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Books in the Contemporary Issues in the Middle East series

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  • - An American Family Odyssey
    by Ann Kerr-Adams
    £28.49 - 47.99

    A story of an American woman's life in Lebanon and the events that lead to her husband's assassination. Through her entries from her diaries and excerpts from his letters, Kerr examines her husband's ideals and goals to promote reconciliation in among the factions in Lebanese society.

  • - Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health
    by Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher
    £28.99

    Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940s, killing thousands of people. This book reconstructs the nation's fight against malaria, relapsing fever, and cholera and explores the unique combination of forces that placed public health on the national political agenda for the first time.

  • - The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey
    by Eray Cayli
    £30.99 - 74.49

  • - Institutions, Reform, and Conflict
    by Bulent Aras
    £55.49

  • - The Poetics of Human Rights
    by R. Shareah Taleghani
    £72.49

    Prison literature has played an essential role in generating the "experimental shift" in Arabic literature since the 1960s. Taleghani's groundbreaking work explores prison writing's critical role in resistance movements in Syria, the evolution of Arabic literature, and the development of a global human rights.

  • - The Palestinian-Arab Citrus Industry, 1850-1949
    by Mustafa Kabha & Nahum Karlinsky
    £67.49

    Tells the story of the Palestinian citrus industry from its inception until 1950, tracing the shifting relationship between Palestinian Arabs and Zionist Jews. Kabha and Karlinsky portray the industry's social fabric, detail its economic history, and analyse the conditions that enabled the formation of a unique binational organisation.

  • - Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context
     
    £37.99

    Provides a new perspective on Muslim youth, presenting them as agents of creative social change and as active participants in cultural and community organisations where resistance leads to negotiated change. In a series of case studies, contributors capture the experiences of being young and Muslim in ten countries.

  • by David R. Collier
    £41.99

    Presents a timely and fresh reexamination of one of the most important bilateral relationships of the last century. Collier delves deeply into the American desire to promote democracy in Iran from the 1940s to the early 1960s and examines the myriad factors that contributed to their success in exerting a powerful influence on Iranian politics.

  • - Melville, Twain, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Bowles, Algren, and Baldwin
    by Kim Fortuny
    £32.99

    Looking at texts by writers who do not necessarily define themselves as Orientalists, this title broadens the possible ways of thinking about Istanbul - a complex, idiosyncratic city of the world.

  • - Participants and Issues
     
    £28.49

    A guide for those who wish to understand the Lebanese conflict, and for those, as well, who would work to bring peace to that tormented land. From Palestinian, Syrian, and Israeli intervention to delicate inter-Arab relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and superpower involvement, sixteen experts analyse the motives and actions of the men and groups engaged in the bloody Lebanese hostilities.

  • by Sami Khalil Mar'i
    £24.49

  • by Selma Botman
    £41.49

    Examines the virtually unknown history of communism in Egypt during the twentieth-century. In an original and well-documented study, the author has traced the development of the revolutionary left using political court cases, interviews with political activists, and literature from the communist movement itself.

  • - Intellectuals, Cultural Production, and the State in the Middle East and North Africa
     
    £28.99

    Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic creativity, cultural production, intellectual movements, and acts of political dissidence across the Middle East and North Africa.

  • - Intellectuals, Cultural Production, and the State in the Middle East and North Africa
     
    £67.49

    Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic creativity, cultural production, intellectual movements, and acts of political dissidence across the Middle East and North Africa.

  • - Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War
     
    £32.99

    Showcases written and visual contributions by Iraqi artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, and activists. Contributors explore the way Iraqis retain, subvert, and produce art and activism as ways of coping with despair and resisting chaos and destruction.

  • - Politics, Culture, and Human Rights
     
    £72.49

    Demands for freedom, justice, and dignity have animated protests and revolutions across the Middle East in recent years, changing the landscape of the region. Drawing from diverse disciplines, this volume offers critical perspectives on these changes, covering politics, religion, gender dynamics, human rights, media, literature, and music.

  • - Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context
     
    £36.99

    Provides a new perspective on Muslim youth, presenting them as agents of creative social change and as active participants in cultural and community organisations where resistance leads to negotiated change. In a series of case studies, contributors capture the experiences of being young and Muslim in ten countries.

  • - A Daughter's Memoir
    by Susan Kerr Van De Ven
    £19.49

    A portrait of the intimate way in which violence pulls lives apart, of an American family caught on the stage of Middle East politics, and of the moral choices required in seeking justice.

  • - Ideology and Politics in the Arab World
    by Paul Salem
    £41.99

    This is a critical study of the evolution of Arab political thought since the beginning of the 20th century. The author places ideology in a comparative and dialectical framework, approaching the work from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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