In Lebanon, religious parties such as Hezbollah play a critical role in providing health care, food, poverty relief, and other social welfare services alongside

Across the world, welfare states are under challenge—or were never developed extensively in the first place—while non-state actors increasingly provide publ

Tackles difficult and concrete issues such as how the economics of war and terrorism inform humanitarians' negotiations with combatants.

The substantially revised and updated third edition of Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East focuses on the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children f