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  • Gender and Entrepreneurship in Iran

    Microenterprise and the Informal Sector

    by R. Bahramitash ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Iran is estimated to have the third largest informal sector in the MENA region a major source of income for many low-income households whose numbers are growing as sanctions tighten. Gender and Entrepreneurship in Iran provides insight into the role of informal networks in employment creation in Iran from a gender perspective. Drawing upon theories of social capital, social network, and the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Veiled Employment

    Islamism and the Political Economy of Women’s Employment in Iran

    Edited by Roksana Bahramitash, Hadi Esfahani ...
    Series series
    The popularity of neoliberal economic policies is based, in part, on the argument that the liberalization of markets promotes growth and increases employment opportunities for women. Although the latest research bears this out, it also presents a grim portrait of the state of women’s employment. Approximately 70 percent of those living on less than a dollar a day are women or girls.In Veiled ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender in Contemporary Iran

    Pushing the Boundaries

    Edited by Roksana Bahramitash, Eric Hooglund ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    This book examines gender and the dynamics of social change in contemporary Iran, documenting the changes in women’s lives and showing how women have now become agents of social change rather than victims.Bringing together the detailed primary research of a number of eminent scholars working in Iran, this collection provides unique perspectives on the past decade in Iranian society. Chapters ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • 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 ...
    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    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

    $46.99 USD

  • Low-Income Islamist Women and Social Economy in Iran

    by Roksana Bahramitash, Atena Sadegh, Negin Sattari ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents an innovative analysis of the solidarity/social economy among low-income religious women in Iran. For years, the role of low-income women in community care and poverty reduction has been underestimated and under-researched in the broader academic community, due to the “invisible” nature of these informal and predominantly religious networks. As economic hardship in Iran ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    In Theory and Practice

    Edited by Paul Heinbecker, Bessma Momani ...
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    Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada’s diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada’s relationship with the Middle East and the challenges Canada faces there. The contributors examine Canada’s ... Read more

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  • Arab Spring in Egypt

    Revolution and Beyond

    Edited by Bahgat Korany, Rabab El-Mahdi ...
    Beginning in Tunisia, and spreading to as many as seventeen Arab countries, the street protests of the 'Arab Spring' in 2011 empowered citizens and banished their fear of speaking out against governments. The Arab Spring belied Arab exceptionalism, widely assumed to be the natural state of stagnation in the Arab world amid global change and progress. The collapse in February 2011 of the regime in ... Read more

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  • Muslim Democratic Parties in the Middle East

    Economy and Politics of Islamist Moderation

    by A. Kadir Yildirim ...
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  • Life as Politics

    How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition

    by Asef Bayat ...
    Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the ... Read more

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  • How Capitalism Failed the Arab World

    The Economic Roots and Precarious Future of the Middle East Uprisings

    by Richard Javad Heydarian ...
    Series series Economic Controversies
    Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of ushering in economic dynamism and precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, rising income inequality and sky-rocketing rates of youth unemployment. In How Capitalism Failed the Arab World, Richard Javad Heydarian shows how years of economic mismanagement, political autocracy and ... Read more

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  • The Arab Uprisings Explained

    New Contentious Politics in the Middle East

    Edited by Marc Lynch ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
    Why did Tunisian protests following the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi lead to a massive wave of uprisings across the entire Arab world? Who participated in those protests, and what did they hope to achieve? Why did some leaders fall in the face of popular mobilization while others found ways to survive? And what have been the lasting results of the contentious politics of 2011 and 2012? The ... Read more

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  • Building a House in Heaven

    Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt

    by Mona Atia ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    Charity is an economic act. This premise underlies a societal transformation—the merging of religious and capitalist impulses that Mona Atia calls “pious neoliberalism.” Though the phenomenon spans religious lines, Atia makes the connection between Islam and capitalism to examine the surprising relations between charity and the economy, the state, and religion in the transition from Mubarak-era ... Read more

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