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Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean World
Edited by Andrew Peacock, University of St Andrews, UK
This book brings together a collection of internationally renowned scholars from a variety of disciplines – including archaeology, history, literature, linguistics, art history – to examine Iran’s political and commercial relations with the Indian Ocean world in history, Persian-speaking communities in the Indian Ocean world, Persian(ate) elements in Indian Ocean languages and literatures, Persian texts dealing with the Indian Ocean, and connections in material culture
UK January 2025 US January 2025 376 pages
HB 9780755656028 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755656035 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755656042 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies • I B Tauris
Labour History and the Economy in Iran
Workers, Entrepreneurs, and the State
Edited by Mary Yoshinari & Serhan Afacan
This book presents a multifaceted view of Iran’s economic development and the people who made it possible, from the late Qajar period to the revolution of 1979 Containing innovative scholarly research across a wide spectrum of historical viewpoints and methodologies, the book brings to light a number of new findings using a body of largely unknown research from Iranian archives It examines economic and labour history together, covering topics such as the private sector, family business and worker histories, and events in the provinces
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 272 pages
HB 9780755652594 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755652631 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755652624 • £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
The Lion and the Sun
Environmental History and the Formation of Modern Iran
James M. Gustafson
This book explores this critical transitional period in Eurasian history from an environmental perspective It argues that severe ecological challenges dating to the late 17th century, and deepening over the post-Safavid crisis of the 18th century, drove a severe decline in the demography and resource base on the Iranian plateau This in turn gave rise to the perennially troubled Qajar period in the 19th century
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages
HB 9780755634842 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755634866 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755634859 • £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey
Gender, State and Development
Kübra Zeynep Sariaslan, University of Cambridge, UK
This open access book offers an ethnographically grounded and feminist analysis of Turkey’s stateled development projects implemented to empower women in the Southeast Anatolia Region The book shows that everyday barriers in Turkey’s ‘gendered regime’ still impede women’s potential and that the state’s large-scale regional development project, the ‘Southeast Anatolia Project’, is ultimately the major priority for the country and facilitates women’s structural exclusion
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 232 pages
PB 9780755646524 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755646487
ePub 9780755646500 • £0 00 / $0 00
ePdf 9780755646494 • £0 00 / $0 00
I B Tauris
Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Harmonization, Property Rights and Sovereignty
Malissa Taylor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Published in association with the British Institute at Ankara
Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its “classical” articulation in the sixteenth century to its reformulation in the 1858 Land Code The book demonstrates that well before the nineteenth century the tradition of Ottoman land tenure law had developed an indigenous form of property right that would remain intact in the Land Code In addition, the rising consensus of the early modern jurists that the sultan was the source of the land law paved the way for the wider legislative authority that the Ottoman state would increasingly assert in the Tanzimat period of reform
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 216 pages
PB 9780755647729 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755647682
ePub 9780755647705 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755647699 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: The Ottoman Empire and the World • I B Tauris
Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World
Bedross Der
Matossian,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
The Agony of a People
Haig Toroyan’s Eyewitness Account of the Armenian Genocide
Zabel Yesayan
Translated by Arakel Minassian
Haig Toroyan’s account of his journey from Dikranagerd (Diyarbakir in modern-day southeastern Turkey) along the Euphrates River to Mesopotamia and Iran is a unique and hauntingly detailed account of the Armenian Genocide in 1915, translated into English for the first time.
