The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948
by Awad Halabi
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477326312
Pub Date: January 17th, 2023
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
An innovative approach to modern Palestinian history as viewed through a study of the Prophet Moses festival from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
This history sheds new light on Egypt’s involvement in World War I by telling the story of the Egyptian Labor Corps and how the treatment of these primarily rural workers influenced the 1919 Egyptian Revolution.
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran
by Afshin Marashi
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477320792
Pub Date: June 8th, 2020
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Connecting oft-disparate fields, this book explores the Zoroastrian diaspora living in India and its role in using antiquity to bolster twentieth-century Iranian nationalism.
?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Mark Sanagan
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477320563
Pub Date: May 3rd, 2020
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
This is the first English-language book-length biography of ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam, sometimes seen as a “Che Guevara of the Middle East”; understanding him is a key to understanding the region, particularly Palestinian nationalism.
Theater, Identity, and Political Culture in Cairo, 1869–1930
by Carmen M. K. Gitre
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477319185
Pub Date: November 12th, 2019
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Putting the spotlight on theatrical performance and cultural identity in Cairo at the turn of the last century, a historian reveals new aspects of the transition from the Ottoman to the British regimes on Egypt’s path to self-rule.
The leading authority on slavery and the African diaspora in modern Iran presents the first history of slavery in this key Middle Eastern country and shows how slavery helped to shape the nation’s unique character.
The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism
by Michael Eppel
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477311073
Pub Date: September 13th, 2016
Format: Paperback
188 Pages
This comprehensive history traces the complex development of Kurdish distinctiveness from the beginnings of Islam through the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of Kurdish nationalism after World War I.
Practicing Transnationalism explores the challenges of teaching American studies in the Middle East during a time of tension and conflict between the United States and the region.
