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  • Arab American Women

    Representation and Refusal

    by Jess Bier, Amy Rowe, Gregory Orfalea, Charlotte Karem Albrecht, Sarah M. A. Gualtieri, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Mejduline Shomali, Carol Haddad, Bridget Blomfield, Nadine Naber, Umayyah Cable, Evelyn Asultany, Amira Jarmakani, Rita Stephan, Therese Saliba ...
    Series series Critical Arab American Studies
    Arab American women have played an essential role in shaping their homes, their communities, and their country for centuries. Their contributions, often marginalized academically and culturally, are receiving long- overdue attention with the emerging interdisciplinary field of Arab American women’s studies. The collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American ... Read more

    $39.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women Rising

    In and Beyond the Arab Spring

    Edited by Rita Stephan, Mounira M. Charrad ...
    Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women’s resistance before, during, and after the Arab SpringImages of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • COVID and Gender in the Middle East

    Edited by Rita Stephan ...
    As the coronavirus ravages the globe, its aftermaths have brought gender inequalities to the forefront of many conversations. Countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been slow to prepare for, adapt to, and mitigate the COVID-19 health crisis and its impacts on governance, economics, security, and rights. Women’s physical well-being, social safety nets, and economic participation have ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Arab Worlds Beyond the Middle East and North Africa

    by Manal al-Natour, Imène Ajala, Aisha Sahar Waheed Alkharusi, Diogo Bercito, Richard M. Breaux, Youssef Chouhoud, Jodor Jalit, Bessma Momani, Michael Ahn Paarlberg, Rigoberto Menendez Paredes, Naomi Sakr, Nawroos Shibli, Christine Singer, Jeanette Steemers, Rita Stephan ...
    Just like people around the world have done for generations, Arab people from the Middle East and North African (MENA) region have immigrated to various nations around the world. A number of ‘push’ factors account for why groups have left their homeland and ‘pulled’ to another nation to settle. The history and patterns of Arab migration out of the MENA illustrates the wide array of reasons for ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

    by Lila Abu-Lughod ...
    Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live. ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Feminism in Islam

    Secular and Religious Convergences

    by Margot Badran ...
    While many in the West regard feminism and Islam as a contradiction in terms, many Muslims in the East have perceived Western feminist forces in their midst as an assault upon their culture. In this career-spanning collection of influential essays, Margot Badran presents the feminisms that Muslim women have created, and examines Islamic and secular feminist ideologies side by side. Borne out of ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Qatar

    Small State, Big Politics

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran Kamrava explains in this knowledgeable and incisive account of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Syria from Reform to Revolt

    Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion

    by Max Weiss, Donatella Della Ratta, Shayna Silverstein, Laura Ruiz de Elvira, Andreas Bandak, Thomas Pierret ...
    Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    As Syria’s anti-authoritarian uprising and subsequent civil war have left the country in ruins, the need for understanding the nation’s complex political and cultural realities remains urgent. The second of a two-volume series, Syria from Reform to Revolt: Culture, Society, and Religion draws together closely observed, critical and historicized analyses, giving vital insights into Syrian society ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The MENA Region and COVID-19

    Impact, Implications and Prospects

    Edited by Zeina Hobaika, Lena-Maria Möller, Jan Claudius Völkel ...
    Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which comprises some of the world’s richest countries next to some of the poorest, this book offers excellent insights into the discriminatory consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.With a geographic focus on the MENA region, the multidisciplinary case studies collected in this edited volume reveal that the coronavirus’s impact patterns ... Read more

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  • Missions Impossible

    Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World

    by John Waterbury ...
    A rigorous examination of higher education policymaking in the Arab worldNone of the momentous challenges Arab universities face is unique either in kind or degree. Other societies exhibit some of the same pathologies—insufficient resources, high drop-out rates, feeble contributions to research and development, inappropriate skill formation for existing job markets, weak research incentive ... Read more

    $50.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan

    by Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili ...
    Despite vast efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan explores the rules governing these organizations to explain why they can provide public goods. Instead of withering during decades of conflict, customary authority adapted to become more responsive and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Women in the Middle East

    Past and Present

    by Nikki R. Keddie ...
    Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women, and she provides a unique overview of ... Read more

    $39.59 USD