Professor Jillian Schwedler, Political Scientist at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, authored the award-winning Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen, and is co-editing, with Laleh Khalili, a forthcoming book, Policing and Prisons in the Middle East.
Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen
"Jillian Schwedler's book provides a valuable and highly knowledgeable contribution at a time when the topic is thrust upon us with ever greater urgency: the subtle interrelationship between Islamist movements, democratization and moderation. Her analysis is informed and nuanced and reflects many years of experience on this issue. Her treatment of the important, but much less well known case of democracy in Yemen is of particular value."
-Graham E. Fuller, author of The Future of Political Islam
Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion
"An innovative and exciting approach to the study of power and its exercise, dynamics, and effects. Each chapter contributes important empirical and conceptual insights into the study of prisons and policing in the Middle East. Indeed, the wealth of new empirical material is very impressive." -- Nichola Pratt, author of Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World
Understanding the Contemporary Middle East
Understanding the Contemporary Middle East is an interdisciplinary book designed for use both as a core text for "Introduction to the Middle East" courses and as a supplement in a variety of discipline-oriented curriculums. The geographical domain of the volume is the Arab world (the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and North Africa), Iran, Israel, and Turkey; its temporal focus is post-World War II, with a particular emphasis on the 1990s.