mideast north

Softcover. Istanbul, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages. Contents: 1. B. Beckman, Explaining democratization, notes on the concept of civil society. 2. I. Sunar, Civil society and Islam 3. S.J. Al-Azm, Is Islam secularizable. 4. B. Tibi, The cultural underpinning of civil society in Islamic civilization: Islam and democracy - bridges between the civilizations. 5. S.E. Ibrahim, From Taliban to Erbakan, The case of Islam, civil society and democracy.6. G. Therborn, Beyond civil society: Democratic experiences and their relevance to the "Middle East". 7. M. Sariolghalam, Prospects for civil society in the Middle East: An analysis of cultural impediments. 8. L. Koker, National identity and state legitimacy: Contradictions of Turkey's democratic experience. 9. E. Ozdalga, Civil society and its enemies: Reflections on a debate in the light of recent developments within the Islamic student movement in Turkey. 10. E. Ozbudun, Civil society and democratic consolidation in Turkey. 11. A. Lundgren, The European Union as a democracy-promoter. 12. I. Brandell, Labour, civil society and democratization in North Africa. 13. O. Tornquist, Civil society and divisive politicisation: experiences from popular efforts at democratisation in Indonesia. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Sidgwick & Jackson , reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 192 pages, b&w illustrations. An abridged version of the two volume, 1892 book of Curzon's travels on the following route: Ashkabad, Kuchan, Kelat-I-Nadiri, Meshed, Teheran, The Northern Provinces, Teheran, Ishfahan, Shiraz to Bushire. Clean copy, minor corner wear.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages, color photographs, Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Doors of the Kingdom is a unique collection of photographs depicting the ancient and disappearing craft of doormaking in Arabia. The Islamic concept of hurma, or sanctity of a place of dwelling or worship, is recurrent throughout Arabic poetry and literature. The door (bab), preserver of sanctity, becomes symbolic of the boundary between public and private space, and between the profane and the sacred. In 1995, Haajar Gouverneur traveled throughout the Arabian Peninsula photographing each region's distinctive doorways and the remaining artisans who make them. The doors of Arabia, painstakingly hand-carved from the wood of the Al-Athel trees, last in their exquisite variety for hundreds of years. This ancient craft, passed down from generation to generation in the central and northern regions of Saudi Arabia, is now nearly extinct. Modern materials, technology, and changing priorities threaten the continuity of the sacred and artisanal tradition of doormaking.

Hardcover. London, England, Karl Baedeker, 2nd Edition, REvised and Augmented, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 444 pages. Hardcover (flexible cloth). "With 17 Maps, 44 Plans, and a Panorama of Jerusalem". B/w and color illustrated maps, some fold out. Red fabric cover boards with gilt title on spine (faded) and front cover board. Banded design blind stamped on boards and spine. Fabric ribbon bookmark attached at top of spine. Age wear to covers (see images). Former library book with expected labels, marks, stamps and other identifying characteristics (see images). Decorated marbled edges. Front cover has bump to top right corner (see image). Charming, old, pocket-sized travel book that will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about turn-of-the-century Palestine and Syria.

Softcover. Santa Monica CA, RAND Corporation, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 382 pages, color and b&w illustrations. For years the government of Yemen has conducted military operations north of the capital against groups of its citizens known as "Huthis." In spite of using all means at its disposal, the government has been unable to subdue the Huthi movement. This book presents an in-depth look at the conflict in all its aspects. The authors detail the various stages of the conflict and map out its possible future trajectories. Clean copy.