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 224 pages • 2 bw illus
PB 9780755654314 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9780755654307 • £65 00 / $90 00
ePub 9780755654321 • £17 99 / $24 29
ePdf 9780755654338 • £17 99 / $17 99
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I B Tauris
Ararat in America
Armenian American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Benjamin F. Alexander, New York City College of Technology, USA
How has the distinctive Armenian-American community navigated its identity as an ethnic minority while ‘assimilating’ to life in the United States? This book examines the role of community leaders and influencers, including clergy, youth organizers, and partisan newspaper editors, in fostering not only a sense of Armenian identity but specific ethnic-partisan leanings within the group’s population. It explores the rivalry between two major Armenian political parties, the Tashnags and the Ramgavars, and shows that, rather than simply acting as an impediment to Armenian unity, it played a role in keeping certain community institutions alive He analyses the two camps as representing two conflicting visions of how to be an ethnic group, drawing a comparison between the sociology-of-religion models of comfort religion and challenge religion
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages • 16 bw illus
PB 9780755648856 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755648818
ePub 9780755648832 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755648825 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I B Tauris
Armenians in Turkey after the Second World War
An Archival Reader of USSR Consular Documents
Talin Suciyan
A reader of newly unearthed archival documents made by the Soviet consulate in 1940’s Turkey These primary sources include consular correspondence, demographic information, a review of Turkish and Armenian press, and most importantly oral testimony of Armenian survivors of the 1915 genocide living in both Istanbul and the provinces sharing their stories while seeking to emigrate to Soviet Armenia Includes a critical introduction and the original Russian language sources in an appendix
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 184 pages
HB 9780755646326 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755646340 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755646333 £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I B Tauris
The
Armenian Women's Movement in the Late Ottoman Empire Modernity,
Nationalism and Gender
Hasmik Khalapyan
This book analyses the history of the women’s movement among Ottoman Armenians Examining debates on the role of women in the Armenian context, Armenian women’s access to education, work and marriage rights, it reveals how women were empowered by nationalist discourses and the wider movement for reform in the empire, and the ways these limited or broadened women’s activism Drawing from a wide array of archival primary source material, it provides a comprehensive analysis of changes to the socio-economic, political, cultural status of Ottoman Armenian women from end of the Tanzimat period to the outbreak of World War I
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 208 pages
HB 9780755652846 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755652884 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755652877 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World I B Tauris
Syrian-Armenian Women Migrants in Armenia
Gender, Identity, and Painful Belonging
Anahid Matossian, Marine Corps University, USA
This book traces the experiences of SyrianArmenian women refugees in Armenia as they navigated their changing and gendered identities from their adopted ‘homeland’ to their socially constructed new ‘ancestral’ home The rich ethnographic research conducted over 6 years by the author reveals how women adjusted to new lives in Armenia, supported themselves through gendered work such as embroidery production, yet mostly challenge simple identities such as ‘refugee’ or ‘repatriate’ It further reveals crucial insight into how experiences and traumatic memories of war in Syria and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict reciprocally shape each other in the minds of the women interviewed
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 192 pages
HB 9780755648467 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755648481 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755648474 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I B Tauris
The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party
Politics, Ideology and Transnational History
Edited by Bedross Der Matossian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Divided into sections which cover the origins, ideology, and regional history of the revolutionary Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party, this book situates the history of the Hnchaks within debates around socialism, populism, and nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries The SDHP was not only an Armenian party but had a global Marxist outlook, and scholars in this volume bring to bear expertise in a wide range of histories and languages including Russian, Turkish, Persian and Latin American to trace the emergence and role this influential party played from their split with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the events of the Armenian genocide to the formation of the first Armenian Republic and then Soviet Armenia
