Area Studies
Brickyards to Graveyards
Explores how the conditions that shaped Rwanda's labor organization and industries also shaped Rwanda's genocide.
The Public Sphere in Muslim Societies
Multidisciplinary examination of the public sphere in “traditional” Muslim society.
The Medieval French Alexander
Explores the significance of Alexander the Great in French medieval literature and culture.
The Abyss Above
Uses the figure of the mad poet to explore the connections between madness and creativity.
The Early Muslim Tradition of Dream Interpretation
Explores dream interpretation among the early Muslims, who saw dreams as a type of prophecy.
On the Edge of Empire
Explores the social and political history of the Qu`ayti and Kathiri sultanates of Hadhramawt during their gradual incorporation into the British Empire.
The Occupation of Justice
A critical examination of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Israel in cases relating to the Occupied Territories.
The Arab-Israeli Conflict Transformed
Makes the perhaps surprising argument that in the last quarter of the twentieth century the Arab-Israeli conflict has been winding down.
Mail-Orders
Explores contemporary uses of letters and letter writing—including electronic mail—in literature, film, and art.
The Melting Pot in Israel
Covers early Israeli education policy regarding immigrant populations.
Somber Lust
A comprehensive study of Israel’s most internationally celebrated writer.
Social Change in Iran
A multi-level insider's look at the changes transforming contemporary Iran.
Policy Making at the Margins of Government
Traces the almost century-long struggle between Israel's largest healthcare provider, Kupat Holim, and successive Israeli governments.
Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World
Uses the Arab experience to explain the appeal of constitutional documents to authoritarian political regimes.
Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature
Israeli and American critics debate what constitutes Jewish identity in modern Jewish literature.
Debating Islam in the Jewish State
Covers Israel's policy toward Islamic institutions within its borders, 1948-2000.
Whiteness Just Isn't What It Used To Be
Narratively explores how the changes in South Africa's social and political structure are changing the white population's identity and sense of self.
The Wisdom of the Mystic East
An expert on the thought of medieval Islamic philosopher Suhrawardi argues that philosophers have romanticized this work as a revival of “oriental” wisdom.
The Rhetoric of Sobriety
Explains the prohibition of alcohol in Islam using a wide range of materials from the early Islamic period.
Israeli Planners and Designers
In their own words, the stories of the men and women who are the planners, architects, community organizers--the hidden builders--of the modern state of Israel.
A Comparative Political Economy of Tunisia and Morocco
Examines how rising economic integration with Europe impacts Tunisia and Morocco.
Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity
Examines masculinity in German culture, society, and literature from 1945 to the present.
When Poetry Ruled the Streets
Offers a complete survey of the French May Events of 1968 through narrative, analysis, and documents.
The Films of Harold Pinter
Examines the screenplays of the master British dramatist and screenwriter Harold Pinter.
Memory and Mastery
Interdisciplinary explorations into the work of one of the premier writer-survivors of the Holocaust.
White Banners
Examines the fall of the Syrian Umayyad caliphate and the rise of the 'Abbasid state, predominantly from the view of the local inhabitants of medieval Syria.
The Promised Land?
Analyzes East German feminism for an American audience through an exploration of their women writers.
On the Study of Greek Poetry
Available for the first time in English, this study offers insights into the genesis of German Romanticism.
Islamic Legends Concerning Alexander the Great
English translation and introductory study of a previously unedited Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great.
Desire and Death, or Francesca and Guido Cavalcanti: Inferno 5 in Its Lyric Context
Explores the lyric context of Inferno 5.
Dante Between Philosophers and Theologians: Paradiso X - XIII
Raises the radical question of how Dante’s understanding of poetry shaped his theology, his ethics, and, more generally his sense of the organization of knowledge or encyclopedia.
Totems for Defence and Illustration of Taboo: Sites of Petrarchism in Renaissance Europe
Argues that critical comments appended to early printed editions of Petrarch’s Rime sparse inflected the reception and understanding of Petrarch’s vernacular poetry in Renaissance Europe.
Shi'ite Heritage
Explores Western and Muslim scholarship on multiple aspects of the Twelver Shi’ite tradition.
Zayas and Her Sisters, 2
A collection of essays on the novelist María de Zayas and other seventeenth century Spanish women writers.
On Other Grounds
Examines eighteenth-century French and English landscape gardens as representations of nationalist expression.
Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder
A historiography of Ottoman Basra, a trade center in the eighteenth century.
