Books in the Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law series

This book's concept concerns the positive correlation between literacy and women's development and empowerment in developing countries.

A different perspective on the migration of this group, based on fieldwork rather than remote analysis, and with a social, political and historical viewpoint.

This study examines the process of national identity formation. It argues that national discourse are systems of meanings in which identities develop via difference.

Presenting a narrative of the Turco-Greek Exchange of Populations as a historic event, this book contributes to the general literature on the Exchange. By adopting a people-centred approach to the Lausanne Treaty and its consequences, the book offers a critique of official versions of the story and encourages people to consider policy decisions.

Attempt to study Turkey's national and secular identity in light of the challenges posed by Kurdish nationalism and political Islam. The underlying premise of this work is that Kurdish nationalism and political Islam represent existential threats to Turkey's Kemalist military and political establishment.

In light of the relationship between global modernity and the religion of Islam in contemporary Iran, this text analyses to what extent these positions and their understanding of questions of epistemology, methodology and hermeneutics are engendered by the cognitive and ontological structures of modernity.

This study explores the relationship between migration and political 'development'. It asks the question 'How are migration movements and the expatriate communities they create connected to the possibility of an enhanced political voice?'

This dissertation based on twenty five months of anthropological fieldwork, examines activists and activism in Palestine non-governmental organizations in Israel.

Kurdistan exists as a cultural and political concept on many levels of discourse. Despite its divisions, lack of definition and the absence of a unified struggle for a Kurdish state, the concept survives as a mixture of myths, reality and ambition. This thesis analyses the factors which have shaped Kurdish conceptions of identity.

This Foucault-inspired analysis of the degeneration of the Oslo Process into direct Palestinian-Israeli violence critically examines the ideas and practices that define Palestinian-Israeli relations. The text offers a radically different peace proposal that moves far beyond exhausted calls for confidence-building measures and/or an end to settlement construction.

Explores the relationships between Palestine and the Gulf since the 1930s. This book demonstrates how the regional Gulf politics may long continue to be impacted by the abiding non-resolution of the Palestinian problem.

The story behind the Arabi Revolt of 1882. Berdine presents a compelling insight into some of the reasons behind the on-going turmoil in the Middle East and Naorth Africa and the anti-Western sentiment of some of the populace.

Questioning the lack of women in formal political arenas, the book examines the powerful educational and political effects of women's participation in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Israel.