Books

This best-selling book is the first volume of the Al-Kitaab Arabic language program and is now available in a new third edition. In this new version of the introduction to…

Based on the cumulative experience of three leading teachers of Arabic as a foreign language, Kalaam Gamiil builds and develops communicative skills in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, along parallel tracks of…

Answering the Call examines the means by which the Muslim Brotherhood was reconstituted during Anwar al-Sadat’s presidency. Through analysis of structural, ideological, and social developments during this period of the…

This collection of essays “Apocalypse des Religions” is devoted to the crisis of contemporary religious consciousness. The latter is considered here as much in its fragmentation and destructive dissolution aspects…

Long a recipient of migrants from its surrounding areas, the Arabian Peninsula today comprises a mosaic of communities of diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious origins. For decades, while the…

State-driven investments in art and cultural production in the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are an important part of the search for longer-term alternatives to longer-term unsustainability of…

Wirsing examines the energy context of the simmering Baloch separatist insurgency that has surfaced in recent years in Pakistan’s sprawling Balochistan province. In particular, he looks at how Pakistan’s mounting…

In one form or another, the concept of a modest Basic Income unconditionally granted to all individuals has been a topic of discussion for more than two centuries. But it…

The Arab Spring occurred within the context of the unravelling of the dominant ‘ruling bargain’ that emerged across the Middle East in the 1950s. This is being replaced by a…

This volume “Beyond the Exotic: Women’s Histories in Islamic Societies” introduces new sources for the study of the past and present life of Muslim women that challenge paradigms about the…

Bullets and Bulletins takes a sobering and holistic look at the intersections between media and politics before, during, and in the wake of the Arab uprisings. It is a multi-disciplinary…

This book, “Children in crisis: ethnographic studies in international contexts” brings together ethnographers conducting research on children living in crisis situations in both developing and developed regions, taking a cross-cultural…