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" The definitive history of the Middle East, thoroughly revised and updated through 2012. One of the most crucial, volatile, and complex regions of the modern world, the Middle East has long confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic book, fully updated to 2012 and still the essential work on the subject, follows the historic struggles of the Middle East from Napoleon's campaign in Egypt and Syria, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the history of Islam and its recent resurgence. For this fourth edition, Economist correspondent Nicolas Pelham contributes an extensive new section examining recent developments throughout the Middle East, including the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the situation in Iran, the region's relations with the United States under President Obama, the Arab Spring, and more"--

1 The Changing Nature of News and the Arab World 1. - Barrie Gunter and Roger Dickinson. - 2 Evolving News Systems in the Gulf Countries 21. - Khalid Al-Jaber and Barrie Gunter. - 3 News in Iraq 41. - Ahmed Al-Rawi and Barrie Gunter. - 4 The Development of the Palestinian News Media 65. - Zaki Hasan Nuseibeh and Roger Dickinson. - 5 News Consumption and News Agendas in Egypt 83. - Hamza Mohammed and Barrie Gunter. - 6 The Changing News Landscape of Libya 109. - Mokhtar Elareshi and Julian Matthews. - 7 News Developments and Changes to News Consumption Patterns in the Arab World 135. - Khalid Al-Jaber and Barrie Gunter. - 8 News Media and Political Socialization of Young People: The Case of Bahrain 153. - Ebrahim Abdulrahman Al-Shaikh and Vincent Campbell. - 9 What Is the Future for News in the Arab World? 173. - Roger Dickinson and Barrie Gunter

The conference volume deals with the scope of action and individual chances of power of women related to rulers of pre-modern times. An introduction is followed by 15 examples from the late 3rd mill. to the Early Middle Ages. The precise topics are networking at the court in Ur, ethno-archaeological and iconographical approaches to Kushite queens, symbolic resources of Argead women and women around the Diadochi, Demetrius Poliorcetes and his wives, Hellenistic queens playing major roles, the wives of rulers in Ptolemaic Egypt according to private Demotic sources, matronage amongst the notability of Miletus, matronage in Augustan aetiology and strategies of action of mythical wives of rulers, Julia Severa, Poppea, and the matronage of Jewish religion, women for women in epigraphic sources, the resources of women in the entourage of the Antonine emperors, strategies of late antique matronage, early medieval queens and empresses at Byzantium, among others

The Canonization of Islamic Law tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral normative tradition embedded in communal practice was transformed into a systematic legal science defined by hermeneutic analysis of a clearly demarcated scriptural canon. This transformation was inaugurated by the innovative legal theory of Muhammad b. Idrīs al-Shāfi'ī (d. 820 CE), and it took place against the background of a crisis of identity and religious authority in ninth-century Egypt. By tracing the formulation, reception, interpretation and spread of al-Shāfi'ī's ideas, the author demonstrates how the canonization of scripture that lay at the heart of al-Shāfi'ī's theory formed the basis for the emergence of legal hermeneutics, the formation of the Sunni schools of law, and the creation of a shared methodological basis in Muslim thought

Religion, technology, and the things in between / Jeremy Stolow -- Calendar, clock, tower / John Durham Peters -- Ticking clock, vibrating string : how time sense oscillates between religion and machine / Wolfgang Ernst -- The electric touch machine miracle scam : body, technology, and the (dis)authentication of the pentecostal supernatural / Marleen de Witte -- The spiritual nervous system : reflections on a magnetic cord designed for spirit communication / Jeremy Stolow -- An empowered world : Buddhist medicine and the potency of prayer in Japan / Jason Ananda Josephson -- Does submission to God's will preclude biotechnological intervention? Lessons from Muslim dialysis patients in contemporary Egypt / Sherine F. Hamdy -- The canary in the Gemeinschaft? disability, film, and the Jewish question / Faye Ginsburg -- Thinking about Melville, religion, and machines that think / John Lardas Modern -- Amazing stories : how science fiction sacralizes the secular / Peter Pels -- Virtual vodou, actual practice : transfiguring the technological / Alexandra Boutros -- TV St. Claire / Maria José A. de Abreu

