Middle East, African and Asia Studies New Books October-December 2025
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Decoding Iran’s Foreign Policy
Strategic Interests, Power and Influence
Ross Harrison, Senior Fellow and Director of Research Middle East institute
Iranian foreign policy is aimed at achieving regional prominence and rebuffing U.S. efforts to limit Iran’s influence. This book uses a ‘strategic lens’ to analyze Iran’s current foreign policy Ross Harrison argues that to understand Iranian behavior it is essential to look at it from the perspective of Iran’s strategic interests, namely: its capabilities; how Iran interprets the region, the international community and itself; and the state’s conception of time and territory in its foreign policy calculations Iranian foreign policy is revealed to evince ideological strains but also realpolitik considerations based on current interpretations of the national interest
Series: Middle East Institute Policy Series • I B Tauris
The Lion and the Sun Environmental History and the Formation of Modern Iran
James M. Gustafson
This book explores this critical transitional period in Eurasian history from an environmental perspective It argues that severe ecological challenges dating to the late 17th century, and deepening over the post-Safavid crisis of the 18th century, drove a severe decline in the demography and resource base on the Iranian plateau This in turn gave rise to the perennially troubled Qajar period in the 19th century
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 272 pages
HB 9780755634842 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755634866 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755634859 • £76 50 / $103 94
I B Tauris
Labour History and the Economy in Iran
Workers, Entrepreneurs and the State
Edited by Mary Yoshinari & Serhan Afacan
This book presents a multifaceted view of Iran’s economic development and the people who made it possible, from the late Qajar period to the revolution of 1979 Containing innovative scholarly research across a wide spectrum of historical viewpoints and methodologies, the book brings to light a number of new findings using a body of largely unknown research from Iranian archives It examines economic and labour history together, covering topics such as the private sector, family business and worker histories, and events in the provinces
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 296 pages
HB 9780755652594 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755652631 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755652624 • £76 50 / $103 94
I B Tauris
The Iranian Christian Diaspora Religion and Nationhood in Exile
Benedikt Römer, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
In this book Benedikt Römer weaves the history and contemporary story of the Iranian Christian community together, placing it in the context of a wider ongoing religious transformation in Iranian society Examining abundant source material available in the Iranian Christian exilic milieu, this book draws extensively upon five unstudied series of Persian-language Christian exile magazines published between the early 1990s and the 2020s, Persian-language video material and a number of interviews with Iranian Christian pastors with leadership positions in the Iranian Christian diaspora
UK November 2025 US November 2025 248 pages
PB 9780755651726 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755651689
ePub 9780755651702 • £76 50 / $103 94
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I B Tauris
The Memoirs of Shah Tahmasp I
Safavid Ruler of Iran
Shah Tahmasp I
Edited by Andrew Peacock, University of St Andrews, UK
Translated by Andrew Peacock, University of St Andrews, UK
A remarkable first-person narrative by a sixteenth-century Iranian ruler, the Memoirs of the Safavid Shah Tahmasp (1514-1576), originally written in Persian, represent a vitally important primary source for the history of the Middle East in the period They shed light on the Safavid conflict with the Uzbeks and Ottomans, which played a decisive role in shaping the modern frontiers of the region
The Memoirs also represent an invaluable source for the internal political and religious life of the Safavid court, and the ways in which Shah Tahmasp, one of the most important rulers in Iranian history, wished to be remembered and viewed. This first English translation is furnished with an extensive introduction and notes that situate the work in its literary and historical context
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 184 pages
PB 9780755653560 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755653553
ePub 9780755653577 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755653584 • £76 50 / $103 94
I B Tauris
Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean World
Edited by Andrew Peacock, University of St Andrews, UK
This book brings together a collection of internationally renowned scholars from a variety of disciplines – including archaeology, history, literature, linguistics, art history – to examine Iran’s political and commercial relations with the Indian Ocean world in history, Persian-speaking communities in the Indian Ocean world, Persian(ate) elements in Indian Ocean languages and literatures, Persian texts dealing with the Indian Ocean, and connections in material culture
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 376 pages
HB 9780755656028 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755656035 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755656042 £76 50 / $103 94
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies • I B Tauris
The Plays and Films of Bahram Beyzaie
Origins, Forms and Functions
Edited by Saeed Talajooy, University of St Andrews, UK
This book analyses Bahram Beyzaie’s influential plays such as Arash and So Dies Pahlevan Akbar and films such as The Crow, Bashu, the Little Stranger and Killing Mad Dogs from a range of critical perspectives including ecofeminist, sociopolitical, new-historicist, archetypal and psychoanalytical readings. It explores Beyzaie’s dialogue with filmic genres such as noir, different Iranian languages such as Gilaki, Iranian epics and ritual practices such as ta’ziyeh plays and javanmardi chivalry cults It shows how Beyzaie’s works negotiate narratives of belonging and undermine the dominant exclusionist discourses in Iran, and how they use the resources of Iranian folk and performance traditions to comment on the position of women, children, intellectuals, and minorities in society
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 264 pages
PB 9780755652730 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755652693
ePub 9780755652716 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755652709 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies • I B Tauris
Piety and Politics in Qajar Iran
The Takkiyya Mu’avin al-Mulk in Kermanshah
Nahid Massoumeh Assemi
This book examines the history, patrons, builders, and features of the Takkiyya Mu’avin al-Mulk, a space for performances of the religious ritual Shi’i ta’ziyeh in Kermanshah, mapping the building and its decorative programme to reveal how and why these have functioned since its creation in the Qajar period until today In the process, the book examines the meaning of the rituals the building was used for, and the intersection of art, architecture and a burgeoning sense of national political identity as manifested in the building by those who built and used it
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 288 pages • 77 bw illus 22 colour illus
PB 9780755652686 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755652648
ePub 9780755652662 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9780755652655 • £81 00 / $110 69
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies • I B Tauris
Israel and the Gaza Strip since 1967
A History of Occupation, Domination and Unilateralism
Trude Strand, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland.
Drawing on extensive archival research and firsthand experience from the region, this book tells the story of how and why Israeli decision-makers opted to conquer, occupy, colonise and dominate the Gaza Strip for strategic and diplomatic purposes, turning the area into both an asset and a liability for the State of Israel since 1967
The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951
Ilan Pappé
This seminal text by renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, discusses one of the most significant periods in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Based on archival material, it presents the reader with a comprehensive and general history of the origins and consequences of the 1948 war Pappe shows that in sharp contrast to the recollections and myths of both sides, the military events of 1948 were not decisive The victory of the Zionist organization was determined by politicians on both sides - in the discussions and decisions of the United Nations and in the Arab League - long before a shot had been fired.
