The geopolitical importance of the Gulf region is a source both of great interest and great tension. David Commins here provides an in-depth narrative of the modern political history of the Gulf States, providing a...
For more information on the published version, visit Rowman & Littlefield's Website., In 2011, massive protest movements that appeared to come out of nowhere caught the Arab world’s autocrats by surprise and brought down...
Angola’s contemporary political boundaries resulted from 20th-century colonialism. The roots of Angola, however, reach far into the past. When Portuguese caravels arrived in the Congo River estuary in the late 15th century,...
This published version is made available on Dickinson Scholar with the permission of the publisher. For more information on the published version, visit Cadernos de Estudos Africanos's Website. Notebooks for African Studies...
On September 2, 2015, a photograph of three-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean went viral, spreading through social networks and into the media, accompanied by calls...
The common image of Saudi Arabia portrays a country where religious rules dictate every detail of daily life: where women may not drive; where unrelated men and women may not interact; where the latter veil their faces; and...
Scholarship on Islam in the Middle East and North Africa spans a range of disciplines in the humanities (e.g., religion, art history, literature) and social sciences (e.g., history, anthropology, sociology, political science)....
This article examines the style of motion picture director Quentin Tarantino in film directing. When discussing the films of Tarantino, it allegedly seems that style is what attracts the attention of critics, scholars, and...
Weinberger, Stephen. "Joe Breen, The Ayatollah Khomeni, and Film Censorship." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 26, no. 3 (2009), 206-215., For more information on the published version, visit Taylor and Francis Online's...
This article was published as Weinberger, Stephen. "Joe Breen's Oscar." Film History 17, no. 4 (2005), 380-391. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or distributed in any form, by any...
