Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East

by Dawn Chatty

Book Overview

Dispossession and forced migration in the Middle East remain even today significant elements of contemporary life in the region. Dawn Chatty's book traces the history of those who, as a reconstructed Middle East emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century, found themselves cut off from their homelands, refugees in a new world, with borders created out of the ashes of war and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. As an anthropologist, the author is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521521041
• ISBN13: 9780521521048
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"