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 296 pages
PB 9780755651344 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755651375
ePub 9780755651351 £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9780755651368 £81 00 / $81 00
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I B Tauris
Tunisia Under Ben Ali A History of an Authoritarian Regime, 1987-2011
Daniel Zisenwine
Daniel Zisenwine looks at Tunisia under the rule of Ben Ali, from 1987 when he rose to power until the 2011 protests that led to his downfall Zisenwine offers an analysis of this authoritarian regime from its early days, to the attempts in the 2000s to reform economically and the societal discontent that eventually led to the 2011 protests This book is vital for those researching the Middle East and North Africa, as well as for those interested in the anatomy of authoritarian regimes and their downfall
UK
ePub
Unheard Voices of the Young Egyptian Brothers
Pathways of Activism after 2013
Doha Abdelgawad
The crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt led to hundreds of members being imprisoned or killed after 2013 This book examines the reaction of the Muslim Brotherhood’s young members to the MB’s political failure While much attention has been given to how young Islamists were radicalized, this book is the first to also examine and give voice to Islamists’ political disengagement The book is based on interviews with 48 MB members aged 18 – 35 The research reveals the multiplicity of personal, societal and political factors that determine members’ very different actions, motivations and ideas
UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 232 pages
HB 9780755650484 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755650507 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755650491 £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Critical Studies on Islamism Series I B Tauris
Art, Gender and Migration in the Kurdish Diaspora
Intellectual and Cultural Production in
Europe
Özlem Belçim Galip
This book focuses on the cultural and intellectual activities of Kurdish migrant women through artistic and aesthetic forms of production in Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden and the UK Using in-depth interviews with over 40 Kurdish women artists, Ozlem Galip examines how artistic, literary and cultural productions, incorporating the fields of film, theatre and music, are articulated within the structures of nation states, leading to the interrogation of the impact of western and local knowledge, patriarchy, the nation-state and globalisation Galip also analyses how European policies affect the development of cultural engagement of Kurdish migrant women, and how such engagements help these women to integrate into European society
UK September 2024 US September 2024 264 pages
HB 9780755650583 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755650606 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755650590 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Kurdish Studies • I B Tauris
The Kakais of Iraq History, Beliefs and Culture
Maria Rita Corticelli, International University of Erbil, Iraq
Yarsans, known in Iraq as the ‘Kakais’, are a Kurdish speaking indigenous population who originated from the Zagros Mountains in today’s Northern Iraq Persecuted throughout history, they are still under threat of disappearing This book documents Yarsan history, religion and culture through historical research, interviews and in-depth fieldwork. It is the first book written by a member of the community, who has rare access to their sacred texts. The first-hand testimonies of dervishes and other Kakai members sheds light on this little-known community for a global readership
UK January 2025 US January 2025 208 pages 30 b&w illus
HB 9780755649259 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755649273 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755649266 • £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
Armenians in the Byzantine Empire
Identity, Assimilation and Alienation from 867 to 1098
Toby Bromige, City University of London, UK
This book investigates the relationship between Armenians and the Byzantine Empire, arguing that up until the eleventh century migrants of Armenian background were able to fully assimilate into the Empire, recognized fully as Romaioi (Byzantine Romans) It uses the extant sources from a number of traditions and material culture in a chronological approach to reveal issues of migration, religion, ethnic stereotypes, and cultural assimilation, bringing to life the experiences of Medieval Armenians in the Empire, including their ultimate alienation at the onset of the Turkic migration to Anatolia
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 208 pages
PB 9780755642465 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755642427
ePub 9780755642441 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755642434 • £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
Theodore Metochites
Patterns of Self-Representation in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium
Ioannis Polemis, University of Athens, Greece
