This book looks at the structural, economic and political reasons why the current media system fails urban educated young professionals in Turkey and led them to a month long resistance and protest through the use of social media during OccupyGezi movement.
Achieving Transitional Justice in a Postconflict Society
This book examines the patterns of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Syria since 2011. The contributors also discuss the possibilities of achieving accountability through the international system and the linkages between the transition and the new justice system that should emerge in Syria.
A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years
Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century Egypt A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Written by the polymath and physician 'Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, and intended for the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir, ......
Features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. This book includes tales of epic warriors, buried treasures, disappearing brides, cannibal demon women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and more.
Like its more famous sibling, the Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the frame story of Shahrazad, the gifted vizier's daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. It is distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition.
Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abu Nuwas was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style and was a larger-than-life figure even among his contemporaries in Abbasid Baghdad. In A Demon Spirit, acclaimed translator and scholar James E. Montgomery renders this ......
A Critical Evaluation of "Territorial Separation" as a Method of Addressing Ethnic Conflicts addresses the question of how to address ethnic conflicts in Kirkuk as a diverse multi-ethnic city. It analyzes territorial separation as a new untested method to address ethnic conflicts in Kirkuk.