Gil Eyal, "The Disenchantment of the Orient: Expertise in Arab Affairs and the Israeli State"
English | 2008 | pages: 334 | ISBN: 0804761019, 0804754039 | PDF | 7,1 mb
In this historical study, Gil Eyal argues that before the formation of Israel, Jewish experts participated in constructing the Orient as both a metaphor for the rejuvenation of the Jewish nation, and an enchanted space populated by hybrid figures that mixed Jewish and Arab elements. But following the creation of the state, these experts took up a new role: creating boundaries (both external and internal) between Jews and Arabs, purifying the hybrids that inevitably exist on the margins of boundaries. The enchanted space of the Orient was destroyed, and its place was taken by expert discourses that reinforce the cultural separation between Jews and Arabs.

The Arab Apocalypse By Etel Adnan
2007 | 79 Pages | ISBN: 0942996607 | PDF | 4 MB
Poetry. Middle Eastern studies. Translated from the French by the author. Reprinted with a new foreward by Jalal Toufic. "This book, a masterwork of the dislocations and radiant outcries of the Arab world, reaffirms Etel Adnan, who authored the great poem, Jebu, as among the foremost poets of the French Language. THE ARAB APOCALYPSE is an immersion into a rapture of chaos clawing towards destiny, and nullified hope refusing its zero. Is is also the journey of soul through the cartography of a global immediacy rarely registered by maps, replete with signposts like hieroglyphs in a storm of shrapnel and broken glass. And above all it is a book that, though capable of being read in its orderly sequence, has so surrendered to 'being there,' it can rivet the sensibility to the Middle Eastern condition at any point in the text--so rapid are its mutations, so becoming its becomingness--like a wisdom book or a book of Changes"--Jack Hirschman."It has a power and intensity that few poets today can muster-only Allen Ginsberg's Howl comes to mind."-Alice Molloy"The power of Adnan's language and imagery reminds us that she is indeed one of the most significant post-modern poets in contemporary Arab culture."-Kamal Boullatta"THE ARAB APOCALYPSE is, to date, Adnan's most triumphant battle with the exactness of words."-Douglas Powell"The poem invokes a mythic past of Gilgamesh, Tammouz, and Ishtar to presage a present that resists narration, THE ARAB APOCALYPSE contests an uncritical reflection on the immediate historical past."-Barbara Harlow

Julia Wurr, "Literary Neo-Orientalism and the Arab Uprisings: Tensions in English, French and German Language Fiction "
English | ISBN: 1474488005 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 1010 KB
This book presents an analysis of English, French and German language fiction about the so-called Arab Spring. Through a transnational comparison of texts by a wide range of authors, both non-diasporic and diasporic, Julia Wurr investigates the commercialisation of Neo-Orientalist and securitised elements in short fiction and novels aimed at the Western literary market, and examines the role which the literary market plays in constructing, aestheticising and marketing mental boundaries between the Islamicate world and the West. By bringing together approaches from the social sciences with literary close readings, this study does not only carve out recurring tropes, frames and figurations which are complicit in diffusing a Neo-Orientalist and anti-Muslim imagery into mainstream society, but it also shows how influential frames of insecurity - precarity, affective masculinity and terror - refract the adverse psychosocial consequences of the neoliberal project into a securitisation of the Other.

George Arbid, "Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945-1973"
English | ISBN: 3868597239 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 74 MB
(Bilingual Edition: English / Arabic)

Maria Elena Paniconi, "Bildungsroman and the Arab Novel: Egyptian Intersections "
English | ISBN: 1138562106 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 8 MB

Asef Bayat, "Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring"
English | ISBN: 0674987896 | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB
From a leading scholar of the Middle East and North Africa comes a new way of thinking about the Arab Spring and the meaning of revolution.

Ian Kelly, "Elites and Arab Politics: New Perspectives on Popular Protest "
English | ISBN: 1138341207 | 2020 | 222 pages | EPUB | 821 KB
This work explains elite behaviour in authoritarian systems and proposes why elites withdraw their support for the incumbent when faced with popular uprisings. Building upon foundations drawn from institutional authoritarianism and synthesised with local context from the substantial scholarship on the Middle East and North Africa, the book argues that the elite supporting autocrats come from three distinct cadres: the military, the single-party and the personalist.

Tania Haddad, "Religion and Civil Society in the Arab World: In the Vortex of Globalization and Tradition "
English | ISBN: 1138561290 | 2018 | 190 pages | EPUB | 806 KB
This book examines the links between civil society, religion and politics in the Middle East and North Africa region. The chapters in the volume explore the role of religion in shaping and changing the public sphere in regions that are developing and/or in conflict. They also discuss how these relations are reflected on civil society organizations and the role they are expected to play in transitional periods.

Sean Burns, "Revolts and the Military in the Arab Spring: Popular Uprisings and the Politics of Repression "
English | ISBN: 1784538930 | 2018 | 384 pages | EPUB | 890 KB
Through detailed exploration of events in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Syria and Yemen, Sean Burns here breaks down the concept of professionalism within the armed forces into its component parts and demonstrates how variation in military structures determines their behaviour. In so doing, and by emphasising historical context and drawing on a wide range of political science theory, Burns sheds fresh light onto the ways in which military structure affects the potential for democratic transition or the course of civil war. With this book he presented a wide-ranging study of the Middle East which provides key tools to understanding the opportunities for democratisation, both during the Arab Spring and beyond, and which is therefore essential reading for anyone working on the Middle East, popular uprisings and the politics of repression.

David Ottaway, Marina Ottaway, "A Tale of Four Worlds: The Arab Region After the Uprisings"
English | 2019 | pages: 252 | ISBN: 0190061715 | PDF | 1,8 mb
First came the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire following World War I; then, in the 1950s and '60s, the Nasser-inspired wave of Arab nationalism and socialism. The Arab world's third great political cataclysm of the past 100 years has also brought permanent changes, but not as its activists had hoped: the 2011 uprisings.