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This volume explores the role of water in the Middle East's current economic, political and environmental transformations, which are set to continue in the near future. In addition to examining water conflict from within the domestic contexts of Iraq, Yemen and Syria - all experiencing high levels of instability today - the contributors shed further light on how conflict over water resources has influenced political relations in the region. They interrogate how competition over water resources may precipitate or affect war in the Middle East, and assess whether or how resource vulnerability impacts fragile states and societies in the region and beyond.

Introduction -- Overview: Coping with bereavement and trauma -- Part One: Loss as individual and collective -- Part Two: Gender, religion and nationalism in the grieving process -- Part Three: Coping with bereavement in the religious, cultural and societal contexts: How religion and culture shape bereavement -- Part Four: National identity and the way bereaved parents cope -- Part Five: The politics of memory and commemoration

As a state-of-the-art survey of subaltern history in the Middle East, Joel Beinin's book represents the first critical assessment of the literature for over thirty years. It offers fresh insights into the lives of ordinary men and women. Students will find it rich in detail and accessible in presentation

Dispossession and forced migration in the Middle East remain even today significant elements of contemporary life in the region. Dawn Chatty's book traces the history of those who, as a reconstructed Middle East emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century, found themselves cut off from their homelands, refugees in a new world, with borders created out of the ashes of war and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. As an anthropologist, the author is particularly sensitive to individual experience and how these experiences have impacted on society as a whole from the political, social, and environmental perspectives. Through personal stories and interviews within different communities, she shows how some minorities, such as the Armenian and Circassian communities, have succeeded in integrating and creating new identities, whereas others, such as the Palestinians and the Kurds, have been left homeless within impermanent landscapes

This book traces the rise of the political dynasty inthe Middle East and, in the process, provides the context for the current Arabuprising. The author shows that a father-to-son transfer of power has no basis inIslam, and yet the idea of dynastic power became entrenched in the Middle East

Language (lang) instruction is an important part of current Middle East (ME) area programs in US U's, but there is dissatisfaction with the results. The ME constitutes a linguistic area, with 3 major langs (Arabic, Turkish, Persian) & several important minor ones (Hebrew, Pashto, Kurdish, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Berber). Each has its own teaching problems. Basic competence in lang is defined. US needs & interests in the ME indicate that: (1) a few Amer's need advanced competence in one or more ME langs, (2) ME area specialists require basic competence in at least one major lang, generally Arabic, & (3) others have more specialized goals. ME lang instruction has been in the Orientalist tradition, with graduate study of older texts in a humanistic context. Newer patterns emphasize spoken lang & non-literary texts, & include undergraduate programs & intensive summer programs. Improved teaching materials have appeared; the current problems are agreement on goals & development of competent teaching staffs. AA.