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  • Bob Marley and Media

    Representation and Audiences

    by Mike Hajimichael ...
    Series series Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political and Cultural Interventions
    Bob Marley and Media: Representation and Audiences presents an analysis of how media, radio, television and print represented Bob Marley, including his popularity after his death. Mike Hajimichael examines unexplored connections between Bob Marley and media representation and the specifics of audiences, including coverage in tabloids, music magazines, and fanzines, as well as radio and television ... Read more

    $34.89 USD

  • Usurping Suicide

    The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths

    by Milena Katsarska, Theodoros A. Spyros, Mike Hajimichael, Suman Gupta ...
    Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features?This book examines suicide like no other. Unconcerned with the individual dispositions that lead a person to commit such an act, Usurping Suicide focuses on the reception suicides have produced – their political, social and cultural implications. How does a particular act of suicide enable a ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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    by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...
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  • Common Sense

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    by Thomas Paine ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
    Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution. Common Sense was signed "Written by an Englishman", and it became an immediate success. In relative proportion to the population of the colonies at that time, 2.5 million Americans, it had the largest sale and circulation of any book published in ... Read more

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  • Billionaires

    Reflections on the Upper Crust

    by Darrell M. West ...
    Meet the Billionaires: the 1,645 men and women who control a massive share of global assets worth $6.5 trillion. Darrell West reveals what the other 99.99998% of us need to know.With rich anecdotes and personal narratives, West goes inside the world of the ultra wealthy. Meet U.S. billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson, Michael Bloomberg, David and Charles Koch, George Soros, Tom Steyer, and Donald ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Youth and Revolution in Tunisia

    by Alcinda Honwana ...
    Series series African Arguments
    The uprising in Tunisia has come to be seen as the first true revolution of the twenty-first century, one that kick-started the series of upheavals across the region now known as the Arab Spring. In this remarkable work, Alcinda Honwana goes beyond superficial accounts of what occurred to explore the defining role of the country's youth, and in particular the cyber activist.Drawing on fresh ... Read more

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  • Egypt in Flux

    Essays on an Unfinished Revolution

    by Adel Iskandar ...
    No chapter in Egypt's contemporary history has been more turbulent and unpredictable than the past three years. In a very short period of time, the Arab world's most populous country has seen a transition from rule by an iron-fisted dictatorship to a populist uprising to military omnipotence to Islamist electoral victory to constitutional turmoil to societal polarization. Egypt's iconic revolution ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncommon Grounds

    New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East

    by Anthony Downey ...
    Series series Ibraaz Series
    In this groundbreaking book, a range of internationally renowned and emerging academics, writers, artists, curators, activists and filmmakers critically reflect on the ways in which visual culture has appropriated and developed new media across North Africa and the Middle East. Examining the opportunities presented by the real-time generation of new, relatively unregulated content online, Uncommon ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Revolution Is My Name

    An Egyptian Woman's Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir

    by Mona Prince ...
    Translated by Samia Mehrez ...
    What it was like and how it felt to be an Egyptian woman revolutionary during the eighteen days that changed Egypt foreverMona Prince’s humorous and insightful memoir tells of one woman’s journey as a hesitant revolutionary through the eighteen days of the Egyptian uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011.Alongside the brutal violence of the security forces, the daily battles of resistance, and ... Read more

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  • Whatever Happened to the Egyptian Revolution?

    by Galal Amin ...
    Translated by Jonathan Wright ...
    In his latest exploration of the Egyptian malaise, Galal Amin first looks at the events of the months preceding the Revolution of 25 January 2011, pointing out the most important factors behind popular discontent. He then follows the ups and downs (mainly the downs) of the Revolution: the causes of rising hopes and expectations, mingled with successive disappointments, sometimes verging on despair ... Read more

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  • Power Struggles in the Middle East

    The Islamist Politics of Hizbullah and the Muslim Brotherhood

    by Eva Dingel ...
    Who are the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbullah? What do the two movements - one Sunni and one Shi'a - have in common? Despite being classified by a number of countries as 'terrorist' organisations, both are in fact serious political players in the states in which they operate - Egypt and Lebanon. Both have, at various points, advocated pan-Islamism: the unity of Muslims under an Islamic state or ... Read more

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  • Generation Revolution

    On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East

    by Rachel Aspden ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book of the Year*“*An excellent social history of Egypt’s persistent pathologies, as well as a universal story about the difficulties of changing deeply ingrained societal attitudes.” —*New York Times Book ReviewGeneration Revolution* unravels the complex forces shaping the lives of four young Egyptians on the eve and in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, and what their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD