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Introduction -- Terrorism and Africa -- Muslim struggle (jihad) and Africans -- Politics of Muslim struggle (jihad) and Africans -- Cases: Muslim struggle and Africans -- Cases: terrorism and Africans -- Flight (hijra) to the Americas -- Islamism, Africans and the West -- Conclusions

"The Resurgence of Central Asia is Ahmed Rashid's seminal study of the states - Kazakhstan, Kirgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - that emerged in the aftermath of the break-up of the Soviet Union. All have Muslim majorities and ancient histories, but are otherwise very different. Rashid's book, which appears now with a new introduction examining some of the crucial political developments since its first publication in 1994, provides an introduction to this little-known but geopolitically increasingly important region. Rashid gives a history of each country, including its incorporation into Tsarist Russia to the present day. He provides basic socio-economic information and explains the diverse political situations. He focuses primarily on the underlying issues confronting these societies: the legacy of Soviet rule; ethnic tensions; the position of women; the future of Islam; the question of nuclear proliferation; and the fundamental choices over economic strategy, political system and external orientation which lie ahead"--Page 4 of cover

As Muslim women continue to be a focus of media-led debate, Naaz Rashid uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in policy discourse and how the trope of the Muslim woman is situated within national debates about Britishness, the death of multiculturalism and global concerns over international terrorism

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries-all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps. The book also presents analytic studies using metric geometrical, topological (or network), and fractal measures of these maps. These analytic studies identify ordinaries, extremes, similarities, and differences in these maps; investigate the scaling properties of these maps; and develop precise descriptive categories, types and indicators for multidimensional comparative studies of these maps. The findings of these studies indicate that many geometric relations of the urban layouts of downtown areas follow regular patterns; that despite social, economic, and cultural differences among cities, the geometric measures of downtown areas in cities of developed and developing countries do not show significant differences; and that the geometric possibilities of urban layouts are vastly greater than those that have been realized so far in our cities.

Introduction -- Impacts on air temperature, precipitation, and sea level rise -- Impacts on tropical cyclones and coping strategies -- Impacts on floods and coping strategies -- Impacts on droughts and coping strategies -- Climate change victims and climate justice -- Climate refugees -- Confronting climate change through disaster management initiatives -- Confronting sea level rise through adaptation -- Summary and conclusion

Introduction : dishonest brokers -- The first moment : Begin and Palestinian autonomy in 1982 -- The second moment : the Madrid-Washington negotiations, 1991-93 -- The third moment: Barack Obama and Palestine, 2009-12 -- Conclusion : Israel's lawyer

Contrasting narratives of Palestinian identity -- Cultural life and identity in late Ottoman Palestine : the place of Jerusalem -- Competing and overlapping loyalties in Ottoman Jerusalem -- Elements of identity I : peasant resistance to Zionist settlement -- Elements of identity II : the debate on Zionism in the Arabic press -- The formation of Palestinian identity : the critical years, 1917-1923 -- The "disappearance" and reemergence of Palestinian identity.