A collection of essays examining the role and power of images from a wide variety of media in today’s Middle Eastern societies. This timely book examines the

The volume comprises a collection of 20 of the 43 papers presented at the Third International Round Table on Safavid Persia, held at the University of Edinburgh

Based on his own field research and the ethnographic reports of other scholars, anthropologist Salzman presents an analysis of Middle Eastern culture that goes

This text examines the important role religion plays in the Middle East and how it shapes people's personalities in the Arab world by informing both their belie

Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East:“Modernities” in the Making is an edited volume that seeks to deepen and broaden our understanding of various f