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Published April 2008
Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag

Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity

Feldman, J.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Jewish Studies Memory Studies Travel and Tourism

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Published June 2015
Achieving Procreation

Childlessness and IVF in Turkey

Demircioğlu Göknar, M.

Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master. With ethnographic research gathered in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population and how social experience leads to a decision for — or against — having an IVF.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
eBook available Published October 2008
An Anthropology of War

Views from the Frontline

Waterston, A. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published March 2014
Arab Spring

Uprisings, Powers, Interventions

Fosshagen, K. (ed)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published December 2001
Bedouin Century

Education and Development among the Negev Tribes in the Twentieth Century

Abu-Rabia, A.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Development Studies

Hb
Published June 2013
Bedouin of Mount Sinai

An Anthropological Study of their Political Economy

Marx, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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eBook available Published January 2019
Being Bedouin Around Petra

Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century

Bille, M.

Being Bedouin Around Petra explores the relationships between the UNESCO protection conferred on Petra, Jordan, and the traditions and lives of the semi-nomadic Bedouin who inhabit the surrounding area. It explores what it means to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, and other forces lay competing claims to the past.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Heritage Studies

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Published November 2024
Beyond Ethics and Pragmatism

Evocative Moments in Doing Ethnography

Shokeid, M.

Based on several long-term fieldwork projects in Israel and the U.S., this book brings together a repertoire of subjective and professional experiences of an anthropologist who attended various theoretical and methodological tutoring settings.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published March 2015
Bread from the Lion's Mouth

Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities

Faroqhi, S. (ed)

The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the craft organizations (or guilds) that underwent substantial changes over the centuries.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
Published March 2008
'Brothers' or Others?

Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt

Fábos, A. H.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published May 2022
Bulldozer Capitalism

Accumulation, Ruination, and Dispossession in Northeastern Turkey

Evren, E.

Set in the resource frontier of northeastern Turkey, Bulldozer Capitalism studies the rise and decline of an anti-dam/anti-displacement campaign and the political responses to other extractive projects that it helped to shape in its aftermath.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2020
Can Academics Change the World?

An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus

Shokeid, M.

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies

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eBook available Published April 2013
Capricious Borders

Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey

Demetriou, O.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published November 2011
Caring for the 'Holy Land'

Filipina Domestic Workers in Israel

Liebelt, C.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Published May 2002
Challenging Ethnic Citizenship

German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration

Levy, D. & Weiss, Y.(eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published October 2009
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya

Schlee, G. & Watson, E. E. (eds)

Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and displacement on group identities.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published November 2009
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

Volume II: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands

Schlee, G. & Watson, E. E. (eds)

Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2004
Children and Youth on the Front Line

Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement

Boyden, J. & Berry, J. de (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published March 2005
Children of Palestine

Experiencing Forced Migration in the Middle East

Chatty, D. & Hundt, G. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published November 2020
Collective and State Violence in Turkey

The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State

Astourian, S. & Kévorkian, R. (eds)

Collective and State Violence in Turkey provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very sense of itself.

Subjects: History (General) Genocide History Peace and Conflict Studies

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Forthcoming January 2026
Community in a Crowd

Bitcoin and the Quest for Liberty in Tel Aviv

Shapiro, M.

Based on ethnographic research in Tel Aviv, this book examines how Bitcoin enthusiasts use everyday practices to challenge centralised authority, revealing how decentralised technologies foster both sprawling online crowds and close-knit, libertarian communities rooted in techno-utopian ideals.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published January 2010
Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology

Past and Present Perspectives

Nadjmabadi, S. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published May 2025
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development

Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)

The second edition of this remarkable book updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

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eBook available Published February 2023
Continental Encampment

Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

Knudsen, A. J. & Berg, K. G. (eds)

During the past decade, Syria’s displacement crisis has made the Middle East one of the world’s foremost refugee-hosting regions. The volume explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment from the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the first refugee camps to the present-day displacement ‘crises’ and the re-bordering of Europe.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies

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Published December 2007
Cultural Diversity and the Empowerment of Minorities

Perspectives from Israel and Germany

Al-Haj, M. & Mielke, R. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Educational Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2017
Daily Life in the Abyss

Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918

Tachjian, V.

