Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the region / Lucia Volk -- History and Politics of Middle East Studies / Lucia Volk -- Introduction to Middle East History / Lucia Volk -- Language in the Middle East / Lucia Volk -- Religion in the Middle East / Lucia Volk -- Globalization in the Middle East / Lucia Volk -- Key Issues of Globalization in the Middle East / Lucia Volk -- Introduction to the case studies / Lucia Volk -- Diversity in the Medieval Middle East: inclusions, exclusions, supporters, and discontents / Rachel Goshgarian -- Democracy, secularism, and Islam: examining the "Turkish Model" / Hootan Shambayati -- A "Peace by Piece" Look at the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Maia Carter Hallward -- The Green Movement and the struggle for human rights in Iran / Mahmood Monshipouri -- State-society relations and protest in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq / Nicole Watts -- Energy and geopolitics in the Gulf: mixing water and oil / Asli Ilgit -- Central Asian cotton in a global perspective: Uzbekistan's monoculture and its impact on rural society / Russell Zanca -- Images of place: the legacy of the Ottoman house in modern Turkey / Carel Bertram -- Counterinsurgency and culture: the 2003 U.S. Invasion of Iraq / Rochelle Davis -- Lebanese war diaries in the digital age: blogging about the home front during times of violence / Nadine Sinno -- Language and identity in Tunisia: "Without Tunisian Arabic, We Are Not Tunisian" / Keith Walters.

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