Middle East Politics

This book looks at how centralized religion has turned into a means of controlling and organizing the Turkish polity under the AKP governments by presenting the results from a study on Turkish hutbes (mosque sermons), analysing how their content relates to gender roles and identities...

This books provides a detailed analysis of Egypt’s revolutionary youth as a collective and non-institutionalized political actor over the period of 2005-2015, bringing forth in particular the organizational, ideational, and strategic dimensions of the social movement...

This book, first published in English in 1964, examines a wide range of topics concerning society in the Arab East. Chapters are concerned with woman and the family; religious and linguistic communities; bedouins, fellas and townsmen; and the various social and economic classes and strata. While the..

The organized play of the pre-school child with a group of peers in an educational atmosphere is now recognised as an important element in child development. The Arab states of the Gulf, as indeed most of the emerging countries, place special emphasis on the education of the young generation and are..

A transformation from parliamentarism to presidentialism has been an important topic in Turkey since 1980s, but the current government (Justice and Development Party, AKP) is serious about its plans to change to a presidential system from a parliamentary system and has begun making some arrangements..

Why and how do some acts of protest trigger mass mobilization while others do not? Using the cases of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, Mekouar argues that successful mass mobilization is the result of a surprise factor, whose impact and exceptionality is amplified by the presence of influential..

Reconstructing the Middle East examines the changes that happened within the region from 2010 and the long-term challenges and opportunities they present. Featuring the work of authors with a diversity of perspectives, it addresses key issues of gender rights, the role of young people and of the int..

This book examines the structure of political power amongst elites inside Saudi Arabia and how they might cope with the very serious challenge posed by succession...

Framing and analysing Hizballah through the perspective of the 'resistance society'; an articulation of identity politics that informs the violent and non-violent political strategies of the movement, Abboud and Muller demonstrate how Hizballah poses a challenge to the Lebanese state through its acq..

Framing and analysing Hizballah through the perspective of the 'resistance society'; an articulation of identity politics that informs the violent and non-violent political strategies of the movement, Abboud and Muller demonstrate how Hizballah poses a challenge to the Lebanese state through its acq..

What does revolution mean in the Middle East? Can the Middle East experience be compared with revolution in China, Latin America and East Europe? These questions are the focus of this book, first published in 1972, which examines the revolutionary significance of the major economic, social and polit..

Providing an account of the recent revolutions or reform movements that constituted part of the Arab Spring, this book focuses on these transformative processes in a North African context._x000D_ _x000D_ Whilst the longer term outcomes of the Arab Spring revolts are not entirely clear, the revolutio..