Although research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide’s victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I

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Published December 2002
Defiance and Compliance

Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo

El-Kholy, H.A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published April 2010
Deterritorialized Youth

Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East

Chatty, D. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published April 2010
Diamonds and War

State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled Palestine

De Vries, D.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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Published October 2006
A Different Kind of War

The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq

Sponeck, H.C. von

Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published July 2005
Documenting Transnational Migration

Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America

Antoun, R.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published May 2011
The Dream in Islam

From Qur'anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration

Edgar, I. R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published December 2011
Dynamic Belonging

Contemporary Jewish Collective Identities

Goldberg, H. E., Cohen, S. M., & Kopelowitz, E. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2016
Economic Citizenship

Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment

Sa'ar, A.

Economic Citizenship explores shifting responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens, which has shifted from states to local communities through neoliberalization. This has produced odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, and wellbeing, and placed the languages of feminist and minority rights side by side with the language of apolitical consumerism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published January 2022
Entrepreneurs of Identity

The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire

Günther, C.

Understanding the Islamic State’s ideologues as ‘entrepreneurs of identity’, this book explores how the group defined categories of social identity and used these categories as tools of communicative and cognitive structuring.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

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Forthcoming December 2025
Europe Facing East in the Age of Ottoman Power

War, Diplomacy, and the Composite State

Tracy, J.

Bringing together his wealth of research on the Habsburg-Ottoman conflict over the kingdom of Hungary, historian James Tracy provides a comprehensive and exacting examination of the implications this battle had for notions of sovereignty, statehood, and civilization.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Peace and Conflict Studies
Published June 2013
Family Upheaval

Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark

Rytter, M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2008
Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey

The Management of Natural Resources, Knowledge and Identity on the Eastern Black Sea Coast

Knudsen, S.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published February 2017
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire

Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923

Shirinian, G. N. (ed)

From 1913 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire deported or killed staggering numbers of non-Turkish, non-Muslim citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide while largely escaping accountability. This definitive volume is the first to comprehensively examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion.

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published July 2025
A German General and the Armenian Genocide

Otto Liman von Sanders Between Honor and State

Mirak-Weissbach, M.

An enlightening reassessment of the German General, Otto Liman von Sanders’ life, this book uses original archival materials to present a more nuanced insight into Liman von Sanders’ role in the Armenian genocide, in order to explore wider ethical questions concerning the nature of morality and justice in military conflict.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Peace and Conflict Studies

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eBook available Published December 2018
Germany and the Middle East

From Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel

Steininger, R.

For more than a hundred years, persistent conflict in the Middle East has led global superpowers like Germany to become involved. Germany and the Middle East encounters in detail how the nation came to accept its historical responsibility towards newer states in the Middle East, and how major developments of the twentieth century shaped its approach to the region.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2007
Global Ambitions and Local Identities

An Israeli-American High-Tech Merger

Ailon, G.

This study of a successful Israeli high-tech company's merger with an American competitor offers an important contribution to a better understanding of the social and personal ramifications of mergers. Based upon in-depth fieldwork, the book explores the reality behind the statistics, balance sheets, and managerial prescriptions that are the focus of most studies of international mergers and acquisitions.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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Published November 1998
The Great Immigration

Russian Jews in Israel

Siegel, D.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Jewish Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published September 2010
The Hadrami Diaspora

Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim

Manger, L.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published April 2016
Having and Belonging

Homes and Museums in Israel

Jaffe-Schagen, J.

This book draws striking connections between the supposedly divergent spheres of home and museum, which both house objects and generate social narratives. Through fascinating explorations of the museums and domestic spaces of eight Israeli communities, it gives a powerful account of museums’ role in state formation, proposing a new approach for societies in conflict.

Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published November 2020
The Helmand Baluch

A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan

Amiri, G. R.

The late Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Aghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan in the 1970s and published the ethnography in Farsi in Kabul in 1987. This volume, the first English translation, describes the cultural, political, and economic systems of the Baluch people living in the lower Helmand River Valley of Afghanistan.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology

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Published December 2003
The History of the Armenian Genocide

Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus

Dadrian, V. N.

Subject: Genocide History

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eBook available Published November 2020
Homo Itinerans

Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan

Monsutti, A.

