Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies: Recent submissions
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The Kurdish protest movement and the Islamic republic of Iran: the securitisation of Kurdish nationalism
(LSE Middle East Centre, 8 April 2022)The Islamic Republic of Iran has proven to be intolerable of any domestic dissent and opposition and the country’s whole population has suffered from the regime’s authoritarian rule. However, people of the peripheral regions ... -
Une affaire de famille. Reconfiguration du pacte oligarchique dans les monarchies de Bahreïn et d’Abou Dhabi au début du XXIe siècle
(De Boeck Supérieur, 11 July 2022)The economic elite of the six monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula have played a crucial role in perpetuating the authoritarian order since the 1970s. The 2011-2012 popular uprisings highlighted the business oligarchy’s ... -
Poetics of modernity and nationalism: Revisiting the emergence of modern Kurdish poetry
(Wiley, 2 June 2022)The emergence of modern Kurdish poetry marks a period of great significance in the history of Kurdish literature since it witnessed the advent of modernity, the rise of Kurdish nationalism, the fall of the Persian and ... -
Archaeological Perspectives on Contacts between Cairo and Eastern Ethiopia in the 12th to 15th Centuries
(Brill Academic Publishers, 31 January 2023)A sustained relationship between Cairo, Egypt more broadly, and eastern Ethiopia appears to have existed, particularly in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. In the general absence of historical sources, it is archaeology that ... -
When the ‘Asset’ is Livelihood: Making Heritage with the Maritime Practitioners of Bagamoyo, Tanzania
(MDPI, 31 May 2022)This paper examines the dilemmas, obligations and opportunities faced by heritage professionals in elaborating cultural ‘assets’ among the breadwinning practices of contemporary, artisanal communities. It takes as its case ...