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“nancy gallagher”

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  • Quakers in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

    The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism

    by Nancy Gallagher ...
    The Israeli Palestinian conflict has resulted in the longest-standing refugee crisis in the world today. Based on new archival research and interviews with surviving participants, this book considers one early effort to resolve that crisis while offering helpful lessons for current efforts at conflict resolution in the Middle East and elsewhere. When war broke out in Palestine in 1948, the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Egypt's Other Wars

    Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health

    by Nancy Gallagher ...
    Series series
    Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940’s killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century. Egypt’s Other Wars vividly reconstructs the nation’s struggle against malaria, relapsing fever, and cholera and explores the unique combination of forces that put public health at the top of the national political agenda.Egypt in the 1940’s as in the throes of a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan

    Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies

    by Sondra Hale, Gada Kadoda, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Alsarah, Janice Boddy, Sandra Calkins, Asha Elkarib, Asma I. Elsony, Anita Fabos0, Nancy Gallagher1, Katarzyna Grabska2, Ellen Gruenbaum3, Asma M. Abdel Halim4, Sara A. Hassanain5, Guma K. Komey6, Amina Alrasheed Nayel7, Margret Otto8, Richard Rottenburg9, Ulrike Schultz0, Pindai Sithole1, Atta El-Battahani2 ...
    This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept of identities, but also about migration and technology, especially social media. Our essayists engage in redefinitions, the broadening of our key variables, the linking and intersecting ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    An "absorbing" account of the CIA's 1953 coup in Iran—essential reading for anyone concerned about Iran's role in the world today ( Harper's Magazine).In August 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. When the 1979 Iranian Revolution deposed the shah and replaced his puppet ... Read more

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  • Understanding Eritrea

    Inside Africa's Most Repressive State

    by Martin Plaut ...
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  • Pakistan

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  • Arabia without Sultans

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    Fred Halliday writes: 'The Arab Middle East is the one with the longest history of contact with the west; yet it is probably the one least understood. Part of the misunderstanding is due to the romantic mythology that has long appeared to shroud the deserts of the peninsula. Where old myths have broken down, new ones have absorbed them or taken their place. Now the Sheikh of Arabia has stepped ... Read more

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  • The Root Causes of the United Nations’ Failure in Somalia

    The Role of Neighboring Countries in the Somali Crisis

    by Othman O. Mahmood ...
    When the Somali crisis broke out in the 1990s and the Somali central government collapsed, the United Nations made several attempts to mediate the conflicting parties. The crisis reached its highest climax, leading to the successful US-led Operation Restore Hope. Unfortunately, when the leadership of the operation was transferred to the United Nations, the UN-led intervention failed miserably ... Read more

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  • The Life and Times of the Shah

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    This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. Gholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individuals—including high-ranking figures in the shah's regime, members of his family, and members of the opposition—to depict the unfolding of the ... Read more

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  • The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath

    Edited by Peter Cole, Brian McQuinn ...
    This book offers a novel, incisive and wide-ranging account of Libya's '17 February Revolution' by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, whether geographical (e.g. Misrata, Zintan), tribal/communal (e.g. Beni Walid) or political (e.g. the Muslim Brotherhood) took its own path into the uprisings and subsequent conflict of 2011, ... Read more

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  • South Sudan

    A New History for a New Nation

    by Douglas H. Johnson ...
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    Africa’s newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually associated with the violence of slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an arena for a complex mixing of peoples, languages, and beliefs. The nation’s diversity is both its strength and a challenge as its people attempt to overcome the legacy of decades of war to build a new ... Read more

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  • The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East

    by Michael Provence ...
    The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several new colonial states. The following period was a charged and transformative time of unrest. Insurgent leaders, trained in Ottoman military tactics and with everything to lose from the fall of the Empire, challenged the mandatory powers in a number of ... Read more

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