The Breaking of a Thousand Swords
A portrait of the Samarran Turk community while in the employ of the 'Abbasid caliphate during the ninth century.
The Experimental Arabic Novel
Traces the development of the modern Arabic novel from the 1960s to the present.
The Management of Islamic Activism
Shows how the laws governing civil society are used to regulate Islamic activism in Jordan.
African American Criminological Thought
Examines African American contributions, both historical and contemporary, to criminological thought.
La Valse and Foreign
Ten short stories and a dramatic monologue by one of contemporary Austria's most important and provocative writers.
Structures of Desire
Examines the cultural, historical, and ideological factors influencing British cinema during World War II and the postwar years, with attention to male-female relationships as well as to utopian desires for a better postwar world.
A Learned Society in a Period of Transition
Addresses the social significance of orthodox Islam during the medieval period in Baghdad.
Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies
A rare look at female empowerment in the Muslim world.
Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light
The first study in English of Islamic thought in China, this book shows that this tradition was informed by both Sufism and Neo-Confucianism; translations of two classic works are included.
Negotiating Jerusalem
Explores the beliefs, attitudes, and values of ordinary Palestinians and Israeli Jews asking the question: Is it possible to reach a negotiated resolution to the Jerusalem question?
French Cultural Studies
Addresses the theoretical and pedagogical implications of redefining French Studies as an interdisciplinary field, while providing practical examples of the kind of criticism that such a shift would entail.
Mosul before Iraq
Using original source documents, this book portrays nineteenth-century Mosul--a large city currently in Iraq's "no-fly" zone.
Image and Imperialism in the Ottoman Revolutionary Press, 1908-1911
An illustrated work focusing on the ways in which satirical publications revealed evolution in Ottoman society.
Review Essays in Israel Studies
Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.
Advances in African Linguistics
A selection of papers presented at the 28th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.
Hardened Images
Examines the nature of the interplay between the U. S. press and the American state on Africa, with a special focus on its armed struggles waged to complete the decolonization process.
This Is No Place for a Woman
Surveys the works of three important female writers of postcolonial societies.
Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922
An innovative application of consumption studies to the field of Ottoman history.
Figuring the East
Examines the ambiguous constructions of the Orient in the works of four major twentieth-century French writers.
Valentin Weigel (1533-1588)
This first English-language consideration of Valentin Weigel, an important but neglected figure in German intellectual history, examines his life and his writings on tolerance.
The Leaven of the Ancients
Provides an account of Islamic philosopher Suhrawardi's revival of Neoplatonism.
Turmoil in the Middle East
Berch Berberoglu examines the dynamic social forces and political turmoil that plague the contemporary Middle East.
Subtractive Schooling
Provides an enhanced sense of what’s required to genuinely care for and educate the U. S.–Mexican youth in America.
Adorno's Nietzschean Narratives
Investigates the intellectual affinities of Adorno and Nietzsche, culminating in a discussion of their readings of Wagner, who serves as a medium and supplement for their critiques of modern culture.
Economic Interdependence in Ukrainian-Russian Relations
Explores the emerging political economy of the former Soviet Union.
The Elections in Israel 1996
Leading American and Israeli social scientists discuss the precedent-setting events of Israel’s 1996 elections.
Reading with Michel Serres
Explores the concept of time in the work of Michel Serres, demonstrating close analogies in his work to the discourses of science, literature, and philosophy.
All in the Family
A new and provocative argument about monarchism in the Middle East.
Birth of a National Icon
Examines the rise of the intellectual in fin-de-siecle France, setting this important phenomenon against the backdrop of an emerging mass democracy and concentrating on the key role played by the avant-garde.
Dialogue, Conflict Resolution, and Change
Explores Arab-Jewish encounters and relations in Israel from both conflict resolution and educational perspectives.
The French Connections of Jacques Derrida
Addresses for the first time the issue of Derrida's relation to French poetics, writing, thought, and culture.
My Double Life
A translation of Ma Double Vie, the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars.
Delirium and Destiny
Written by one of twentieth-century Spain's most prominent intellectuals, this book--part memoir, part lyrical novel--is both a Bildungsroman about a young woman's intellectual formation during a crucial period of Spanish history (1929-1931) and a philosophical meditation upon the individual's place in society.
Constructing Spanish Womanhood
The first anthology in English on modern Spanish women's history and identity formation.
Dante and Petrarch: The Earthly Paradise Revisited
Explores the nature and significance of Petrarch’s indebtedness to Dante in the Rime sparse.