This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published February 1999
Immigrants and Bureaucrats

Ethiopians in an Israeli Absorption Center

Hertzog, E.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2008
Impotent Warriors

Perspectives on Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity

Kilshaw, S.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published June 2019
In Pursuit of Belonging

Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces

Rottmann, S, B.

The story of one remarkable woman, Leyla, a mother, who has struggled against pain and shame to live a life that makes her proud and which also inspires others. Using her story, In Pursuit of Belonging enhances our understanding of key issues in the anthropology of ethics and migration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2018
In the Best Interests of the Child

Loss and Suffering in Adoption Proceedings

Mass, M.

Based on her experience as an expert witness in court proceedings on adoption in Israel, and through four representative case studies, Mass examines the view that emphasizes the lifelong loss inflicted on the child by compulsory ‘closed’ adoption, contrasting it with the need to ‘free the child for adoption’ when parents are assessed as incapable.

Subject: Sociology

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eBook available Published October 2022
Inconceivable Iran

To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce?

Tremayne, S.

This book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that is usually represented as either “revolutionary” or “oppressive.” Instead, Tremayne reflects on more than four decades of research to argue that changing reproductive behaviors on the part of ordinary Iranians must always be viewed against the backdrop of core cultural values and traditions.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published October 2015
Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East

Abu-Rabia, A.

Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes, but when serious illnesses strike, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine — to their reciprocal enrichment.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published July 2012
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Sunni and Shia Perspectives

Inhorn, M. C. & Tremayne, S. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published June 2009
Islam and New Kinship

Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon

Clarke, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published October 2000
Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah

Reoccupying the Territories of Silence

Lentin, R.

Subjects: Genocide History Gender Studies and Sexuality Jewish Studies

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Published November 1997
Israel and the Diaspora in Jewish Law

Essays and Responsa

Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

Subject: Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published September 2021
Israel-Palestine

Lands and Peoples

Bartov, O. (ed)

The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly unreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published March 2012
Israeli Identities

Jews and Arabs Facing the Self and the Other

Auron, Y.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2024
Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State

Allied Occupation, National Resistance, and Political Conflict, 1918-1923

Ülker, E.

In 1920s and 30s Turkey, the rise of Christian exclusionary movements and policies were backed by nationalist labor and merchant federations. An Imperial Capital at the Threshold of Nation State traces these formations in political dissent and coalition to the faction split of Turkish national movement in the middle of 1922.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I

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Published December 2011
Judgment At Istanbul

The Armenian Genocide Trials

Dadrian, V. N. & Akçam, T.

Subject: Genocide History

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Published July 2010
Kin, Gene, Community

Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis

Birenbaum-Carmeli, D. & Carmeli, Y.S. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published May 2017
Let Them Not Return

Sayfo – The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire

Gaunt, D., Atto, N., & Barthoma, S. O. (eds)

While the Armenian genocide is today widely recognized, the broader context of Ottoman violence against minority groups—including the indigenous, largely Christian Assyrians—are less well known. This volume is the first scholarly edited collection focused on the Assyrian genocide, or “sayfo.”

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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Published July 2024
Lives in Limbo

Syrian Youth in Turkey

Bryant, R., Abdulla, A., Nimer, M., & Üstübici, A.

Lives in Limbo gives voice to the dreams of Syrian youth who have little hope of returning to their devastated homeland and explains why this generation’s future will shape how the region will develop. It explores how refugee youth create futures from the liminality of exile.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published July 2016
Made In Egypt

Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor

Chakravarti, L. Z.

This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between the emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites, who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain, and the local realities of the daily lives of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labor force.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2012
Marginal At the Center

The Life Story of a Public Sociologist

Kimmerling, B.

Subjects: Sociology Jewish Studies

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Published November 2014
Mass Communication In Israel

Nationalism, Globalization, and Segmentation

Soffer, O.

Mass communication has long been recognized as an important contributor to national identity and nation building. This book examines the relationship between media and nationalism in Israel, arguing that, in comparison to other countries, the Israeli case is unique.

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Published September 1998
Mastering Soldiers

Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Army Unit

Ben-Ari, E.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published January 2022
Mediated Lives

Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan

Twigt, M.

