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  • The Migrant in Arab Literature

    Displacement, Self-Discovery and Nostalgia

    Edited by Martina Censi, Maria Elena Paniconi ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    This edited book offers a collection of fresh and critical essays that explore the representation of the migrant subject in modern and contemporary Arabic literature and discuss its role in shaping new forms of transcultural and transnational identities. The selection of essays in this volume offers a set of new insights on a cluster of tropes: self-discovery, alienation, nostalgia, transmission ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Medical Geochemistry

    Geological Materials and Health

    Edited by Paolo Censi, Thomas Darrah, Yigal Erel ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book includes a collection of chapters illustrating the application of geochemical methods to investigate the interactions between geological materials and fluids with humans. Examples include the incorporation and human health effects of inhaling lithogenic materials, the reactivity of biological fluids with geological materials, and the impact on nascent biomineral formation. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Arab Spring

    The End of Postcolonialism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a 'Delayed Defiance' - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

    by Chiara Bottici, Benoît Challand ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it be that Huntington’s contested idea of a clash of civilizations became such a powerful political myth through which so many people look at the world?Bottici and Challand disentangle such a process of myth-making both in the West and in Muslim majority ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Egypt in the Future Tense

    Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011

    by Samuli Schielke ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    "Illustrates the complex and contradictory impact of Muslim revivalism on the expectations and hopes of Egyptian youth . . . Recommended." — ChoiceAgainst the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Diasporic Condition

    Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World

    by Ghassan Hage ...
    Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory.In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage engages with the diasporic Lebanese community as a shared lifeworld, defining a common cultural milieu that transcends spatial and temporal ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Arab Thought

    Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective

    by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab ...
    In the last third of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between totalizing doctrines—nationalist, Marxist, and religious—and radical critique. Arab thinkers were reacting to the disenchanting experience of postindependence and a widespread sense of malaise, as well as to authoritarianism, intolerance, injustice, failed development, and successive defeats by ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora

    Representations of Place and Transnational Identity

    by Jumana Bayeh ...
    Series series Written Culture and Identity
    The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences. Jumana Bayeh presents an important and major study of the literature of the Lebanese diaspora. Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Among the Jasmine Trees

    Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria

    by Jonathan Holt Shannon ...
    How does a Middle Eastern community create a modern image through its expression of heritage and authenticity? In Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria, Jonathan H. Shannon investigates expressions of authenticity in Syria's musical culture, which is particularly known for embracing and preserving the Arab musical tradition, and which has seldom been researched in ... Read more

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  • Learning in Morocco

    Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream

    by Charis Boutieri ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been implemented coherently. In recent years, national policies to promote the use of Arabic have come into conflict with the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Contemporary Arab Women Writers

    Cultural Expression in Context

    by Anastasia Valassopoulos ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said’s groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship between the West and the Arab world in Orientalism, there has been little postcolonial criticism of Arab writing. Anastasia Valassopoulos raises the profile of Arab women writers by examining how they negotiate contexts ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Cosmopolitan Radicalism

    The Visual Politics of Beirut's Global Sixties

    by Zeina Maasri ...
    Series Book 13 - The Global Middle East
    Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in Beirut from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, this compelling interdisciplinary study critically examines a global conjuncture in Lebanon's history, marked by anticolonial struggle and complicated by a Cold War order. Against a celebratory reminiscence of the 'golden years', Beirut's long 1960s is conceived of as a liminal ... Read more

    $29.59 USD