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 344 pages
PB 9780755651221 • £24 99 / $34 95
ePub 9780755651245 • £22 49 / $31 04
ePdf 9780755651238 • £22 49 / $31 04
I B Tauris
Theatre and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Identity, Resistance and Contested Narratives
Azza Harras
This ground-breaking exploration employs postcolonial theory to analyze a diverse array of theatrical works by Israeli, Palestinian, and Western playwrights
UK February 2025 US February 2025 232 pages
HB 9781788311274 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755656547 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755656554 • £76 50 / $103 94
I B Tauris
SOAS Palestine Studies
Adam Hanieh & Dina Matar, SOAS, University of London, UK
Producing Palestine
The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media
Edited by Dina Matar, SOAS, University of London, UK & Helga Tawil-Souri
Palestine has often been defined in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence This volume addresses the creative labour of producing Palestine, particularly in technological and media spaces that are defined by their porousness and by their intermediality – crossing genres of popular culture and disciplinary boundaries It offers 16 ‘cases’ which collectively conceptualize, engage in, and invite readers to participate in the production of Palestine and its theorization These cases contend that representations of Palestine carry multiple meanings, that Palestine is continually produced and reproduced, dynamically generating new knowledge production across media, languages, temporalities, geographies and disciplines
A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian
and Palestinian Documentary Film
Shahd Abusalama
This book investigates representations of Palestinian refugees in Gaza in colonial, humanitarian and Palestinian documentary films, spanning until the 1993 Oslo Agreement. Chapters examine various film sources throughout this period including British Pathé, newsreels, Quaker and UNRWA documentaries, and Palestinian opposition cinema In exploring the historical, ideologically fuelled, representations of Gaza and its refugees in colonial and humanitarian films, and the opposition to it, this book reaffirms the continuity of Palestinian resistance, refugees’ call for return, and the importance of Gaza itself to the Palestinian struggle
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 272 pages
HB 9780755653102 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755653119 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755653126 £76 50 / $103 94
Series: SOAS Palestine Studies • I B Tauris
Stolen Nation
The Right to Reparation of Palestinian Refugees
Lena El-Malak
This book provides a legal analysis of the right to reparation of Palestinian refugees under international law for the destruction and expropriation of their property since the 1940s Discussing the legal landscape related to property ownership prior to the creation of the State of Israel and the legal basis for the right to reparation under international law, Lena El-Malak advocates for a lawbased approach to enforce this right and the form it should take
UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 256 pages
HB 9780755652792 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755652815 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755652822 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: SOAS Palestine Studies • I B Tauris
Tunisia Under Ben Ali
A History of an Authoritarian Regime, 1987-2011
Daniel Zisenwine
Daniel Zisenwine looks at Tunisia under the rule of Ben Ali, from 1987 when he rose to power until the 2011 protests that led to his downfall Zisenwine offers an analysis of this authoritarian regime from its early days, to the attempts in the 2000s to reform economically and the societal discontent that eventually led to the 2011 protests
This book is vital for those researching the Middle East and North Africa, as well as for those interested in the anatomy of authoritarian regimes and their downfall
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 224 pages
HB 9781784531850 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781786726285 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781786736345 • £76 50 / $103 94
I B Tauris
Resisting Domination in Palestine
Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism
Edited by Alaa Tartir, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland, Timothy Seidel, Eastern Mennonite University, USA & Tariq Dana
Israel is exerting control on Palestine in ways that have never been seen before. This book identifies these sites of control and domination and how they operate across intellectual, ecological, political and economic levels It also demonstrates how these sites of control are resisted Split into four themed parts, the book offers readers critical, interdisciplinary and decolonial perspectives that are based on fieldwork. It provides an understanding of how neoliberalism, imperial histories, and settler colonialism foster exploitation and dispossession
UK October 2025 US October 2025 248 pages
PB 9780755650873 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755650835
ePub 9780755650859 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9780755650842 • £81 00 / $110 69
Series: Unsettling Colonialism in our Times • I B Tauris
The Formation of the UAE State-Building and Arab Nationalism in the Middle East
Kristi Barnwell, University
of Illinois, USA
Based on primary source materials from British and American government archives, speeches, government publications from the Arab Emirates - as well as memoirs and secondary sources - the book sheds light on the processes and problems surrounding the creation of the UAE Kristi Barnwell demonstrates that Arab rulers in the Persian Gulf strove to create their new state with close ties to Great Britain, which provided technical, military and administrative assistance to the Emirates; while also publicly embracing the popular ideologies of anti-imperialism and Arab socialism that were still dominating the political discourse in the Arab world
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 208 pages
PB 9780755654062 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781838605278
ePub 9781838605285 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781838605292 • £76 50 / $103 94
I B Tauris
The I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire
History and Legacy
Edited by Hans-Lukas Kieser, University of Zurich, Switzerland
&
Khatchig Mouradian
Drawing on contributions from an international group of more than forty established and emerging academics, this Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East presents an in-depth exploration of the scholarship that has recently emerged in the vibrant fields and subfields on the religious and ethnic communities and nation-states it covers Within the broad rubric of political history, it tackles religion, gender, identity, social conditions, environment and histories from below, from peripheries and from borderlands Surveying the state of the art of the scholarship its interdisciplinary dimensions and future directions, and foregrounding the formative role of mass violence in the history of the region, this handbook serves as a reference to researchers, diplomats, students, and the general reader
UK October 2025 US October 2025 768 pages
HB 9780755644353 £150 00 / $200 00
ePub 9780755644490 • £135 00 / $183 59
ePdf 9780755644506 • £135 00 / $183 59
Series: I B Tauris Handbooks • I B Tauris
Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Harmonization, Property Rights and Sovereignty
Malissa Taylor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Published in association with the British Institute at Ankara
Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its “classical” articulation in the sixteenth century to its reformulation in the 1858 Land Code The book demonstrates that well before the nineteenth century the tradition of Ottoman land tenure law had developed an indigenous form of property right that would remain intact in the Land Code
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 216 pages
PB 9780755647729 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755647682
ePub 9780755647705 • £26 09 / $36 44
ePdf 9780755647699 • £26 09 / $36 44
Series: The Ottoman Empire and the World • I B Tauris
Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World
Bedross Der Matossian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
The Agony of a People
Haig Toroyan’s Eyewitness Account of the Armenian Genocide
Zabel Yesayan
Edited by Maral Aktokmakyan & Tamar Marie
Boyadjian
Translated by Arakel Minassian
Haig Toroyan’s account of his journey from Dikranagerd (Diyarbakir in modern-day southeastern Turkey) along the Euphrates River to Mesopotamia and Iran is a unique and hauntingly detailed account of the Armenian Genocide in 1915, translated into English for the first time.
