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Economic performance in the Middle East and North Africa: institutions, corruption and reform
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ISBN: 9780415438049 Year: 2009 Publisher: London Routledge

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The directory of Middle East & North African libraries
ISBN: 9781921492853 Year: 2009 Publisher: Sydney Asia Pacific Infoserv

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Flora of Egypt checklist
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ISBN: 9789774760020 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cairo Al-Hadara

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Das Königreich der Vandalen : Erben des Imperiums in Nordafrika : [Große Landesausstellung Baden-Württemberg 2009 im Badischen Landesmuseum Schloss Karlsruhe, 24. Oktober 2009 bis 21. Februar 2010]
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ISBN: 9783805340830 3805340834 9783805341189 3805341180 Year: 2009 Publisher: Karlsruhe: Badisches Landesmuseum,


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The new authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa
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ISBN: 1282539841 9786612539848 0253004004 9780253004000 9780253353979 0253353971 9780253221469 0253221463 9781282539846 6612539844 Year: 2009 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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Ultimately, King's forward-thinking analysis offers a way to enhance the prospects for democracy in the Middle East and North Africa.


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Women and war in the Middle East: transnational perspectives
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Year: 2009 Publisher: London Zed Books


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Contrôle et distribution de l'eau dans le Maghreb antique et médiéval
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ISBN: 9782728307975 2728307970 Year: 2009 Volume: 426 Publisher: Rome École français de Rome

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Du sud de la Libye au Maroc nord-atlantique, de nombreux vestiges de structures liées au captage, à la circulation, à la distribution, ou encore au stockage de l’eau témoignent de la capacité d’adaptation des populations antiques et médiévales aux contraintes de leur environnement. La diversité des solutions mises en œuvre pour l’exploitation des ressources hydriques, dans cette vaste région aux conditions hydrographiques inégales mais somme toute relativement limitées, incite à une relecture des sources littéraires, épigraphiques et des données archéologiques souvent réactualisées par de récentes observations de terrain. Les communications présentées en mars 2002 lors du colloque international de Tunis n’offrent pas seulement un panorama des installations hydrauliques selon les régions. Appuyées par des analyses techniques et de nouveaux apports chronologiques, elles abordent également la question de l’origine, de l’évolution et de la transmission des savoirs faire, sans négliger les aspects de gestion et de réglementation relatives à l’utilisation des ressources en eau. Considérant les conditions topographiques, géologiques, pluviométriques, les auteurs s’interrogent sur l’alimentation en eau des cités, tout autant qu’ils attirent l’attention sur les installations rurales et agricoles et montrent à quel point la question du contrôle et de la distribution de l’eau dans le Maghreb antique et médiéval demeure un vaste champ d’étude au sein duquel les recherches systématiques méritent d’être poursuivies.


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Het lichaam
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam Stichting ZemZem

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In dit nummer van ‘ZemZem’ laten auteurs hun licht schijnen over de relatie tussen het lichaam, cultuur en religie in het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en moslimgemeenschappen in Nederland. De onderwerpen gaan van het lot van het lichaam na de dood tot het bezeten lichaam, van haatbaarden en hoofddoeken tot lichaamsrituelen, van erotiek tot het vrouwelijk lichaam in de kunst, en van schoonheidsidealen tot de rol van zintuiglijke ervaringen bij identiteitsvorming.


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Market dynamics and productivity in developing countries : economic reforms in the Middle East and North Africa
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ISBN: 9781441912084 9781441910363 9781441910370 9781441910387 1441910379 1441910360 1441912088 9786612499951 155250459X 1282499955 1441910387 9786612832253 1282832255 9781552504598 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York ; London : Springer,

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To what degree are trade liberalization, productivity, and economic growth correlated? Can economic policies designed to encourage competition and curtail industry protection result in large-scale improvements, such as increased innovation and reduced unemployment? After 20 years of economic reform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), economic performance is still lagging behind many regions of the world. Even in those countries that are the most advanced in implementing reforms, including Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia, industries with low productivity growth and high market power continue to dominate. Moreover, the termination of the Multi-Fiber Agreement and the negotiations concerning further liberalization of trade in agricultural products (under the framework of the World Trade Organization) put these and other countries under pressure of fierce competition from emerging nations. Recent empirical evidence on the impact of reforms in a number of developing countries shows that such persistence of inefficiency and market power is specific to MENA. Showcasing in-depth analyses from Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey (with comparative data from Asia and Latin America), this book focuses on the dynamics of firm entry and exit to help explain the low productivity of the region. The results suggest a number of policy recommendations designed to foster competition, which, in turn, would contribute to innovation, productivity growth, and improved return on capital investments. The book not only reveals important correlations among policy and market factors in MENA, but suggests fruitful areas of research in other developing regions of the world.


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Islamist radicalisation : the challenge for Euro-Mediterranean relations
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ISBN: 9789290798651 9290798653 Year: 2009 Publisher: Brussels: Centre for European policy studies,

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"Issues relating to political Islam continue to present challenges to European foreign policies in the Middle East and North Africa. In this volume, European and regional experts analyse trends driving the radicalisation of political Islam as well as the contrary trend of de-radicalisation observed in some countries where Islamist parties have secured democratic political participation. The question underlying the book is whether the EU should engage more specifically with the 'moderate' Islamist parties, and at least recognise radical Islamist movements the achieve democratic electoral success and legitimacy, such as Palestinian Hamas. Current EU policies are largely negative on both accounts. The conclusions of this book argue for a change in this stance, with a three-dimensional approach: a) to put pressure on incumbent regimes to abandon the repression of moderate Islamist movements, b) to influence the legal and political frameworks regulating social and political participation in a more open way and c) to engage in dialogue with non-violent opposition forces--both Islamist and non-Islamist. In the absence of such policies, the EU risks contributing to a re-radicalisation of movements that have become disillusioned with the failure of their political moderation to produce results."--P. [4] of cover.

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