brilliant account of a surprisingly neglected topic: the history of Iran's long and troubled relationship with the USA. A work of original and scrupulous scholarship, it will certainly become a classic in the field while its elegant writing style makes it accessible to the general reader as well as the specialist.' Stephanie Cronin, University of Oxford'This is a fascinating, deeply-researched cultural history of American-Iranian relations. Based on an impressive range of sources, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet skillfully traces cultural encounters and mutual perceptions and provides a profound insight into the last two hundred years of Iran's history.' Bianca Devos, Philipps University Marburg'The roots of U.S.-Iranian relations go back further than the hostage crisis of 1979–1981. They go back farther than the U.S.-led coup of 1953. Professor Kashani-Sabet, an eminent historian of Iran, traces U.S.-Iranian relations - governmental and non-governmental - back to the nineteenth century, including longstanding cultural exchanges that offer a path beyond current hostilities.' Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill'The Iranian revolution of 1979 with its iconic anti-American slogans and the subsequent hostage crisis inaugurated a period of hostility between Iran and the US that has occluded a history of engagement and cooperation between the two nations dating back to the nineteenth Century. This book is an invaluable reminder of that rich history.' Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine'This book brings Iran to the centre stage of world politics, explaining how Western economic and military power was built on a predatory relation to Iran's national body, geography, and resources, and how, in spite of it, Iran protected its independent agency. An authentic global history of Iran-US relations.' Paola Rivetti, Dublin City UniversityTable of ContentsPreface; A note on transliteration; Introduction; Part I. Uncertain Overtures (1796-1914): 1. Pluralist Persia: a land of many religions; 2. The portals of Persepolis: Persian antiquity and American curiosity; 3. A martyr and many masters: America and Iranian constitutionalism; Part II. Desultory Mordernities (1914-1941): 4. Iran in transition: war, famine, and recovery, 1914-1925; 5. Flirting with secular modernity: America and social change in Iran, 1925-1939; 6. Investing in Iran: frontiers and foreign competition, 1925-1939; Part III. Cataclysms (1941-1963): 7. Unwelcome visitors: the occupation of Iran during World War II; 8. Subverting sovereignty: the politics of oil; 9. Roots of revenge: cultural flux and specters of violence; Part IV. A Troubled Middle East (1960-1979): 10. The anti-Aryan moment: decolonization, race, and human rights; 11. A political minefield: Iran between Israel and pan-Arabism; 12. The Shah's fight for hegemony: from the Persian Gulf to the Vietnam war; Part V. The Schism (1978-1988): 13. The picketers come of age: from civil disobedience to armed protest; 14. Burning bridges: revolution and the rift in US-Iranian relations; 15. Neither heroes nor hostages.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines Egypt's turbulent and contradictory political period (2011-2015) as key to understanding contemporary politics in the country and the developments in the Arab region after the mass protests in 2010/11, more broadly. In doing so, it breaks new ground in the study of political representation, providing analytical innovation to the study of disenchantment with politics, democracy fatigue and social cohesion. Based on five years of intense fieldwork, the author provides rare insights into local and national ideas on politics, justice and identity, and on how people situate themselves and Egypt in the regional and global context. It analyzes how the creation of an alternate, political system was discussed and negotiated among the Egyptian population, the military, the government, public figures, the media, and international actors, and yet nevertheless today, Egypt has a new political regime that is the most repressive in the countries' modern history. Finally, Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Democratization and Authoritarianism Outside Formal Government Structures: Political Representation in the Making 2. Conducting Fieldwork in a Revolutionary Context: Political Representations and the Shifting Research Facets 3. International Thugs, Revolutionary Youth, and Remnants of the Old Regime—Emerging Political Actors and the Formation of Collective Identities 4. Streets Versus Elections: Formalizing a Revolution? 5. Visions for the State: Striving for National Unity and a New Political Representative System 6. Negotiating Legitimacy: Free Elections Versus Street Politics 7. The Realization of a Negative State Vision: Street Voting, Terrorism, and the Rehabilitation of a Repressive Regime. Conclusions: Analytical Innovation Through Post-Revolutionary Egypt