UK February 2025 US February 2025 200 pages 2 bw illus
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I B Tauris
The Armenian Genocide and Turkey
Public Memory and Institutionalized Denial
Hakan Seckinelgin
Hakan Seckinelgin investigates the mechanisms by which denial of the events of 1915 are reproduced in official discourse, and the effect this has on Turkish citizens. Examining state education, media discourse, academic publications, as well as public events debating the Armenian genocide, the book argues that, at the public level, there exists a ‘grammar’ or ‘repertoire’ of denial in Turkey which regulates how the issue can be publicly conceptualised and understood The book’s careful analysis examines the way that knowledge about the genocide is censored in Turkey, from the language that must be used to publicly discuss it, to the complex way in which selective knowledge and erased history is reproduced, from 1915 and subsequent generations until today
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 224 pages
PB 9780755653652 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755653614
ePub 9780755653621 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755653638 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I B Tauris
Armenians in Turkey after the Second
World War
An Archival Reader of USSR Consular Documents
Talin Suciyan
A reader of newly unearthed archival documents made by the Soviet consulate in 1940’s Turkey These primary sources include consular correspondence, demographic information, a review of Turkish and Armenian press, and most importantly oral testimony of Armenian survivors of the 1915 genocide living in both Istanbul and the provinces sharing their stories while seeking to emigrate to Soviet Armenia Includes a critical introduction and the original Russian language sources in an appendix
UK February 2025 US February 2025 184 pages
HB 9780755646326 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755646340 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755646333 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I B Tauris
The Armenian Women's Movement in the Late Ottoman Empire
Modernity,
Nationalism and Gender
Hasmik Khalapyan
This book analyses the history of the women’s movement among Ottoman Armenians Examining debates on the role of women in the Armenian context, Armenian women’s access to education, work and marriage rights, it reveals how women were empowered by nationalist discourses and the wider movement for reform in the empire, and the ways these limited or broadened women’s activism Drawing from primary source material, it provides a comprehensive analysis of changes to the socioeconomic, political, cultural status of Ottoman Armenian women from end of the Tanzimat period to the outbreak of World War I
UK February 2025 US February 2025 224 pages
HB 9780755652846 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755652884 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755652877 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I B Tauris
Ararat in America
Armenian American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Benjamin F. Alexander, New York City College of Technology, USA
How has the distinctive Armenian-American community navigated its identity as an ethnic minority while ‘assimilating’ to life in the United States? This book examines the role of community leaders and influencers, including clergy, youth organizers, and partisan newspaper editors, in fostering not only a sense of Armenian identity but specific ethnic-partisan leanings within the group’s population. It explores the rivalry between two major Armenian political parties, the Tashnags and the Ramgavars
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages • 16 bw illus
PB 9780755648856 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755648818
ePub 9780755648832 • £26 09 / $36 44
ePdf 9780755648825 • £26 09 / $36 44
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I B Tauris
Syrian-Armenian Women Migrants in Armenia
Gender, Identity, and Painful Belonging
Anahid Matossian, Marine Corps University, USA
This book traces the experiences of SyrianArmenian women refugees in Armenia as they navigated their changing and gendered identities from their adopted ‘homeland’ to their socially constructed new ‘ancestral’ home. The rich ethnographic research conducted over 6 years by the author reveals how women adjusted to new lives in Armenia, supported themselves through gendered work such as embroidery production, yet mostly challenge simple identities such as ‘refugee’ or ‘repatriate’. It further reveals crucial insight into how experiences and traumatic memories of war in Syria and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict reciprocally shape each other in the minds of the women interviewed
UK February 2025 US February 2025 232 pages
HB 9780755648467 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755648481 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755648474 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I B Tauris
The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party
Politics, Ideology and Transnational History
Edited by Bedross Der Matossian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Divided into sections which cover the origins, ideology, and regional history of the revolutionary Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party, this book situates the history of the Hnchaks within debates around socialism, populism, and nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries The SDHP was not only an Armenian party but had a global Marxist outlook, and scholars trace the emergence and role this influential party played from their split with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the events of the Armenian genocide to the formation of the first Armenian Republic and then Soviet Armenia
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 296 pages
PB 9780755651344 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9780755651375
ePub 9780755651351 £26 09 / $36 44
ePdf 9780755651368 • £26 09 / $36 44
Series: Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World • I B Tauris
The Early Nizari Ismailis and their Neighbouring Powers
Politics in the Caspian Provinces
Miklós Sárközy
I B Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies This new history of the Alamut era of the Nizari Ismaili community concentrates on the local politics of the remote mountainous Caspian region This is where religious leader, Hasan-i Sabbah, famously founded the medieval Nizari Isma’ili state Miklos Sarkozy presents here a fresh investigation of this period through a detailed examination of the regional Caspian histories across the turbulent 10th and early 11th centuries His analysis sheds light on how the Nizari Ismailis were able to survive and flourish through difficult times and establish themselves as a vital polity of the Muslim world
The Banquet of the Brethren: An Ismaili Guide to Spiritual Hermeneutics
Part 1 A Persian critical edition of Nasir-i Khusraw’s Khwan al-ikhwan
Rahim Gholami, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK
I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. The Ismaili missionary (da'i), and poet, Nasir-i Khusraw (d. after 462), wrote Khwan al-ikhwan (The Banquet of the Brethren) when he was living in his remote mountain refuge of Yumgan in Badakhshan. As well as being an important example of Ismaili theology, Khwan al-ikhwan is also a reflection of the learning of the age, including the conception of a geo-centric cosmos, Aristotelian physics, and Neoplatonic philosophy, which greatly influenced the Ismaili da'is of the Iranian lands
UK October 2024 • US February 2025 • 616 pages • 1 bw illus
The current revival of Islam among Balkan Muslims is due to a long history of contact with the Arab World This book is the first to examine the evolving relationship between the Balkans and the Middle East covering three phases: under communism, during its violent collapse, and during its uneasy post-war and postYugoslav independence. Harun Karcic identifies how official links with the Middle East sparked an Islamic revival In particular, the book shows how Yugoslavia used its Muslim population as ‘gate openers’ in the Arab world and to lobby for support when war broke out in 1992
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 224 pages
HB 9780755646845 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755646869 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755646852 £76 50 / $103 94
I B Tauris
Critical Studies on Islamism Series
Rethinking Islamic Politics in Tunisia
A Gramscian Analysis
Fabio Merone & Francesco Cavatorta, Laval University, Canada
Written by two renowned experts of political Islam, this book uses the philosophy of Gramsci to provide a new perspective on Islamism and Salafism in Tunisia. In particular, the book explains how the ideological/theological side of Islamic activism realizes itself into practical political action In doing so, it argues that Islamists and Salafists can be described as ‘post-Islamist’ in the same way communist parties became ‘post-communist’ and ‘post-ideological’, where ideology has the same meaning as revolutionary politics The theoretical approach and critical outlook developed here provides an innovative framework to understand Islamist politics in other contexts
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 208 pages
HB 9780755656387 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755656417 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755656400 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Critical Studies on Islamism Series • I B Tauris
Sufism and Zen in the West
The Transformation of Modern Religious Life and Practice
Edited by Saeko Yazaki & Michael Conway
In this book, scholars analyse the ways in which Sufism and Zen were introduced to and developed in the West The collection shows that the popularity of these religions arose not because of the substantive shared elements within the two traditions, but because their promoters in the West employed similar strategies to respond to the interests of a modern, Western audience
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 264 pages
HB 9781838602352 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781838602376 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781838602383 • £76 50 / $103 94
I B Tauris
History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate
Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature
Letizia Osti, University of Milan, Italy
Abu Bakr al-Suli was a noted polymath and table companion in the courts of three Abbasid caliphs
In addition to his work as observer of the court, he is perhaps best known for his poetry - which would have a long-lasting influence on Arabic literature - historiographical insight and skill as a chess player
Letizia Osti here provides the first full-length English-language study devoted to al-Suli In so doing, she sheds light onto broader questions, such as: How did the Abbasid court make sense of the past? What was the importance of written culture? And book collecting? What does ‘historiography’ mean in a medieval Islamic context?
UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 200 pages
PB 9780755647811 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781788319232
ePub 9781838600563 £26 09 / $36 44
ePdf 9781838600570 • £26 09 / $36 44
Series: Early and Medieval Islamic World • I B Tauris
Unheard Voices of the Young Egyptian Brothers Pathways of Activism after 2013
Doha Abdelgawad
The crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt led to hundreds of members being imprisoned or killed after 2013 This book examines the reaction of the Muslim Brotherhood’s young members to the MB’s political failure While much attention has been given to how young Islamists were radicalized, this book is the first to also examine and give voice to Islamists’ political disengagement The book is based on interviews with 48 MB members aged 18 – 35 The research reveals the multiplicity of personal, societal and political factors that determine members’ very different actions, motivations and ideas
UK October 2024 • US October 2024 • 232 pages
HB 9780755650484 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755650507 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755650491 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Critical Studies on Islamism Series • I B Tauris
Vali Dakhani and the Early Rekhtah Networks
Sharing Poetry’s Pleasures
Heidi Pauwels & Purnima Dhavan, University of Washington, USA
Placing the earliest Urdu poets and their craft in the lively social gatherings, bazaars, shrines, and courts of eighteenth century South Asia, this book reframes the history of Urdu within the diverse contexts from which it emerged Dhawan and Pauwels re-examine the long-dominant mischaracterization of Urdu as an elite language of South Asian Muslims by analysing the poetic biographies of Vali Dakhani and his contemporaries Fa’iz, Abru and Hatim The authors reveal how selective attention to a handful of poets and rarefied courtly texts obscured the much more diverse roots of an important vernacular tradition, thereby reconstructing a lost literary network of speakers, poets and participants in Urdu’s past
UK June 2025 US June 2025 266 pages
HB 9780755650057 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755650071 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9780755650064 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Library of Islamic South Asia • I B Tauris
Songs of the Arabian Red Sea A Cultural History
Dionisius A. Agius, University of Exeter, Muhammad Alhazmi, University in Madinah & Hasan Hujairi, Independent Artist
The Arabian Red Sea was, in the days of sail, a hub for trade and pilgrimage Dhows sailed to the sea towns from the Sinai Peninsula or across from the Egyptian coast on their way to Jeddah or Mecca and Medina Mariners sang work songs or songs for entertainment on board the dhow or in a number of sea towns The song was, therefore, an integral part of the maritime landscape
Although the tradition of singing these songs still exists in sea towns, the last practitioners are now elderly and it is possible that the original songs will die out with them; the old wording is slowly being forgotten as new adapted and/or non-maritime versions are appearing
This interdisciplinary book documents the typology of sea songs of the Arabian Red Sea shores, their origin and provenance, their different keys and styles and where, when and how the songs are sung, thus presenting a unique cultural history of these sea songs for the first time.
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 264 pages
HB 9780755634064 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755634088 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Sufis in Medieval Baghdad
Agency and the Public Sphere in the Late Abbasid Caliphate
Atta Muhammad, Talim-ul-Islam College, Pakistan
This book examines the political and social activities of Sufis in Baghdad in the period 1000-1258, arguing that Sufis played an important role in creating a public sphere that existed between ordinary subjects and the government Drawing on Arabic sources and secondary literature, it explores the role of Sufis and their institutions including their ribats or lodge houses, from the use of Sufis as political ambassadors to their role in redistributing charity to the poor, revealing the role of Sufism in structuring a wide range of social and political arrangements in this period
UK May 2025 US May 2025 192 pages
PB 9780755647620 £28 99 / $39 95
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Gertrude Bell's Moment in the Middle East A Reappraisal
Liora Lukitz
A nuanced re-evaluation of the Gertrude Bell’s legacy in the Middle East Examining Bell’s published and unpublished correspondence, diaries, books and official documents, the book charts Bell’s evolution from an explorer and travel writer to an influential policymaker in the creation of Iraq It reappraises Bells motivations, complicating perceptions of an Orientalist agent of the British Empire and examining the legacy of her views and actions on contemporary Iraq
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 248 pages
HB 9780755655496 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755655519 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9780755655526 • £76 50 / $103 94 I B Tauris
Armenians in the Byzantine Empire
Identity, Assimilation and Alienation from 867 to 1098
Toby Bromige, City University of London, UK
This book investigates the relationship between Armenians and the Byzantine Empire, arguing that up until the eleventh century migrants of Armenian background were able to fully assimilate into the Empire, recognized fully as Romaioi (Byzantine Romans) It uses the extant sources from a number of traditions and material culture in a chronological approach to reveal issues of migration, religion, ethnic stereotypes, and cultural assimilation, bringing to life the experiences of Medieval Armenians in the Empire, including their ultimate alienation at the onset of the Turkic migration to Anatolia
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 208 pages
PB 9780755642465 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Theodore Metochites
Patterns of Self-Representation in Fourteenth-Century Byzantium
Ioannis Polemis, University of Athens, Greece
In this book, Ioannis Polemis provides the first in-depth study of Byzantine statesmen and philosopher Theodore Metochites’ oeuvre, revealing the complex way he represented the authorial self to critique the politics and mores of his day, whilst at the same time shielding himself from potential criticism Polemis details the way Metochites deftly manipulated figures and tropes from classical antiquity and early Christianity to justify his role in public life, which was traditionally shunned by scholars in the pursuit of ‘logos’. The book provides unique insights into one of the late Empire’s most important figures, as well as more widely deepening our understanding of classical reception in Byzantium and the social, political and intellectual climate of Constantinople in the fourteenth century
UK May 2025 US May 2025 216 pages
PB 9780755651399 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Series: New Directions in Byzantine Studies • I B Tauris
Britain’s Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan
Government and Diplomacy by Sir Henry Dobbs at the Apex of Empire
Ann Wilks
While little known today, Henry Dobbs was a key architect of the treaties that secured British India’s borders with restive Afghanistan and the Mandatory Iraq This book brings Dobbs’s role in these events at the apex of the British Empire to light, drawing on previously untapped sources made up of Dobbs’ private records and letters and official sources to do so. Revealed are Dobbs’s interactions with other members of the colonial administration and its advisors, including Percy Cox and Gertrude Bell, combined with the personal reflections of a ‘man on the spot’ which show the contingency that attended the twilight decades of the British Empire
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 208 pages
PB 9780755651283 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Climate Policy and Politics in the Middle East
Environmental, Economic and Political Challenges
Edited
by Aisha Al-Sarihi, University of Singapore & Michael Mason, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
The Middle East region is one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This book assesses the extent to which there is political and economic space for Middle Eastern states to transition into a sustainable, just and climate resilient future. The book offers a regional political economy perspective, comparing the hydrocarbon-rich Gulf States with those Arab states in the Mashreq (Levant) and Maghreb (North Africa) lacking matching resources to undertake investments
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Women, Football and Social Change in Saudi Arabia
Pioneer Players
Charlotte Lysa, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights in Oslo, Norway
