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Documenting the Armenian Genocide Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam
This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first...
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The Reception of Ancient Egypt in Venice, 1400-1800 Travelers, Adventurers, and Collectors
This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources. As a center of the printing industry, Venice...
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We had the Watches. They had the Time A Witness Account of the War in Afghanistan
This book focuses on the war in Afghanistan. In 2010 and 2011, the author took a leave from her faculty position at the University of California,...
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The Israeli–Palestinian Peace Process A Personal Insider's Account
This book describes the evolution of the Israeli-Palestinian peace-seeking process from 1967 to the present. Written from the perspective of Israel’s...
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Visualizing History’s Fragments A Computational Approach to Humanistic Research
This book combines a methodological guide with an extended case study to show how digital research methods can be used to explore how ethnicity,...
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Britain and the Dhofar War in Oman, 1963–1976 A Covert War in Arabia
This book explores Britain’s involvement in the Dhofar War of 1963-1976, focusing on the military aspects of this conflict in Southern Oman. It...
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Israel/Palestine in World Religions Whose Promised Land?
The struggle over Israel/Palestine is not just another contest by competing nationalisms or an instance of geopolitical competition. It is also about...
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Tradition and Science of Persian Ink Making Ingredients and Recipes
Drawing on over a decade of meticulous research, this comprehensive book unveils the intricacies of traditional Persian ink making by examining the...
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Mevlevi Manuscripts, 1268–c. 1400 A Study of the Sources
This book provides a detailed and carefully researched catalogue of over 140 manuscripts related to the Mevlevi Sufis in their formative period...
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Women and the Politics of Resistance in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
Most scholarship on the nineteenth and early twentieth century Constitutional Revolution in Iran has focused on the role of two groups, intellectuals...
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The Eastern Question in 1870s Britain Democracy and Diplomacy, Orientalism and Empire
This book examines mid-Victorian discourse on the expansion of the British Empire’s role in the Middle East. It investigates how British political...
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Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530–1699 The Imagined Empire
This book is a study of the representation of the Persian empire in English drama across the early modern period, from the 1530s to the 1690s. The...
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Connecting the Holocaust and the Nakba Through Photograph-based Storytelling Willing the Impossible
This unprecedented ethnographic study introduces a unique photography-based storytelling method that brings together everyday Palestinians and...
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A Social View of Socotra Island People, Culture, Heritage
This book focuses on Socotra Island, geographically based in Yemen, and aims to explore the island from the social sciences point of view. This book...
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The Clash of Empires and the Rise of Kurdish Proto-Nationalism, 1905–1926 Ismail Agha Simko and the Campaign for an Independent Kurdish State
This book focuses on the rise of Kurdish nationalism in northwestern Iran in the context of the emergence of the Kurdish leader, Ismail Agha Simko,...
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US Foreign Service Women in the Middle East and Islamic North Africa, 1945–2001
Focusing on the attitudes and experiences of American female diplomats and spouses, this book examines the social, political, and cultural dimensions...
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The Italian State and International Terrorism, 1969–1986 The Lodo Moro
This book sheds light on the so-called ‘Moro Doctrine’, an Italian state security policy which has been portrayed in literature as an...
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Education, Civics, and Citizenship in Egypt Towards More Inclusive Curricular Representations and Teaching
This book explores how to render curricular representations more inclusive and how individuals’ interactions with competing historical narratives and...
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Histories of Nationalism beyond Europe Myths, Elitism and Transnational Connections
This edited collection explores varying shapes of nationalism in different regional and historical settings in order to analyse the important role...
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Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition in the Arab Gulf
This book is the first in English to survey indigenous knowledge of seasonal, astronomical, and agricultural information in Arab Gulf almanacs. It...
