In the 1950s and 1960s, a wave of military coups in the Middle East triggered extensive research on the role of military forces throughout the region. ...

Food and Foodways in the Middle East Nefissa Naguib Middle East nefissa naguib nefissa naguib

This report provides an overview of the political Islam in the Middle East, with a special emphasis on the Islamic resurgence in the Levant (Egypt, Israel, ...

The relationship between religious majorities and minorities in the Middle East is often construed as one of domination versus powerlessness. While this ...

Not so long ago, in the late 1970s, when the Middle East was in the oil boom era, on the brink of the Islamic revolution in Iran, the Russian invasion ...

In this ground-breaking book, aimed at new generation of students, Kjetil Selvik and Stig Stenslie provide a new introduction to the contemporary Middle ...

The Arab Spring represents a tectonic shift in Middle East from austere authoritarianism to opening the space for long repressed Islamist movements to ...

Life upside down: Women and crises in the Middle East Nefissa Naguib nefissa naguib nefissa nagu

Oil has been central to regime survival for oil states across the Arabian Peninsula and has been at the heart of their attempts to defuse the wave of ...

Life upside down: Women and silent crises in the Middle East Nefissa Naguib Pakistan Journal of Wom

(Nordic Research on the Middle East; 3 Papers from the third Nordic conference on Middle Eastern Studies, Joensuu, 1995)

The Arab Spring is a critical juncture for examining Hamas, a movement created in the context of a popular revolt (against Israeli occupation) similar ...

”Utenrikspolitikk og vann i Midtøsten” [Foreign Politics and Water in the Middle East] Kjersti G. Be

The Limits of Law: Abortion in the Middle East and Northern Africa Irene Maffi and Liv Tønnessen Hea

The article (in Norwegian) provides an overview of the legal and cultural aspects of honour killings in the Middle East. Based on ethnographic material ...

Midtøsten og Nord Afrika: Antropologisk oversikt (Middle East and North Africa: Anthropological per

Freedom of religion in Sudan Anne Sofie Roald Religious minorities in the Middle East. Domination,

Bangladesh aims for middle-income status by 2021 and it is a measure of success that it is on track to achieve several of the Millennium Development Goals. Its increasingly active role on the global stage, present a range of opportunities for strengthened partnership between Norway and Bangladesh.

In recent years there has been increasing academic interest in Islamism in the Middle East, not least in Palestinian Islamism championed by groups such ...

In Jerusalem in the 1960s two nuns belonging to the Polish Order of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth experienced a calling to help relieve the suffering among ...