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  • Revolutionary Womanhood

    Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt

    by Laura Bier ...
    "Laura Bier unpacks the complicated dynamics and legacy of an historical moment in which women were understood to be crucial to modern nation-building." —Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolutionary Womanhood

    Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt

    by Laura Bier ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections between the secular nationalist projects that emerged in the 1950s and the gender politics of Islamism today, Laura Bier reveals how discussions about education, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Six Day War 1967

    Sinai

    by Simon Dunstan ...
    Series Book 212 - Campaign
    A fully illustrated account of Israel's campaign against Egypt that began the Six Day War.In May 1967, Egypt expelled the United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed in the Sinai desert and deployed its army along its border with Israel, its moves coordinated with those of Jordan and Syria. By June, Israel realized that the international community would not act, and so it launched a pre-emptive ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of Ancient Egypt

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes maps and pictures of Ancient Egyptian art and architecture, including King Tut's death mask and the Great Pyramid at Giza. *Includes a Table of Contents. Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fascinate modern societies across the globe nearly 5,000 years later. From the Library and Lighthouse ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt

    The Secret Lineage of the Patriarch Joseph

    by Ahmed Osman ...
    A reinterpretation of Egyptian and biblical history that shows the Patriarch Joseph and Yuya, a vizier of the eighteenth dynasty king Tuthmosis IV, to be the same person• Uses detailed evidence from Egyptian, biblical, and Koranic sources to place Exodus in the time of Ramses I• Sheds new light on the mysterious and sudden rise of monotheism under Yuya’s daughter, Queen Tiye, and her son ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gaza

    A History

    by Jean-Pierre Filiu ...
    Gaza has become synonymous with conflict and dispute. Though only slightly larger than Omaha, Nebraska at 140 square miles, the small territory of Gaza has been a hot spot for bitter disputes between sparring powers for millennia, from the Ancient Egyptians up until the British Empire and even today. Wedged between the Negev and Sinai deserts on one side and the Mediterranean Sea on the other, ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Egypt in the Era of Hosni Mubarak

    by Galal Amin ...
    Galal Amin once again turns his attention to the shaping of Egyptian society and the Egyptian state in the half-century and more that has elapsed since the Nasserite revolution, this time focusing on the era of President Mubarak. He looks at corruption, poverty, the plight of the middle class, and of course, the economy, and directs his penetrating gaze toward the Mubarak regime's uneasy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploring The Great Pyramid of Giza : One of the Seven Wonders of the World - History Kids Books | Children's Ancient History

    by Baby Professor ...
    It’s amazing to see wonders that are natural and man-made. It’s thrilling to know that these wonders exist in our world. How would you feel if you were given the chance to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza? We created a book so that you can experience the Great Pyramid but without having to fly to Egypt. Enjoy! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Bazaar in the Islamic City

    Design, Culture, and History

    Edited by Mohammad Gharipour ...
    The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical evolution, industrial development, social and political conditions, urban morphology, and architectural functions. This interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $28.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hero of the Crossing

    How Anwar Sadat and the 1973 War Changed the World

    by Thomas W. Lippman ...
    In eleven dramatic years, Anwar Sadat changed history—not just that of Egypt, or of the Middle East, but of the entire world. As the architect of the 1973 war against Israel, he gained the support of other Arab nations and inspired the oil embargo that transformed the global economy. Following the war, however, he forever ended Arab aspirations of unity by making peace with Israel. Early in his ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

    Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Nurturing Masculinities

    Men, Food, and Family in Contemporary Egypt

    by Nefissa Naguib ...
    Two structuring concepts have predominated in discussions concerning how Middle Eastern men enact their identity culturally: domination and patriarchy. Nurturing Masculinities dispels the illusion that Arab men can be adequately represented when we speak of them only in these terms. By bringing male perspectives into food studies, which typically focus on the roles of women in the production and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD