Houri Berberian uses a transnational or transimperial approach to examine the interconnectedness of 1905 Russian Revolution, the Iranian Revolution and the Young Turk Revolution and the role that Armenian revolutionaries played in each...

In the post–Cold War era, states increasingly find themselves in conflicts with nonstate actors...

In recent years, the concept of a ‘Cold War’ has been revived to describe the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran...

In the late second century BCE, a series of trading route developed between China in the east and Rome’s empire in the west...

In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests, the Seleucid kings ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia to Anatolia, Armenia to the Persian Gulf...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Nir shows how the postmodern turn in the 1980s expressed a crisis of social and historical imagination...

Darden, Henshaw, and Szekley investigate the mobilization of female fighters, women’s roles in combat, and what happens to women when conflicts end...

Ahmad Atif Ahmad’s new book is a unique reflection on the field of Islamic studies...

Aimée Israel-Pelletier looks at the work of five Egyptian Jewish writers...

Experiencing a major crisis from different viewpoints, step by step:  the Suez crisis of 1956— one of the major crises of the 1950s offers a potential master class in statecraft and the politics of strategy.

Jamal Elias takes his readers on a riveting intellectual tour thematically centered on the interaction of childhood, visual culture, and affect in contemporary Muslim majority societies, and in Muslim intellectual thought more broadly...

By decentring the importance of Europe, Elisabeth Fraser instead highlights the entangled histories and intercultural nature of the Ottoman Empire...

Fulton’s book is a timely contribution to discussion of the changing global balance of power as Gulf states

Its often touted that Rumi is one of the best-selling poets in the United States...

The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE...

At the end of his previous book, Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship (Routledge, 2007), Denis Provencher discusses a map of “gay Paris” drawn by Samir....

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the great animating foreign policy issues of the twenty-first century...

The history of Palestine is overly political; most studies, especially of the Mandate period, when the British effectively colonized Palestine, focus on the political actors...

The newly found assertiveness of the Gulf states, despite the fact that they remain largely dependent for their security on the United States, have forged closer ties with a host of external powers...

n eastern Tajikistan, the Trans-Pamir Highway flows through the mountains creating a lunar-like landscape...

Alessandro Arduino and Xue Gong’s Securing the Belt and Road, Risk Assessment, Private Security and Special Insurances Along the New Wave of Chinese Outbound Investments (Red Globe Press, 2018) significantly contributes to an understanding not only of China’s ambitious infrastructure and energy driven Belt and Road Initiative, but also the increasing challenges it poses for China itself...

Maier’s study steps away from debates about the formation of early Christian belief to reconstruct the social world in which the new religious movement emerged and began to take shape...

The question of Palestinian autonomy has been a key element of Middle Eastern and Arab politics for much of the last century...