19. Jahrhunderts by CH Beck publishers in Munich in January 2009. it rapidly went through
five editions and two unnumbered special editions and is now being translated into Chinese …

Bread from Stones, a highly anticipated book from historian Keith David Watenpaugh,
breaks new ground in analyzing the theory and practice of modern humanitarianism …

In its last decade, the Ottoman Empire underwent a period of dynamic reform, and the 1908
revolution transformed the empire's 20 million subjects into citizens overnight. Questions …

The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and
early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German …

This multifaceted study of Syrian immigration to the United States places Syrians—and
Arabs more generally—at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from …

From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon endured one of the most protracted and bloody civil wars of
the twentieth century. Sune Haugbolle's timely and often poignant book chronicles the battle …

Shows which historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others
as' minorities' Through close attention to what changed in French-mandate Syria, and what …

What does it mean to be modern outside the West? Based on a wealth of primary data
collected over five years, Reality Television and Arab Politics analyzes how reality television …

The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences anthropology,
human geography, and demography in late nineteenth-and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing …

The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire.
The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies …