A Factual Study of the Middle East
A Factual Study of the Middle East

Author: United Presbyterian Church in Te U S

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-10

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781015157828

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The Middle East
The Middle East

Author: Peter Beaumont

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 1988-04-28

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 9780470210406

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The second edition of the standard work on the subject. Offers comprehensive coverage of general Middle Eastern geography, and how historical, political, and socioeconomic factors relate to the environment and applied geography of the region. Early chapters cover systematic and regional geography, including geomorphology, climate, hydrology, population, land use, and industry, supported by uncluttered maps, clear line drawings, and high quality photographs. Later chapters comprise essays on topics significant to each country, placing the geographical facts in a broader perspective. ``The most current and comprehensive coverage of general Middle East geography....the work is also an outstanding reference and includes one of the best geographical bibliographies yet assembled on the Middle East.'' Geography Education On the first edition

Facts on the Ground
Facts on the Ground

Author: Nadia Abu El-Haj

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-06-24

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0226002152

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Archaeology in Israel is truly a national obsession, a practice through which national identity—and national rights—have long been asserted. But how and why did archaeology emerge as such a pervasive force there? How can the practices of archaeology help answer those questions? In this stirring book, Nadia Abu El-Haj addresses these questions and specifies for the first time the relationship between national ideology, colonial settlement, and the production of historical knowledge. She analyzes particular instances of history, artifacts, and landscapes in the making to show how archaeology helped not only to legitimize cultural and political visions but, far more powerfully, to reshape them. Moreover, she places Israeli archaeology in the context of the broader discipline to determine what unites the field across its disparate local traditions and locations. Boldly uncovering an Israel in which science and politics are mutually constituted, this book shows the ongoing role that archaeology plays in defining the past, present, and future of Palestine and Israel.

Researching the Middle East
Researching the Middle East

Author: Lorraine Charles

Publisher: Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities

Published: 2021-03-31

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781474440318

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The core mission of this textbook is to help and support both new and established scholars looking to expand their research in the Middle East and North Africa, navigating issues that relate to positionality, ethics and ethnocentric biases. 16 researchers share their invaluable first-hand experiences and examine the cultural, conceptual, methodological and practical challenges of working on and in MENA region.

The Middle East
The Middle East

Author: Peter Beaumont

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-14

Total Pages: 752

ISBN-13: 1317240294

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This book, first published in 1976 and in this second edition in 1988, combines an examination of the political, cultural and economic geography of the Middle East with a detailed study of the region’s landscape features, natural resources, environmental conditions and ecological evolution. The Middle East, with its extremes of climate and terrain, has long fascinated those interested in the fine balance between man and his environment, and now its economic and political importance in world affairs has brought the region to the attention of everybody.

Life as Politics
Life as Politics

Author: Asef Bayat

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 080478633X

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Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the region, this timely and prophetic book sheds light on the ongoing acts of protest, practice, and direct daily action. The second edition includes three new chapters on the Arab Spring and Iran's Green Movement and is fully updated to reflect recent events. At heart, the book remains a study of agency in times of constraint. In addition to ongoing protests, millions of people across the Middle East are effecting transformation through the discovery and creation of new social spaces within which to make their claims heard. This eye-opening book makes an important contribution to global debates over the meaning of social movements and the dynamics of social change.