The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction
Provides a clear account of the issues in Spanish American fiction in the last quarter-century by attempting to answer questions on the Boom, Post-Boom, and its relation to Postmodernism.
Placing the Poet
Makes available, for the first time in English, the work of a major modern Arab poet, providing a framework for understanding his experience not only as an Arab writer but as a postcolonial one.
Defying Gravity
A major reassessment of the work of Jean Paulhan within the context of his own times as well as in the light of contemporary debates in literary theory.
Crime and Criminal Justice in Israel
Offers insights into the criminal justice system and the field of criminology in Israel.
Women Mystics Confront the Modern World
Situates the female mystical tradition within the context of the epistemological shift which occurred at the dawn of the modern world.
Images of Women in Maharashtrian Society
Explores the conditions of women's lives in the modern state and traditional region of Maharashtra.
Dante's Cosmos
Freccero argues that the Paradiso may be considered a medieval version of science fiction.
The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Addresses the inter-Arab dimension of Middle East politics and its impact on the Palestinian conflict.
For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife
This first book-length work of the prominent German philosopher Gunter Figal to appear in English offers a radical defense of metaphysical philosophy in the era of postmodern thought.
The Middle East Peace Process
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the history of and complex issues surrounding the peace process in the Middle East.
The Endless Text
Traces the history of chivalric fiction in Western Europe, from the earliest Celtic tales to the conflict between romance and realism in Don Quixote.
Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment
Explores the way seven women writers of the eighteenth century responded to Rousseau, and traces his crucial influence on their literary careers.
Trial and Error
Questions the commonly accepted view that Israel's military policies were formed in direct response to Arab states' hostility and argues for a historical linkage between Israel's changing military posture and the development of an inequitable Israeli social structure.
The Politics of Regional Trade in Iraq, Arabia, and the Gulf, 1745-1900
Examines the development of a socioeconomic region in Iraq, Arabia, and the Gulf during a 150-year period, focusing on regional ties through long-distance trade networks.
The Jewishness of Israelis
Analyzes a recent report on a survey of the religious beliefs and behavior of Israeli Jews, and of the intense public debate that it produced.
The Disenchantments of Love
Published in 1647, these ten tales are among the earliest narratives in Western literature to focus on women's experiences and points of view in love relationships.
Making of Iraq, The, 1900-1963
This book's innovative approach makes it an important intervention into the field of modern Iraqi and Arab history. Samira Haj's discussion of the factors that led to, and paradoxically caused the failure ...
Women Writing Women
This first anthology in English dedicated exclusively to Spanish-American women playwrights includes eight plays by award-winning authors who have received national and international acclaim.
Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination
Examines eight Jewish-American writers--Meyer Levin, Leon Uris, Saul Bellow, Hugh Nissenson, Chaim Potok, Philip Roth, Anne Roiphe, and Tova Reich--who have "imagined" Israel in their work.
Giovanni Rutini
Explores how Rutini’s experimental work in sonata-allegra formal procedures played a significant role in the history of music.
French Intellectual Nobility
The first study to examine the conditions that led to the production of theories like "structuralism" and "poststructuralism. "
Between the Flag and the Banner
This first comprehensive study of the political life of Israeli women looks at political participation, political identity, women's political organizations, and public policy regarding women.
An Ottoman Century
This sweeping look at the city and the District of Jerusalem in the 17th century paints a vivid picture of life in an Ottoman province.
Wars, Internal Conflicts, and Political Order
The first comprehensive analysis of the effect the prolonged Arab-Israeli conflict has had on state and society in Israel.
The Dream of an Absolute Language
Traces the reception of Swedenborg's doctrine of "correspondences" in French literature and culture from the late 1700s to 1870.
Exile from Exile
The standard histories of Israeli literature limit the canon, virtually ignoring those who came to Israel from Jewish communities in the Middle East. By focusing on the work of Iraqi-born authors, this ...
The Myth of Mondragon
Shows how the creation of an idealized image of the Mondragon cooperatives is part of a new global ideology that promotes cooperative labor-management relations in order to discredit labor unions and working-class organizations.
Daughters of Palestine
Based on interviews with 35 women leaders, this is the first study of women's involvement in the Palestinian National Movement from the revolution in the mid-1960s to the Palestinian-Israeli peace process in the 1990s.
C.L.R. James
A fascinating, immensely readable biography of one of the most important radical intellectuals of the twentieth century.