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MIDDLE EAST--SOCIAL CONDITIONS --- MIDDLE EAST--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

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In the early fourth century, a lawyer and public figure from the Nile valley city of Hermopolis made a six-month business related journey to Antioch. The day to day details are preserved on papyrus documents and offer a remarkable record of this journey, covering everything from distances traveled to daily food purchases, from medicinal supplies to fees paid for services. In this book, the classicist and historian John Matthews translates these important documents and places them in the wider context of the social history of the Graeco-Roman world. The memoranda relating to Theophanes' journey are presented within a historical narrative that offers an array of revelations on diet, travel, social relations, and other fascinating topics. This book creates an unprecedented account of daily life in the years preceding Emperor Constantine's rise to power in the eastern provinces of the Roman empire.

HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Theophanes, --- Travel --- Middle East --- Social conditions. --- Theophanes, -- fl. 4th cent. -- Travel -- Middle East.. --- Middle East -- Social conditions.

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The Middle East has been undergoing new crises since the powerful socio-political uprisings known as the Arab Spring took place in several countries in 2011. Some countries are experiencing a long-term collapse of their political and social structures out of internal conflicts and external interventions. This book posits that, in the Middle East, the development of regional dynamics, of processes and circulations of all kinds, can be documented. In this regard, the approaches it develops - 'bottom-up; regionalisation, 'globalisation from below' - allow for a better understanding of the ways in which the Middle East is part of global transformations. The book analyses how, through their practices, Middle East societies elaborate a regional space which is not institutionalised. Based on fieldwork in the Middle East, the book provides venues for further theoretical elaboration on globalisation and contemporary societies, as well as on processes of regionalisation. It draws on the emergence of genuine regional spaces of culture, art, economic activity, human circulation - which supplement and do not contradict - and other infra-national, national, or global social processes. As in other areas of the world, these transformations are to a large extent the mode of the Middle East's insertion into globalisation. In this respect, they go against standard narratives of the supposed 'exceptionalism' of the region.

REGIONALISM--SOCIAL ASPECTS--MIDDLE EAST --- TRANSNATIONALISM--SOCIAL ASPECTS--MIDDLE EAST --- GLOBALIZATION--SOCIAL ASPECTS--MIDDLE EAST --- MIDDLE EAST--SOCIAL CONDITIONS --- Regionalism --- Transnationalism --- Globalization --- Social aspects --- Middle East --- Social conditions

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"During the Arab Spring, the world saw a long-suppressed group in the Middle East--young people--assert itself and demand its rights. But youthful dissent did not appear overnight; for decades it has been simmering beneath the surface in countries from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, from Iran to Egypt. In Arab Spring Dreams, a number of young Middle Easterners describe their experiences with the region's laws and cultural mores, including the crime of holding hands before marriage, discrimination and harassment over religious beliefs, and young women fighting for the right to complete their educations. They also discuss how previous uprisings, particularly the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, might be channeled to effect change in their own countries. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, these stories present a decisive call for change at a crucial point in the evolution of the Middle East"--Provided by publisher.

Youth --- Youth movements --- Civil rights --- Arab Spring, 2010 --- -Social conditions --- Political activity --- Middle East --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Youth - Middle East - Social conditions --- Youth - Political activity - Middle East --- Youth movements - Middle East --- Youth - Middle East - Biography --- Civil rights - Middle East --- -Middle East - Politics and government - 21st century --- Middle East - Social conditions - 21st century --- -Middle East

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Middle East --- Moyen-Orient --- Economic conditions --- History --- Social conditions --- Conditions économiques --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Conditions économiques --- To 622 --- Bibliography --- Middle East - History - To 622 --- Middle East - Social conditions --- Middle East - Economic conditions