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The important Decapolis Gerasa has been object of archaeological investigations since 1907. This volume brings together scholars who have undertaken research in the city within the last four decades and presents the results of these projects. 110 years ago, archaeologists for the first time began work in the Decapolis city of Gerasa, situated in modern northern Jordan. It was the start of intensive research into this extraordinary city’s archaeology and history that continued through large-scale excavations in the 1920s and 1930s, followed by a number of international projects, including the Jerash Archaeological Project of the 1970s and 1980s, and most recently, the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project, begun in 2011. Over the decades, these excavations have revealed unique insights into the development of an urban space across more than a millennium, from the public monuments of the Graeco-Roman city, the introduction of the first Christian churches, and the later changes introduced in the Early and Middle Islamic periods, up to the city’s destruction by the earthquake of 749 CE and its resettlement in the Medieval period. This volume draws together contributions by researchers who have worked in Jerash over the last decades and offers updated insights into the city and its evolution, as well as the way in which archaeology as a discipline has transformed. Discussions included in this volume cross disciplinary and chronological boundaries and transcend traditional approaches to urban archaeology in order to trace the long-term transformation of Jerash and the evolution of the city’s surrounding hinterland. The volume thus provides new perspectives on the development of Jerash within the context of the Hellenistic, Roman, Islamic, and Medieval worlds, and provides a forum for well-grounded scholarly discussion.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Architecture, Ancient --- Romans --- Islamic architecture --- Gerasa (Extinct city) --- Archaeology --- Jordan

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In recent years, authoritarian states in the Middle East and North Africa have faced increasing international pressure to decentralize political power. Decentralization is presented as a panacea that will foster good governance and civil society, helping citizens procure basic services and fight corruption. Two of these states, Jordan and Morocco, are monarchies with elected parliaments and recent experiences of liberalization. Morocco began devolving certain responsibilities to municipal councils decades ago, while Jordan has consistently followed a path of greater centralization. Their experiences test such assumptions about the benefits of localism.Janine A. Clark examines why Morocco decentralized while Jordan did not and evaluates the impact of their divergent paths, ultimately explaining how authoritarian regimes can use decentralization reforms to consolidate power. Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco argues that decentralization is a tactic authoritarian regimes employ based on their coalition strategies to expand their base of support and strengthen patron-client ties. Clark analyzes the opportunities that decentralization presents to local actors to pursue their interests and lays out how municipal-level figures find ways to use reforms to their advantage. In Morocco, decentralization has resulted not in greater political inclusivity or improved services, but rather in the entrenchment of pro-regime elites in power. The main Islamist political party has also taken advantage of these reforms. In Jordan, decentralization would undermine the networks that benefit elites and their supporters. Based on extensive fieldwork, Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco is an important contribution to Middle East studies and political science that challenges our understanding of authoritarian regimes' survival strategies and resilience.

Municipal government --- Decentralization in government --- Centralization in government --- Devolution in government --- Government centralization --- Government decentralization --- Government devolution --- Political science --- Central-local government relations --- Federal government --- Local government --- Public administration --- Cities and towns --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Government --- Jordan --- Morocco --- Politics and government. --- Politics and government --- Municipal government - Jordan --- Decentralization in government - Jordan --- Municipal government - Morocco --- Decentralization in government - Morocco --- Jordan - Politics and government --- Morocco - Politics and government --- Political systems --- Theory of the state

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James A. Sauer was for many years the Director of the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan, leading it to the preeminent place it now occupies as a research institution dedicated to the archaeology and history of Transjordan. This volume honors him, with more than 50 contributions from colleagues and friends. With this volume, the Harvard Semitic Museum inaugurates a new series entitled 'Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant.'

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Jordan --- Middle East --- Jordanie --- Moyen-Orient --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Jordan. --- Middle East. --- Asia, Western --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Eastern Mediterranean Region --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mideast --- Near East --- South West --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Asia --- Giordania --- Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan --- Hashimite Kingdom of the Jordan --- Jordania --- Jordanien --- Mamlaka al-Urduniya al-Hashemiyah --- Mamlakah al-Urdunīyah al-Hāshimīyah --- Transjordan --- Urdun --- Urdunn --- Yarden

