In recent years, limited legal channels for migrants seeking protection in Europe, predominantly originating from Africa, has been a compelling...

The wave of mass protests that swept through the Arab World in early 2011 highlighted the distinct role of the internet-based media tools and...

In his book Mobilizing Religion in Middle East Politics, Yusuf Sarfati provides one of the few book-length, up to date, comparative studies between...

The wave of mass protests that swept through the Arab World in early 2011 highlighted the distinct role of the internet-based media tools and...

Religions and religious actors have been the subject of several scholarly works published in the last two decades to examine the outburst and...

In The Young Atatürk, George Gawrych examines the intellectual development of Mustafa Kemal as a soldier, and looks at how he applied what he had...

Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World is an edited volume focusing on a neglected issue within the social sciences, at least until very...

This edited volume is a collection of essays dealing with the issue of Islamophobia in the United States from various perspectives, such as race...

History of Arab intellectuals has received a renewed academic attention after the Arab world demonstrated its ability to go through the...

Pedro Amakasu Raposo’s Japan’s Foreign Aid to Africa was published exactly at the right time when this subject is receiving remarkable attention...

Theory, or the principles that help one organise, understand and interpret facts in a better manner, is the central pillar around which any...

Leonidas Karakatsanis’ book looks at the reconciliation efforts between Turkey and Greece which, according to the author, resemble a pendulum that...

Over the past three decades, Ottoman studies continues to be enriched by new topics and methodologies, revising old nationalistic historiography...

This book is structured in terms of a number of issues that are controversial among Muslims or between Muslims and others. It is based on the...

There is a recent growing interest in Ottoman/Turkish music, fostering new research initiatives in the field based on different approaches,...

The Soviet Union, which has two contradictory definitions (“Prison of Peoples” and “Free Association of Peoples”), is seen as the perpetrator of...

Robert O. Freedman’s edited volume, Israel and the United States: Six Decades of U.S.-Israeli Relations, is a compilation of an interesting...

The relationship between Islam and foreign policy has become the subject of a number of volumes in recent years as scholars seek to understand the...

The use of the concept of agency in relation to Africa’s foreign relations has, up to now, been very limited. This has often related to the actions...

This book is written as part of the series on “Modern Architectures in History.” Yet, it covers much more than architecture and urbanism in modern...

Democracy, Islam and Secularism in Turkey, edited by Ahmet Kuru and Alfred Stepan, decribes the so-called “Turkish model” in detail, while trying...

The discussion of China’s growing prominence in international life has attracted the increasing attention of policy-makers, the public and scholars...

Muslims in Modern Turkey: Kemalism, Modernism and the Revolt of the Islamic Intellectuals presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary Turkish...

The recent book edited by A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız, The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East, demonstrates...