Addresses Jacoff’s own discomfort with Dante’s reiteration of the deicide charge against the Jews in Paradiso 7 and elsewhere.

Explores Dante’s love of books.

Explores the role of language, history, and politics in Romantic literature and thought, from Kant to Yeats.

Examines the internal politics of transnational environmental advocacy networks.

An exploration of gender and power relations in Yoruba religion—both Christianity and Yoruba traditional religion.

Reevaluates the foundation myths of two rival factions in Egypt during the Ottoman era.

Examines how recent Mexican and Spanish films act as untroubling distractions from everyday routines.

Addresses the ideals and institutions through which Middle Eastern societies have confronted poverty and the poor.

Two full-length and three one-act plays, translated here for the first time into English.

A revisionist interpretation of the early origins of the Ottoman Empire.

Looks at Islamist movements seeking power today, and the difficult choices they face.

Applies clinical pyschology to explain the dynamics of the Middle East peace process.

Explores the turbulent changes in Israel party politics since the mid-1960s.

Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.

Examines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy.

Examines Romantic poets’ and essayists’ fascination with the human form.

Explores the various representations and imaginations of London in literature and popular culture, from Victorian times to the present day.

Explores the construction of the Aryan myth and its uses in both India and Europe.

Explores how the conditions that shaped Rwanda's labor organization and industries also shaped Rwanda's genocide.

A translation of Grazia Deledda's final novel, an autobiographically based portrayal of an Italian woman coming to terms with breast cancer at the cusp of the twentieth century.

Multidisciplinary examination of the public sphere in “traditional” Muslim society.

Uses the figure of the mad poet to explore the connections between madness and creativity.

Presents the political, social, and cultural context behind Ottoman charity.

Makes the perhaps surprising argument that in the last quarter of the twentieth century the Arab-Israeli conflict has been winding down.

Explores contemporary uses of letters and letter writing—including electronic mail—in literature, film, and art.