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a holistic view of the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbours and studies the global implications of their fraught relations. Focusing on the conflict from its beginning in the late 19th century, the author provides a well-rounded and balanced narrative by examining its religious, ideological, ethnic, political, national, regional and international dimensions. The volume covers a wide range of issues, such as the conflicting historical legacy of the city of Jerusalem, Jewish longing for a homeland, the partition of Palestine, various wars and conflicts since 1948, Palestinian resistance, the Arab Boycott of Israel and the Abraham Accords. It also tackles the contested national claims and the refugee question and looks at various peace-making efforts, including the role of external stakeholders such as the US, UK, Russia and India.A comprehensive study of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the book is richly supported by a swath of references to materials, Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Approaches and Problems 3 Dimensions of the Conflict4 Jewish National Home 5 Balfour Declaration 6 Mandate Palestine7 Partition of Palestine 8 War of 1948 9 Suez Crisis of 1956 10 June 1967 War 11 UNSC Resolution 242 12 October War of 197313 The Palestinian Resistance 14 Arab Boycott of Israel 15 Non-conventional Challenges 16 Madrid Conference of 1991 17 The Oslo Process 18 Changing Palestinian Strategies 19 Occupied Territories 20 Jerusalem 21 The Refugee Problem 22 Other Contentious Issues 23 Peace-Making Efforts 24 Role of External Players 25 India and Arab-Israeli Conflict 26 Resolving the Arab-Israeli Conflict Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores human migration, communication, and cross-cultural exchange on the Silk Road, a complex network of trade routes spanning the Eurasian continent and beyond. It covers thousands of years of human history, from the 3rd millennium BCE to the early 2nd millennium CE.Consolidating archaeological discoveries, historical analyses, and linguistic studies in one comprehensive volume, The World of the Ancient Silk Road brings to light diverse perspectives from scholars who have lived and worked across this vast region, many of which are published here in English for the first time. It contains extensive references of primary and secondary sources in their original languages and scripts. From Early Bronze Age cultures to the rise of regional Islamic empires, from the Mediterranean to the Yellow River basin, this multidisciplinary volume seeks to offer new insights and expand Silk Road studies to the Anglophone world.The World of the Ancient Silk Road pr

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Book SynopsisBased on research in Arabic and English, this book analyzes US-Arab conflicts over modernization. Challenging assumptions about a 'clash of civilizations', it shows how Americans and Arabs including nationalists, Islamists, and communists debated the Arab future within a shared set of Cold War-era ideas about progress.Trade Review'Envisioning the Arab Future is noteworthy both in the variety of case studies examined and in the range of sources utilized. It repeatedly demonstrates the degree to which Arabs and Americans often spoke a common language and had a shared vision of 'modernization', and how specific modernizing policies and initiatives were mutually constituted out of Arab-American dialogue. This is a valuable addition to our understanding of the Arab-American relationship in the post-World War II decades.' James Jankowski, University of Colorado Boulder'Envisioning the Arab Future traces a key source for the social scientists who pioneered the study of 'modernization' in the post-1945 Arab world and beyond, as well as for those who would retell that history now, namely Arab thinkers and politicians themselves. Muslim Brothers, Communists, Baathists, and others all had influential ideas about development. Vivid writing, new findings, thoughtful criticism, and a bold turn in argument: Citino does it all.' Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania'… brings a host of often unfamiliar Arab voices to a Western audience and contains striking, novel insights on nearly every page.' Salim Yaqub, International Journal of Middle East StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. The 'history of the future'; 1. The age of speed; 2. Imperial legacies; 3. City of the future; 4. Yeoman farmers; 5. People's court; 6. New men; 7. Changing course; Conclusion. A better future; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisRussia's conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion. Alexander Morrison provides a definitive diplomatic and military history, explaining how and why a vast region of steppe, desert, mountain and oasis, mainly populated by Muslims, came under Russian rule.Trade Review'In a masterful work of history and historiography, Morrison demolishes the 'Great Game' story of Russia's expansion, so entrenched in English language scholarship. His long-duree account of Russia's Central Asia conquests offers compelling narrative, deep dives into camels and weapons, and comparisons of battles and encounters from the pens of Central Asian participants and observers as well as the far more abundant Russian accounts.' Marianne Kamp, Indiana University'This wonderfully intelligent, original and well-written book is