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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Chapter One : The Internal Palestinian Scene : Change and the Quest for Consensus -- Chapter Two : The Israeli - Palestinian Scene : Launching the Journey towards the Green Line -- Chapter Three : The Palestinian Issue and the Arab World -- Chapter Four : The Palestinian Issue and the Muslim World -- Chapter Five : The Palestinian Issue and the International Setting -- Chapter Six : The Palestinian Demographic Indicators -- Chapter Seven : The Economic Situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip -- Chapter Eight : Education in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Social criticism has been a pervasive element in modern Arabic literature since its beginnings. This book is concerned with social criticism in blog narratives against the background of a long tradition of criticizing society through literary expression in the Egyptian national framework. It is also about ways in which the Arabic literary heritage, classical and contemporary, is put to work and recycled in Egyptian Arabic-language blogs. Readers will become aware that a number of the same societal and political problems that have been and still are treated in literature are brought up in Egyptian blogs. While social criticism will be shown to be a common thread in literary expression and blogging in Egypt, a central question is how bloggers use their cultural and literary heritage to advance their goals of changing social and political reality. The bloggers give voice to core problems with which an early blogging generation was and continues to be concerned. Some were discontented with the inability of the government to provide them with the democratic liberties they requested. Others emphasized the necessity to solve the urgent problems of poor governance, corruption and poverty. The book concludes that if the root problems are not addressed and the old order not removed, real change cannot take place. The question is what picture literature and social media including blogs will present to us henceforth: one of a society taking steps towards real change, or one reflecting the status quo with circumscribed individual liberties and lack of social reform

"For a long time, the history of war was the prerogative of military officers. After World War Two, it saw significant reorientations. Military history evolved into a more global history, which aims to analyse the interaction of war with societies. These historiographical changes progressively affected researchers who deal with the history of the Medieval Near East. This pluridisciplinary book, gathering historians and archeologists, aims to give an assessment of the historiography of war in the Medieval Near East, and to provide new and original research perspectives. This book confirms that war played a key role in the development of Near Eastern societies from the tenth to the fifteenth century"

"In A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen, Ingrid Hehmeyer describes the three-way relationship between water, land, and humans from ancient to medieval and premodern times. As illustrated in case studies from four sites, individual ecosystems necessitated different engineering and management approaches in order to make good use of the scarce water resources for both irrigated agriculture and domestic consumption. Material remains and written sources provide the evidence for a comprehensive examination of continuity and change; technical and managerial struggles, failures, and successes; the question of technology transfer; the impact of the religion of Islam on water use and allocation; and people's reactions in times of severe crisis."-- Back cover

"Hisham Sharabi was a distinguished Palestinian intellectual and an outspoken critic of traditional Arab society and culture. Despite his upbringing as a member of the privileged class, his conscious self-analysis after the 1967 Arab defeat by Israel led him to radically change his former bourgeois outlook on his society and its culture. Embers and Ashes tells of Sharabi's childhood and boyhood in Palestine, his youth and initial political activism as a university student in Lebanon, and his life and education as a graduate student in the US. He brings his newly acquired self-analysis and sociocultural criticism to bear on the story of each of these phases"--BOOK JACKET

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

Making Sense of War provides a comprehensive and clear analysis of the complex business of waging war. It gives readers a thorough understanding of the key concepts in strategic thought, concepts that have endured since the Athenian general Thucydides and the Chinese philosopher/warrior Sun Tzu first wrote about strategy some 2500 years ago. It also examines the influence on strategic choice and military strategy of political, legal and technological change. This book discusses strategy at every level of competition, employing a thematic approach and using historical examples from 500 BCE to the present. It discusses the contraints and opportunities facing military commanders in the 21st century, and demonstrates that the formulation of military strategy will continue to be perhaps the single most important responsibility for senior security officials. Making Sense of War offers original insights into the imperatives of military success in the era of asymmetric warfare

As the conception of and debates on regional powers have been led by political science, this paper aims to contribute to the discussion from an economics perspective. Based on the discussion of different concepts of economic power - such as those of Schumpeter, Perroux, Predöhl, or Kindleberger - concepts of technological leadership, and the global value chain approaches, the paper develops a research framework for the economics of regional powers. This framework is then tested using descriptive statistics as well as regressions analysis, with a focus on the four regional powers Brazil, China, India, and South Africa. As economic power is relational, the relationship of regional powers to other nations in the region is analyzed. According to the findings, only limited statements on the economics of regional powers are possible: a regional power can be described as an economy with a relatively large population and land area which plays a dominant role in trade within the region and in the regional governance. The regional power develops its technological capacities, and its businesses act regionally and globally with increasing strength. -- Brazil ; China ; economic geography ; economic leadership ; economic power ; growth ; India ; investment ; public goods ; regional powers ; regression analysis ; South Africa ; technological change ; value chain ; trade

Sa'di, Ahmad H.: Structural social changes and the 2003 election results in Israel. - S. 11-18. Beck, Martin: Possible impacts of the Israeli elections held in January 2003 on Israeli-American relations and their potential effects on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. - S. 21-28. Heacock, Roger: The victor: George Bush. - S. 29-34. Mahul, 'Isam: Al-Mauqif min al-hall as-siyasi wa-atarihi 'ala 'l-intihabat wa-kaifa satu'attir an-nata'ig 'ala 'l-hall as-siyasi. = Positions regarding the resolution of the conflict, their impact on the elections, and the influence of the elections on prospects for resolving the conflict. - S. 13-18. Dahamsa, 'Abd-al-Malik: Ada' al-ahzab al-'arabiya hilala 'l-hamla al-intihabiya wa-atar an-nata'ig 'ala 'l-wasat al-'arab. = The policies of the Arab parties during the campaign and the effects of the elections on the Arab sector. - S. 19-26. At-Ta'liq 'ala 'l-mudahalat. - S. 27-31. 'Abd-Rabbihi, Yasir: Mustaqbal as-Sulta al-Wataniya al-Filastiniya wa-'l-'amaliya as-silmiya 'ala dau' i'adat intihab Sarun. = The future of the Palestinian National Authority and the peace process in the light of Sharon's reelection. - S. 35-38. Barguti, Mustafa al-: Qira'a fi ta'tir al-intifada al-filastiniya 'ala Isra'il wa-ta'tir al-intihabat 'ala 's-sira' al-filastini al-isra'ili. = The effect of the Palestinian Intifada on Israel and the influence of the elections on the Palestinian-Israeli struggle. - S. 39-43. Faraga, Hisam Ahmad: Su'ud as-saruniya fi 'ntifada al-aqsa: al-asbab wa-'l-in'ikasat wa-huttat al-'amal. = Anticipated outcomes: a plan of action. - S. 53-59. Subh, Ahmad: Nazra taqyimiya li-makanat Isra'il al-muhtamala 'ala 'l-mustawiyin al-iqlimi wa-'d-dauli. = A prospective analysis of Israel's position at the regional and global levels. - S. 63-68. Hatib, Gassan: Mudahala. - S. 75-78. Giqman, Gurg (Giacaman, George): Nata'ig wa-'stihlasat tata'allaq bi-'l-bu'd ad-dahili al-filastini. - S. 79-83