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"Borders, Territories, and Ethics: Hebrew Literature in the Shadow of the Intifada by Adia Mendelson-Maoz presents a new perspective on the multifaceted relations between ideologies, space, and ethics manifested in contemporary Hebrew literature dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the occupation. In this volume, Mendelson-Maoz analyzes Israeli prose written between 1987 and 2007, relating mainly to the first and second intifadas, written by well-known authors such as Yehoshua, Grossman, Matalon, Castel-Bloom, Govrin, Kravitz, and Levy. Mendelson-Maoz raises critical questions regarding militarism, humanism, the nature of the State of Israel as a democracy, national identity and its borders, soldiers as moral individuals, the nature of Zionist education, the acknowledgment of the Other, and the sovereignty of the subject. She discusses these issues within two frameworks. The first draws on theories of ethics in the humanist tradition and its critical extensions, especially by Levinas. The second applies theories of space, and in particular deterritorialization as put forward by Deleuze and Guattari and their successors. Overall this volume provides an innovative theoretical analysis of the collage of voices and artistic directions in contemporary Israeli prose written in times of political and cultural debate on the occupation and its intifadas."--

Arab-Israeli conflict --- Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000 --- -Intifada, 1987-1993. --- Israeli literature --- Hebrew literature --- Jews --- Jewish literature --- First Palestinian Intifada, 1987-1993 --- Intifāḍah, 1987-1993 --- Palestinian Uprising, 1987-1993 --- Aqsa Intifada, 2000 --- -Intifada, 2000 --- -Intifada II, 2000 --- -New Intifada, 2000 --- -New Palestinian Uprising, 2000 --- -Palestinian Uprising, 2000 --- -Second Intifada, 2000 --- -Second Palestinian Uprising, 2000 --- -Second Uprising, 2000 --- -Arab-Israeli conflict --- Arab-Israeli conflict in literature --- Israel-Arab conflicts in literature --- Literature and the conflict. --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Israel --- West Bank --- Gaza Strip --- Qiṭāʻ Ghazzah --- Retsuʻat ʻAzah --- Palestine --- Ḍaffah al-Gharbīyah --- Gadah ha-maʻaravit --- Judaea and Samaria --- Judea and Samaria --- West Bank of the Jordan River --- Yehudah ṿeha-Shomron --- Dawlat Isrāʼīl --- Država Izrael --- Dzi︠a︡rz︠h︡ava Izrailʹ --- Gosudarstvo Izrailʹ --- I-se-lieh --- Israele --- Isrāʼīl --- Isŭrael --- Isuraeru --- Izrael --- Izrailʹ --- Medinat Israel --- Medinat Yiśraʼel --- Stát Izrael --- State of Israel --- Yiselie --- Yiśraʼel --- Ισραήλ --- Израиль --- Государство Израиль --- Дзяржава Ізраіль --- Ізраіль --- מדינת ישראל --- ישראל --- إسرائيل --- دولة إسرائيل --- イスラエル --- 以色列 --- In literature. --- -Hebrew literature, Modern --- Intifada, 1987-1993 --- Castel-Bloom, Orly, --- Yehoshua, Abraham B. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- ספרות ישראלית --- אינתיפאדה, 1987-1993 --- الانتفاضة، 1987 - 1993 --- ספרות עברית מודרנית --- الأدب العبريّ، الحديث --- אינתיפאדה, 2000 --- -انتفاضة الأقصى، 2000 --- -הסכסוך הערבי-ישראלי --- الصراع العربيّ الإسرائيليّ --- היסטוריה וביקורת --- בספרות --- في الأدب --- تاريخ ونقد --- ספרות והסכסוך --- الأدب والصراع --- In literature --- יהושע, א.ב. --- يهوشع، ابراهام ب. --- קסטל-בלום, אורלי, --- كاستل-بلوم، أورلي، --- ביקורת ופרשנות --- النقد والتفسير --- Criticism and interpretation --- Иегошуа, Авраам Б. --- Yehoshua, A. B. --- Jehoschua, Abraham B. --- Ieoshua, A.B. --- Yehoshua, Avraham B. --- Iehoshua, Abraham B. --- Jehosua, Avraham Ben --- Yehoshoua, Abraham B. --- Йегошуа, Авраам Б. --- Иегошуа, А. Б. --- Иехошуа, Аврахам Б. --- Иегошуа, Аврахам Б. --- יהושע, א. ב. --- יהושע, א. ב., --- יהושע, אברהם גבריאל, --- יהושע, אברהם ב., --- يهوشواع، ابراهام ب. --- الصراع العربي الإسرائيلي --- הסכסוך הערבי-ישראלי --- Yehoshua, Abraham B., --- Иегошуа, Авраам Б., --- Israeli Litrature --- Intifada in literature --- Intifada, 1987- in literature --- Israel-Arab relations in literature --- History and criticism