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Middle Eastern and African History
Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid
Rick Halpern discusses Bourke-White’s artistic and political formation and speaks to the cultural, political, and economic circumstances that…
A History of Kurdish Poetry
Farangis Ghaderi provides a detailed account of the development of classical Kurdish poetry and its main trends and…
Collaboration in struggle in Palestine
Ilan Pappe discusses the history of collaborative resistance in Palestine since the first waves of Zionist immigration at…
Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California
Since the late nineteenth century, Syrian and Lebanese migration to Southern California has been intimately connected to and…
Church, State and Colonialism in Southeastern Congo
Reuben Loffman discusses the uneasy relationship between church and state in the Belgian Congo, showing how the expansion of…
Same Memory, Different Memorials
Recent literature on modern martyrdom and memory has focused on cases in which individual groups remember martyrs’ sacrifices…
The Mediterranean and North Africa, 1940–1944
Simon Ball explores the components of French strategic analysis and decision-making down to the defeat of June 1940.…
Alamein: Great Battles
El Alamein was one of the pivotal battles of the Second World War, fought by armies and air…
A History of Borno
Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose…
Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration
Many decades have passed since the Palestinian national movement began its political and military struggle. In that time,…
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