In this book, Ioannis Polemis provides the first in-depth study of Byzantine statesmen and philosopher Theodore Metochites’ oeuvre, revealing the complex way he represented the authorial self to critique the politics and mores of his day, whilst at the same time shielding himself from potential criticism Polemis details the way Metochites deftly manipulated figures and tropes from classical antiquity and early Christianity to justify his role in public life, which was traditionally shunned by scholars in the pursuit of ‘logos’ The book provides unique insights into one of the late Empire’s most important figures, as well as more widely deepening our understanding of classical reception in Byzantium and the social, political and intellectual climate of Constantinople in the fourteenth century
UK May 2025 US May 2025 216 pages
PB 9780755651399 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755651429
ePub 9780755651405 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755651412 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: New Directions in Byzantine Studies • I B Tauris
Britain’s Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan
Government and Diplomacy by Sir Henry Dobbs at the Apex of Empire
Ann Wilks
While little known today, Henry Dobbs was a key architect of the treaties that secured British India’s borders with restive Afghanistan and the Mandatory Iraq This book brings Dobbs’s role in these events at the apex of the British Empire to light, drawing on previously untapped sources made up of Dobbs’ private records and letters and official sources to do so. Revealed are Dobbs’s interactions with other members of the colonial administration and its advisors, including Percy Cox and Gertrude Bell, combined with the personal reflections of a ‘man on the spot’ which show the contingency that attended the twilight decades of the British Empire
UK April 2025 US April 2025 208 pages
PB 9780755651283 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755651320
ePub 9780755651306 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755651313 • £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
Sufis in Medieval Baghdad
Agency and the Public Sphere in the Late Abbasid Caliphate
Atta Muhammad, Talim-ul-Islam College, Pakistan
This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258, arguing that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it explores the role of Sufis and their institutions including their ribats or lodge houses, from the use of Sufis as political ambassadors to their role in redistributing charity to the poor, revealing the role of Sufism in structuring a wide range of social and political arrangements in this period
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 192 pages
PB 9780755647620 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755647583
ePub 9780755647606 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755647590 • £76 50 / $76 50
Gertrude Bell's Moment in the Middle East
A Reappraisal
Liora Lukitz
A nuanced re-evaluation of Gertrude Bell’s legacy in the Middle East Examining Bell’s published and unpublished correspondence, diaries, books and official documents, the book charts Bell’s evolution from an explorer and travel writer to an influential policymaker in the creation of Iraq. It reappraises Bells motivations, complicating perceptions of an Orientalist agent of the British Empire and examining the legacy of her views and actions on contemporary Iraq
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 208 pages
HB 9780755655496 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755655519 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755655526 £76 50 / $76 50 I B Tauris
The Damascus Seat of Power
Syria’s Heads of State, 1918-1946
Sami Moubayed
Here, renowned Syrian historian, Sami Moubayed, examines Syria’s first eleven heads of state who led the country between 1918 and 1946 With a chapter dedicated to each leader, Moubayed sheds light on the political culture of the time and traces the trajectory of how Syria was governed through colonialism, monarchism and federalism and republicanism The study draws on numerous archives, political memoirs and first-hand interviews with key figures who were active between the 1930’s and 1950’s, providing a rich picture of Syrian political culture during this forgotten period
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages
PB 9780755649174 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755649198
ePub 9780755649211 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755649181 • £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
The Banquet of the Brethren: An Ismaili Guide to Spiritual Hermeneutics
Part 1 A Persian critical edition of Nasir-i Khusraw’s Khwan al-ikhwan
Rahim Gholami, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK
I B Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
The Ismaili missionary (da'i), and poet, Nasir-i Khusraw (d after 462), wrote Khwan al-ikhwan (The Banquet of the Brethren) when he was living in his remote mountain refuge of Yumgan in Badakhshan
As well as being an important example of Ismaili theology, Khwan al-ikhwan is also a reflection of the learning of the age, including the conception of a geo-centric cosmos, Aristotelian physics, and Neoplatonic philosophy, which greatly influenced the Ismaili da'is of the Iranian lands
UK October 2024 US December 2024 616 pages 1 bw illus
PB 9780755653911 • £29 99 / $40 95 • HB 9780755653928 • £95 00 / $130 00
ePub 9780755653935 • £26 99 / $36 44
ePdf 9780755653942 • £26 99 / $26 99
Series: Ismaili Texts and Translations • I B Tauris
World English
Secular Muslim Feminism
An Alternative Voice in the War of Ideas
