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The Commune is back on the agenda. From Madrid to Istanbul, from Cairo to New York, people are reappropriating public and private spaces, reorienting them towards a new function in common. A return to the great 19th century insurrection that most fully instantiated urban insurre…
The Commune is back on the agenda. From Madrid to Istanbul, from Cairo to New York, people are reappropriating public and private spaces, reorienting them towards a new function in common. A return to the great 19th century insurrection that most fully instantiated urban insurre…
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In The Syrian Rebellion, Fouad Ajami offers a detailed historical perspective on the current rebellion in Syria. Focusing on the similarities and the differences in skills between former dictator Hafez al-Assad and his successor son, Bashar, Ajami explains how an irresistible fo…
An original work which challenges Resurgent Islam as the underlying cause of the revolution. Using the form of historical-narrative covering 100 years of international politics, economics, social issues and religion, the work synthesizes the four areas in search of the root caus…
Revolution or Evolution? A Comparative Poetics of Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema is a study of Iranian cinema as a major cultural form of expression after the Islamic revolution in 1978. It argues that although other forms of cultural expression such as poetry and fiction wer…
The dissertation explains why similar coup-installed regimes in Egypt (1952), Iran (1921), and Turkey (1923) developed along different political trajectories (authoritarianism, royal absolutism, and democracy, respectively). While most studies of regime change tend to underline …
This dissertation traces the fate of groups in Indonesia who sought to make their country an Islamic state by transforming politics and society. Although these groups played a critical role in winning Indonesia's independence during the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949), divisio…
This dissertation rethinks the Iraqi revolution of 1958 and the post-World War II era leading up to it through the lens of gender and family reform, in particular by examining the relation between such reforms and various conceptions of temporality, both secular and Islamic. Eng…
This comprehensive book brings to light the portraits, private collections and public patronage of the princesse de Lamballe, a pivotal member of Marie-Antoinette's inner circle. Drawing extensively on unpublished archival sources, Sarah Grant examines the princess's many portra…
Historical account of revolutionary social movements in Latin America, with particular reference to guerrilla warfare and leadership in Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and Venezuela - covers political party conflicts, the role of communists, political problems, armed forces e…
