Middle East & the Islamic World New and Recent Books 2018-19 Middle East 2018-19 Message from the Editors: CONTENTS Welcome to the new Middle East & the Islamic World Catalogue. As you may have heard, we have become part of the Bloomsbury Group and are POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS – GENERAL 2-3 very excited to be working with our new colleagues! Bloomsbury has an HISTORY – GENERAL 4-5 award-winning academic programme in the humanities and social sciences HISTORY – MEDIEVAL 5-6 and shares our values, and our commitment to authors and to publishing WATER & THE MIDDLE EAST 6 academically rigorous books. With this move we gain the wider reach and REGIONAL HISTORY & POLITICS 7-14 scale of Bloomsbury’s international operation, as well as new investments in academic digital resources. GENDER STUDIES 15 ISLAMIC STUDIES 16-17 The I.B. Tauris imprint for Middle Eastern Studies, Politics & International VISUAL CULTURE 17-18 Relations now forms part of Bloomsbury’s Academic division. From November, you will be able to find I.B. Tauris books on the LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS – FICTION 19 www.bloomsbury.com website. LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS – NON-FICTION 20 A HISTORY OF PERSIAN LITERATURE 20 In this year’s catalogue we are delighted to announce the publication of James BIOGRAPHY & TRAVEL 21 Riley’s Fragile Nation, Shattered Land (p.3) which charts the last five centuries of Syria’s history. We also bring you The Shadows of Myanmar (p.2) tracing ARABIC LANGUAGE STUDIES 21-22 the persecution and violence committed against the Rohingya, written by INDEX 23 a journalist who has been reporting the story for the last five years. Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture (p.20) includes over 50 images and analyses the growing political significance of this genre, and Tarik Sabry and Joe Khalil Front cover illustration: Photograph by Eric Bouvet / Gamma-Rapho via provide a new exploration of culture and society in Culture, Time and Publics Getty Images. From The Folktales of Palestine by Farah in the Arab World (p.17). Do also find our various popular titles newly available Aboubakr; see page 20. in paperback, such as Philip Mansel’s Aleppo (p.4). Website: Further information and online ordering facilities Sophie Rudland - [email protected] are available on our website for every I.B.Tauris book in this Rory Gormley - [email protected] catalogue. Prices and dates: While every effort is made to ensure the I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd., 6 Salem Road,London W2 4BU information in this catalogue is accurate at the time of going to T: +44 (0) 20 7243 1225 F: +44 (0) 20 72 34 1226 print, prices and dates may occasionally vary and are subject to E: [email protected] W: www.ibtauris.com alteration without notice. ADVISORY BOARD Professor Hugh Kennedy, Professor of Arabic, SOAS Professor Suraiya Faroqhi, Professor of Ottoman Studies at the Ludwig- Glen Rangwala, Lecturer and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge Maximilians University, Munich Malise Ruthven, specialist in Islamic Studies, formerly at University of Aberdeen, Professor Gene R. Garthwaite, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire Dartmouth College and University of California, San Diego Robert Irwin, SOAS and Middle East editor of TheTimes Literary Supplement Professor Colin Schindler, Professor of Israeli Studies, SOAS Professor Wm. Roger Louis, Kerr Professor of English History and Professor Sami Zubaida, Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck Cultures at the University of Texas at Austin, and Fellow of St. Antony’s College, Oxford College, University of London Professor James Piscatori, Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies, Australian Professor Erik J. Zürcher, Chair, Turkish Studies, University of Leiden National University I.B.TAURIS AUTHORS, EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS Have you claimed your Author Discount Card? Please email [email protected] with your contact details so we can send you your I.B.Tauris Author Discount Card. INSPECTION COPY SERVICE Some paperback titles are available to bona fide academic teaching staff to review as possible required texts for their students. For more information and to order an inspection copy go to: www.ibtauris.com/inspectioncopy e Many of our titles are available as ebooks from all good ebook retailers and distributors theibtaurisblog.com facebook.com/ibtauris twitter.com/ibtauris NEW TITLES FOR 2018-19 TRIPLE AXIS KEMALISM THE GREAT BETRAYAL Iran’s Relations with Russia Transnational Politics in the How America Abandoned the and China Post Ottoman World Kurds and Lost the Middle East Dina Esfandiary & Ariane Nathalie Clayer, Fabio Giorni, David L. Philips Tabatabai Emmanuel Szurek (Eds) See page 3 See page 2 See page 11 1 CULTURE, TIME & PUBLICS WOMEN & EQUALITY IN IRAN THE ARMENIAN EXPERIENCE IN THE ARAB WORLD Law, Society and Activism From Ancient Times to Media, Public Space and Leila Alikarami Independence Temporality See page 15 Gaïdz Minassian Tarik Sabry & Joe Khalil (Eds) See page 13 See page 17 I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd, 6 Salem Rd, London, W2 4BU