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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights : conscience for the world /

Table of Contents: “…: the High Commissioner for Human Rights, international justice, and the example of Syria / David Kaye -- The High Commissioner, OHCHR, and China 1998-2005: challenges and achievements / Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt -- The High Commissioner for Human Rights and North Korea / Roberta Cohen -- The role of the High Commissioner in protecting and promoting human rights in Afghanistan and Sudan / Sima Samar -- The High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation / Karinna Moskalenko, Maria Goldman, and Catherine A. …”
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights : conscience for the world /

Table of Contents: “…: the High Commissioner for Human Rights, international justice, and the example of Syria / David Kaye -- The High Commissioner, OHCHR, and China 1998-2005: challenges and achievements / Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt -- The High Commissioner for Human Rights and North Korea / Roberta Cohen -- The role of the High Commissioner in protecting and promoting human rights in Afghanistan and Sudan / Sima Samar -- The High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation / Karinna Moskalenko, Maria Goldman, and Catherine A. …”
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The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg /

Table of Contents: “…States of hegemony : early forms of political contol in Syria during the 3rd millennium BC /…”
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The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg /

Table of Contents: “…States of hegemony : early forms of political contol in Syria during the 3rd millennium BC /…”
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Roman Mosaics in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Belis, Alexis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Italy -- Introduction to Gaul -- Villelaure: history of the excavations -- Introduction to North Africa -- Introduction to Syria -- Antioch and the bath of Apolausis: history of the excavations.…”
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Roman Mosaics in the J. Paul Getty Museum by Belis, Alexis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Italy -- Introduction to Gaul -- Villelaure: history of the excavations -- Introduction to North Africa -- Introduction to Syria -- Antioch and the bath of Apolausis: history of the excavations.…”
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The logic of positive engagement by Nincic, Miroslav

Table of Contents: “…The failures of external coercion -- A parallel bias -- A framework for analysis -- Foundations of success and failure : Libya, Cuba, and Syria -- The challenge of North Korea and Iran -- Final thoughts.…”
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The logic of positive engagement by Nincic, Miroslav

Table of Contents: “…The failures of external coercion -- A parallel bias -- A framework for analysis -- Foundations of success and failure : Libya, Cuba, and Syria -- The challenge of North Korea and Iran -- Final thoughts.…”
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The dawn of the Arab uprisings end of an old order? /

Table of Contents: “…Yemen -- section VII. Syria -- section VIII. Regional reverberations of the Arab uprisings.…”
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The dawn of the Arab uprisings end of an old order? /

Table of Contents: “…Yemen -- section VII. Syria -- section VIII. Regional reverberations of the Arab uprisings.…”
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Remembering childhood in the Middle East memoirs from a century of change /

Table of Contents: “…The end of the Ottoman Empire (1923) / Mohammed Fadhel Jamali (Iraq) ; Nazik Jawdat (Syria/Lebanon) ; Charles Issawi (Egypt) ; Mansur al-Hazimi (Saudi Arabia) ; Janset Shami (Jordan) ; Selma Khadra Jayyusi (Palestine) -- European colonial rule and the rise of Arab nationalism (1830-1967) -- Establishment of the state of Israel (1948) / Hoda Naamani (Syria/Lebanon) ; Yildiray Erdener (Turkey) ; Hassan Aziz Hassan (Egypt) ; Basima Bezirgan (Iraq) ; Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot (Egypt) ; Mohammed Ghanoonparvar (Iran) ; Avraham Zilkha (Israel) ; Halim Barakat (Syria/Lebanon) ; Güneli Gün (Turkey) ; Zbida Shetlan (Tunisia) ; Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran) -- New nations (1952-1963) -- Oil wealth and OPEC (1973) -- Israeli-Palestinian wars (1967, 1973) -- Camp David treaty (1979) -- Iranian revolution (1979) / Salah-Dine Hammoud (Morocco) ; Saif Abbas Dehrab (Kuwait) ; Hamza al-Din (Egypt) ; Akile Gursoy (Turkey) ; Rafiq Abdul Rahman (Palestine) ; Abdul Aziz Abbassi (Morocco) ; Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Lebanon) ; Awad Abdelrahim Abdelgader (Sudan) ; Ali Eftekari (Iran) -- The post-colonial Middle East (1971) / Shafeeq N. …”
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Remembering childhood in the Middle East memoirs from a century of change /

Table of Contents: “…The end of the Ottoman Empire (1923) / Mohammed Fadhel Jamali (Iraq) ; Nazik Jawdat (Syria/Lebanon) ; Charles Issawi (Egypt) ; Mansur al-Hazimi (Saudi Arabia) ; Janset Shami (Jordan) ; Selma Khadra Jayyusi (Palestine) -- European colonial rule and the rise of Arab nationalism (1830-1967) -- Establishment of the state of Israel (1948) / Hoda Naamani (Syria/Lebanon) ; Yildiray Erdener (Turkey) ; Hassan Aziz Hassan (Egypt) ; Basima Bezirgan (Iraq) ; Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot (Egypt) ; Mohammed Ghanoonparvar (Iran) ; Avraham Zilkha (Israel) ; Halim Barakat (Syria/Lebanon) ; Güneli Gün (Turkey) ; Zbida Shetlan (Tunisia) ; Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran) -- New nations (1952-1963) -- Oil wealth and OPEC (1973) -- Israeli-Palestinian wars (1967, 1973) -- Camp David treaty (1979) -- Iranian revolution (1979) / Salah-Dine Hammoud (Morocco) ; Saif Abbas Dehrab (Kuwait) ; Hamza al-Din (Egypt) ; Akile Gursoy (Turkey) ; Rafiq Abdul Rahman (Palestine) ; Abdul Aziz Abbassi (Morocco) ; Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Lebanon) ; Awad Abdelrahim Abdelgader (Sudan) ; Ali Eftekari (Iran) -- The post-colonial Middle East (1971) / Shafeeq N. …”
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Isolate or engage : adversarial states, US foreign policy, and public diplomacy /

