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Immunity to the Arab Spring? Fear, Fatigue and Fragmentation in Algeria

7Jan 13

Edward McAllister

ABSTRACT:  Rather than asking why the Arab Spring has not spread to Algeria, a question that necessitates a comparative approach, this paper will argue that the localised protests that have become a familiar feature of Algerian life for over half a decade respond to Algerian dynamics and have continued to do so in the wake of the Arab Spring. Continue reading →

Review of Ehud Toledano, As if Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East

21Dec 12

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Review of Madeline C. Zilfi, Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference

21Dec 12

Reviewed by Nur Sobers-Khan Continue reading →

Review of Roger Botte, Esclavages et abolitions en terres d’islam. Tunisie, Arabie Saoudite, Maroc, Mauritanie, Soudan

21Dec 12

Reviewed by Marta García Novo Continue reading →

Review of Robert C. Davis, Holy War and Human Bondage: Tales of Christian-Muslim Slavery in the Early-Modern Mediterranean

21Dec 12

Reviewed by Will Smiley Continue reading →

Review of Géza Dávid and Pál Fodor (eds.), Ransom Slavery along the Ottoman Borders (Early Fifteenth – Early Eighteenth Centuries

21Dec 12

Reviewed by Joshua Michael White Continue reading →

Review of Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno (eds.), Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean

21Dec 12

Reviewed by Jennifer Lofkrantz Continue reading →

Review of Ernest Tucker, The Middle East in Modern World History

10Dec 12

Reviewed by Murat Yaşar Continue reading →

Consuming Revolution: Ethics, Art and Ambivalence in the Arab Spring

3Dec 12

Nancy Demerdash.

A new way to view a Quick Study presentation at NMES

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The Iranian Electric Power Industry after the Islamic Revolution: Nuclear Developments and Current Conditions

29Oct 12

Denis Volkov.

This quick study analyses Iran’s electric power industry and the role of nuclear power therein. Until 2010, the author worked in this industry and was based in Tehran. In this quick study, he answers the question: “does Iran really need nuclear power?” Continue reading →

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