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Office Chronicles

By: Irene Lapidus

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Office Chronicles

By: Irene Lapidus

CIRCUMSTANCES OFTENTIMES PREVENT US FROM LAUGHING IN THE MIDST OF THEM. THIS BOOK OF FICTION ALLOWS JUST THAT WITH THE HELP OF A CERTAIN CLAIMS DEPARTMENT AND THOSE WORKING IN IT.

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iUniverse

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1475976917

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9781475976915

Statebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa

The Aftermath of Regime Change

By: Irene Costantini

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Statebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa

The Aftermath of Regime Change

By: Irene Costantini

This book examines the regime changes in Iraq and Libya to unravel the complexity of statebuilding in countries emerging from authoritarianism and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Framed in a comparative study of post-2003 Iraq and post-2011 Libya, the book examines changes in key state dimensions – representation and political authority, security, and wealth creation and distribution – in a continuous dialogue with past trajectories in these two countries. To grasp the nature and degree of these changes, the mechanisms of state formation are explored in light of a statebuilding agenda that, in its application from Iraq to Libya, has adapted to different political prerogatives. The analysis of Iraq and Libya serves the book’s ultimate goal to address the debate on statebuilding from a regional (MENA) perspective and to lay the ground for the study of other contemporary cases undergoing radical and violent process of changes, such as in Syria and Yemen. The book grapples with problems associated with the difficult process of transition from authoritarianism through conflict and towards peace by focusing on the state, its structure and function. The work is informed by a large quantity of materials collected over the past five years, including secondary literature, policy papers and reports, and semi-structured interviews with key informants on Iraq and Libya. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, Middle Eastern studies, peace and conflict studies, and International Relations in general.

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Routledge

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1351121332

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9781351121330

The Politics and Practices of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East

Positioning the Material Past in Contemporary Societies

By: Irene Maffi

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The Politics and Practices of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East

Positioning the Material Past in Contemporary Societies

By: Irene Maffi

During the nineteenth century, cultural heritage became a dominant feature of the political ideology of the European states and of their colonies. It became a new form of legitimization for the rising nation-state, cementing its inextricable link with that nation's politics and practices. The set of concepts and practices defining cultural heritage were exported to, and imposed over, the colonized populations in North Africa and the Near East. The legacy of the colonial period has proven very significant in the domain of cultural heritage which has become a crucial cultural arena in many Arab states. As in the majorities of post-colonial states, in the Arab world, the inherited paradigm of cultural heritage has been subject to various forms of adaption and re-elaboration that have made it a lively and complex space of negotiations between various actors. Thus, in The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East, Irene Maffi and Rami Daher draw together expert scholars to unravel these complex processes that are involved in the definition, production and consumption of heritage and its material culture in the Middle East, and the dynamics of the key actors involved. The variety of the cases analysed that cover the region from Morocco to Lebanon, as well as the multiplicity of the actors concerned such as the state (post-colonial or colonial), international organizations, municipal councils, local communities, families and even exceptional personalities, highlights and explores the complex processes where very local and specific dynamics intertwine with transnational economic, political and cultural fluxes. In its examination of the workings of cultural heritage in the Middle East, this book is an important resource for students and scholars of Middle East Studies, Cultural History, History of Art and Architecture, and for stakeholders involved in the field of cultural heritage.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786725061

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9781786725066

A Cultural History of Finance

By: Irene Finel-Honigman

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A Cultural History of Finance

By: Irene Finel-Honigman

The world of finance is again undergoing crisis and transformation. This book provides a new perspective on finance through the prism of popular and formal culture and examines fascination and repulsion toward money, the role of governments and individuals in financial crises and how the Crisis of 2008, like others since 1720, repeat the same patterns of enthusiasm, greed, culpability, revulsion, reform and recovery. The book explores the political and socio-economic factors which determine fallibility and resilience in financial cultures, periods of crisis, transition and recovery based on cyclical rather than linear progression. Examining the roots of financial capitalism, in Europe and the United States and its corollary development in Asia, Russia and emerging markets proves that cultural and psychosocial reactions to financial success, endeavor and calamity transcend specific periods or events. The book allows the reader to discover parallel and intersecting reactions, controversies and resolutions in the cultural history of financial markets and institutions.

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423

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Routledge

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1135238502

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9781135238506

Writing Signs

The Fatimid Public Text

By: Irene A. Bierman

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Writing Signs

The Fatimid Public Text

By: Irene A. Bierman

Bierman considers how the Fatimid rulers used public writing to present their own ideology to different members of society in Cairo in the 10th to 12th centuries and the ways in which it was received.

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Univ of California Press

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0520208021

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9780520208025

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Office Chronicles

Office Chronicles

Statebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa

Statebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa

The Politics and Practices of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East

The Politics and Practices of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East

A Cultural History of Finance

A Cultural History of Finance

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