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  • Casting a Giant Shadow

    The Transnational Shaping of Israeli Cinema

    by Zachary Ingle, Ohad Landesman, Shmulik Duvdevani, Neta Alexander, Joshua Beaty, Nava Dushi, Yael Munk, Yaron Peleg, Ariel M. Sheetrit, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Pablo Utin, Raz Yosef, Boaz Hagin, Mary N. Layoun, Julie Grimmeisen, Yaron Shemer, Anat Dan ...
    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    Film came to the territory that eventually became Israel not long after the medium was born. Casting a Giant Shadow is a collection of articles that embraces the notion of transnationalism to consider the limits of what is "Israeli" within Israeli cinema.As the State of Israel developed, so did its film industries. Moving beyond the early films of the Yishuv, which focused on the creation of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Authoritarian Apprehensions

    Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria

    by Lisa Wedeen ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In Authoritarian Apprehensions, Lisa Wedeen draws on her decades-long engagement with Syria to offer an erudite and compassionate analysis of this extraordinary rush of events ... Read more

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  • A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4

    The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010

    by Hamid Naficy ...
    Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran's peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2

    The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978

    by Hamid Naficy ...
    Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Future of Palestine

    How Discrimination Hinders Change

    by Tamar Haddad ...
    The Future of Palestine: How Discrimination Hinders Change was inspired by the shocking “honor killing” of the author’s classmate and friend, Israa Ghrayeb. Her alleged crime? The simple act of going out, in broad daylight, with her fiancé and his sister—an act Ghrayeb’s cousin maintained was unacceptable in a conservative society. While Ghrayeb’s killers may be free, their manner of thinking is ... Read more

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  • Tafsir: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Andrew Rippin ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?

    Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad

    by Richard Landes ...
    Series series Antisemitism in America
    A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis PrizeLandes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Israeli Historical Revisionism

    From Left to Right

    Edited by Derek J. Penslar, Anita Shapira ...
    The essays in this volume, by leading scholars from within and outside Israel, shed new light on the Israeli historians' controversy of the creation of the State of Israel, the 1948 War and its aftermath, Israel's attitude towards Holocaust survivors, the "melting pot" absorption policy and similar subjects. The attack on Zionist historiography, which initially came from what is dubbed the "post ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture

    by Salim Tamari, Mark LeVine ...
    This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. The ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Directed by God

    Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television

    by Yaron Peleg ...
    As part of its effort to forge a new secular Jewish nation, the nascent Israeli state tried to limit Jewish religiosity. However, with the steady growth of the ultraorthodox community and the expansion of the settler community, Israeli society is becoming increasingly religious. Although the arrival of religious discourse in Israeli politics has long been noticed, its cultural development has ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Women Write Iran

    Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora

    by Nima Naghibi ...
    Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels—and finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution as a traumatic event and by a powerful nostalgia for an idealized ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Nakba

    Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory

    Edited by Lila Abu-Lughod, Ahmad Sa'di ...
    Series series Cultures of History
    For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the injustice of the past.By focusing on memories of the Nakba or "catastrophe" of 1948, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were ... Read more

    $34.19 USD