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Introduction / Chris Berry, Janet Harbord, and Rachel O. Moore -- What Is a Screen Nowadays? / Francesco Casetti -- Multi-Screen Architecture / Beatriz Colomina -- Mapping Orbit: Towards a Vertical Public Space / Lisa Parks -- Cairo Diary: Space-Wars, Public Visibility and the Transformation of Public Space in Post-Revolutionary Egypt / Mona Abaza -- Shanghai's Public Screen Culture: Local and Coeval / Chris Berry -- iPhone Girl: Assembly, Assemblages and Affect in the Life of an Image / Helen Grace -- In Transit: Between Labor and Leisure in London's St. Pancras International / Rachel Moore -- Encountering Screen Art on the London Underground / Janet Harbord and Tamsin Dillon -- Direct Address: A Brechtian Proposal for an Alternative Working Method / Marysia Lewandowska -- Domesticating the Screen-Scenography: Situational Uses of Screen Images and Technologies in the London Underground / Zlatan Krajina -- Privatizing Urban Space in the Mediated World of iPod Users / Michael Bull -- Publics and Publicity: Outdoor Advertising and Urban Space / Anne M. Cronin

Michael Johnston argues that corruption will persist, and even be the rule rather than the exception, until those with a stake in ending it can act in ways that cannot be ignored. This is the key principle of 'deep democratization', enabling citizens to defend their interests by political means. The author analyses four syndromes of corruption in light of this principle: official moguls in Egypt and Tunisia, oligarchs and clans in the Philippines, elite cartels in Argentina, and influence markets in France, Australia and the US. Johnston argues that different kinds of corruption require distinctive responses, each bearing specific risks. Focusing on recent events, including the global economic crisis and the Arab Spring, he shows that we can assess vulnerabilities to corruption and the effects of reforms, and use this information to identify new practices. His book offers a fundamental reappraisal of ways to check abuses of wealth and power

Why do institutions emerge, operate, evolve and persist? Institutional Choice and Global Commerce elaborates a theory of boundedly rational institutional choice that explains when states USE available institutions, SELECT among alternative forums, CHANGE existing rules, or CREATE new arrangements (USCC). The authors reveal the striking staying power of the institutional status quo and test their innovative theory against evidence on institutional choice in global commerce from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Cases range from the establishment in 1876 of the first truly international system of commercial dispute resolution, the Mixed Courts of Egypt, to the founding and operation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the World Trade Organization, and the International Accounting Standards Board. Analysts of institutional choice henceforth must take seriously not only the distinct demands of specific cooperation dilemmas, but also the wide array of available institutional choices

"The World News Prism enjoys a well-earned reputation for excellence in its in-depth analysis of the changing role of transnational news media in the 21st-century. In the eighth edition of this classic text, the authors expand their discussion of news systems in developing nations and the impact of digital media on traditional societies. A new chapter dedicated to evolving media in Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere in Africa and the Middle East explores the role of the Internet, cell phones, and Al Jazeera in facilitating momentous political change in the region. The book also provides important updates on the decline of print media in the West and the challenges this poses to global reporting now and for the future. Combining scholarly insights with a concise and accessible writing style, The World News Prism: Challenges of Digital Communication lends remarkable clarity to the fog of today's global information revolution"--

"During the Arab Spring, the world saw a long-suppressed group in the Middle East--young people--assert itself and demand its rights. But youthful dissent did not appear overnight; for decades it has been simmering beneath the surface in countries from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, from Iran to Egypt. In Arab Spring Dreams, a number of young Middle Easterners describe their experiences with the region's laws and cultural mores, including the crime of holding hands before marriage, discrimination and harassment over religious beliefs, and young women fighting for the right to complete their educations. They also discuss how previous uprisings, particularly the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, might be channeled to effect change in their own countries. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, these stories present a decisive call for change at a crucial point in the evolution of the Middle East"--

