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Middle Eastern History
Syria Betrayed
Atrocities, War, and the Failure of International Diplomacy Alex J. Bellamy
Alex J. Bellamy provides a forensic account of the world’s failure to protect Syrian civilians from mass atrocities. Drawing on interviews with key players, documents from the United Nations and other international organizations, and sources from the Middle East and beyond, he traces the missteps of the international response to Syria’s civil war.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19296-5 2022 472 pages
Security Politics in the Gulf Monarchies
Continuity Amid Change David B. Roberts
David B. Roberts offers a definitive guide to continuity and change in the Gulf region. He explores the forces challenging and bolstering the status quo in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates across the political, social, economic, military, and environmental dimensions of security.
p$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20525-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20524-5 April 2023 320 pages
COLUMBIA20TUDIES IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS
Refuge and Resistance
Palestinians and the International Refugee System Anne Irfan
This book is a groundbreaking international history of Palestinian refugee politics. Anne Irfan demonstrates that refugee groups are important actors in global politics, not simply aid recipients, and recasts modern Palestinian history through the lens of refugee camps and communities.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20285-5 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20284-8 July 2023 320 pages
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY
Worldmaking in the Long Great War
How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East Jonathan Wyrtzen
This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the war into the 1930s, it demonstrates that the modern Middle East was shaped through complex and violent power struggles among local and international actors.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18629-2 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18628-5 2022 336 pages
The Politics of Arab Authenticity
Challenges to Postcolonial Thought Ahmad Agbaria
Ahmad Agbaria tells the story of a generation of postcolonial thinkers and activists who came to question their modernist commitments. He analyzes the heated cultural and intellectual debates that overtook the Arab world in the 1970s, uncovering why major figures turned to tradition in search of solutions to postcolonial predicaments.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20495-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20494-1 2022 288 pages Barbary Captives
An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa Edited by Mario Klarer
In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both men and women, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-17525-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-17524-1 2022 416 pages
Wives and Work
Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity Marion Holmes Katz
It is widely held today that classical Islamic law denies that wives have any obligation to do housework. Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account of debates on wives’ domestic labor that recasts the historical relationship between Islamic law and ethics.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20689-1 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20688-4 2022 320 pages Oil Leaders
An Insider’s Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy Ibrahim AlMuhanna
Oil Leaders offers an unprecedented glimpse into the strategic thinking of top figures in the energy world from the 1980s through the recent past. Ibrahim AlMuhanna—a close adviser to four different Saudi oil ministers over that span of time—examines the role of individual and collective decision-making in shaping market movements.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-18974-3 2022 304 pages