The research in this work is based on fieldwork in Riyadh, interviews with players and pioneers of women’s football in Saudi Arabia, and analysis of social and traditional media and other available documents In tracing the developments of women’s football in Saudi Arabia, Charlotte Lysa offers a groundbreaking social history of contemporary Saudi society and a narrative of change: change within football, change in women’s roles, and change in the structures of society
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 224 pages
HB 9780755644209 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755644223 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Gender and Islam • I B Tauris
The Middle East in 1958
Reimagining a Revolutionary Year
Edited by Jeffrey G. Karam, Lebanese American University (LAU), Lebanon
The revolutionary year of 1958 epitomizes the height of the social uprisings, military coups, and civil wars that erupted across the Middle East and North Africa. This edited volume is the first book to explore this pivotal year in its global, regional and local contexts It draws on declassified and multilingual archives, reports, memoirs, and newspapers in thirteen country-specific chapters, shedding new light on topics such as Anglo-American competition after the Suez War, Turkey’s efforts to stand as a key pillar in the regional Cold War, the Algerian War of Independence and the collapse of the Fourth Republic in France
UK December 2024 • US December 2024 • 248 pages • 12 b/w illus
PB 9780755656875 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781788319423
ePub 9780755606818 • £26 09 / $36 44
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The Kakais of Iraq History, Beliefs and Culture
Maria Rita Corticelli, International University of Erbil, Iraq
Yarsans, known in Iraq as the ‘Kakais’, are a Kurdish speaking indigenous population who originated from the Zagros Mountains in today’s Northern Iraq Persecuted throughout history, they are still under threat of disappearing This book documents Yarsan history, religion and culture through historical research, interviews and in-depth fieldwork. It is the first book written by a member of the community, who has rare access to their sacred texts. The first-hand testimonies of dervishes and other Kakai members sheds light on this little-known community for a global readership
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 192 pages • 30 b&w illus
HB 9780755649259 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755649273 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Governance of Resistance in North and East Syria
The Experience of Rojava
Edited by Zeynep Kaya, University of Sheffield, UK & Robert Lowe, London School of Economics, UK
This book examines governance developments in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (also known as Rojava) ten years after the emergence of the de facto Kurdish administration.
Based on on-the-ground fieldwork and theoretical analysis, chapters explore how the community grapples with the challenges of the new administrative structures, the experiences of its different communities – Kurdish and non Kurdish – and the construction of political and social identities. Specific governance challenges relating to gender equality, education, migration and displacement are highlighted and juxtaposed with the ‘resistance narrative’ that underpins the administration’s governance style
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 272 pages
HB 9780755654918 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9780755654932 £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Kurdish Studies • I B Tauris
The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment
Mass Culture and Modernity in the
Middle East
Edited by Hala Auji, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Raphael Cormack, Columbia University, USA & Alaaeldin Mahmoud, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait
Studies on the 19th to mid-20th century’s transformative cultural movement known as the Arab nahda (renaissance), have largely considered the moment’s concerns with nationalism, secularism, and language, often told from the perspective of privileged groups This collection shifts the focus away from elite circles to quotidian audiences, exploring music, visual media, theatre and popular fiction. Paying special attention to networks of movement and exchange across Arab societies in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Morocco, the ‘translocal/transnational’ cultural histories in the book also contribute to global studies on gender, sexuality, and morality
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages • 25 bw illus
PB 9780755647446 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Secular Muslim Feminism
An Alternative Voice in the War of Ideas
Hind Elhinnawy, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Secular Muslim feminists are involved in challenging Islamic fundamentalism and gender inequalities from within non-religious frameworks They emphasise the indispensable role of secularism and secular spaces to ensure equality for all Drawing on the author’s 15 years of feminist activism, observations and conversations with founders and leaders of various organisations, this book examines secular Muslim feminists’ voices and ideas The book is also based on their works, writings and public speeches The author suggests that by recognising these women, and engaging with their diverse aspirations, a new path for Muslim women’s rights and Islam can be seen
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The I.B. Tauris Handbook to Gendering the Cultural Histories of the Modern Arab World
Edited by Hoda Elsadda & Seteney Shami
This handbook uses ‘gender’ as a mode of analysis to produce a new gendered cultural history of the Arab world It shows a new generation how to study the region using a gender lens and establishes this approach as a field. The five thematic parts correspond to the specific areas focused on by new cultural historians: histories of practices; histories of representations; narrative sites of memory; histories of material culture; and histories of the body The book draws together the most innovative work of feminist scholars from across history, anthropology, literature, sociology, psychology, theology, economics, political science, law, and translation studies
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 416 pages
HB 9780755648252 • £150 00 / $200 00 / $200 00
ePub 9780755648276 • £135 00 / $183 59
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Power and Authority in Afghanistan
Rethinking Politics, Intervention and
Rule
Edited by Anna Larson, Dipali Mukhopadhyay & Omar Sharifi
This volume provides a critical analysis of power and authority in Afghanistan, and how the conception and practice of these have shifted both historically and over the past twenty years Contributors examine the deep colonial roots of ethnography, geography and anthropology, and assess the international intervention’s influence on power and authority structures
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 320 pages
HB 9780755647484 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9780755647507 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9780755647491 £81 00 / $110 69
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Female Police Officers in Pakistan
Diverse Realities, Continuities and Change
Sadaf Ahmad, Associate Professor at Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUM
This book is the first to examine women’s experiences of working in the police in Pakistan It draws on extensive ethnographic research including interviews with 250 female officers and a few hundred hours of observation Adopting a postcolonial and intersectional approach, the book sheds light on the diversity of women’s experiences of recruitment, policing and career prospects and how these differ across rank, cadre and region It reveals why some female officers are able to support women’s access to justice and facilitate gendered change among the police while others reproduce dominant organisational - and sometimes even patriarchal - values and systems
A Global Microhistory from the Sixties to the Lebanese Civil War
Dylan Baun, University of Alabama in Huntsville Beirut Radical tells the story of Imad Nuwayhid, a student, leftist intellectual in the making, traveller, activist, worker, and ultimately a “martyr” killed fighting in the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. Using Imad’s writings and personal documents, communist party sources, and interviews with his comrades, family, and friends, Dylan Baun charts Imad’s trajectory, connecting personal experiences to wider forces of history, providing a unique window into this lost era of radical youth politics and culture Beirut Radical shows the complexity with which young men and women connected the Arab world and Global South to the Global North, pursuing careers alongside their faith in and activism for a better world .