This collection examines the relationship between mass movements and the military. Some argue that it is impossible to achieve and protect a revolution without the support of the army, but how can the support of the army be won? Arms and the People explores the impact of social extremes on the solidarity within the state's military, and on the changing loyalties of these soldiers. The authors examine a series of historical moments in which a crisis in the military has reflected deep instability in the wider world, including Russia in 1917, Egypt during the Arab Spring, the Paris Commune, as well as long-standing instability in Venezuela and Indonesia, amongst many others. Including a range of international authors who have either studied or been directly involved in such social upheavals, Arms and the People is a pioneering contribution to the study of revolutionary change.

As a 'Medieval Warm Period' prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a series of climatic disasters which led to the decline of some of the most important civilizations and cultural centres of the time. This provocative study argues that many well-documented but apparently disparate events - such as recurrent drought and famine in Egypt, mass migrations in the steppes of central Asia, and the decline in population in urban centres such as Baghdad and Constantinople - are connected and should be understood within the broad context of climate change. Drawing on a wealth of textual and archaeological evidence, Ronnie Ellenblum explores the impact of climatic and ecological change across the eastern Mediterranean in this period, to offer a new perspective on why this was a turning point in the history of the Islamic world.

Preliminary Material -- Tourism, Self-Representation and National Identity in Post-Socialist Hungary /Irén Annus -- Black Magic Women: On the Purported Use of Sorcery by Female Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore /Audrey Verma -- Staying True to England: Representing Patriotism in Sixteenth-Century Drama /Helen Vella Bonavita -- How Australian Muslims Construct Western Fear of the Muslim Other /Lelia Green and Anne Aly -- Fatwa and Foreign Policy: New Models of Citizenship in an Emerging Age of Globalisation /Ron Geaves -- Choosing to Be a Stranger: Romanian Intellectuals in Exile /Oana Elena Strugaru -- Infinite Responsibility for the Other in Emmanuel Levinas and Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces /Joshua Getz -- The Breaking Asunder of Fanny Kemble: Trauma and the Discourse of Hygiene in Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 /Winter Werner -- Ancient Egypt as Europe's 'Intimate Stranger' /Kevin M. DeLapp -- Fictions of a Creole Nation: (Re)Presenting Portugal's Imperial Past /Elsa Peralta.

In this unique and innovative contribution to environmental security, an international team of scholars explore and estimate the intermediate-term security risks that climate change may pose for the United States, its allies and partners, and for regional and global order through the year 2030. In profiles of forty-two key countries and regions, each contributor considers the problems that climate change will pose for existing institutions and practices. By focusing on the conduct of individual states or groups of nations, the results add new precision to our understanding of the way environmental stress may be translated into political, social, economic, and military challenges in the future. Countries and regions covered in the book include China, Vietnam, The Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Central Asia, the European Union, the Persian Gulf, Egypt, Turkey, the Maghreb, West Africa, Southern Africa, the Northern Andes, and Brazil.

Through a series of case studies this book demonstrates the wide-ranging impact of demographic dynamics on social, economic and political structures in the Graeco-Roman world. The individual case studies focus on fertility, mortality and migration and the roles they played in various aspects of ancient life. These studies – drawn from a range of populations in Athens and Attica, Rome and Italy, and Graeco-Roman Egypt – illustrate how new insights can be gained by applying demographic methods to familiar themes in ancient history. Methodological issues are addressed in a clear, straightforward manner with no assumption of prior technical knowledge, ensuring that the book is accessible to readers with no training in demography. The book marks an important step forward in ancient historical demography, affirming both the centrality of population studies in ancient history and the contribution that antiquity can make to population history in general