Hind Elhinnawy, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Secular Muslim feminists are involved in challenging Islamic fundamentalism and gender inequalities from within non-religious frameworks They emphasise the indispensable role of secularism and secular spaces to ensure equality for all Drawing on the author’s 15 years of feminist activism, observations and conversations with founders and leaders of various organisations, this book examines secular Muslim feminists’ voices and ideas The book is also based on their works, writings and public speeches The author suggests that by recognising these women, and engaging with their diverse aspirations, a new path for Muslim women’s rights and Islam can be seen
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 288 pages
PB 9780755649341 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9780755649303 • £65 00 / $90 00
ePub 9780755649327 • £19 79 / $26 99
ePdf 9780755649310 • £19 79 / $19 79
I B Tauris
Vali Dakhani and the Early Rekhtah Networks
Sharing Poetry’s Pleasures
Edited by Heidi Pauwels & Purnima Dhawan, University of Washington, USA
Placing the earliest Urdu poets and their craft in the lively social gatherings, bazaars, shrines, and courts of eighteenth century South Asia, this book reframes the history of Urdu within the diverse contexts from which it emerged Dhawan and Pauwels re-examine the long-dominant mischaracterization of Urdu as an elite language of South Asian Muslims by analysing the poetic biographies of Vali Dakhani and his contemporaries Fa’iz, Abru and Hatim The authors reveal how selective attention to a handful of poets and rarefied courtly texts obscured the much more diverse roots of an important vernacular tradition, thereby reconstructing a lost literary network of speakers, poets and participants in Urdu’s past
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages
HB 9780755650057 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755650071 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755650064 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Library of Islamic South Asia I B Tauris
The Early Nizari Ismailis and their Neighbouring Powers
Politics in the Caspian Provinces
Miklós Sárközy
I B Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies This new history of the Alamut era of the Nizari Ismaili community concentrates on the local politics of the remote mountainous Caspian region This is where religious leader, Hasan-i Sabbah, famously founded the medieval Nizari Isma’ili state Miklos Sarkozy presents here a fresh investigation of this period through a detailed examination of the regional Caspian histories across the turbulent 10th and early 11th centuries His analysis sheds light on how the Nizari Ismailis were able to survive and flourish through difficult times and establish themselves as a vital polity of the Muslim world
UK October 2024 • US December 2024 • 256 pages
PB 9780755656677 £24 99 / $34 95 HB 9780755656684 £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9780755656691 £22 49 / $31 04
ePdf 9780755656707 £22 49 / $22 49
Series: Ismaili Heritage • I B Tauris
World English
Sufism and Zen in the West
The Transformation of Modern Religious Life and Practice
Edited by Saeko Yazaki & Michael Conway
In this book, scholars analyse the ways in which Sufism and Zen were introduced to and developed in the West The collection shows that the popularity of these religions arose not because of the substantive shared elements within the two traditions, but because their promoters in the West employed similar strategies to respond to the interests of a modern, Western audience
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 264 pages
HB 9781838602352 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781838602376 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781838602383 • £76 50 / $76 50
I B Tauris
History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate
Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature
Letizia Osti, University of Milan, Italy
Abu Bakr al-Suli was a noted polymath and table companion in the courts of three Abbasid caliphs
In addition to his work as observer of the court, he is perhaps best known for his poetry - which would have a long-lasting influence on Arabic literature - historiographical insight and skill as a chess player
Letizia Osti here provides the first full-length English-language study devoted to al-Suli In so doing, she sheds light onto broader questions, such as: How did the Abbasid court make sense of the past? What was the importance of written culture? And book collecting? What does ‘historiography’ mean in a medieval Islamic context?
UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 200 pages
PB 9780755647811 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781788319232
ePub 9781838600563 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781838600570 • £81 00 / $81 00
Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World • I B Tauris
The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951
Ilan Pappé
This seminal text by renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, discusses one of the most significant periods in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Based on archival material, it presents the reader with a comprehensive and general history of the origins and consequences of the 1948 war Pappe shows that in sharp contrast to the recollections and myths of both sides, the military events of 1948 were not decisive The victory of the Zionist organization was determined by politicians on both sides - in the discussions and decisions of the United Nations and in the Arab League - long before a shot had been fired.
