The olive tree has become a central symbol of Palestinian nationalism, signifying sumud or steadfastness. Its importance to contemporary Palestinian society in the West Bank, both culturally and economically, is unparalleled. ...

Women, Resistance and the Creation of New Gendered Frontiers in the Making of Modern Libya, 1890-1980 examines the gendered transformation in the territory that became Libya from the late Ottoman period until after ...

This dissertation studies the history of tea and sugar consumption in Morocco in the second half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, spanning the late Sharifian Empire, the French and Spanish ...

The Iraq Levies were formed by the British authorities to secure imperial order and maintain stability in the British Mandate of Iraq (1921-1932). The social composition of the Iraq Levies which consisted mainly of Assyrian ...

This dissertation examines the integration of Iranian oil into a global oil system and the simultaneous use of oil revenues to fund internal economic development under the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979). It unites the local ...

This dissertation examines the speeches and the literary-historical figure of al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf al-Thaqafī (d. 714), the governor of Iraq under the Umayyad dynasty (661-750), to explore the role that public speech played ...

How did 50 years of oil wealth, non-democratic rule, wars, and sanctions shape state-society relations in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad? This dissertation charts key trends in state-society dynamics during important ...

Over the last several decades, a growing number of historians have conceptualized the Atlantic world as an explanatory analytical framework, useful for studying processes of interaction and exchange. Stretching temporally ...