Using the example of Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline spaces are key for making sense of the humanitarian regime, for carving out a sense of home and for sustaining hope.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2006
The Men We Loved

Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture

Kaplan, D.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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Forthcoming December 2025
Migration as Anchorage

Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London

Obeid, M.

A Palestinian family, stranded in London during Israel’s 2008 war on Gaza, opens a café and adapts to uncertainty. This ethnography follows their efforts to recreate home, introducing the concept of ‘anchoring’ to explore migration, home and place, highlighting the fluidity, temporariness and serendipity of these experiences.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available Published January 2022
Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space

Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

Bouzas, A. M. & Casini, L. (eds)

Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published February 2006
Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire

The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920

Quataert, D.

Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2018
Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Middle East

Arab and Turkish Responses

Nicosia, F. R. & Ergene, B. A. (eds)

How was Nazism received in the Middle East? By focusing on Arab and Turkish reactions to Nazi anti-Semitism and persecution of the Jews in Germany and Europe, this collection offers a fresh perspective on institutional and popular attitudes towards Jewish communities throughout the Middle East during the 1930s and 1940s.

Subjects: Genocide History Jewish Studies

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eBook available Published February 2015
The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey

Balkan, N., Balkan, E. & Öncü, A. (eds)

By providing a long-term historical perspective on Turkey's economy and its relationship to Islamism, this volume explores how Islamism as a political ideology has been utilized by the conservative bourgeoisie in Turkey, and elsewhere, to establish hegemony over labor.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published April 2014
On the Path to Genocide

Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined

Mayersen, D.

“This is an excellent book. The combination of theory and context works well…The prose is sharp and the author has set up the problem in a logical way that is easy to follow. It also benefits from an interdisciplinary approach. Her grasp of detail is superior to many theorists…It reads very fluently, the author is clearly a gifted prose writer. The thread of argument runs through the book in a compelling way…The conclusion is full of intriguing ties to other case studies and the author summarizes her argument well.” · Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia

Subjects: Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published June 2012
The Politics of Education Reform in the Middle East

Self and Other in Textbooks and Curricula

Alayan, S., Rohde, A., & Dhouib, S. (eds)

Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology

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Published June 2007
Portraits of Hope

Armenians in the Contemporary World

Voss, Huberta von (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published August 2012
Post-cosmopolitan Cities

Explorations of Urban Coexistence

Humphrey, C. & Skvirskaja, V. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published March 2016
Post-Ottoman Coexistence

Sharing Space in the Shadow of Conflict

Bryant, R. (ed)

Scholars often refer to the “peaceful coexistence” of various religious and ethnic groups under the Ottoman Empire before ethnonationalist conflicts dissolved that shared space and created legacies of division. Post-Ottoman Coexistence interrogates this “coexistence” and asks what practices enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as well as how and when such sharing was disrupted

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2019
Post-Ottoman Topologies

The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State

Argenti, N. (ed)

With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

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Published June 2008
(Re)constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria

Ethno-Cultural Diversity and the State in the Aftermath of a Refugee Crisis

Migliorino, N.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published April 1999
Refugee Policy in Sudan 1967-1984

Karadawi, A.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2004
Religion and Nation

Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain

Spellman, K.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published February 2009
Reproducing Class

Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul

Rutz, H. J. & Balkan, E. M.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published August 2018
The Rite of Urban Passage

The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation

Masoudi, R.

Focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions in the Iranian city, this book offers an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation, and puts forward a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion

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Published January 2006
Sacred Speakers

Language and Culture among the ultra-Orthodox in Israel

Baumel, S.

Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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Published November 2010
Settling for Less

The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin

Dinero, S. C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies

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eBook available Published July 2019
Shakespeare and the Arab World

Hennessey, K. & Litvin, M. (eds)

Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Published December 2001
Simulated Dreams

Zionist Dreams for Israeli Youth

Hazan, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published July 2013
Soldiering Under Occupation

Processes of Numbing among Israeli Soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada

Grassiani, E.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published July 2015
The Spirit of the Laws

The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide

Akçam, T. & Kurt, U

Pertinent to contemporary demands for reparations from Turkey is the relationship between law and property in connection with the Armenian Genocide. This book examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth.

Subjects: Genocide History History: World War I

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2024
The State Otherwise

Green Space, Citizenship and Advocating for the Public in Beirut

Stefanelli, A.

