Middle East and Far East by Walker, Allan Seymour

Table of Contents: “…The inter-war period, 1919-1939 -- On the outbreak of war -- Medical organisation -- Health and hospitals -- Preparations in the Middle East, 1940 -- The AIF in the United Kingdom -- Bardia and Tobruk -- Advance to Benghazi -- Retreat from Cyrenaica -- Siege of Tobruk -- Medical conditions in the Western Desert and Tobruk -- Greece -- Crete -- Syria -- Organisation abd equipment, 1941 -- Occupation of Syria -- El Alamein -- Lessons from campaigns -- Prisoners of war in Italy and Germany -- In Australia, 1941-1942 -- I Australian Corps returns -- Timor, Ambon and New Britain -- Malayan campaign -- Captivity in Changi -- Later events on Singapore island -- The Burma-Thailand railway -- Other prison camps in the Far East -- Liberation…”

Local politics and contemporary transformations in the Arab world governance beyond the center

Table of Contents: “…Bardawil -- Bringing the local back in : local politics between informalization and mobilization in an age of transformation in Egypt / Cilja Harders -- Negotiating (informal) institutional change : understanding local politics in Jordan / Malika Bouziane -- Morocco between decentralization and recentralization : encountering the state in the useless Morocco / Anja Hoffmann -- Revisiting politics in spaces beyond the centre : the case of the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon / Hala Caroline Abou-Zaki -- Political participation in Algeria beyond the polling stations : insights from Tizi-Ouzou / Naoual Belakhdar -- Tribes, revolution, and political culture in the Cyrenaica region of Libya / Thomas Hüsken -- Conclusion / Cilja Harders, Anja Hoffmann, Malika Bouziane…”