Reviewed by Abdurrahman Atçıl Continue reading →
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The Ideological Framing of the National Outlook Parties in Turkey
11Apr 12Feriha Perekli
Abstract: This paper unpacks the ideological framing of the National Outlook (NO) parties in Turkey, focusing on the National Order Party and the National Salvation Party during the 1970s, and the Welfare Party between the years 1983 and 1991. Rejecting violence for the purpose of bringing Continue reading →
The Reagan Administration and the Origins of the War on Terror: Lebanon and Libya as Case Studies
04Apr 12Mattia Toaldo
Abstract: This article uses recently declassified records to analyze the American intervention in Lebanon between 1982 and 1984 and the confrontation with Libya between 1981 and 1986. In both cases, the US responded Continue reading →
Review of Avi Rubin, Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity
13Mar 12Reviewed by Omar Y. Cheta Continue reading →
White Flag of Resistance
20Dec 11A review article by Yonatan Mendel
Texts reviewed:
Emile Habiby, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, trans. Salma Khadra Jayyusi and Trevor Le Gassick (London: Arabia Books, 2010).
Imīl Ḥabībī, al-Waqāʾiʿ al-Gharbiyya fī Ikhtifāʾ Saʿīd Abī al-Naḥs al-Mutashāʾil (Haifa: Dar Arabesque, 2006).
Imil Ḥabibi, ha-Opsimist: ha-Khroniḳa ha-Muflaʾah shel Heʿalmut Saʿid Abu al-Naḥs al-Mutashaʾil, trans. Anton Shammas (Tel Aviv: ha-Ḳibuts ha-Meʾuḥad, 1995). Continue reading →
Review of Timur Kuran, The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
09Dec 11Reviewed by Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim Continue reading →
Review of Cassandra Balchin, Toward a Future Without Fundamentalisms: Analysing Religious Fundamentalist Strategies and Feminist Responses
09Dec 11Reviewed by Eva Sajoo Continue reading →
Review of Max Weiss, In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shiʿism and the Making of Modern Lebanon
09Dec 11Reviewed by Alexander D. M. Henley Continue reading →
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