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This study analyzes the problem of transnational terrorism from the standpoint of an integrated approach not only through the prism of global socio-economic processes, but also in the context of geopolitical confrontation between different actors, trying to strengthen their positions in the Middle East.The article reveals the concept of «transnational terrorism», analyzes the preconditions for the emergence of terrorist organizations in the Middle East, considers the social base of transnational terrorist organizations on the example of such influential actors of modern terrorism as ISIS, Al-Qaeda,«Muslim Brotherhood». A special place in the article is occupied by the assessment of methods of combating transnational terrorism by the world community. In this regard, a number of declarations and security agreements adopted at the time by major international organizations were analyzed, which allows us to speak about the importance of this issue not only at the regional but also at the global level. Given the complexity of the ongoing processes in the Middle East, the author concludes that even the hypothetical elimination of all radical organizations will not provide a stable situation in the region. Only by eradicating its fundamental preconditions and reasons mentioned in the article, we can expect positive results.

This history of Middle Eastern women is the first to survey gender relations in the Middle East from the earliest Islamic period to the present. Outstanding scholars analyze a rich array of sources ranging from histories, biographical dictionaries, law books, prescriptive treatises, and archival records, to the Traditions (hadith) of the Prophet and imaginative works like the Thousand and One Nights, to modern writings by Middle Eastern women and by Western writers. They show that gender boundaries in the Middle East have been neither fixed nor immutable: changes in family patterns, religious rituals, socio-economic necessity, myth and ideology-and not least, women's attitudes-have expanded or circumscribed women's roles and behavior through the ages

Este dossier aborda algunos de los legados históricos menos explorados de la Guerra Fría al profundizar en la emergencia de una nueva era de las relaciones entre Oriente Medio y América Latina de este periodo. Mediante la difusión de las investigaciones realizadas sobre la implicancia que tuvo el juego de poder geopolítico propio de la Guerra Fría en el impuso de la cooperación sur- sur, en este número se han reunido, además, varios trabajos que no solo transgreden los límites comunes de los estudios de área de estas regiones, sino que también se apartan de los tópicos comunes de las relaciones entre Oriente Medio y América Latina. Por lo general, estos han sido relegados y encasillados en materias tradicionales, tales como el estudio de la migración árabe o de las relaciones internacionales. En este número se hace una clara contribución a la hora de presentar trabajos que, desde distintas perspectivas, pueden plantear un desafío disciplinar a los historiadores centrados en este periodo, especialmente con vistas a la ampliación de su marco contextual de las relaciones entre las dos regiones, lo cual les permita reposicionar los lazos entre Oriente Medio y América Latina dentro de un cuadro histórico más complejo de interacción e intercambio.

The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience, and the nature of urbanism in the region under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517). The book focuses on three less-explored but politically significant cities in the Syrian region - Jerusalem, Safad (now in Israel), and Tripoli (now in Lebanon) - and presents a new approach and methodology for understanding historical cities. Drawing on diverse textual sources and intensive field surveys, Nimrod Luz reveals the character of the Mamluk city as well as various aspects of urbanism in the region, establishing the pre-modern city of the Middle East as a valid and useful lens through which to study various themes such as architecture, art history, history, and politics of the built environment. As part of this approach, Luz considers the processes by which Mamluk discourses of urbanism were conceptualized and then inscribed in the urban environment as concrete expressions of architectural design, spatial planning, and public memorialization