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 352 pages
SOAS Palestine Studies
Between Reality and Documentary
A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film
Shahd Abusalama
This book investigates representations of Palestinian refugees in Gaza in colonial, humanitarian and Palestinian documentary films, spanning until the 1993 Oslo Agreement. Chapters examine various film sources throughout this period including British Pathé, newsreels, Quaker and UNRWA documentaries, and Palestinian opposition cinema In exploring the historical, ideologically fuelled, representations of Gaza and its refugees in colonial and humanitarian films, and the opposition to it, this book reaffirms the continuity of Palestinian resistance, refugees’ call for return, and the importance of Gaza itself to the Palestinian struggle
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9780755653102 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755653119 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755653126 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: SOAS Palestine Studies • I B Tauris
Stolen Nation
The Right to Reparation of Palestinian Refugees
Lena El-Malak
This book provides a legal analysis of the right to reparation of Palestinian refugees under international law for the destruction and expropriation of their property since the 1940s Discussing the legal landscape related to property ownership prior to the creation of the State of Israel and the legal basis for the right to reparation under international law, Lena El-Malak advocates for a lawbased approach to enforce this right and the form it should take
UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 208 pages
HB 9780755652792 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755652815 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755652822 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: SOAS Palestine Studies • I B Tauris
Theatre and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Identity,
Resistance and Contested
Narratives
Azza Harras
This ground-breaking exploration employs postcolonial theory to analyze a diverse array of theatrical works by Israeli, Palestinian, and Western playwrights UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 232 pages
HB
B Tauris
Producing Palestine
The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media
Edited by Dina Matar, SOAS, University of London, UK & Helga Tawil-Souri
Producing Palestine addresses the creative labour of producing Palestine, particularly in technological and media spaces that are defined by their porousness and by their intermediality – crossing genres of popular culture and disciplinary boundaries
It offers sixteen ‘cases’ which collectively conceptualize, engage in, and invite readers to participate in the production of Palestine and its theorization These cases cover a wide array of spaces of production such as poster art, TikTok, virtual technologies, digital mapping, drone footage, online cooking shows, documentaries, music videos and many more Producing Palestine contends that representations of Palestine carry a multitude of meanings, that Palestine is continually produced and reproduced, dynamically generating new knowledge production across media, languages, temporalities, geographies and disciplines
UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 296 pages
PB 9780755654253 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9780755654260 • £65 00 / $90 00
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The Palestinians and East Jerusalem
Under Neoliberal Settler Colonialism
Bruno Huberman, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
This book focuses on the contradiction between the rise of neoliberal development in East Jerusalem and the simultaneous continuity of Israeli settler colonialism It argues that the combination of colonialism and neoliberalism allows for the ‘primitive accumulation of capital’ to occur permanently through explicitly coercive forms Based on theoretical research, interviews, and an analysis of race and class relations in East Jerusalem, the book shows that neoliberal development is used to facilitate the reproduction of racial hierarchies and settler privileges
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 216 pages
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World All Languages (except Portuguese)
Dina Matar, SOAS, University of London, UK & Adam Hanieh
Humour in Iran
Eleven-hundred Years of Satire and Humour in Persian Literature
Homa Katouzian, Oxford University, UK
Humour in Iran is a close and comprehensive study of satire and humour – in verse as well as prose –over the eleven-hundred years since the emergence of classical Persian literature Combining Persian original texts with their English translations, it covers a range of texts and authors, from the lampoon in Ferdowsi’s great epic of the ancient kings in the tenth century, through such master satirists as Obeyd Zakani, Sa‘di, Rumi, Khayyam, Hafiz, Anvari, Sana’i, Khaqani, Suzani, Qa’ani, Yaghma, and so on The book also includes twentieth century authors such as Iraj, Dehkhoda, Bahar, Eshqi, Aref, Hedayat, Jamalzadeh, Al-e Ahmad and more
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The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment
Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East
Edited by Hala Auji, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Raphael Cormack, Columbia University, USA & Alaaeldin Mahmoud, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait
Studies on the 19th to mid-20th century’s transformative cultural movement known as the Arab nahda (renaissance), have largely considered the moment’s concerns with nationalism, secularism, and language, often told from the perspective of privileged groups This collection shifts the focus away from elite circles to quotidian audiences, exploring music, visual media, theatre and popular fiction. Paying special attention to networks of movement and exchange across Arab societies in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Morocco, the ‘translocal/transnational’ cultural histories in the book also contribute to global studies on gender, sexuality, and morality
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages • 25 bw illus
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The Middle East in 1958
Reimagining a Revolutionary Year
Edited by Jeffrey G. Karam, Lebanese American University (LAU), Lebanon
The revolutionary year of 1958 epitomizes the height of the social uprisings, military coups, and civil wars that erupted across the Middle East and North Africa. This edited volume is the first book to explore this pivotal year in its global, regional and local contexts It draws on declassified and multilingual archives, reports, memoirs, and newspapers in thirteen country-specific chapters, shedding new light on topics such as Anglo-American competition after the Suez War, Turkey’s efforts to stand as a key pillar in the regional Cold War, the Algerian War of Independence and the collapse of the Fourth Republic in France
UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 248 pages • 12 b/w illus
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Iran and French Orientalism
Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France
Julia Caterina Hartley, University of Warwick, UK
In an ambitious study spanning poetry, historiography, fiction, travel-writing, ballet, opera, and marionette theatre, Julia Hartley reveals the unique place that Iran held in the French literary imagination between 1829 and 1912 Iran’s history and culture remained a constant source of inspiration across different generations and artistic movements, from the ‘Oriental’ poems of Victor Hugo to those of Anna de Noailles and Théophile Gautier’s strategic citation of Persian poetry to his daughter Judith Gautier’s full-blown rewriting of a Persian epic Writing about Iran could also serve to articulate new visions of world history and religion, as was the case in the intellectual debates that took place between Michelet, Renan, and Al-Afghani The book shows reveals the complex literary history of representations of Iran in France .