UK December 2025 US December 2025 272 pages
PB 9780755655281 £21 99
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Interpretive Theme Writer's Field Guide
How to Craft Strong Themes from Big Idea to Presentation
Jon Kohl
The interpretive theme is the most important sentence an interpreter inks on paper This pocket companion offers writers strong theme examples, worksheets, exercises, inspirational quotes, and technique highlights for use at the desk, in the exhibit hall, or on the trail The second edition includes two new chapters on structuring interpretive presentations based on themes and how different psychological profiles influence both themes written by communicators and themes appreciated by audiences It also includes a new series of mini guest essays written by specialists from around the world All other sections have been updated and improved for a global English-speaking communicator audience
UK April 2026 US February 2026 272 pages 37 b/w photos; 20 tables
Series: National Association for Interpretation • Bloomsbury Academic World English
Digital Africa
Tony Roberts, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK
Internet Shutdowns in Africa
Technology, Rights and Power
Edited by Felicia Anthonio, Access Now & Tony Roberts, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK
Authored entirely by African researchers, this open access book provides ten in-depth case studies of state-sponsored internet shutdowns across all regions of Africa. In so doing, it offers the first-ever comparative analysis of how African states use internet shutdowns as tools to close civic space, suppress opposition, and maintain power, all of which produces actionable recommendations
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
The Invention of Prostrate Blackness as a Replacement for the Maroon
Yannick Marshall, California Institute of the Arts Yannick Marshall contends that Black freedom struggles are anti-colonial movements against anti-Blackness and the permutations of slavery, and as such they are ill-served by a dominant Civil Rights discourse that escapes neither the paternalism of white abolitionism nor the caricatures of minstrelsy. In our contemporary context of openly white-supremacist politics, the figure of the "supplicant negro" must be definitively destroyed in order to make way for more effective resistance to anti-Black racism
Social Exclusion, Intergenerational Healing, and Communal Restoration
Edited by Abdul Karim Bangura, American University
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the nexus between migration and displacement in Africa Through this analysis, the contributors discover how this complex phenomena has continued to impact African society
UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 224 pages • 11 bw illus and 1 table
HB 9781666970944 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781978765788 • £87 01 / $108 00
Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa
Agency, Rights and Resistance
Edited by Tanja Bosch, University of Cape Town, South Africa & Tony Roberts, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK
This open access edited collection offers the firstever book-length volume on feminist digital citizenship in Africa It offers multiple, theoretically grounded case studies by African researchers covering countries across the length and breadth of the continent, including non-majority-English countries
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
Despite its massive significance for the Horn of Africa and for other contemporary global revolutions, the histories of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution are surprisingly antiquated and oversimplified. Now, fifty years after the revolution, Etana H Dinka brings together a who’s-who of modern Ethiopian studies in order to offer this long-overdue analysis of the revolution and its legacies. This five-part collection offers new insights not only into the revolution itself, but also into issues such as the Red Terror, the EPRDF revolution of 1991, and Abiy Ahmed’s repositioning of Ethiopia after 2018
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 288 pages
HB 9781350434974 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350434981 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350434998 • £76 50 / $103 94
Zed Books
African Studies Now
Critical Approaches to Racialization and Identity Politics in Francophone Contexts
Edited by Eric Essono Tsimi, City University of New York, USA, Andrea Behrends, University of Bayreuth, Germany & Sabelo Ndlovu-Gathseni, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Curated by the up-and-coming scholar Eric Tsimi in collaboration with the distinguished anthropologist Andrea Behrends and field-leading decolonial theorist Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, this collection explores methods and approaches being developed across the humanities and social sciences for decolonizing knowledge, facilitating knowledge transfer, and addressing perceived gaps between theory and practical emergencies
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 240 pages
HB 9781350466067 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350466074 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350466081 £76 50 / $103 94
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Transformative Development for Postcolonial
Language, Literature, and Education for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
Edited by Aloysius Ngefac, Divine Che Neba & Michael T. Ndemanu
This open access book investigates the concept of transformative development through decolonial approaches to language, literatures, and pedagogies Contributors discuss the transformative development vision with a focus on language, literature and education In doing so, they investigate the contribution of Wolof to the transformative development of postcolonial Senegal, and explore AI technologies such as ChatGPT on decolonial research and teaching in Africa
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9781350509528 • £85 00 / $115 00
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Series: Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa Zed Books
African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
Edited by Aloysius Ngefac, Paul Zang Zang, Thorsten Brato & Jakob R. E. Leimgruber, University of Regensburg, Germany
This open access edited volume brings together a team of linguists to explore how indigenized varieties of English and multilingualism interact with the holistic transformation of Africa
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9781350510074 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350510104 • £00 00 / $00 00
ePdf 9781350510098 • £00 00 / $00 00
Series: Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa • Zed Books
Social Sciences and Cultural Studies for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa
Edited by Alain Cyr Pangop Kameni, David Simo, Esaïe Djomo, Godfrey Tangwa & Aloysius Ngefac
This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of social scientists and cultural experts to investigate the concept of transformative development
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 224 pages
HB 9781350513693 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350513716 £00 00 / $00 00
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Series: Transformative Development for Postcolonial Africa • Zed Books
Popular Spaces in PostApartheid Literature
Race, Gender, and Liberation
Nafeesa T. Nichols, Western Norway University
Through the examination of four post-apartheid novels, this book highlights the interconnections of space, race, gender, and popular culture within the post-apartheid period Nichols provides a close reading of each of the selected texts, offering broader insights into the how Black subjects navigate various spaces of oppression
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French Language Politics and Education in Nigeria
Building Human Capital and a Multilingual Nation
Edited by Michael Akinpelu, University of Regina, Canada & Tunde Ajiboye, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
This book highlights the current trends and challenges of French learning in Nigeria’s formal education system It argues for the review of policies and didactic approaches in order to benefit from the advantages of bilingualism within the West African region and beyond
UK