Table of Contents: “…Vandewalle -- Iran : public diplomacy in a vacuum / Suzanne Maloney -- Syria : public diplomacy in Syria : overcoming obstacles / William Rugh -- Cuba : public diplomacy as a "battle of ideas" / William LeoGrande -- Venezuela : the United States and Venezuela : managing a schizophrenic relationship / Michael Shifter.…”
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Isolate or engage : adversarial states, US foreign policy, and public diplomacy /

Table of Contents: “…Vandewalle -- Iran : public diplomacy in a vacuum / Suzanne Maloney -- Syria : public diplomacy in Syria : overcoming obstacles / William Rugh -- Cuba : public diplomacy as a "battle of ideas" / William LeoGrande -- Venezuela : the United States and Venezuela : managing a schizophrenic relationship / Michael Shifter.…”
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Ten Arab filmmakers : political dissent and social critique /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: auteur directors, political dissent, and cultural critique / Josef Gugler -- Nabil Maleh: Syria's leopard (Syria) / Christa Salamandra -- Jocelyne Saab: a lifetime journey in search of freedom and beauty (Lebanon) / Dalia Said Mostafa -- Michel Khleifi: filmmaker of memory (Palestine) / Tim Kennedy -- Elia Suleiman: narrating negative space (Palestine) / Refqa Abu-Remaileh -- Youssef Chahine: devouring mimicries or juggling with self and other (Egypt) / Viola Shafik -- Daoud Abd El-Sayed: parody and borderline existence (Egypt) / Viola Shafik -- Yousry Nasrallah: the pursuit of autonomy in the Arab and European film markets (Egypt) / Benjamin Geer -- Mohamed Chouikh: from anticolonial commemoration to a cinema of contestation (Algeria) / Guy Austin -- Merzak Allouache: (self-)censorship, social critique, and the limits of political engagement in contemporary Algerian cinema (Algeria) / Will Higbee -- Nabil Ayouch: transgression, identity, and difference (Morocco) / Jonathan Smolin.…”
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Ten Arab filmmakers : political dissent and social critique /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: auteur directors, political dissent, and cultural critique / Josef Gugler -- Nabil Maleh: Syria's leopard (Syria) / Christa Salamandra -- Jocelyne Saab: a lifetime journey in search of freedom and beauty (Lebanon) / Dalia Said Mostafa -- Michel Khleifi: filmmaker of memory (Palestine) / Tim Kennedy -- Elia Suleiman: narrating negative space (Palestine) / Refqa Abu-Remaileh -- Youssef Chahine: devouring mimicries or juggling with self and other (Egypt) / Viola Shafik -- Daoud Abd El-Sayed: parody and borderline existence (Egypt) / Viola Shafik -- Yousry Nasrallah: the pursuit of autonomy in the Arab and European film markets (Egypt) / Benjamin Geer -- Mohamed Chouikh: from anticolonial commemoration to a cinema of contestation (Algeria) / Guy Austin -- Merzak Allouache: (self-)censorship, social critique, and the limits of political engagement in contemporary Algerian cinema (Algeria) / Will Higbee -- Nabil Ayouch: transgression, identity, and difference (Morocco) / Jonathan Smolin.…”
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Israelite religions : an archaeological and biblical survey / by Hess, Richard S.

Table of Contents: “…Approaches to the study of religion -- Previous study of Israelite religion -- Pre-Israelite west semitic religion : Syria and Egypt -- Pre-Israelite west semitic religion : Palestine and Jordan -- Narrative and legal strands of the Pentateuch -- Priestly and cultic strands of the Pentateuch -- Early Israel and the united monarchy -- Written sources for the divided monarchy -- Archaeological sources for the divided monarchy -- Exilic and postexilic religion.…”
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Israelite religions : an archaeological and biblical survey / by Hess, Richard S.

Table of Contents: “…Approaches to the study of religion -- Previous study of Israelite religion -- Pre-Israelite west semitic religion : Syria and Egypt -- Pre-Israelite west semitic religion : Palestine and Jordan -- Narrative and legal strands of the Pentateuch -- Priestly and cultic strands of the Pentateuch -- Early Israel and the united monarchy -- Written sources for the divided monarchy -- Archaeological sources for the divided monarchy -- Exilic and postexilic religion.…”
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Artistry in Bronze : The Greeks and Their Legacy XIXth International Congress on Ancient Bronzes /

Table of Contents: “…Plattner, Kurt Gschwantler, and Bettina Vak -- The portrait of a Hellenistic ruler in the National Museum of Iran / Gunvor Lindström -- A defined protocol for in situ micro-XRF compositional analysis of bronze figurines from the National Museum of Damascus, Syria / V. Kantarelou, A.G. Karydas, L. Mahfoud, A. …”
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Artistry in Bronze : The Greeks and Their Legacy XIXth International Congress on Ancient Bronzes /

Table of Contents: “…Plattner, Kurt Gschwantler, and Bettina Vak -- The portrait of a Hellenistic ruler in the National Museum of Iran / Gunvor Lindström -- A defined protocol for in situ micro-XRF compositional analysis of bronze figurines from the National Museum of Damascus, Syria / V. Kantarelou, A.G. Karydas, L. Mahfoud, A. …”
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