based on years of meticulous research conducted in many languages in archives across Eurasia, some of them previously almost inaccessible to foreign historians. Not only does it offer unique insights into the thinking of Russian policy-makers, it also adds crucially to our understanding of nineteenth-century European imperialism. This work should transform the Anglophone world's understanding of the 'Great Game'.' Dominic Lieven, University of Cambridge'The Russian Conquest of Central Asia is a major work. Based on the supreme command of a large body of material, scattered across a dozen archives between present-day Russia, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and Kazakhstan, Morrison's book is destined to have a deep and long-term impact on the field of Russian imperial history, the comparative history of colonialism in Asia, and Central Asian history.' Paolo Sartori, Austrian Academy of Sciences'Alexander Morrison's The Russian Conquest of Central Asia provides a detailed and comprehensive account of how and why the Russians came to conquer this vast territory in the century between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and 1914.' Daniel Beer, Times Literary Supplement'The book delivers a comprehensive and much-needed analysis of the conquest of Central Asia and its place in the history of nineteenth-century global expansions.' Malika Zekhni, War in History Book Reviews'The book should become the standard work on the subject and take a prominent place in the literature on Russian imperial and military history.' Andrew Monaghan, RUSI Journal'Alexander Morrison has exploded the myth of the great game in his seminal study largely because of his long term research in archives in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and India. In addition, he comprehensively works through the myriad of published memoirs, official published sources, and a broad range of secondary works which taken together has resulted in a meticulously researched study of the long campaign the Russians undertook to conquer and colonise Central Asia in the 19th century.' John W. Steinberg, War and Society'Recommended.' M. Chakars, Choice Connect'[Morrison] is to be highly commended for this work of scholarship, which is essential reading not only for those with a serious interest in Central Asia, but also for those inclined to offer their commentary, expert or otherwise, on Russian foreign policy today.' Sophie Ibbotson, Asian Affairs'No one who seriously wants to concern themselves with the history of relations between Russia and Central Asia will be able to do without this standard work.' Beate Eschment, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas'In his splendid new history, The Russian Conquest of Central Asia, Alexander Morrison firmly rebuts the notion of the Great Game - that tsarist imperial expansion into the region was driven by a desire to expel Albion from South Asia. Indeed, if most previous books about the topic tended to ascribe the conquest to a single motive, Morrison wisely avoids a monocausal explanation … Taking full advantage of freer access in the post-Soviet era, Morrison spent ten years in nearly a dozen archives throughout the former Russian Empire, as well as collections in London, Amsterdam, and Delhi. Together with a bibliography of well over 1,000 published primary and secondary sources, The Russian Conquest of Central Asia is by far the most thoroughly documented study in any language.' David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History'Morrison's work reveals the momentous hubris of a great power that not only was able but also felt entitled by its own military strength to conquer, subjugate and rule over others.' Moritz Florin, Historische Zeitschrift'In this magisterial and much-anticipated book, Alexander Morrison aims to create a new narrative of the tsarist conquest of Central Asia, to escape the shackles of the extant historiography by dint of deep empirical research. Eschewing overarching explanations in favour of a series of microhistories in which the particularities of environment and personality come to the fore, he succeeds admirably in his task.' Ian Campbell, Ab Imperio'a superbly well-done military history … This study will be the definitive source on the conquest for at least another generation.' Shoshana Keller, Russian ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Russia's steppe frontier and the Napoleonic generation; 2. 'Pray for the camels': the winter invasion of Khiva, 1839–1841; 3. 'This particularly painful place': the failure of the Syr-Darya line as a frontier, 1841–1863; 4. From Ayaguz to Almaty: the conquest and settlement of Semirechie, 1843–1882; 5. The search for a 'natural' frontier and the fall of Tashkent, 1863–1865; 6. War with Bukhara, 1866–1868; 7. The fall of Khiva, 1872–1873; 8. 'Those who should be spared': the conquest of Ferghana, 1875–1876; 9. 'The harder you hit them, the longer they will be quiet afterwards': the conquest of Transcaspia, 1869–1885; 10. Aryanism on the final frontier of the Russian empire: the exploration and annexation of the Pamirs, 1881–1905; Epilogue: after the conquest.

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