Architecture in Context: Designing in the Middle East / Hassan Radoine
Provides a foundation for understanding the critical context of architecture and design in this region. It does this by: presenting ...
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Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam / Margaret S. Graves
The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the deep intellectual dimensions of ...
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Building the Inclusive City Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformation of Dubai
This book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides ...
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Climatic Changes and Water Resources in the Middle East and North Africa
The subject is described and discussed in three main chapters and different case studies.All topics in this book are complimentary ...
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Early Islamic Art, 650-1100: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume I : Variorum Collected Studies / Oleg Grabar
Represent major contributions to the understanding of the formative centuries of Islamic art, focusing on the Umayyad (661-750) ...
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European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948 Between Contention and Connection
This book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British ...
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From War to Peace in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine
This book focuses on the origins, consequences and aftermath of Western military interventions that led to the end of the ...
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Japan’s Arduous Rejuvenation as a Global Power
This book assesses the profound impact of Japan’s aspirations to become a great power on Japanese security, democracy and ...
Continue readingNo Truth Without Beauty : God, the Qur’an, and Women's Rights
In this comprehensive book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. ...
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Oil and Security : A World Beyond Petroleum
This book examines the economic impact of changes in the global demand and supply for fossil fuels both on the major producers ...
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One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences
On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, ...
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Re-Configurations Contextualising Transformation Processes and Lasting Crises in the Middle East and North Africa
This book title and assembles both the historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in various disciplinary ...
Continue readingReframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial / Olga Bush
Resolves that impasse by investigating the neglected, interdisciplinary contexts of medieval poetics and optics and through ...
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Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road
This book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient ...
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The Poetics of Arabian Suqs : A Hermeneutic Reading of the Development of Arabian Sūqs from the Pre-Islamic Era to Present / Jasmine Shahin
Investigates the history of Arabian sūqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ...
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Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf : Obsolescence and Opportunities / Roberto Fabbri, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi
Offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. Focusing ...
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Water Resources in the Middle East
This book demonstrates hope, optimism and the belief that people with good will can help contribute to peace and mutual cooperation ...
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When Can Oil Economies Be Deemed Sustainable?
This book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion ...
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