La revolución palestina

A principios de 1974, el escritor argentino Rodolfo Walsh viajó a Oriente Próximo para conocer de primera mano la cuestión palestina. Producto de ese viaje fueron una serie de notas publicadas por el Diario Noticias, adscrito a la organización Montoneros, entre el 12 y el ...

Viaje al corazón del islam

La historia política de los chiitas y los lugares sagrados de Oriente Medio

Este libro es un ensayo literario sobre la historia, la política y la sociedad de Oriente Medio explicadas a través de varios viajes a centros de peregrinación islámicos, en los que lector y autor descubrirán juntos las claves para entender la región. Mediante el hilo ...

Histoire du djihad

Des origines de l’islam à Daech

Les attentats répétés en Europe et l’instabilité au Moyen-Orient relancent régulièrement la question du djihad. Mais si l’on utilise souvent cette notion, on en explique rarement l’histoire. Sur quels textes s’appuient les terroristes pour justifier leurs actes ? Comment le djihad est-il ...

Libya and the West

What Everyone Needs to Know

Libya and the West: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a welcome update to the literature on Western diplomatic relations with Libya. It specifically analyzes the complicated relationships that Italy, Britain, the United States, and France developed with Libya beginning in the 1910s. On the ...

Iran's grand strategy

a political history

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival A gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats-external aggression and internal dissolution Iran ...

La destrucción de Palestina es la destrucción de la tierra

La pulverización de Gaza por parte de Israel no es solo una crisis humanitaria: es también una catástrofe medioambiental. Lejos de ser un hecho aislado, la devastación que Israel ha infligido a Palestina desde octubre de 2023 marca una nueva fase en una larga historia ...

El 8 de octubre

Genealogía de un odio virtuoso

El 8 de octubre de 2023 reveló un enigma inquietante: sectores de la izquierda progresista celebraron las masacres de Hamás como un acto de 'resistencia anticolonial'. ¿Cómo fue posible que quienes históricamente defendieron la compasión y los derechos humanos mostraran semejante indiferencia ante la barbarie ...

Los ojos de Gaza

Un diario de resiliencia

En su narración sobre la invasión israelí, Plestia Alaqad «transforma el dolor en poesía» (Rupi Kaur). En octubre de 2023, la palestina Plestia Alaqad acababa de graduarse y soñaba con ser una periodista de éxito. Poco más de un mes más tarde, las publicaciones en ...

The Arabs and the Holocaust

the Arab-Israeli war of narratives

The Arab-Israeli conflict goes far beyond the wars waged on Middle Eastern battlefields. There is also a war of narratives revolving around the two defining traumas of the conflict: the Holocaust and the Nakba. One side is charged with Holocaust denial, the other with exploiting ...

Sufis in medieval Baghdad

agency and the public sphere in the late Abbasid caliphate

This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258. It argues that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government. Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it ...

Resisting erasure

capital, imperialism, and race in Palestine

A critical examination of the ongoing struggle in Palestine. This essential read provides clarity on the intertwined relationships of global capitalism, energy politics, and racial oppression, and challenges readers to rethink their understanding of Palestine. Dismantling the simplistic narratives that dominate mainstream discourse, Hanieh, Knox ...

The fall of the Assads

the end of half a century of tyranny in Syria and how it will change the world

The first comprehensive book on the subject, authored by an expert who has studied the Syrian civil war for over a decade. This gripping account delves into the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship, tracing the 2011 uprising and Assad's brutal atrocities. Through detailed ...

Diaspora diplomacy

the politics of Turkish emigration to Europe

Since the early 2000s, Turkey has shown an unprecedented interest in its diaspora. This book provides the first in-depth examination of the institutionalisation of Turkey's diaspora engagement policy since the Justice and Development Party's rise to power in 2002, the Turkish diaspora's ...

Islam

a new history from Muhammad to the present

A concise new narrative history of Islam that draws on the transformative insights of recent research to emphasize the diversity and dynamism of the tradition Today's Muslim world is in upheaval: legalists and mystics engage in intense debates, radical groups invoke Sharia, Muslim immigrants ...

Twilight of the saints

the history and politics of salafism in contemporary Egypt

In scarcely a century, Salafism has transformed Sunni Islam. Claiming to be a revival of the purest form of Islam, this movement promotes ultraconservative social and religious norms and rejects all non-Sunni religious groups. In Egypt, its influence has grown to the point of reshaping ...

Hamas

a beginner's guide

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas was created in 1987, won the elections of the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006, and governed the Gaza Strip since 2007. The attacks on October 7th and the subsequent war on Gaza have turned the international spotlight on them as ...

Sectarianism without sects

This volume analyses the transformation of social sectarianism into political sectarianism across the Arab world. Using a framework of social theories and socio-historical analysis, the book distinguishes between 'ta'ifa', or 'sect', and modern 'ta'ifiyya', 'sectarianism', arguing that sectarianism itself produces 'imaginary sects'. It ...

The destruction of Palestine is the destruction of the Earth

Israel's pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted on Palestine since October 2023 has merely ushered in a new phase in ...

Our Palestine question

Israel and American jewish dissent, 1948-1978

American Jews began debating palestinian rights issues even before Israel's founding in 1948. Geoffrey Levin recovers the voices of american jews who, in the early decades of Israel's existence, called for an honest reckoning with the moral and political plight of palestinians. These ...

Moral abdication

how the world failed to stop the destruction of Gaza

Consent to the obliteration of Gaza has created an enormous gulf in the global moral order. History will record how Western governments and large sections of their elites have supported the war waged by Israel against Palestinians after Hamas's attack on 7 October 2023 ...