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Series: Adelphi series
As an upbeat and peaceful uprising quickly and brutally descended into a zero-sum civil war, Syria has crumbled from a regional player into an arena in which a multitude of local and foreign actors compete. The volatile regional fault lines that run through Syria have ruptured during this conflict,...
Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social Welfare in Asia
Countries across the Middle East face a number of social problems such as poverty, unemployment, housing, internal immigration and caring for vulnerable groups such as children, women, the disabled and the elderly. Providing an overview of the wide range of social issues addressed by social work...
Published May 21st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from, engage with, and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic forms that do not bear allegiance to a single nation in terms of conceptualization, content, finance...
Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals
The Elusive Peace, first published in 1979, highlights the crucial developments in the Middle East during the twentieth century: the coming of nationalism, the struggle for independence, the effects of the Cold War and the four ‘hot wars’ in the Middle East. The numerous attempts to solve the...
Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Tracing the evolution of the Israeli academic debate over history, politics, and collective identity, Understanding the Middle East Peace Process examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and follows the discursive struggle over Israeli collective identity. Based on interviews with key...
Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Politics of Islam
The recent resurgence of Islam in the Middle East is a far more complex phenomenon than is often suggested by those analyses which reduce recent developments in the area to no more than an intensification of religiosity. Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East challenges that perception of the...
Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
This book makes the case for looking afresh at Turkey-EU relations in order to appreciate the richness and complexity of a relationship which is now more than 50 years old and is still not close to reaching fulfilment. The contributors challenge conventional attempts to understand Turkey-EU...
Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law
This fascinating account highlights the extent the world's major powers will go to as they seek to insure their own interests and agendas, despite the wishes of those whose countries they invade and occupy. The Accidental Tourist profiles Wilfrid Scawen Blunt's involvement in the so-called Arabi...
Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law
Legislation Authority addresses issues of law, state violence, and state authority within the Ottoman and Turkish context....
Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
The discovery of the pulmonary transit of blood was a ground-breaking discovery in the history of the life sciences, and a prerequisite for William Harvey’s fully developed theory of blood circulation three centuries later. This book is the first attempt at understanding Ibn al-Nafis’s anatomical...
Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
