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  • - An Historical and Critical Introduction
    von Roger Allen
    34,00 €

    This edition includes new material on the Arabic novel up to 1993. It is a survey of the Arabic novel and its development from its beginnings in the 19th century until today. It traces the origin, early cultivation and the mature period after World War II of the Arabic novel.

  • von Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki
    93,00 €

  • - Palestinian Writings in the World
    von Maurice Ebileeni
    101,00 €

    Calls for a renewed definition of Palestinian writing, one that includes Anglophone, Nordic, Latinate, and Hebrew language literary works. Although most of the works discussed here are steeped in the historic injustices committed against Palestinians, Ebileeni's intention is to yield a richer understanding of Palestinian literary texts.

  • von Abdullahi Ahmed An Na'im & Mahmoud Mohamed Taha
    32,00 €

    A translation of Taha's major work in which he outlines the main features of his teachings. Mahmoud Mohamed Taha was a prominent Sudanese Muslim teacher who was executed by the government in 1985.

  • - The Ghulat Sects
    von Matti Moosa
    61,00 €

    Offers a comprehensive study of the origins and cultural aspects of the different extremist, or Ghulat, Shiite sects in the Middle East. These sects whose 'extremism' is essentially religious are generally a peaceful people and, except for the Nusayris of Syria, are not political activists.

  • - On Limits and Possibilities of Ethical International Politics
    von Stanley Hoffman
    33,00 €

  • - Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health
    von Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher
    40,00 - 45,00 €

    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
    von Eray Cayli
    101,00 €

  • - Institutions, Reform, and Conflict
    von Bulent Aras
    82,00 €

  • - The Hegemony of Resistance
    von Abed T. Kanaaneh
    99,00 €

    Hezbollah's influence in military issues is well known, but its role in shaping cultural and political activities has not received enough attention. Kanaaneh sheds new light on the organisation's successful evolution as a counterhegemonic force in the region's resistance movement, known as ""Maqawama"".

  • - The Poetics of Human Rights
    von R. Shareah Taleghani
    149,00 €

    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
    von Mustafa Kabha & Nahum Karlinsky
    116,00 €

    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.

  • von Anis Obeid
    46,00 - 47,00 €

    As a small sect that emerged from Islam over years ago, the Druze religion and society has been cloaked in a tradition of secrecy. This book provides an analysis of Druze scriptures and beliefs (Tawhid). It presents a chronological narrative on the foundation and development of the faith, explaining historical conditions and religious rationale.

  • - Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context
     
    95,00 €

    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.

  • - Politics, Culture, and Human Rights
     
    65,00 €

    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.

  • von David R. Collier
    101,00 €

    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.

  • - Communiques from the Intifada Underground
    von Shaul Mishal & Reuben Aharoni
    34,00 €

    This work provides a selection of underground documents of the two leading bodies of the Intifada: the United National Command and the Islamic Resistance Movement, known as Hamas. Mishal analyses these documents in order to understand the forces that turned the wheels of the Palestinian uprising.

  • - Continuity and Change in the Modern World
    von John O. Voll
    35,00 €

    This is a single-volume history of Islam. The opening chapters briefly discuss the historical background of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century, through the rise of the Islam in 18th through 20th centuries. The final two chapters cover the significant events of the 1980s and 1990s.

  • von Amira El-Zein
    39,00 - 58,00 €

    According to the Qur'an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. This title explores the integral role these mythological figures play, revealing that the concept of jinn is fundamental to understanding Muslim culture and tradition.

  • - Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan
     
    34,00 €

  • von Amira Sonbol
    34,00 €

    A collection of 18 essays that covers a wide range of material and re-evaluates women's studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shari'a courts, the Ottoman household, Dhimmi communities, family law, morality and violence.

  • - Participants and Issues
     
    33,00 €

    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.

  • - An American Family Odyssey
    von Ann Kerr-Adams
    33,00 - 52,00 €

    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.

  • von Selma Botman
    45,00 €

    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.

  • - The Ghulat Sects
    von Matti Moosa
    65,00 €

    Little is known in the West about the division of the Islamic world into Shiites and Sunnites and even less about the stratification of these two groups. Moosa's comprehensive study of the origins and cultural aspects of the different extremist, or Ghulat, Shiite sects in the Middle East is a ground-breaking work.

  • - Intellectuals, Cultural Production, and the State in the Middle East and North Africa
     
    104,00 €

    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.

  • - Politics, Culture, and Human Rights
     
    108,00 €

    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.

  • - The Crisis before the Storm
    von Sophia Hoffman
    89,00 €

    During the decade that preceded Syria's 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival of Iraqi migrants and a flood of humanitarian aid to handle the refugee emergency. Drawing on firsthand observations and interviews, Hoffmann provides a nuanced portrait of the conditions of daily life for Iraqis living in Syria.

  • - Ideology and Politics in the Arab World
    von Paul Salem
    64,00 €

    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.

  • von Habib Ladjevardi
    58,00 €

    Ladjevardi follows the rise and ebb of political development in Iran from 1906 to the recent past by looking at one aspect of political growth: the emergence of labor unions. Presenting a history of the labor movement in Iran, he begins with the genesis of the movement from 1906 to 1921.

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