Tel: +44 (0) 20 7243 1225 | Fax: +44 (0) 20 7243 1226 Email: [email protected] www.ibtauris.com www.ibtauris.com POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS THE KURDS IN A FOREIGN AID IN THE MIDDLE CHANGING MIDDLE EAST NEW EAST NEW In Search of Peace and Democracy History, Politics and Beata Paragi, University of Budapest Representation Most foreign aid transactions are unilateral and financially unreciprocated, yet donors expect to benefit from them. Faleh A. Jabar, Birkbeck College, Focusing on Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Israel - the main University of London; and Renad beneficiaries of Western foreign aid – the book uses gift Mansour, University of Cambridge (Eds) theories and theories of social exchange to show how in- ternational social bonds are shaped by foreign aid and in what ways recipient countries are obliged to return the ‘gift’ they receive. 256 PAGES 216X138MM FEBRUARY 2019 9781788315210 HARDBACK £69.00/$94.00 LIBRARY OF MODERN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES e ebook available TRIPLE AXIS NEW Iran’s Relations with Russia and China Dina Esfandiary and Ariane Tabatabai Georgetown University The most significant challenge to the post-Cold War inter- national order is the growing power of ambitious states opposed to the West. Iran, Russia and China each view the global structure through the prism of historical experience. In this new and comprehensive study, Ariane Tabatabai and This book analyses the major problems Dina Esfandiary address the substance of this ‘triple axis’ in currently facing the Kurds and shows how the realms of energy, trade, and military security. Kurdish society is evolving. 256 PAGES 216X138MM JULY 2018 240 PAGES 216X138MM OCTOBER 2018 9781788312394 HARDBACK £25.00/$35.00 9781784539917 HARDBACK £69.00/$95.00 LIBRARY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS KURDISH STUDIES ebook available e ebook available e 2 CONTESTING THE ISLAMOPHOBIA NEW SHADOWS OF Anti-Muslim Prejudice in Media, Culture and Politics MYANMAR NEW Peter Morey, University of Birmingham; Amina Yaqin and Aung San Suu Kyi and Alaya Forte, SOAS, University of the Persecution of the London (Eds) Rohingya Poppy McPherson There was worldwide celebration in 2015 when Aung San Suu Kyi became the president of Myanmar, as the military junta surprisingly stepped aside – but the real story was just beginning. While the international community focused on her appearances on the world-stage, framed as an icon of democracy and human rights, the per- secution of the Rohingya – a minority Islamic community of almost a million in Myanmar – began to worsen. In 2017, as journalist Poppy McPherson travelled through the West of the country, she began to document an unprecedented increase in violence, extra-judicial Islamophobia is one of the most prevalent killings and deportations. The true story of this genocide is only now coming to forms of prejudice in the world today. This light. Featuring harrowing frontline reporting from the Bangladesh border and book reveals the way in which its pervasive Rakhine State, this is a moving and powerful book about horror, devastation power is being met with responses which and the displacement of hope. challenge it and the worldview it rests upon. 256 PAGES 216X135MM DECEMBER 2018 272 PAGES 216X138MM MARCH 2019 9781788311519 HARDBACK £17.99/$25.00 9781788311632 HARDBACK £72.00/$99.00 e ebook available e ebook available MIDDLE EAST 2018-19 POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS FOREIGN POLICY IN IRAN AND SAUDI ARABIA FRAGILE Economics and NATION, Diplomacy in the Middle East SHATTERED NEW IN PAPERBACK LAND NEW Robert Mason The Modern University of Exeter History of Syria James Reilly 288 PAGES 216X138MM MARCH 2019 9781788314435 PAPERBACK £14.99/$19.50 University of Toronto e ebook available The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage THE FOREIGN OFFICE of World War I. Today it stands in HANDBOOKS NEW ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. But how did the lands that are The Middle today Syria survive incorporation East with the Ottoman Empire in the Sir George sixteenth century and the trials Prothero and vicissitudes of the Sultan’s rule for four centuries, only to collapse into civil University of Texas at war in recent years? In charting Syria’s history over the last five centuries in their Austin entirety for the first time, James Reilly demonstrates the myriad historical, cultural, social, economic and political factors that bind Syrians together. Based on primary sources, recent historiography in English, French and Arabic and more than 30 years’ experience living and working in the region, this is the essential book for understanding modern Syria and the Middle East. 560, 504, 592 PAGES 234X156MM SEPTEMBER 2018 312 PAGES 226X155MM SEPTEMBER 2018 9781788310581 HARDBACK £295.00/$450.00 9781784539610 HARDBACK £25.00/$35.00 e ebook available e ebook available 3 WESTERN THE GREAT IMAGININGS The Intellectual Contest BETRAYAL to Define Wahhabism Rohan Davis How America 232 PAGES 230X150MM APRIL 2018 9789774168642 HARDBACK £39.95 Abandoned the THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN Kurds and Lost the CAIRO PRESS Middle East David L.