Nearly four thousand years ago, in the Sumerian town of Ur
in the valley of the river Euphrates, lived a young man named
Abraham. The people of Ur had once worshipped Allah but as
time passed they ...
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Changing Consumer Cultures
of Modern Egypt
Social, Economic and
Political Studies of the
Middle East and Asia
(S.E.P.S.M.E.A.)
(Founding editor: C.A.O. van Nieuwenhuijze)
Editor
Advisory Board
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CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
GETTING TO PLURALISM:
POLITICAL ACTORS IN THE ARAB
WORLD
WELCOME/MODERATOR:
JESSICA MATHEWS,
PRESIDENT,
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
SPEAKER...
Getting to Pluralism: Political Actors in the Arab World Carnegie Europe
Monday, December 7, 2009, Brussels
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Getting to Pluralism: Political Actors in the Arab World
Monday, Decem...
Abstract –
Noah Feldman is an interesting case. A professor of law at Harvard, he was raised as an Orthodox Jew and chose to become a scholar of Arabic and a student of Islam; in 2003, he served v...
EGYPT: SECURITY, POLITICAL, AND ISLAMIST CHALLENGES
Sherifa Zuhur
September 2007
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This monograph takes its title from President Hosni Mubarak's prediction that American involvement in Iraq would give rise to a "hundred Osamas." The author explores "the new jihad" and the regener...
Brief Synopsis
The global war on terror (GWOT) and the battles with specific Islamist groups is, to some degree, a war of ideas. With a better understanding of Islamic concepts of war, peace, and ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword vii
Executive Summary ix
Introduction 1
Global and Regional Security Environments: Potential
Catalysts for Instability 3
Implications of These Forces 7
Defining a Failing...
THE ARAB PERCEPTION AND CONSENSUS PROBLEMS:
IMPLICATIONS FOR US POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
Brent J. Talbot
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This paper is a preliminary effort to assess Middle Eastern
perceptions ...
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR
SHERIFA ZUHUR is Research Professor of Islamic
and Regional Studies at the Strategic Studies
Institute, U.S. Army War College. She has lectured
internationally, ha...
SUMMARY
This monograph approaches three issues in contemporary
Egypt: failures of governance and political
development, the continued strength of Islamism, and
counterterrorism. It is easier to tac...
Islamic Politics in the Gulf
Workshop Directors
Stéphane Lacroix Saud al-Sarhan
Institut d'Etudes Politiques PHD Candidate
Sciences Po Exeter University
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75337 Paris Ce...
Benjamin E. Power, Andrew Akhlaghi, Steven Rotchtin
Executive Summary
A diplomatic thaw between the United States and Damascus is essential
for Middle East peace and stability in Iraq – it has ne...
RECONCILING NOTIONS OF ASYLUM AND REFUGEES IN ISLAM AND
INTERNATIONAL LAW:
A CASE STUDY OF AFGHAN REFUGEES IN PAKISTAN
by
VANESSA JOHAN NICOLSON
B.A, The University of Western Ontario, 2007
A THESI...
The Frontiers of Loyalty:
Do They Really Change?
by Yossi Shain and Ariel I. Ahram
Yossi Shain (ys@Georgetown.edu) is professor of government and diasporas politics at
Georgetown University and pro...
Political Articulation: Parties and the Constitution of Cleavages
in the United States, India, and Turkey*
CEDRIC DE LEON
Providence College
MANALI DESAI
London School of Economics
CIHAN TU˘GAL
Uni...