The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism brings together new scholarship to challenge perceived paradigms, often dominated by orientalist, modernist or developmentalist assumptions on the Naqab Bedouin. The past decade has witnessed a change in both the wider knowledge production on, and political profile of, the Naqab Bedouin. This book addresses this change by firstly, endeavouring to overcome the historic isolation of Naqab Bedouin studies from the rest of Palestine studies by situating, studying and analyzing their predicaments firmly within the contemporary context of Israeli settler-colonial...

There is a wealth of Methodist history to be found in Birmingham and the Black Country . . . The West Midlands Branch of the Wesley Historical Society was inaugurated on Saturday, 27th March 1965, in a meeting held at Handsworth Methodist Ministerial Training College, Birmingham. One aim of the branch is to bring together people who are interested in Methodist history in the region. Another is to encourage individuals to research local Methodist history and to publish articles, or give lectures. This book celebrates the past fifty years of local Methodist history, bringing together memories...