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Bloomsbury Academic
The Hope Raisers
How a Group of Young Kenyans Fought to Transform Their Slum and Inspire a Community
Nihar Suthar
Korogocho is one of Kenya’s darkest slums, plagued by gang violence, food and water shortages, and rampant pollution Most children have no future except for scavenging through trash piles or resorting to lives of crime . In The Hope Raisers, Nihar Suthar tells the amazing story of how two boys from the slum created a band called the Hope Raisers and used it as a platform for change They started teaching children on the streets how to express themselves through art and established a skating team after finding a pair of rollerblades in the dump They showed the children they could follow their dreams instead of following gangs The Hope Raisers is an eye-opening look into a world of poverty and violence, yet it also reveals the remarkable impact that a few determined individuals can have on their community, even in the most challenging of conditions
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 200 pages • 17 b/w photos
PB 9798881806316 • £15 99 / $22 00
Previously published in HB 9781538168738
ePub 9781538168745 • £22 35 / $27 00
ePdf 9798881864750 • £22 35 / $27 00
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers World English
Aloysius Ngefac
Kenyan Foreign and Security Policies
The Jomo Kenyatta Presidency and Legacy
Kipyego Cheluget, Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa & Stephen Wright, Northern Arizona University, USA
The authors discuss the critical role played by Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, in establishing foreign and security policies for the newly independent country Building upon a careful and in-depth examination of Kenyatta’s policies, they show how successive Kenyan presidents have largely maintained his policies and venerated his legacy UK
Presidents for Life in SubSaharan Africa
Unpuzzling Authoritarianism in Zimbabwe and Rwanda
Teresa Nogueira Pinto, Lusófona University, Portugal
Teresa Nogueira Pinto analyzes how Robert Mugabe and Paul Kagame developed legitimizing narratives to entrench their power in Rwanda and Zimbabwe as well as how these narratives were challenged
UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages • 6 bw illus & 1 table
HB 9781666963434 £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781978764088 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781666963441 £87 01 / $108 00
Series: African Governance, Development, and Leadership • Bloomsbury Academic
Disinformation in Africa
Discourses, Dynamics and Debates
Admire Mare, University of Johannesburg, South Africa & Allen Munoriyarwa, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa
Through multiple case studies, this book examines political and medical disinformation in Africa as well as how conspiracy theories have been weaponized, the impact of social media on this phenomenon, and strategies to curb disinformation The book begins with historicizing disinformation before diving into how this has shown up in elections and medical spheres, the nexus between journalism and disinformation, and how to address the issue of disinformation
UK December 2025 US December 2025 224 pages 4 tables and 6 bw illus
HB 9781666945324 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781978771758 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781666945331 • £87 01 / $108 00
Bloomsbury Academic World English
Election Observation at a Crossroads
Perspectives from Africa
Edited by Thomas Molony
This groundbreaking collection, which foregrounds contributions by African scholars, offers the first book-length contribution to ongoing debates around how election monitors can best support genuine democratic elections in ten countries across Africa
Archiving Africana Women Stories
African Centered Education in South Africa and Detroit
Tiffany Caesar, San Francisco State University, USA
Tiffany Caesar's empowering work highlights the contributions of six extraordinary Black women educators who have contributed to African-Centered Institutions Caesar brings a fresh and new perspective by discussing the 21st century Black woman and the necessity to archive their experiences Topics in the book include Womanism, Mothering, Pan-Africanism, Portraiture Methodology, and Black Emancipatory Action Research
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 250 pages • 5 tables
HB 9781666944907 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781978766587 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781666944914 • £87 01 / $108 00
Series: The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies • Bloomsbury Academic World English
Musicking and Dancing Politics in Africa
Power, Activism, and Elections
Edited by Solomon Gwerevende, Dublin City University, Ireland, Trust Matsilele, Birmingham City University, UK & Wonder Maguraushe, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe
Bringing together interdisciplinary scholars, this book explores how African musical traditions and dance act as political commentary and forms of resistance in Africa The volume draws on Christopher Small's concept of "musicking" to explore the intersection between music, dance, and politics across the diverse cultural landscapes in Africa, particularly South Africa, Malawi, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe Chapters cover case studies of how music and dance have been used as tools of political messaging and means of performing, visualizing and localizing activism, resistance, propaganda, and power in politics
UK November 2025 US November 2025 224 pages
HB 9781666979169 £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781978766198 • £87 01 / $108 00
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Bloomsbury Academic World English
Eritrea's Gold Rush
Western Mining Companies, Regional Wars, and Human Rights Abuses in Africa
Charlotte Touati
Leading Horn of Africa expert Charlotte Touati exposes the role played by Canadian gold mining company Nevsun and other global actors in propping up the regime of Isayas Aferwerki, one of Africa’s most dangerous dictators. In so doing, Touati shows how global capital networks help perpetuate economic and political instability in the Horn of Africa, which in turn is fostering violence and instability throughout other parts of the world
Decolonizing NGO Peacebuilding and Liberal Peace Agenda in Northern Uganda
Elias Omondi Opongo, Hekima University College, Kenya
Critically examining how Western-funded NGO interventions have shaped post-conflict recovery in Uganda, this book argues that the liberal peace agenda often marginalizes local agency and undermines culturally rooted approaches to peacebuilding It offer critical insights for other post-conflict African contexts dominated by donor-driven peacebuilding and calls for a decolonial shift toward frameworks that restore African agency, reduce dependency, and prioritize community-led solutions for sustainable peace
UK November 2025 US November 2025 160 pages
HB 9781666966053 £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781978768796 • £79 83 / $99 00
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World English
Foreign Intervention and Radicalization in Somalia (20012009)
How and When Does Conflict Evolve into Political Violence
Halil Ibrahim Alegöz
The central focus of this book is to explain the social mechanisms through which the radicalization processes on the part of al-Shabaab unfolded The author argues that radicalization dynamics exerted their influence at the onset in relation to the formation of the warlord alliance known as the ARPCT and, more tellingly, escalated in the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia
UK December 2025 US October 2025 176 pages 10 b/w Figures (4 line drawings and 6 halftone)
HB 9781666964851 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781978771352 • £79 83 / $99 00
ePdf 9798216201373 • £79 83 / $99 00
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World English
Women of the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War
De-gendering the History of Anticolonial Struggle
Aliou Ly, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Aliou Ly offers a groundbreaking corrective to male-focussed narratives of the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War drawing on extensive interviews with female freedom fighters.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 216 pages
