With new and existing evidence being reconsidered, this edited collection takes a multidisciplinary approach to discussing the Qajar system within the context of the wars that engulfed it and the peri
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Historians and other scholars of Persia/Iran specifically or the Middle East generally, journeyed from around Britain and the US to Cambridge, England in July 2003 to share iconoclastic views on the c
This volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. Focusing on developments in the wake of the region’s upheavals in 2011, it