The role of Islam in the state has become one of the most contentious issues in modern Middle Eastern society. It holds a central position in every public debat

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The first anthology of modern Middle Eastern Jewish thought

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As the Gulf assumes an ever more important identity in the global political economy, we see the emergence of a new popular and political culture underpinning it