Abdullah bin 'Abd al-'Aziz (1924-2015) was an unlikely contender for the Saudi throne. His kinship ties within the royal family were weak. Yet he rose to power, finally becoming king in 2005. His main instrument was the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG), which he took over in 1963, transforming it into a personal power base and a cornerstone of ......
In 1517, the Ottoman Empire had finally defeated the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt, completing their conquest of the Middle East and turning Egypt into a province of the Ottoman Empire. While much has been documented about the Mamluk period until 1517, publications on the historical record about the sixteenth century reveals little from distinctly ......
Lives and Texts Through Empire, Genocide, and Diaspora
From the early 1860s, when the first Armenian women's journal began publication in Constantinople, to the late 1960s, when the longest-running Armenian women's journal of the post-genocide diaspora folded in Beirut, Armenian feminists actively participated in contemporary social and political developments. Even so, their writings remain scarce and ......
Lives and Texts Through Empire, Genocide, and Diaspora
From the early 1860s, when the first Armenian women's journal began publication in Constantinople, to the late 1960s, when the longest-running Armenian women's journal of the post-genocide diaspora folded in Beirut, Armenian feminists actively participated in contemporary social and political developments. Even so, their writings remain scarce and ......
American Jews and the Movement for Justice in Palestine
Examines how young Jewish Americans' fundamentally Jewish values have led them to organize in solidarity with Palestinians Unsettled digs into the experiences of young Jewish Americans who engage with the Palestine solidarity movement and challenge the staunch pro-Israel stance of mainstream Jewish American institutions. The book explores how ......
Cairo's synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews. Historian Yoram ......
Iran is home to one of the largest Middle Eastern Jewish communities outside of Israel, numbering around 10,000 people today. This book explores the twentieth-century history of Iranian Jews as they grappled with global political movements and Iranian national identity. Over the course of the century, Iranian Jews were courted and attracted by ......
