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  • Salt Journals

    Tunisian Women on Political Imprisonment

    Edited by Haifa Zangana, Christalla Yakinthou, Virginie Ladisch ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    Salt Journals is a compelling collection of essays by Tunisian women, sharing their personal experiences with dictatorship and oppression. While rooted in the history and culture of Tunisia, these narratives reflect universal feelings of isolation, pain, and the indomitable quest for freedom.Drawn from a variety of different professions, including a lawyer, an engineer, a nurse, a student, and a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cigarette Number Seven

    A Novel

    by Donia Kamal ...
    Translated by Nariman Youssef ...
    Series Book 7 - Hoopoe Fiction
    As a child, Nadia was left her with her grandparents in Egypt, while her mother sought work in the Gulf. Decades later, she looks back on her fragmented childhood from an uncertain present: it is 2011 and the streets have erupted in an unexpected revolution. Her activist father, the sole anchor in her life, encourages her to be a part of the protests and so Nadia joins the sit-in at Tahrir Square. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summer of Unrest: Tahrir - 18 Days of Grace

    by Nariman Youssef ...
    On 25th January this year 50,000 people descended on Tahrir Square in Cairo to protest against president Hosni Mubarak. What followed was an extraordinary 18 days when the square became the focal point for the hopes and fears of Egypt's people, in a situation often joyous but also intense, as the military moved in and Mubarak supporters began to infiltrate the area.Nariman Youssef was in Tahrir ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Off Limits

    New Writings on Fear and Sin

    by Nawal El Saadawi ...
    Translated by Nariman Youssef ...
    Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly influential feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. Born in 1931 in Egypt, her writings focus on women in Islam. Well beyond the Arab world, from Woman at Point Zero to The Fall of the Imam and her prison memoirs, El Saadawi’s fiction and nonfiction works have earned her a reputation as an author who has provided a powerful voice in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    A Selection from The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy

    by Valerie M. Hudson, Patricia Leidl ...
    Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first to clearly state that: "the subjugation of women is a direct threat to the security of the United States." This declaration has come to be known as the Hillary Doctrine, and it was formally incorporated into the first Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. foreign policy in 2010. If the Hillary Doctrine is justified, then how is it that Secretary ... Read more

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  • Elvis is Titanic

    by Ian Klaus ...
    In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he was there to lecture on American history and to teach English. Unofficially he was there because he felt obliged, as a young American, to help make Iraq a stable and successful country. With ... Read more

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  • The Militant Discourse

    by Khadim Hussain ...
    This book delineates intertwining intricacies of a discourse that has been mistaken as an indigenous narrative. Various facets of the discourse like otherization, militarization and marginalization have been analyzed from an indigenous perspective. The theoretical framework of the book is based on an extensive field work over the past several years. The book also offers strategies for constructing ... Read more

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  • One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: National Book Award

    by Omar El Akkad ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values."[A] bracing memoir and manifesto." —The New York Times"I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now ... Read more

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  • No Dancing, No Dancing

    Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis

    by Denis Dragovic ...
    What happens to aid projects after the money is spent? Or the people and communities once the media spotlight has left?No Dancing, No Dancing follows the return journey of a former aid worker back to the site of three major humanitarian crises—South Sudan, Iraq and East Timor—in search of what happened to the people and projects. Along the way, he looks for answers to how we can better respond to ... Read more

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  • The Happiness of Blond People

    A Personal Meditation on the Dangers of Identity

    by Elif Shafak ...
    Series series Penguin Specials
    The Happiness of Blond People by bestselling, multi-award-winning novelist Elif Shafak, author of The Bastard of Istanbul, is a powerful essay on immigration, multiculturalism and the experience of Muslims in Europe - available only as a Penguin Short."You know, I never understand. How come their children are so quiet and well disciplined?""Yeah," said the distressed father, his voice suddenly ... Read more

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  • When the Apricots Bloom

    A Novel of Riveting and Evocative Fiction

    by Gina Wilkinson ...
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  • Perfect Victims

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    by Mohammed El-Kurd ...
    PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERUSA TODAYBESTSELLER“Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.”**—Robin D. G. KelleyPerfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastnes... ... Read more

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