... The Hammam through Time and Space , Julie   Peteet ( Syracuse University Press , 2024 ) hammam baths Turkey Jordan Islam women health heritage The hammam ( hamam in Turkish) is a specific building type that steams with the bathing bodies and heated water within. This steam has clouded...

...Anny Gaul A study of the making and regulation of subsidized bread in Jordan shows how bakers mediate between the state and the public in precarious times. States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan , José Ciro   Martínez ( Stanford University Press , 2022...

... to a shared set of terms when describing attitudes, practices, and beliefs (often glossed as “culture”) regarding disabled persons. These include shame, embarrassment, fear, and hiding. disability people with disabilities human rights Jordan Iraq Middle East This is the fourth in a series...

... Chatty Syria Jordan Lebanon Turkey camps war civilians resettlement Europe United Nations High Commissioner Refugees UNHCR 337 The memory of the ties among the region s peoples under the Ottoman Empire has played a part in the kind of reception Syrians have received in their neighbor...

... , by Shibley Telhami . Basic Books , 2013 . © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents of the University of California William Finan Shibley Telhami Arab public opinion Egypt Saudi Arabia Lebanon Morocco Jordan United Arab Emirates Turkey Israel Palestinians...

... of California David Lesch Syria intervention Libya Barack Obama Turkey Jordan Muammar el-Qaddafi Bashar al-Assad Russia China Iran 299 We have learned time and again in history that arming opposition forces, while improving their chances in the near term, can militarize and divide...