This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideolo…
The Arabic script in Africa: studies in the use of a writing system : [most of…
by Mumin, Meikal, Versteegh, Kees, TASIA (The Arabic Script in Africa - Diffusion, Usage, Diversity and Dynamics of a Writing System) Workshop, Köln, TASIA (The Arabic Script in Africa - Diffusion, Usage, Diversity and Dynamics of a Writing System) Workshop, Cologne
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"The Middle East is a major focus of world interest. This atlas provides accessible, concisely written entries on the most important current issues in the Middle East, combining maps with their geopolitical background. Providing a clear context for analysis of key concerns, it i…
An atlas of Middle Eastern affairs
by Anderson, Ewan W., Anderson, Liam D., Cool, Ian M.
"The Middle East is a major focus of world interest. This atlas provides accessible, concisely written entries on the most important current issues in the Middle East, combining maps with their geopolitical background. Providing a clear context for analysis of key concerns, it i…
An atlas of Middle Eastern affairs
by Anderson, Ewan W., Anderson, Liam D., Cool, Ian M.
"The Middle East is a major focus of world interest. This atlas provides accessible, concisely written entries on the most important current issues in the Middle East, combining maps with their geopolitical background. Providing a clear context for analysis of key concerns, it i…
An atlas of Middle Eastern affairs
by Anderson, Ewan W., Anderson, Liam D., Cool, Ian M.
"The Middle East is a major focus of world interest. This atlas provides accessible, concisely written entries on the most important current issues in the Middle East, combining maps with their geopolitical background. Providing a clear context for analysis of key concerns, it i…
The publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical and has become a widely employed epistemological tool. Three decades on, this volume sets out to survey, analyse and revi…
The movement of nation building in Islamic societies away from the secular or Pan-Arab models of the early twentieth century toward a variety of 'nationalisms' was accompanied by growing antagonism between the Muslim majority and ethnic or religious minorities. The papers in "Na…
The movement of nation building in Islamic societies away from the secular or Pan-Arab models of the early twentieth century toward a variety of 'nationalisms' was accompanied by growing antagonism between the Muslim majority and ethnic or religious minorities. The papers in "Na…
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triu…
An Army At Dawn: the War In North Africa, 1942-1943
"Operation Torch" i Nordafrika er detaljeret beskrevet fra den indledende planlægning til den endelige sejr i Tunis i 1943. Hovedvægten er lagt på de amerikanske styrkers indsats.
An army at dawn: the war in North Africa, 1942-1943
An army at dawn: the war in North Africa, 1942-1943
The first volume in a three volume work about the liberation of Europe opens in North Africa in 1942 and charts America's rise to world-power status by its involvement in a war on two fronts.
An account of the World War II campaign in Morocco and Algeria. Operation Torch, as it was called, became a proving ground where American officers learned to lead, soldiers learned to hate, and an entire army learned what it would take to defeat a formidable enemy.
An army at dawn: the war in North Africa, 1942-1943
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa. The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triu…
"Who 'lost' Christian North Africa? Who won it and how? Walter Kaegi takes a fresh look at these perennial questions, with maps and on-site observations, in this exciting new book. Persisting clouds of suspicion and blame overshadowed many Byzantine attempts to defend North Afri…
