M I D D L E E A S T S T U D I E S - Middle Eastern Politics & History
States of Exception or Exceptional States
The Fourth Geneva Convention for Civilians
Edited by Simon Mabon, University of Lancaster, UK, Sana Al Sarghali, An-Najah UniversityNablus, Palestine & Adel Ruished
Gilad Ben-Nun, University of Leipzig, Germany
Law, Politics and Giorgio Agamben in the Middle East
This book uses a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the application of the work of the philosopher Giorgio Agamben to the post-Arab Uprisings in the Middle East, considering the evolution of regime-society relations that ultimately erupted in violence in the early months of 2011. Agamben’s ideas of the state of exception and bare life provide important intellectual tools to understand the nature of sovereignty and the regulation of life, which has largely been missing in the study of the region. UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 240 pages HB 9780755626427 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9780755626441 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
The Fourth Geneva Convention, signed in 1949, defines necessary humanitarian protections for civilians during armed conflict and occupation. How did the world draft and legislate this landmark in humanitarian international law? This book draws on archival research across seven countries to bring together the Cold War interventions, founding motives and global idealisms that shaped its conception. Gilad Ben-Nun also looks at how the convention has been applied or circumvented in different cases including: the 2009 Gaza War; the war crimes tribunal in the former Yugoslavia; Nicaragua vs. the United States; and the conflict in Syria. UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 288 pages • 29 bw illus PB 9780755646203 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781838604301 ePub 9781838604325 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781838604318 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
Stability and the Lebanese State in the 20th Century
Italy and the Middle East
Tarek Abou Jaoude, Independent Scholar
Edited by Paolo Soave, University of Bologna, Italy & Luciano Monzali, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
Building Political Legitimacy
In this book Tarek Abou Jaoude looks at the relation between legitimacy and stability in Lebanon throughout the 20th century, explaining statebuilding failures through a focus on the role that political legitimacy plays in forming states. Based on primary sources including national archives and collections, institutional documents, personal memoirs, newspapers and journals, this book provides a rich survey on the development and functioning of Lebanese political institutions. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages HB 9780755644148 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755644162 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755644155 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
Geopolitics, Dialogue and Power during the Cold War
Italy played a vital role in the Cold War dynamics that shaped the Middle East in the latter part of the 20th century. Italy and the Middle East brings together a range of experts on Italian international relations to analyse, for the first time in English, the country’s foreign policy and diplomatic relationships during this defining period. Chapters cover a range of defining twentieth century events - from the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Lebanese Civil War to the Iranian Revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 328 pages PB 9780755636594 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781838606930 ePub 9781838606954 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781838606961 • £81.00 / $106.83 I.B. Tauris
History of the Arab Invasions: The Conquest of the Lands
Arab Intellectuals and American Power
Ahmad b. Yahya al-Baladhuri
M.D. Walhout, Seattle Pacific University
A New Translation of al-Baladhuri's Futuh al-Buldan Edited by Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, University of London, UK
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The History of International Humanitarian Law
Edward Said, Charles Malik, and the US in the Middle East
Translated by Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, University of London, UK
How did Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, arrive at his famous maxim to ‘speak truth to power’?
An important source of information for the history of government, landholding, and the economy of the early Islamic world, this new translation of Al-Baladhuri's Futuh al-buldan (Conquests of the Countries) is fully annotated with a scholarly apparatus and commentary on the places, events and individuals mentioned, will be essential reading for scholars and students of Islamic Studies and Middle East history.
This dual biographical study examines the lives of Said and the eminent Lebanese philosopher and diplomat Charles Malik, a relative 30 years his senior whom Said was influenced by. Exploring issues of religion, nationalism, and the effect of the US involvement in the Middle East had on Arab intellectuals, M. D. Walhout shows how Said came to reject much of what Malik stood for: Christian faith, hardline anti-Communism and the benign nature of American power.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 544 pages HB 9781788314190 • £120.00 / $160.00 ePub 9780755637423 • £108.00 / $142.01 ePdf 9780755637416 • £108.00 / $142.01 I.B. Tauris
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 304 pages PB 9780755639229 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9780755634149 ePub 9780755634163 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755634156 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
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