A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa

While the book traces a progressivist line from Orientalism and modernization theories, the overall approach is...

Monday, August 1, 2022

Post-Orientalism and Geopolitics: Three Debates that Inform Islam and U.S. Foreign Policy

This article argues that a post-orientalist discourse has emerged over the past few decades to challenge the dominance of...

Friday, July 3, 2020

Headscarf Politics in Turkey, A Postcolonial Reading

The distressing photo on the cover effectively represents the content of this book. The photo depicts a junior high school...

Friday, July 1, 2011

A New Deal for Arab People

In recent years the Arab lands have been reduced to a uniform discourse, which well suited those in America such as...

Sunday, January 1, 2012

The Narrative of the Occident

Georg Schmid’s The Narrative of the Occident was published by Peter Lang in 2009. The book consists of nine chapters; in...

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Applied Oriental Studies of Russia’s Own Islam: From Orthodox Missionaries to Militant Godless and Wahhabis

To date the research of Orientalism in Russia did not present the whole mosaic palette of its competing schools and...

Monday, October 1, 2018

The Role of Croatia in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Antemurale Christianitatis as a Policy of Choice

The commentary deals with the history of Croatian interference in BiH in the context of the place that BiH and its Muslims...

Monday, April 29, 2019

The Alliance of Civilizations: The Poverty of the Clash/Alliance Dichotomy?

The Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) initiative emerged from debates around the “clash of civilizations.” Based on this I...

Wednesday, July 1, 2009