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The book takes a close look at the origins and development of the Syrian identity, during the 18th and 19th centuries, through the role of Christian Arab intellectuals and merchants, Ottomans and American missionaries. It examines its background, stages of evolution, and components.

Bård Kårtveit offers an ethnographic account of contemporary Christian Palestinian lives in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Lives which are heavily influenced by changes in traditional patriarchal family structures; Christian-Muslim relations in the region; Israeli military presence; and the promise of migration.

Order and Compromise questions the historicity of government practices in Turkey from the late Ottoman Empire onwards. Its discussion of state-society relations reveals how political and administrative institutions are being framed by constant interactions with other social realms.

In Architecture, Power and Religion in Lebanon, Ward Vloeberghs explores Rafiq Hariri's patronage and posthumous legacy to demonstrate how built fabric becomes a tool to convey political messages in contemporary Lebanon.