UK June 2025 US June 2025 296 pages
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Power and Authority in Afghanistan
Rethinking Politics, Intervention and Rule
Edited by Anna Larson, Dipali Mukhopadhyay & Omar Sharifi
This volume provides a critical analysis of power and authority in Afghanistan, and how the conception and practice of these have shifted both historically and over the past twenty years Contributors examine the deep colonial roots of ethnography, geography and anthropology, and assess the international intervention’s influence on power and authority structures
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 320 pages
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Modern and Contemporary Korean Art in Context (1950 - Now)
Jung-Sil Lee, George Washington University, USA & Dong-Yeon Koh, Seoul National University, Korea
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UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 320 pages • 120 colour
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The Technopolitics of Communication in Modern India Paper Chains and Viral Phenomena
Pragya Dhital, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
The Technopolitics of Communication in Modern India explores the changing role of technology in the history of political communication in India today, from newspapers, manifestos and magazines to modern social media platforms The book looks at the way these changing media have been used to create socio-political communities of identity by both state and non-state actors – a process that has become of urgent concern in the volatile, social-media fuelled age of populist politics
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 208 pages
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Boys Love Media in Thailand
Celebrity, Fans, and
Transnational Asian
Queer Popular Culture
Thomas Baudinette, Macquarie University, Australia
Over the past several years, the Thai popular culture landscape has radically transformed due to the emergence of “Boys Love” (BL) soap operas which celebrate the love between handsome young men Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture is the first book length study of this increasingly significant transnational pop culture phenomenon. Drawing upon six years of ethnographic research, the book reveals BL’s impacts on depictions of same-sex desire in Thai media culture and the resultant mainstreaming of queer romance through new forms of celebrity and participatory fandom .
UK May 2025 US May 2025 248 pages 24 bw illus
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State Formation and Conflicts in Sri Lanka
Sunil Bastian, Independent Scholar, UK
This book explores how the history of postcolonial Sri Lanka suggests a new paradigm for understanding state-formation as an ever-shifting and evolving process The Sri Lankan state has formed under the pressure of multiple conflicts: around capitalist transition on the one hand, and the deteriorating relationship between the state and Tamil minority populations on the other. Sunil Bastian demonstrates the way these conflicts have overlapped, with international support for the introduction of neoliberal policies propping up a state engaged in armed ethnic conflict.
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 200 pages
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Documents of the Asian American Experience
Noriko Matsumoto, University of Vermont, USA
This curated and contextualized primary source collection examines the history of Asian Americans from precolonial times to the present day It features more than 80 documents across 17 time periods, including newspaper articles, personal accounts, federal legislation, propaganda pieces, and more Readers will discover the multifaceted experiences of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and Filipino Americans, among others Essays at the beginning of each section provide an overview of the time period and the political, economic, and sociocultural factors influencing race relations at the time Concise introductions to each document provide necessary background information about the source and its significance.
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