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  • Muslim Women Speaking Persistently

    Edited by Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran ...
    This book highlights the resilience and courage of Muslim women who have spoken out under challenging circumstances across history and geography. From the exploration of the Andalusian poet Wallāda Bint al- Mustakfi in the Middle Ages to contemporary British diaspora writers, Afghani women, Chic Lit authors and playwrights, and discussions on Hindutva issues, this book showcases the diverse and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • In the Crossfire of History

    Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South

    by Lava Asaad, Farzana Akhter, Margaret Hageman, Nyla Khan, Shafinur Nahar, Doaa Omran, Carolyn Ownbey, Moumin Quazi, Lucia Garcia-Santana0, Stefanie Sevcik1, Matthew Spencer2 ...
    Series series War Culture
    In the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad in 2018 was a tribute to honor women whose bodies have been battered in the name of race, nationality, war, and religion. *In the Crossfire of History:*Women's War ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Memory, Voice, and Identity

    Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East

    Edited by Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Muslim women have been stereotyped by Western academia as oppressed and voiceless. This volume problematizes this Western academic representation. Muslim Women Writers from the Middle East from Out al-Kouloub al-Dimerdashiyyah (1899–1968) and Latifa al-Zayat (1923–1996) from Egypt, to current diasporic writers such as Tamara Chalabi from Iraq, Mohja Kahf from Syria, and even trendy writers such as ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

    A Cultural-Historical Investigation of the Dark Side in the Pre-Modern World

    by Albrecht Classen, Warren Tormey, Chiara Benati, Doaa Omran, Christiane Paulus, Magda Hasabelnaby, Amany El-Sawy, Sarah Whitten, Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez, Carlee Arnett0, Maria Cecilia Ruiz1, Sally Abed2, Maha Baddar3, Andreas Lehnertz4, Birgit Wiedl5, J. Michael Fulton6, Filip Hrbek7, Thomas Willard8, Fidel Fajardo-Acosta9, Daniel F. Pigg0 ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval Literature
    People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and continue to be) most ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia

    Edited by Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran ...
    This essential collection examines South and Southeast Asian Muslim women’s writing and the ways they navigate cultural, political, and controversial boundaries. Providing a global, contemporary collection of essays, this volume uses varied methods of analysis and methodology, including:• Contemporary forms of expression, such as memoir, oral accounts, romance novels, poetry, and social media;• ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    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

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  • Women Claim Islam

    Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

    by Miriam Cooke ...
    This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible. ... Read more

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  • Refugees of the Revolution

    Experiences of Palestinian Exile

    by Diana Allan ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps—inhabited now for four ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Contemporary Arab-American Literature

    Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging

    by Carol Fadda-Conrey ...
    The last couple of decades have witnessed a flourishing of Arab-American literature across multiple genres. Yet, increased interest in this literature is ironically paralleled by a prevalent bias against Arabs and Muslims that portrays their long presence in the US as a recent and unwelcome phenomenon. Spanning the 1990s to the present, Ca... ... Read more

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  • United States and Iran

    Different Values and Attitudes Toward Nature

    by Maryam Y. Yekta Steininger ...
    This book discusses Iranian culture before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. It covers the religion and literature of the Iranian people, their attitudes toward technology, work, family, and authority, and their attitude towards Western culture. After discussing the various concepts of culture and communication, this book focuses on Steininger's research conducted among American scholars ... Read more

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  • Iran

    Between Tradition and Modernity

    by Roksana Bahramitash, Sohrab Behdad, Jamsheed Behnam, Hamid Dabashi, Nader Hashemi, Mazyar Lotfalian, Monica M. Ringer, Ahmad Sadri, Sussan Siavoshi, Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Majid Tehranian, Farzin Vahdat ...
    The Iranian Revolution represented to intellectuals and professionals the potential of spiritual values to triumph over the great power of economic imperialism. Yet out of this revolution has emerged an identity crisis that touches Islamic ideological heights and reaches down to the very ground of Islamic practice. The contributors to this collection, experts on Iranian cultural and political ... Read more

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  • National Identities in Pakistan

    The 1971 war in contemporary Pakistani fiction

    by Cara Cilano ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a truncated Pakistan. This book examines how literature by those who remained Pakistanis acts as a cultural response to the threat the war posed to a nationalist identity. It provides an analysis of the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD