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Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
 
This well-established, interdisciplinary series focuses primarily on twentieth-century developments that have critical current significance for the entire Middle Eastern region, from North Africa to the borders of Central Asia. Syracuse University Press seeks to include scholarly books, books of great public interest, translations, texts, and reprints of classic works with course adoptive potential.
 

  The Adam of Two Edens: Selected Poems
Mahmoud Darwish; Munir Akash, ed.
Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0710-5    |    2001
 

American Writers in Istanbul: Melville, Twain, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Bowles, Algren, and Baldwin
Kim Fortuny
Cloth $34.95s    |    978-0-8156-3236-8    |    2009
 

  Arab Education in Israel
Sami Khalil Mar’i
Cloth $24.95L    |    0-8156-0145-X    |   1978
 

  The Arab-Israeli Dilemma, Third Edition
Fred J. Khouri
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2340-2    |    1985
 

  Arab Women in the Field: Studying Your Own Society
Soraya Altorki & Camillia Fawzi El-Solh, eds.
Cloth $29.95L    |    0-8156-2449-2    |    1988

Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2450-6    |    1988
 

  The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction, Second Edition
Roger Allen
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2641-X    |    1995
 

  Beyond Camp David: Emerging Alignments and Leaders in the Middle East
Paul A. Jureidini & R. D. McLaurin
Cloth $39.95L    |    0-8156-2235-X    |    1981

Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2236-8    |    1981

 

  Bitter Legacy: Ideology and Politics in the Arab World
Paul Salem (CIME)
Cloth $45.00L    |    0-8156-2628-2    |    1994

Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2629-0    |    1994

 

  Citizenship and the State in the Middle East: Approaches and Applications
Nils Butenschon, Uri Davis, and Manuel Hassassian, eds.
Paper $39.95s    |    0-8156-2829-3    |    2000
 

  Come With Me From Lebanon: An American Family Odyssey
Ann Zwicker Kerr
Cloth $34.95    |    0-8156-0298-7    |    1994

Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0434-3    |    1996

 

  The Communist Movement in Egypt, 1920-1988
Tareq Y. Ismael & Rifa’at El-Sa’id
Cloth $45.00L    |    0-8156-2497-2    |    1990
 

  The Creation of a Medical Profession in Egypt, 1800-1922
Amira el-Azhary Sonbol
Cloth $45.00L    |    0-8156-2541-3    |    1991
 

  Crossing Borders: An American Woman in the Middle East
Judith Caesar
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2854-4    |    1999
 

  The Crystallization of the Arab State System: Inter-Arab Politics, 1945-1954
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2580-4    |    1993
 

  Development and Social Change in Rural Egypt
Richard H. Adams, Jr.
Cloth $29.95s    |    0-8156-2362-3    |    1986
 

Druze and Their Faith in Tawhid The Druze and Their Faith in Tawhid
Anis Obeid
Cloth $29.95s    |    0-8156-3097-2    |   2006
 

  Egypt from Independence to Revolution, 1919-1952
Selma Botman
Paper $16.95s    |    0-8156-2531-6    |    1991
 

  Egypt’s Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health
Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher
Cloth $29.95s    |    0-8156-2507-3    |    1990
 

  Extremist Shiites: The Ghulat Sects
Matti Moosa
Cloth $44.95s    |    0-8156-2411-5    |    1988
 

  Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East
Suad Joseph, ed.
Cloth $49.95L    |    0-8156-2864-1    |    2000

Paper $29.95s    |    0-8156-2865-X    |    2000

 

  In the Eye of the Storm: Women in Post-revolutionary Iran
Mahnaz Afkhami & Erika Friedl, eds.
Cloth $49.95L    |    0-8156-2633-9    |   1994
Available in the U.S., dependencies, Philippines, and Canada only
 

  International Relations of the Contemporary Middle East: A Study in World Politics
Tareq Y. Ismael
Cloth $45.95L    |    0-8156-2381-X    |    1986

Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2382-8    |    1986

 

  Iranian Cities: Formation and Development
Masoud Kheirabadi
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2860-9    |    2000
 

Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn
Amira El-Zein
Cloth $39.95s    |    978-0-8156-3200-9    |    2009
 

  Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World, Second Edition
John Obert Voll
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2639-8    |    1994
 

  Islam and Politics, Fourth Edition
John L. Esposito
Paper $24.95s    |    0-8156-2774-2    |    1998
 

  Islam in Revolution: Fundamentalism in the Arab World, Second Edition
R. Hrair Dekmejian
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2635-5    |    1995
 

  The Islamic Impact
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Byron Haines, & Ellison Findly, eds.
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2299-6    |   1984
 

  Islamic Reassertion in Pakistan: Islamic Laws in a Modern State
Anita M. Weiss, ed.
Cloth $39.95s    |    0-8156-2375-5    |    1986
 

Islam Without Illusions: Its Past, Present, and Its Challenge for the Future Islam Without Illusions: Its Past, Present, and Its Challenge for the Future
Ed Hotaling
Cloth $24.95    |    0-8156-0766-0    |    2003
 

  Khul Khaal: Five Egyptian Women Tell Their Stories
Nayra Atiya
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-0181-6    |    1982
Not available in Egypt
 

The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development
Wadie Jwaideh
Paper $45.00s    |    0-8156-3093-x    |   2006
 

  Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran
Habib Ladjevardi
Cloth $39.95s    |    0-8156-2343-7    |    1985
 

  Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi’i Iran
Shahla Haeri
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2483-2    |    1989
Not available in U.K., British Commonwealth, Europe, or Japan
 

  Lebanon in Crisis: Participants and Issues
Edward Haley & Lewis W. Snider, eds.
Cloth $19.95s    |    0-8156-2210-4    |    1979
 

  The Middle East After the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
Robert O. Freedman, ed.
Cloth $39.95L    |    0-8156-2388-7    |    1986

Paper $16.95s    |   0-8156-2389-5    |    1986

 

  Middle Eastern Lives: The Practice of Biography and Self-narrative
Martin Kramer, ed.
Cloth $34.95s    |    0-8156-2548-0    |    1991
 

  The Middle Eastern States and the Law of the Sea
Ali A. El-Hakim
Cloth $29.95s    |    0-8156-2217-1    |    1979
Not available in British Commonwealth, except Canada
 

  Naguib Mahfouz: From Regional Fame to Global Recognition
Michael Beard & Adnan Haydar, eds.
Cloth $39.95s    |    0-8156-2567-7    |    1993
 

  Oil, Power, and Principle: Iran’s Oil Nationalization and Its Aftermath
Mostafa Elm
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2642-8    |    1994
 

One Familys Response to Terrorism: A Daughters Memoir One Familys Response to Terrorism: A Daughters Memoir
Susan Kerr van de Ven
With a Foreword by Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Cloth $22.95    |    978-0-8156-0873-8    |    2008
 

Painting the Middle East Painting the Middle East
Ann Zwicker Kerr
Cloth $39.95    |    0-8156-0752-0    |    2002
 

  The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan
Myron Weiner " Ali Banuazizi, eds.
Cloth $49.95L    |    0-8156-2608-8    |    1994

Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2609-6    |    1994

 

  The Prison Papers of Bozorg Alavi: A Literary Odyssey
Donne Raffat
Cloth $29.95s    |    0-8156-0195-6    |    1985
 

  The Red Sea Region: Local Actors and the Superpowers
Roberto Aliboni
Cloth $29.95s    |    0-8156-2332-1    |    1985
U.S. and Canadian rights
 

  Refugees unto the Third Generation: UN Aid to Palestinians
Benjamin N. Schiff
Cloth $49.95s    |    0-8156-2589-8    |    1995
 

  Reveal and Conceal: Dress in Contemporary Egypt
Andrea Rugh
Cloth $44.95s    |    0-8156-2368-2    |    1986
Not available in Egypt
 

  The Rise of Egyptian Communism, 1939-1970
Selma Botman
Cloth $29.95s    |    0-8156-2443-3    |    1988
 

  The Rushdie File
Lisa Appignanesi & Sara Maitland, eds.
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-0248-0    |    1990
Not available in U.K., British Commonwealth, and European Community
 

  Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern World
Milton Viorst
Paper $19.95    |   0-8156-0362-2    |    1995
 

  The Second Message of Islam
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha; Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, translator
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2705-X    |    1996
 

  Speaking Stones: Communiqués from the Intifada Underground
Shaul Mishal
Cloth $45.00L    |    0-8156-2606-1    |    1993

Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2607-X    |    1993

 

  The State, Religion, and Ethnic Politics: Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan
Ali Banuazizi & Myron Weiner, eds.
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2448-4    |    1988
 

  Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and International Law
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im
Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-2706-8    |    1996
 

Turkish Islam and the Secular State Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Global Impact of Fethullah Gulen’s Nur Movement
M. Hakan Yavuz & John L. Esposito, eds.
Cloth $59.95L    |    0-8156-3015-8    |    2003

Paper $24.95s    |    0-8156-3040-9    |    2003

 

Twenty Years of Islamic Revolution Twenty Years of Islamic Revolution: Political and Social Transition in Iran Since 1979
Edited by Eric Hooglund
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2975-3    |    2002
 

  The Vatican, Islam, and the Middle East
Kail C. Ellis, ed.
Cloth $39.95s    |    0-8156-2415-8    |    1987
 

  Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers
Farzaneh Milani
Cloth $39.95L    |    0-8156-2557-X    |    1992

Paper $19.95s    |   0-8156-0266-9    |    1992
Not available in the U.K., Ireland, and Europe

 

  Women Farmers in Africa: Rural Development in Mali and the Sahel
Lucy E. Creevey, ed.
Cloth $39.95L    |    0-8156-2358-5    |    1986
 

  Women in Egyptian Public Life
Earl L. Sullivan
Cloth $39.95s    |    0-8156-2354-2    |    1986
Not available in Egypt
 

  Women in Muslim Family Law
John L. Esposito
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2278-3    |    1982
 

  Women in Muslim Family Law, Second Edition
John L. Esposito
Paper $19.95s    |    0-8156-2908-7    |    2001
 

  Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History
Amira El Azhary Sonbol, ed.
Cloth $45.00L    |    0-8156-2688-6    |    1996

Paper $19.95    |    0-8156-0383-5    |    1996

 

Writing Off the Beaten Track Writing Off the Beaten Track: Reflections on the Meaning of Travel and Culture in the Middle East
Judith Caesar
Cloth $29.95s    |    0-8156-2957-5    |    2002
 

For more information:

Mary Selden Evans
Executive Editor
Syracuse University Press
Tel.: 315-443-5543
msevans@syr.edu

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