Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period was an age of hope and relative prosperity. But imperialism did not sleep while these countries developed, and it soon intervened to destroy these post-independence achievements.The two principal defeats and losses of territory to Israel in 1967 and 1973, as well as the others that fol...

Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period was an age of hope and relative prosperity. But imperialism did not sleep while these countries developed, and it soon intervened to destroy these post-independence achievements.The two principal defeats and losses of territory to Israel in 1967 and 1973, as well as the others that fol...

This work compares the development experiences of East Asia and the Arab world. It posits that in view of the collapse in socialism and its ideological retreat, their development performances are intensely over determined by their modes of integration with world capital. For East Asia, it's through manufacturing of civilian-end use commodities and for the Arab World, through militarism. The book is a unique attempt approaching the topic from the theoretical angle using an analytical compar...

This book focuses on labour dislocation and migration of Palestinians between 1967 and 1992. In particular, it highlights the social transformations in the occupied Palestinian territory where Palestinian labour was permitted to work in Israel from 1968 onwards. Elaborating on the results of the policy which saw a gradual increase in the number of Palestinian workers commuting daily from a negligible proportion of the actively participating labour force, to 35 percent of all employed perso...

This extended essay investigates the meaning of imperialism in Syria, providing a valuable addition to the ongoing debate on the Syrian crisis through the lens of imperialism, modern warfare, and geopolitics. It offers a detailed analysis of how the Syrian war has been the product of imperialist ambitions. The author begins by situating the Syrian conflict in the regional historical continuum, positing that the modern imperialist war visited upon Syria is both a production domain intrinsic...

This book is a treatise against neoliberalism illuminated by the path of China. China is a model to be mimicked, but more so theoretically than by replication. If anything, nations of the global South must rid themselves of neoliberally imposed ‘one-size-fits all’ models, instrumentalised to shift value to US empire. Neoliberal models, robbing nations of their histories and resources, are negative ‘best practice’ serving the interests of the hegemon. Developing nations need to search for t...

What does it mean to be marginalized? Is it a passive condition that the disadvantaged simply have to endure? Or is it a manufactured label, reproduced and by its nature transitory?In the wake of the new uprising in Egypt, this insightful collection explores issues of power, politics and inequality in Egypt and the Middle East. It argues that the notion of marginality tends to mask the true power relations that perpetuate poverty and exclusion. It is these dynamic processes of poli...

Neu mit Ortsverzeichnis!Seit dem 9. Jahrhundert konnte Ifriqiya über Syrien und Ägypten mesopotamische sowie auch andalusische Einflüsse in sich aufnehmen und diese weiterentwickeln, ohne mit berberischen, karthagischen, römischen und byzantinischen Traditionen brechen zu müssen: ein vollendeter Synkretismus dessen zahlreiche Zeugnisse noch heute in Tunesien sichtbar sind, von den majestätischen Bey-Residenzen in der Hauptstadt bis hin zu strengen Ibaditen-Architektur auf Djerba. Ribats, M...

Ifriqiya: Trece siglos de arte y arquitectura en Túnez es un viaje a través de la historia de la arquitectura islámica del Magreb, para descubrir una civilización milenaria que convirtió en obras de arte sus espacios más importantes. Las grandes dinastías islámicas abbasíes, aglabíes, fatimíes, ziríes, almohades, hafsíes, otomanos, así como las escuelas y los movimientos religiosos islámicos dejaron la impronta de su expresión artística a lo largo de los siglos. El arte islámico de Túnez e...

This book reveals how today's devastating conflicts across Gaza, Syria, and the broader Middle East represent imperialism in its most destructive form. Leading Area Studies scholars move beyond fragmented analyses to examine how US-led imperial power functions as a comprehensive system—from Tunisia's financial dependency to the weaponization of feminist discourse in justifying violence.Central to this analysis is the concept of “accumulation by waste,” demonstrating how systematic ...

Tunisia offers a synoptic and chronological vision spanning thirteen centuries of Islamic History. After the creation of Kairouan at the rise of the Islamic era during which time local traditions were enriched with the distant souvenir of Samarra successive dynasties embellished the architectural language of the area with their own unique artistic expressions. The Aghlabid monuments, for example, offer the dual physiognomy of Christian art revisited by oriental craftsmanship, which was in ...

Since the events of 2011, most Arab countries have slipped into a state of war, and living conditions for the majority of the working population have not changed for the better. This edited collection examines the socioeconomic conditions and contests the received policy framework to demonstrate that workable alternatives do exist.