Media and Politics in Kurdistan studies the media system in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). It offers understanding on the internal dynamics of the KRI polity by focusing on the interdependence between the Kurdish political parties and the media.
The Middle East and its people have a long, complex historyawhat better key to unlock their mysteries than BarCharts' newest 6 page study guide? Inside you'll find important facts and definitions, as well as up-to-date timelines covering every key event that has occurred within the region. Whether you're a student or a Middle East scholar, there's ......
Few world regions today are of more pressing social and political interest than the Middle East: hardly a day has passed in the last decade without events there making global news. Understanding the region has never been more important, yet the field of Middle East studies in the United States is in flux, enmeshed in ongoing controversies about ......
International migration, the flow of people across international boundaries, has been studied from several perspectives, especially since the Syrian civil war in 2011. Migration, Identity and Politics in Turkey from the Ottoman Empire to Today aims to explore the motivation of migration, the social integration or disintegration, the migration ......
The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. In this colorful documentary from the ......
A scholarly edition of a classic textbook on logic Najm al-Din al-Katibi's al-Risalah al-Shamsiyyah is a scholarly edition and translation of The Rules of Logic, with commentary and notes. Composed by Najm al-Din al-Katibi, a scholar of the Shafi?i school of law, al-Risalah al-Shamsiyyah is the most widely read introduction to logic in the ......
This book analyzes the nation building process in Turkey from a socio-historical perspective. Authors compare the nation-building process in the Republic period with the pro-Islamists of the JDP period.
In this edited volume, the contributors show how global insecurities resulting from neoliberalism and globalism have left the entire society insecure in Turkey. They focus on resistance and resilience strategies of vulnerable groups from a variety of perspectives, including environmental groups, social classes, social media, and gender.
In this ground-breaking new volume, Valerie Marcel draws on unprecedented access to the politicians, engineers and businessmen directing five Middle Eastern state oil companies to shed light on one of the most secretive segments of the international oil industry.
