Middle East

Big Fish Audio is proud to present Middle East Percussion Essentials! Middle East Percussion Essentials is a collection of essential percussion loops for making Persian, Arabic, Turkish and Azeri tunes or just for adding a Middle Eastern flavor to your current style. Ethnic instruments like Bendir, Darbuka, Bata, Udo, Nagara and Tombak have been recorded alongside common ones like Congas, Bongo, Shaker, Tambourine, Djembe and more.

This book examines the strategies of regional powers in the Middle East regarding their response to cases of state failure in the region, thus connecting the theoretical concepts of statehood, state failure, and revisionist and pro-status quo interventionist behavior. Through a detailed comparative analysis of five case studies of failed states occurring in the region during 1960–2010s –Yemen (1962–1970), Lebanon (1975–1989), Iraq (2003–2020), Yemen (2004–2020), and Syria (2011–2020) – the author employs the conceptual theory of balance of power to analyze the behavior of six regional powers in the Middle East: Egypt, Iran, Israel, Syria (pre-2011), Saudi Arabia, and Turkey toward each one of those cases. The book proposes that when states become failed states, regional powers with revisionist strategies expand into them, which in turn induce status quo regional powers to react by imposing balancing action, and that this power struggle turns failed states into battlegrounds for regional power (im)balances.