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Israel’s settlements in the West Bank have progressed to the point that most observers privately agree that a two-state ......more

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This book focuses on different facets of the everyday lived experience of Armenian citizens of Turkey, such as encounter......more

A new history of post-WWII Middle East told through the rise and fall of five royal houses. Long before Saddam, Khomeini......more

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An extraordinary memoir of exile and the impossibility of finding home, from the author of In Search of Fatima The jour......more

Over the past decade, the AKP, under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has decisively turned Turkish politics in t......more

Drawing on contributions from an international group of more than forty established and emerging academics, this Handboo......more

New translations of Persian literature into French, the invention of the Aryan myth, increased travel between France and......more

What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth cent......more

Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literature’s rich tradition, taking various forms from the c......more

Over the last two decades, the Israeli government has implemented policies for the development of East Jerusalem. These ......more

Journalist David Sheen reports reveals how Netanyahu’s inclusion of far-right Jewish Power in the coalition marks a dang......more

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Scholarship on the Muslim world has recently begun to pay increased attention to non-literary genres of documentation as......more

This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258. It argues that Sufis......more

While recent scholarship has focused on wartime Syria, this book is dedicated to heads of state in the immediate post-Ot......more

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival, a revelatory account of Iran’s grand strategy at home an......more

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It’s complicated! For centuries the Middle East conflict was framed as "Arabs vs. Israel." Now, in the aftermath of the ......more

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Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study......more

The newly discovered papers and colourfully-written letters of Anglo-Irish Sir Henry Dobbs, which form the backbone of t......more

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How the power of human connection can build Israeli-Palestinian peace. For over twenty years, Ittay Flescher has worked ......more

Alexander the Great and Cleopatra may be two of the best-known figures from the ancient world, but the Egyptian era book......more

In 1922, after fifteen years of searching, archaeologists finally discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. There, buried......more

This is the first systematic exploration of the diversity of utopian thought and practice in the modern Middle East and ......more

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A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Culture Politics & the Built Environment series...more

A rollicking adventure starring three free-spirited Victorians on a twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest ......more

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In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, the British Empire faced a rising tide of nationalist and anticolonia......more

The interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, an......more

The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world’s first known state Archaeologist John Romer has ......more

Based on first-hand experience encompassing multiple combat deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa, th......more

An in-depth discussion of the use of tanks in five key battles in the Iraq War. During the Iraq War, the U.S. Army found......more

Armenians and Land Disputes in the Ottoman Empire traces the transformation of land disputes involving Armenians into th......more

A social and political history of two decades of Egyptian neoliberalism through children’s picture books published in Eg......more

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This book examines Turkey’s integration with Europe within structural dynamics of globalisation from a critical politica......more

Control over education has been a keenly contested area since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in T......more

The attempts to evict Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah in May 2021 caught the attention of the world. While this s......more

Ethos is a radical critique of Eurocentrism. In it, Ahmad Kasravi unleashes a scathing attack on Europe’s self-perceived......more

Davina Grojnowski examines Life, the autobiographical text written by ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, from a ......more

As the first cultural history of Palestinian aviation, Palestine in the Air reveals civil aviation’s role in the ’questi......more

A collection of Palestinian poetry originally published in 1970 that resonates with liberation and civil rights struggle......more

Ossetic is the last living descendant of the Scytho-Sarmatian group of Iranian languages. It goes back to the language o......more

A foundational text on the early modern history of Tunis that places Tunisian history firmly within Ottoman history The ......more

The 1979 Islamic Revolution triggered a cold war between Iran and the United States - former fast friends. Despite the U......more

Religion, oil, and war bent to the House of Saud’s will to dominate Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East In recent yea......more

Contested City offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through peri......more

Contested City offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through peri......more

Ilkhanid Capital Cities studies the capital cities founded by the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran during the Ilkhanid period (125......more

There can be few weapons which have struck such fear into armed forces around the world, or made so many shocking headli......more

A timely, deeply personal biography of a Jewish leader whose questions for Israel have come back to haunt us with a veng......more

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This book examines the role of Europeans who settled in the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries and assum......more

While there has been a huge expansion of the literature on Turkish political economy and foreign policy in the last deca......more

A wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded across the Arabian Sea......more

The Iranian People’s Fada’i Guerrillas have received little dedicated scholarly investigation in the shadow of the Irani......more

This book explores the role of material entities and processes in shaping political lives in Turkey. The unifying thread......more

In 1517, the Ottoman Empire had finally defeated the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt, completing their conquest of the Middle ......more

A sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the frin......more

A harrowing political history of Kurdish Iraq told through the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of a childhood refugee......more