"Martyrdom in the Muslim world is increasingly integral to conversations about international security. Over the years, the belief system around self sacrifice has become key to understanding the Middle East and its political relationships with the West, although much of the literature and conversation has been restricted to modern concepts of jihadism. The recent spate of scholarship relating to suicide bombers and jihadists studies thes ..."
From Empathy to Denial(1st Edition) Arab Responses to the Holocaust by ProfessorMeirLitvak, Esther Webman Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2011 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-932674-7, ISBN: 0-19-932674-6
"Based on years of research conducted mostly in Arabic sources, Meir Litvak and Ester Webman track the evolution of post-World War II perceptions of the Holocaust and their parallel emergence in the wake of the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1948. Following the establishment of the State of Israel, Arab attitudes toward the Holocaust became entangled with broader anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic sentiments. Litvak and Webman track this discourse ..."
"The shrine cities of Najaf and Karbala in nineteenth-century Ottoman Iraq were the most important Shi'i centers of learning. In the first in-depth study of the period, Meir Litvak explores the social and political dynamics of these communities and the historical development of Shi'i leadership. In this context, the book not only contributes to the historical debates, but also more broadly to an understanding of modern Shi'ism. It will a ..."
"The Middle East state system, which was largely an artificial construct of the post World War I international order, has faced enormous challenges since Arab uprisings erupted in December 2010. The collection of essays in this volume, based on a seminar held by The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies in the 2012 13 academic year, examines the state of the Middle East in the aftermath of the uprisings and seeks to e ..."
"For many Middle Eastern Muslims the "West" came to personify the ultimate "other," occupying a space that was simultaneously appealing, intimidating, and often abhorrent. The multilayered, ambivalent interaction between Middle Eastern societies and the West has been a major theme in the history of this region for the past two centuries. The al-Qa eda terrorist attack against the United States on September 11, 2001, the 2003 U.S. i ..."
The Sunna and Shi'a in History Division and Ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East by Ofra Bengio , MeirLitvak Paperback, 278 Pages, Published 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-137-48558-8, ISBN: 1-137-48558-2
The Sunna and Shi'a in History(1st Edition) Division and Ecumenism in the Muslim Middle East by Ofra Bengio , MeirLitvak Hardcover, 286 Pages, Published 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-12092-1, ISBN: 0-230-12092-X