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Emile Nakhleh was a senior intelligence service officer and director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program in the Directorate of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency. He holds a PhD in international relations and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In A Necessary Engagement, the CIA's former point man on Islam makes a vigorous case for a renewal of American public diplomacy in the Muslim world. Offering a unique...
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"Winner of the 2013 Hubert Morken Award for Best Book, Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" "Co-Winner of the 2013 Best Book Award in Migration and Citizenship, American Political Science Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012" Jonathan Laurence is associate professor of political science at Boston College.
The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western...
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"One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books on the Middle East (Lebanon) 2016" Bernard Rougier is professor of Arab civilization and society at Sorbonne Paris III University. He is the author of Everyday Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam among Palestinians in Lebanon.
An unprecedented look at social breakdown and Sunni-led jihad in northern Lebanon
Northern Lebanon is a land in turmoil. Long under the sway of the Assad regime in Syria, it is now a magnet...
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"Winner of the 2012 Academic Palestine Book Award, Middle East Monitor" "Winner of the 2012 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies" "One of Choice's Top 25 Titles for 2012" Sara Roy is senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Her books include Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development.
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Gilles Kepel is professor of political science at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His books include Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West, and Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam.
The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the West
In November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, cafés...
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Lihi Ben Shitrit is an assistant professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.
A comparative look at female political activism in today's most influential Israeli and Palestinian religious movements
How do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen...
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Augustus Richard Norton is professor of international relations and anthropology at Boston University and a fellow of the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies. A former U.S. Army officer and West Point professor, he has conducted research in Lebanon for more than three decades.
With Hezbollah's entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi'i political and military organization continues...
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"Winner of a Washington Post Abu Aardvark 2015 Middle East Book Award" "Winner of the 2017 Hubert Morken Award for Best Book, Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" "Co-Winner of the 2016 Book Award, Religion and International Relations Section, International Studies Association" Avi Max Spiegel is associate professor of political science and international relations at the University of San Diego.
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Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them. He shows how governing...
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Roxanne L. Euben is the Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. She is the author of Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism (Princeton).
The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who...
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Walter Armbrust is the Albert Hourani Fellow and associate professor in modern Middle Eastern studies at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt.
An important look at the hopeful rise and tragic defeat of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011
The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 began with immense hope, but was defeated in two and a half years, ushering in the most brutal and corrupt regime in modern...
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Sean R. Roberts is associate professor of the practice of international affairs and director of the International Development Studies Program at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He lives in Washington, DC. Twitter @robertsreport
How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region
Within weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington,...
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"Winner of the 2016 JMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies and Association of Middle East Women's Studies" Ellen McLarney is assistant professor of Arabic literature and culture at Duke University.
The unheralded contribution of women to Egypt's Islamist movement-and how they talk about women's rights in Islamic terms
In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from...
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"One of ForeignAffairs.com's Best International Relations Books in the Best Books on the Middle East category for 2012" Jenny White is professor of anthropology at Boston University. She is the author of Islamist Mobilization in Turkey and Money Makes Us Relatives: Women's Labor in Urban Turkey.
Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a...
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