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In The Press in the Arab Middle East, Ami Ayalon draws on a broad array of primary sources - a century of Arabic newspapers, biographies and memoirs of Arab journalists and politicians, and archival material - as well as a large body of published studies, to portray the remarkable vitality of Arab journalism. He explores the press as a Middle Eastern institution during its formative century before World War II and the circumstances that shaped its growth, tracing its impact, in turn, on local historical developments. After treating the major phases in chronological sequence, he looks closely at more specific aspects: the relations between press and state; newspapers and their audience; the press and traditional cultural norms; economic aspects of the trade; and journalism as a new profession in Arab society. An insightful analysis of a pivotal aspect of Arab history, this book will appeal to scholars and students of Middle East history and politics and to all those interested in the interaction of media and history

The archives of the imperial German government, 1871–1918, are an important but somewhat neglected source for late Ottoman and Middle East history. These collections fell into Soviet, American, French, and British hands after World War II and are presently divided between the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the German Federal Republic (West Germany).

Intro -- Family History in the Middle East -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration and Pronounciation -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction by Beshara Doumani -- I. Family and Household -- 2. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo by Philippe Fargues -- 3. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households by Tomoki Okawara -- 4. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family by Mary Ann Fay -- II: Family, Gender, and Property -- 5. Women's Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations by Annelies Moors -- 6. "Al-Mahr Zaituna": Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880-1940 by Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith -- III: Family and the Praxis of Islamic Law -- 9. Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Palestine by Iris Agmon -- 10. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham by Heather Ferguson -- IV: Family as a Discourse -- 11. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt by Kenneth M. Cuno -- 12. "Queen of the House?" Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the Mahjar by Akram F. Khater -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Transliterations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Social History of Labor in the Ottoman Empire: 1800-1914 -- 3 The Labor Movement in Turkey: Labor Pains, Maturity, Metamorphosis -- 4 Making History, but Not of Their Own Choosing: Workers and the Labor Movement in Iran -- 5 Labor in Syria: The Emergence of New Identities -- 6 The Labor Movement in Israel: Ideology and Political Economy -- 7 Reading from Left to Right: The Social History of Egyptian Labor -- 8 The History of Labor and the Workers' Movement in North Africa -- About the Book and Editor -- About the Contributors -- Index.

"Cover " -- "Half Title " -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "Introduction" -- "Chapter 1: Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire " -- "Chapter 2: The First World War and the Ottoman Succession " -- "Chapter 3: The Second World War " -- "Chapter 4: The Cold War and the Establishment of Israel " -- "Chapter 5: Arab-Israeli Conventional Operations, 1967–1973 " -- "Chapter 6: British Military Withdrawal, the Iranian Revolution, and the Iran-Iraq War " -- "Chapter 7: The Establishment of USCENTCOM, Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait, and Operation Desert Storm " -- "Chapter 8: Containing Saddam, Jihad in Afghanistan, and Terrorist Attacks on the U.S. Homeland " -- "Chapter 9: The Iraq War and the Rise of the Islamic State in the Middle East " -- "Chapter 10: Summary " -- "Notes " -- "Selected Bibliography" -- "Index

The syllabi on modern Middle Eastern history courses submitted by members of MESA were, not unnaturally, varied in general approach, in time span and in area covered. There were certain common elements, however, within the framework of which this syllabus has largely remained. Four such congruences were most important:1)the use of a chronological rather than a topical or problems approach in teaching the history of the modern Middle East (while particular topics or problems were often isolated within a particular time period, all of the syllabi submitted used a chronological framework);2)a general tendency to begin with a brief survey of the medieval history of the Middle East before beginning intensive treatment at the beginning of the nineteenth century;3)an emphasis on internal development and modernization rather than on political-diplomatic history;4)the frequent use of reading assignments (a chapter from one work, a number of pages from another) from a variety of semi-specialized or monographic works rather than reliance on one or more texts or readers.