The Middle East in the world :  an introduction / 
edited by Lucia Volk ;  contributors Carel Bertram, Rochelle Davis, Rachel Goshgarian, Maia Carter Hallward, Asli Ilgit, Mahmood Monshipouri, Hootan Shambayati, Nadine Sinno, Keith Walters, Nicole Watts, Russell Zanca. 
 - xii, 346 pages :  illustrations ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Introduction to the region / Lucia Volk -- History and Politics of Middle East Studies / Lucia Volk -- Introduction to Middle East History / Lucia Volk -- Language in the Middle East / Lucia Volk -- Religion in the Middle East / Lucia Volk -- Globalization in the Middle East / Lucia Volk -- Key Issues of Globalization in the Middle East / Lucia Volk -- Introduction to the case studies / Lucia Volk -- Diversity in the Medieval Middle East: inclusions, exclusions, supporters, and discontents / Rachel Goshgarian -- Democracy, secularism, and Islam: examining the'Turkish Model' / Hootan Shambayati -- A'Peace by Piece' Look at the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Maia Carter Hallward -- The Green Movement and the struggle for human rights in Iran / Mahmood Monshipouri -- State-society relations and protest in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq / Nicole Watts -- Energy and geopolitics in the Gulf: mixing water and oil / Asli Ilgit -- Central Asian cotton in a global perspective: Uzbekistan's monoculture and its impact on rural society / Russell Zanca -- Images of place: the legacy of the Ottoman house in modern Turkey / Carel Bertram -- Counterinsurgency and culture: the 2003 U.S. Invasion of Iraq / Rochelle Davis -- Lebanese war diaries in the digital age: blogging about the home front during times of violence / Nadine Sinno -- Language and identity in Tunisia:'Without Tunisian Arabic, We Are Not Tunisian' / Keith Walters. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780765639752 (hardcover)  RM562.58 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle East--Civilization<br/>Middle East<br/>World politics