How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the current political climate? The widely felt sense of insecurity in the West is shared by Muslims both within
During the 1940s Greece was torn apart twice, first by World War II and second by Civil War. Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal. Children starved on the street
`An important and necessary book... Opening Doors gives us a vivid larger picture of the influential worlds Cornelia inhabited.' Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Global Distinguished Professor, New York Unive
Putting readers into the shoes of the TV professionals, Hearts and Bones brings together an extraordinary range of intimate, candid accounts of the ethical struggles and decisions involved in making d
As the situation in Israel/Palestine seems to become ever more intractable and protracted, the need for new ways of looking at recent developments and its historical roots is more pressing than ever.
Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. Th
Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. Th
From the Occupy movement in the Western world to the Arab Spring in the Middle East, the Internet and social media are changing the global landscape. China is next. Despite being a heavily censored so
In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down the Strand, heading towards the menagerie of Mr. Pidcock at the Exeter Change. P
The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the twentieth century, Speyer was th
The Islamic State movement (ISIS/IS) burst onto the world stage in 2014. From its heartland in Syria, where it arose from the chaos of the Syrian Revolt, the organisation has expanded in ideology and
April 6, 1944. A detachment of German soldiers arrive in a rural French town, hunting down resistance fighters, many of whom are hiding in the region. More than sixty years later, the villagers clearl
It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities—since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could le
Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the eighteenth-century European stage, holding high office as a diplomat in London, Turin and Paris, and as viceroy and prime minister in the Two Sicilie
The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2010 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and
There is ‘luxury and inconvenience on the one hand, liberty, hard living and filth on the other’. So Edward Lear described the mysterious and often misunderstood country of Albania. Edward Lear’s trav
What is it about UFOs that speaks to people with an apparently religious intensity? In this uncanny and frequently eerie assessment of the world of UFO-logy, Gregory L. Reece travels deep into this a
