Dispossession and forced migration in the Middle East remain even today significant elements of contemporary life in the region. Dawn Chatty s book traces the history of those who, as a reconstructed Middle East emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century, found themselves cut off from their homelands, refugees in a new world, with borders created out of the ashes of war and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. As an anthropologist, the author is particularly sensitive to individual experience and how these experiences have impacted on society as a whole from the political, social, and...
Dispossession and forced migration in the Middle East remain even today significant elements of contemporary life in the region. Dawn Chatty s book tr...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Palestine through an examination of political history, contemporary politics, economics and engagement in international relations. Focussing on Palestine through the lens of nation-statehood, this book documents the unrealised quest for sovereignty and independence, fragmentation of the nation across multiple borders, the related prominence of a large and diverse diaspora, and the physical and political division of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It examines the limitations besetting Palestinian economic development and goes on to analyse...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Palestine through an examination of political history, contemporary politics, economics and engagement ...
The first edition of "Tunisia "was released just nine months before the eruption of the Arab Spring. The most substantial period of political unrest felt by the Arab world in a half century originated in Tunisia, a fact that confounded expectations about Tunisian politics. This new edition builds upon the first edition s overview of Tunisia s political and economic development to examine how one of the region s hardiest authoritarian orders was toppled by a loosely organised protest wave.
Providing the most up-to-date introduction to Tunisia s post-independence and post-Arab Spring...
The first edition of "Tunisia "was released just nine months before the eruption of the Arab Spring. The most substantial period of political unres...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Palestine through an examination of political history, contemporary politics, economics and engagement in international relations. Focussing on Palestine through the lens of nation-statehood, this book documents the unrealised quest for sovereignty and independence, fragmentation of the nation across multiple borders, the related prominence of a large and diverse diaspora, and the physical and political division of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It examines the limitations besetting Palestinian economic development and goes on to analyse...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Palestine through an examination of political history, contemporary politics, economics and engagement ...
