In the 1890s, conflict erupted on the Ottoman island of Crete. At the heart of the Crete Question, as it came to be know......more

In the 1890s, conflict erupted on the Ottoman island of Crete. At the heart of the Crete Question, as it came to be know......more

This is a fascinating collection of essays about Israeli society and its institutions. It is written by practitioners wh......more

In 1991, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Jordan, the American Center of Research (then known as the American ......more

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What Ottoman Constantinople takes for granted, frowns upon, laments, and lampoons in terms of gender is often so unexpec......more

What Ottoman Constantinople takes for granted, frowns upon, laments, and lampoons in terms of gender is often so unexpec......more

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing......more

Arguments over the relationship between Canaanite and Israelite religion often derive from fundamental differences in pr......more

The Iran National Front and the Struggle for Democracy: 1949-Present explores the activities of the Iran National Front ......more

In this refreshing exploration of Judah’s identity formation, the emphasis is placed on the psychological underpinnings ......more

In Mission Manifest, Matthew Shannon argues that American evangelicals were central to American-Iranian relations during......more

This study of the surrender to Babylon uses an interdisciplinary approach that includes historical-critical, linguistic,......more

Ahmedi’s History of the Kings of the Ottoman Lineage and Their Holy Raid(s) against the Infidels is the foundation text ......more

"In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to pr......more

"In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to pr......more

’An outstanding intellectual biography.’ Eugene Rogan In 1813, high in the Lebanese mountains, a thirteen-year-old boy w......more

The political events that took place during Lord Wavells Viceroyalty in India set the stage for all that transpired duri......more

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly irreconcila......more

Scholarship on Ottoman Yemen in the 19th and early 20th centuries is still in the beginning stages, and there are no mod......more

This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources. As a center of th......more

The true story of a father and son who enlist in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard after the horrors of 9/11 shake th......more

Author Elon Perry uniquely combines the narrative of a challenging childhood amidst wartime struggles with the gripping ......more

This volume revisits the "long 19th century" in the Middle East from the perspective of emerging subjectivity as a funda......more

From the author of ’How to Survive in Ancient Egypt’, explore how tourism shaped Egypt all the way from the Ancient Egyp......more

A rich, discovery-filled history that tells how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world In the late 8th and ear......more

Public and government attitudes to the role of the public sector in Egyptian cinema In 1957 the public sector in Egyptia......more

An ethnographic study of the contemporary meanings, forms, and purposes of friendship among young Egyptians There is a g......more

A study of how the city of Port Said was created, and its spaces mutually produced and transformed through the practices......more

Days before his country signed a deal to normalize ties with Israel, the Emirati Ambassador to the US penned an article ......more

First published in 1942, Palestine is a brief history of Zionism, interspersed with a wealth of observation stimulation ......more

The Book of Roger is a twelfth-century Arabic geographical treatise commissioned by King Roger II of Sicily and compiled......more

Turkish Politics and ’The People’ enhances our understanding of ’the popular’ in the study of politics through a critica......more

This edited collection brings together discussions of literary works from Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, ......more

This book tells the history of Herat, from its desolation under Chingiz Khan in 1222, to its capitulation to Tamerlane i......more

The dramatic encounter between Muhammad ’Ali Pasha, Ottoman governor of Egypt, and his vanquished Saudi foe, Imam ’Abd A......more

"The struggle over Israel/Palestine is not just another contest by competing nationalisms or an instance of geopolitical......more

Oman’s 1970 coup launched a new political and economic structure that was created by and for Sultan Qaboos. The initiall......more

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This book offers readers an overview of major themes driving the proliferation of armed non-state actor groups operating......more

Reel Gender is a groundbreaking collection that addresses the collective realities and the filmic representations of Pal......more

Over the past few decades, whilst evading severe governmental restrictions in Iran, the Iranian Evangelical diaspora has......more

The utilization of air power by the Communist regime in Russia during the revolutionary period and civil war to control ......more

Although the broad outline of the history of Iran in the eighteenth century is known, it still is one of the most "unkno......more

A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab......more

An ambitious revisionist history of the modern Middle East What Really Went Wrong offers a fresh and incisive assessment......more

In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the K......more

In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends began to meet at the bar of the K......more

The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East. An Indigenous people from the Mesopotamian plains and ......more

Between 1965 and 1975, Britain discreetly supported the Sultanate of Oman in achieving a historic Cold War-era counterin......more

As the Commander of U.S. Central Command, General Frank McKenzie oversaw some of the most important -- and controversial......more

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNS......more

America’s Arab Nationalists focuses in on the relationship between Arab nationalists and Americans in the struggle for i......more

This book provides analytical study of the colonial literature of Baghdad in relation to its historiography. The history......more

This book analyses the civil war in Yemen and how intervening external actors have shaped the trajectory of the conflict......more

This book provides a comparative historical study of the rise and evolution of anti-colonial movements in South Africa a......more

This book investigates the history of Arabian sūqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence......more

This book explains the dynamics and nature of Iraqi Kurdistan’s de facto statehood since its inception in 1991, in parti......more

This book considers how international law constitutes Arab lives as dispensible....more

Since 2011, the conflict in Syria has been one of the most catastrophic conflicts of our time and a dark stain on the pe......more

This book examines material and multi-sensorial expressions of Shiʿi Islam in diverse, and understudied demographic and ......more

Following the horrific attack on October 7, support for a devastating military retaliation and resolution has taken cent......more

For a brief moment in the history of Acre, there was a Hebrew community that linked old and new settlements. It had a na......more

Following the horrific attack on October 7, support for a devastating military retaliation and resolution has taken cent......more

This unprecedented ethnographic study introduces a unique photography-based storytelling method that brings together eve......more

During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethni......more

During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethni......more

This book examines the cultural heritage of Inner Eurasia (Central Asia) through the arts, from prehistoric times to the......more

Conspicuously missing from narratives of the Lebanese Civil War are the stories of women who took part in daily social a......more

Conspicuously missing from narratives of the Lebanese Civil War are the stories of women who took part in daily social a......more

As Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City, in Qatar and elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula, nearly nine out ......more

The title "Queen of the Arabs" is applied in Neo-Assyrian texts to five women from the Arabian Peninsula. These women le......more

What does local self-government look like in the absence of sovereignty? From the beginning of its occupation of the Wes......more