PB 9781350383081 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350383043
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Spaces for Resistance
Black Feminist Theory and Praxis in Academia and
Beyond
Edited by Geniece Crawford Mondé, Furman University, USA & Ebonie Cunningham Stringer, Pennsylvania State University-Berks, USA
This book explores the varied ways in which Black Feminism is understood, applied, and expressed across disciplinary backgrounds It examines how Black Feminist paradigms bear relevance on timely issues, like socially engaged scholarship, work-life balance, and navigating challenging social, academic and political contexts
UK February 2026 • US December 2025 • 320 pages • 3 bw illus and 3 tables
HB 9781666963618 • £95 00 / $130 00
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Rock Art and its Legacy in Myth and Art
Petroglyphs from Eurasia, Arabia and Northern Africa
Christoph Baumer, Independent Scholar & Therese Weber
In Rock Art and its Legacy in Myth and Art, Christoph Baumer examines the very earliest examples of human artistic expression Taking in examples of rock carvings and paintings from Central Asia and the Caucasus through to Arabia and the Sahara Baumer examines petroglyphs created on natural rock surfaces or inside prehistoric caves, by engraving, carving or scratching techniques using lithic or metallic tools and explores their meanings through local myths and legends and ceramic artefacts of the time Vividly illustrated throughout with 300 full colour images, the book celebrates the legacy of these petroglyphs over tens of thousands of years to the present
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Contemporary Korean Culture from the Edge
Transgression, Innovation, and Intimacy
Edited by Jooyeon Rhee, Penn State University, USA, Hong Kal, York University, UK & Thomas R. Klassen
This book examines Korean culture (including food, music, fashion, K-pop, cinema and much more) as twenty-first century global phenomenon Inspired by the term “edge”, which in Korean refers to attitudes and ideas that are new, gripping and transgressive, each chapter provides a new perspective on today’s Korea
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages • 5 tables
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Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies
Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in Asia
Edited by Celia Lam, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China & Jackie Raphael-Luu, University of the Arts, London, UK
From Bollywood to K-Pop, from Crazy Rich Asians to YouTube stars and Boys’ Love media, this book brings together leading scholars to explore “bromance” in celebrity culture across Asia Celebrity Bromance and Comradery Capital in Asia demonstrates how celebrity bromances are used as global promotional tools in different national and transnational contexts, including China, Thailand, India and beyond Across chapters written by leading international scholars, the book demonstrates how a “comradery capital” develops as Asian bromances become not just a promotional tool but commodities in their own right in contemporary celebrity culture
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 224 pages
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Series: Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Contemporary Chinese Celebrities
Moral Transgressions, Rights Defence and Public Concerns
Shenshen Cai, Monash University, Australia
Whether willingly or unwillingly, public celebrities are often the focus of discussion of moral matters and political causes, but how does this sort of celebrity culture function in a country such as China with a powerful central state? Contemporary Chinese Celebrities explores how in today’s China, celebrity figures embody, conflict with and engage with social, civil, moral and economic issues Shenshen Cai examines the state’s governance of celebrity activism and the interplay between the propaganda machine and the stars
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 168 pages
PB 9781350409422 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350409460
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Series: Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Jian Xu, Deakin University, Australia & Sean Redmond, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
The Impact of International Financial Institutions in Pakistan
Development, Governance and the Rule of Law
Naveed Ahmed, Washington University, St Louis, USA
In this book, Naveed Ahmed examines the impact of International Financial Institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF on the rule of law, good governance and development in Pakistan The book explores how these institutions have been hindered in achieving social justice as a result of being caught between weak local governance structures and the competing interests of other powers, including Europe and the USA Ahmed goes on to demonstrate how the ethos and instruments of rule of law and good governance can counter the internal factors that have aggravated conditions of poverty and social injustice in Pakistan
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 240 pages
HB 9781350295339 • £85 00 / $115 00
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State Formation and Conflicts in Sri Lanka
Sunil Bastian, Independent Scholar, UK
This book explores how the history of postcolonial Sri Lanka suggests a new paradigm for understanding state-formation as an ever-shifting and evolving process The Sri Lankan state has formed under the pressure of multiple conflicts: around capitalist transition on the one hand, and the deteriorating relationship between the state and Tamil minority populations on the other. Sunil Bastian demonstrates the way these conflicts have overlapped, with international support for the introduction of neoliberal policies propping up a state engaged in armed ethnic conflict.
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 200 pages
HB 9781350451827 • £85 00 / $115 00
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The Technopolitics of Communication in Modern India
Paper Chains and Viral Phenomena
Pragya Dhital, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
The Technopolitics of Communication in Modern India explores the changing role of technology in the history of political communication in India today, from newspapers, manifestos and magazines to modern social media platforms. The book looks at the way these changing media have been used to create socio-political communities of identity by both state and non-state actors – a process that has become of urgent concern in the volatile, social-media fuelled age of populist politics
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 192 pages
HB 9781350466661 • £85 00 / $115 00
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Nation-Building and StateMaking During the Filipino Third Republic (1946-1960s)
Tristan Miguel Osteria, University of Santo Tomas, the Philippines
This book examines the nation-building of the Philippines as a moderate bridge between U S and Asia from independence to the present date Key to this discussion is an analysis of the presidency of Ramon Magsaysay and the role of non-elite centric nationalism in shaping the political culture
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 288 pages • 5 tables
HB 9781666956146 £90 00 / $120 00
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Documents of the Asian American Experience
Noriko Matsumoto, University of Vermont, USA
This curated and contextualized primary source collection examines the history of Asian Americans from precolonial times to the present day It features more than 80 documents across 17 time periods, including newspaper articles, personal accounts, federal legislation, propaganda pieces, and more Readers will discover the multifaceted experiences of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and Filipino Americans, among others Essays at the beginning of each section provide an overview of the time period and the political, economic, and sociocultural factors influencing race relations at the time Concise introductions to each document provide necessary background information about the source and its significance.
UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 256 pages
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