Contributions

Woertz describes a document about a 50 years rental agreement over 10.000 ha of land in Ethiopia’s Gambela province between the Ethiopian ministry of agriculture and the Saudi Star Agricultural Development Company, which is included in the ‘DAME Global Histories of MENA in the 20th Century - A Primary Source Collection’.

This chapter summarizes the key findings of the other 13 chapters in the volume "Syria after Assad", bringing their arguments around decentralization and state consolidation, sectarian violence, security sector reform, transitional justice, refugee return, and economic reconstruction in conversation with each other.

Using new data from 42,000+ Islamic boarding schools, this analysis maps Indonesia's pesantren landscape for the first time—revealing geographic patterns, organizational ties to NU, accelerated growth after democratization, and surprising correlations with electoral outcomes.

The ḥurriyya framework offers Muslim societies a way to overcome ideological divides by linking universal values with Islamic ethics. It provides an alternative to rigid secularism and literalist traditions while respecting modern values developed outside Islam.