Saqi Books imprint: 95 books
Political Islam
Context Versus Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of the contemporary debates within political Islam, providing an in-depth analysis of the specific movements, countries and regions in the Arab world and Israel. The contributors contend that the evolution of Islamic movements is contextual rather than...
Yemen in Crisis
Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Yemen is in the grip of its most severe crisis in years. The struggle for power in the Arab world’s poorest but strategically vital nation has serious implications for the region and beyond. In this invaluable analysis, Helen Lackner uncovers the social and political conflicts that threaten the...
Imams and Emirs
State, Religion and Sects in Islam
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In this classic, comprehensive study of Islamic sects in the contemporary Arab world, Khuri focuses on the Sunni, Shi'a, Alawis, Druze, Ibadis, Zaidis, Yazidis and the Maronites (who, although Christian, are included because they share certain distinguishing features). His placements of these groups...
Central Asia
Political and Economic Challenges in the Post-Soviet Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Based on first-hand research conducted by the Moscow Centre for Civilizational and Regional Studies, this book documents the findings of one of the first authoritative studies on the newly independent states of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kirgizia and Tadjikistan. Focusing...
by Turki al-Hamad
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The year is 1970, a period of crisis in the Arab world. Twenty-year-old Hisham has left home for the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, where he's enrolled at university to study politi and economi. But this city has more than academic qualifications to offer a man of Hisham's mettle, and he soon discovers...
The Gulf Cooperation Council States
Hereditary Succession, Oil and Foreign Powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Since the oil boom of the 1970s, the Gulf Cooperation Council States have attempted to achieve economic stability and realise their development goals. Such efforts have so far been in vain, however, as these states' autocratic governments have closed off their political systems with the support of...
by Moris Farhi
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Songs from Two Continents is a paean on 'dualities'. Here, Europe and Asia entwine, life and death stalk each other, nationalities fuse and Good and Evil wrestle relentlessly to give meaning to existence. Like such pathfinders as N?zim Hikmet and Orhan Veli before him, Moris Farhi adheres to the ethos...
by Maggie Gee
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting damper in their packed tower blocks, and the fanatical 'Last Days' sect is recruiting thousands. When...
Oman's Insurgencies
The Sultanate's Struggle for Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Oman today is a rapidly modernizing and peaceful country on the fringes of a region in turmoil. It does, however, have a long history of internal strife. In the twentieth century, this strife took the form of two internal conflicts. The Northern Oman or al-Jabal al-Akhdar War of the 1950s was a struggle...
A Map of Absence
An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
A Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pay testament to one of the most pivotal events in modern history - the 1948 Nakba.
This unique,...
Coping with Uncertainty
Youth in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Seven years after the Arab uprisings, the social situation has deteriorated across the Middle East and North Africa. Political, economic and personal insecurities have expanded while income from oil declined and tourist revenues have collapsed due to political instability. Against a backdrop of escalating...