The State Otherwise examines the difficult predicament of Beirut’s public green spaces from the vantage point of the civic campaign to reopen Horsh al Sanawbar, the city’s largest public park. It asks questions about the nature of privatisation of public property, civic society’s potential to mobilise individuals and the role of public authorities in promoting the public good.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

Hb
eBook available Published January 2013
State Practices and Zionist Images

Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel

Wesley, D.A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Hb
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Published July 2015
Strike Action and Nation Building

Labor Unrest in Palestine/Israel, 1899-1951

De Vries, D.

Strike-action has long been a notable phenomenon in Israeli society, despite forces that have weakened its recurrence, such as the Arab-Jewish conflict, the decline of organized labor, and the increase of precarious workers. This book unravels the trajectory of the strikes in the first half of the twentieth century as a rich source for the social-historical analysis of an otherwise nation-oriented and highly politicized history.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published August 2014
Sustainable Development

An Appraisal from the Gulf Region

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world’s resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. Bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America this volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region and beyond, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies

Hb
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Forthcoming December 2025
Torn is the Curtain

Early Film Cultures in Istanbul

Balan, C.

Re-examining film’s potential as both an artistic and ideological discipline, Torn is the Curtain interrogates the relationship between early film cultures within Istanbul and ever-changing ideas of social transformation, highlighting how emergent ideas of post-colonialism, Orientalism, and feminism impacted Turkish spectatorship culture.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available Published October 2012
Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium

Sites, Sounds, and Screens

Hake, S. & Mennel, B. (eds)

Subject: Film and Television Studies

Hb
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Published February 2005
Unsilencing the Past

Track-Two Diplomacy and Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation

Phillips, D.L.

Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb
Published March 2024
Urban Displacement

Syria's Refugees in the Middle East

Knudsen, A. J. & Tobin, S. A. (eds)

Syria’s massive displacement (2012–present) is one of the largest, most complex and intractable humanitarian emergencies today. Urban Displacement examines multiple dimensions of this crisis from political and socioeconomic predicaments to questions of social belonging, the complexity of the international, regional and national responses and how they affect urban spaces.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
Published March 2015
Urban Violence in the Middle East

Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State

Freitag, U., Fuccaro, N., Ghrawi, C., & Lafi, N., (eds)

This volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in order to unveil general developments and historical specificities in a variety of Middle Eastern contexts. The case studies counter notions of a violent Middle East to foster a new understanding of violent behavior in this region.

Subjects: Urban Studies History (General)

Hb
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Published December 1993
Villages in the Steppe

Late Neolithic Settlement and Subsistence in the Balikh Valley, Northern Syria

Akkermans, P. M.

In this book, Akkermans provides a systematic overview of the Halaf culture in the Syrian portion of the valley of the Balikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates.

Subject: Archaeology

Hb
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Published March 2011
Vision and Change in Institutional Entrepreneurship

The Transformation from Science to Commercialization

Drori, I. & Landau, D.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Hb
Published September 2014
Women and the City, Women in the City

A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History

Maksudyan, N. (ed)

Accessing court records, state archives, oral sources, literary material, memoirs, and newspapers, the contributors to this volume reconstruct women’s lives in the Ottoman Empire, from Aleppo to Sofia, and from Jeddah to Istanbul. The seven chapters offer a wide panorama of the Ottoman urban geography, with a specific concern for gender roles.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Urban Studies History (General)

Hb
eBook available Published June 2002
Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation

Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation

Abdo, N. & Lentin, R. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2025
Women in Israel

Anthropological, Feminist, and Personal Perspectives

Hertzog, E.

This book is a comprehensive feminist examination of women's diverse experience in Israeli society over four decades and analyzes society during this time. As an ethnography, the book emphasizes a commitment to social justice and equality, and challenges prevailing social and gender research approaches.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
eBook available Published February 2024
Working Class Formation in Turkey, 1946-1962

Work, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday

Alp Özden, B.

Working Class Formation in Turkey explores the everyday practices of workers in Turkey from the End of War II to until just after the military interventions of 1960. Drawing a wide range of historical sources and moving beyond generalizations, this volume examines the contextual dynamics of the lives of Turkish workers during these critical decades.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Hb