...Benjamin C. Fortna Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic Benjamin C. Fortna Few would deny the centrality of reading to modern so- hand, and the flimsiness of the underlying evidence...

...Bahram Rajaee Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Deciphering Iran: The Political Evolution of the Islamic Republic and U.S. Foreign Policy After September 11 Bahram Rajaee In the aftermath of 9/11, the Bush administration competition for political...

..., and economic planning. But Lebanon eschewed these trends and pursued free-market capitalist and small-state policies. Many scholars have considered this period of Lebanon's “merchant republic” as evidencing an exceptional neoliberal state avant la lettre . Its nostalgic proponents as well as its detractors...

...Kyle T. Evered “Wicked” Istanbul: The Regulation of Prostitution in the Early Turkish Republic Wyers Mark David Istanbul : Libra Kitap , 2012 312 pp., 35,00 TL (cloth) © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 BOOK REVIEWS The Nation Writ Small...

... of the Republic of the Ivory Coast Veerle Van Gijsegem hile doing fi eldwork with the Wê, an ethnic group living in the western region of the Republic of the Ivory Coast, I had the opportunity to observe a witchcraft trial in one of their villages, in May 1999. Confronted...

...Eva Patricia Rakel Duke University Press 2009 The Political Elite in the Islamic Republic of Iran: From Khomeini to Ahmadinejad Eva Patricia Rakel hirty years after the Islamic revolution, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) remains the subject...

...Gavin Brockett Turkey: From Empire to Revolutionary Republic; The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to Present Sina Akşin New York: New York University Press, 2007 335 pp., $70.00 (cloth), $22.00 (paper) Duke University Press 2008...

...Benjamin C. Fortna This article examines the concepts of public and private in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic through the worlds of child readers. It interrogates the shifting lines of demarcation between public and private against the background of children learning to read...

... the state. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Old Elites in a New Republic: The Reconversion of Ottoman Bureaucratic Families in Turkey (1909 – 1939...

...Zoe Griffith State building and nationalism have been widely examined in the context of both the late Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish Republic. This article explores the role of Islamic calligraphy and calligraphers during the final decades of Ottoman rule and through the twentieth century...

...Nasser Mohajer; Mehrdad Vahabi This essay takes a stylized paradoxical fact of Iranian politics under the Islamic Republic of Iran as its starting point: the stark confusion between the position and a good portion of the opposition. Such a blurred frontier between “position” and “opposition” did...

... Jones, and others, Şadan attempted to produce a Turkish psychoanalytic canon. This canon nonetheless was bound to be different in form as it filtered through the cultural and socio-political structures of the early Turkish Republic. The article argues that Şadanian psychoanalysis accordingly engendered...

...Shervin Malekzadeh Malekzadeh’s article traces the development of the social, religious, cultural, and political messages that have shaped the image of the child and childhood within postrevolutionary Farsi textbooks (grades 1–3) produced by the Islamic Republic of Iran over the past thirty years...

...G. Carole Woodall Istanbul of the 1920s evoked a period of transition and redefinition in the aftermath of World War I and the onset of the Turkish Republic (1923). Precisely, what position Istanbul would occupy as well as its constituents in the nascent republic was in flux. Debates around...

... authority in the Sahara and their interrelationship with movement and mobility, the article focuses on the figure of the ‘ a'id , or returnee, a subject position that has been produced by the conflict between Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic state-in-exile. Defined as someone who leaves...

... of the United Nation General Assembly, which resulted in the declaration of the New International Economic Order. Getachew's book provides a framework to interpret these diplomatic efforts with greater precision. The same framework explains the Islamic Republic's internationalist policies in the 1980s...

... a particular relationship between Islam and sovereign modern rule. As such, this work reads the history of the district against the grain of the grand narrative of the Islamic Revolution's (1979) moment of rupture to trace the genealogical roots of moral governance in the Islamic Republic today, within...

...Aaron Glasserman Abstract In Western discourse today the charge that Islam is “not just a religion” but a comprehensive social system is leveled to cast doubt over Muslims' ability to integrate into a political community. In the People's Republic of China, this understanding of Islam has served...