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European Union countries; foreign relations; Arab countries; history

The World and the West reaches from such diverse cases as the Maya and Yaqui of Mexico, the Ghost Dance of North America, cargo cults of Melanesia, to Meiji Japan and the Ottoman Empire. In discussing a variety of questions about the relations between the world and the West in recent centuries, Curtin ultimately introduces a new perspective on the underlying question: How do human societies change through time?

Preface by the German Federal Cultural Foundation = Grusswort der Kulturstiftung des Bundes / Hortensia Völkers, Alexander Farenholtz -- Preface by the Goethe-Institut Cairo = Grusswort des Goethe-Instituts Kairo / Gabriele Becker, Günther Hasenkamp -- Intervening images : towards a mapping of a revolution in pictures = Intervenierende Bilder : für eine Kartografie der Aufnahmen einer Revolution / Florian Ebner, Constanze Wicke -- 2011 is not 1968 : an open letter to an onlooker = 2011 ist nicht 1968 : offener Brief an einen Zuschauer / Philip Rizk -- When seeing is belonging : the photography of Tahrir = Wenn sehen heisst dazuzugehören : die Bilder vom Tahrir-Platz / Lara Baladi -- From a certain distance : works by artists reflecting or anticipating the political changes = Aus einer bestimmten Distanz : Künstlerische Arbeiten, die den politischen Wandel reflektieren oder vorwegnehmen -- Statements and biographies = Kommentare und Biografien -- Collection of material and analysis : headlines, testimonies, tweets, Flickr and Facebook albums, graffiti = Materialsammlung und Analysen : Schlagzeilen, Zeugenberichte, Twitternachrichten, Flickr- und Facebook-Alben, Graffiti

"Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest unified corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The writers chosen for this first volume were mostly Christian merchants who traded within a network that connected the Syrian and Egyptian provinces and extended from Damascus in the North to Alexandria in the South with particular centers in Jerusalem and Damietta. They lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history, the 1790s and early 1800s, and had to navigate their fortunes through diplomacy, culture, and commerce. Besides an edition of more than 190 letters in colloquial Arabic this volume also offers a profound introductory study"--

Abu-'Amud, Muhammad Sa'd: Ad-Daula al-kurdiya baina 'l-fikr wa-'l-hulm wa-'l-waqi. = The Kurdish state: amid dream and reality. - S. 85-87. (...) Muhammad, 'Imad Husain: Tatauwur al-huwiya al-qaumiya al-kurdiya. = Development of Kurdish national identity. - S. 94-100. Hasanain, Sirin 'Abd-an-Na'im: Al-Luga al-kurdiya wa-'l-huwiya at-taqafiya. = Kurdish language and cultural identity. - S. 101-103. 'Abdallah, Tana' Fu'ad: Akrad Iran baina 's-sira' ad-dahili wa-sigat at-tawazunat al-iqlimiya. = Internal conflicts of Iranian Kurds. Formula of regional balances. - S. 104-109. Sa'dawi, 'Amr 'Abd-al-Karim: As-Sira'at al-kurdiya - al-kurdiya. = Inter-Kurdish conflicts. - S. 110-116. Turki, Ahmad as-Saiyid: Al-Qadiya al-kurdiya fi 'l-'Iraq. = The Kurdish question in Iraq. - S. 117-122. Harb, Muhammad: Al-Akrad fi Turkiya. = The Kurds in Turkey. - S. 123-125. Faiyad, Halid: Al-Akrad fi Suriya. Al-Wagh al-igabi li-'l-mas'ala al-kurdiya. = The Kurds in Syria. The positive aspect of Kurdish issue. - S. 126-128. 'Abd-an-Nasir, Walid: Al-Akrad wa-Isra'il. = The Kurds and Israel. - S. 129-133. Mahimar, Usama: 'Alaqat al-akrad bi-'l-Wilayat al-Muttahida al-Amrikiya. = The Kurds and the United States. - S. 134-137. Safi'i, Badr Hasan: Al-Ittihad al-Urubbi wa-qadiyat al-akrad. = The European Union and the Kurds. - S. 139-145. Sawi, 'Azza 'Abd-ar-Rahman as-: Al-Mas'ala al-kurdiya min wighat nazr al-mu'assasa al-'askariya at-turkiya. = The Kurdish question in the eyes of the Turkish military institution. - S. 146-151. 'Izzat, Huwaida: Tarih al-Kurd wa-Kurdistan min aqdam al-'usur at-tarihiya hatta 'l-an. = History of the Kurds and Kurdistan. - S. 152-157