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  • Syria, Revolt and War in the Digital Age

    An intimate portrayal of protest through images during the Syrian warNever before in history has a conflict been so extensively filmed by its own warring parties, generating a wealth of sound and image. From the start of the Syrian revolt in 2011, several million videos were posted online by demonstrators, activists, and militant fighters. Their prime objective was to work around the media ... Leer más

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  • Nothing but Waves and Wind

    Traducido por Jane Kuntz ...
    Series series French Literature
    A musty bar in off-season Cannon Beach, Oregon, provides the setting for an unsuspecting Frenchman’s introduction to the many ways life can go wrong for the unlucky in America. He listens as the barflies nightly recount their tales of woe—betrayal, broken families, financial ruin. Though they seem at first to tolerate the newcomer’s presence and sympathy, a tide of violence is rising, one he ... Leer más

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  • Making a Novel

    Traducido por Jane Kuntz ...
    Series series French Literature
    Moving back and forth between detailed explanation and personal anecdotes, Gérard Gavarry's Making a Novel is partly a memoir of a writer's life and partly a memoir of his work, showing us how every story, no matter how well-planned, could always have been written countless other ways. ... Leer más

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  • Ring

    Traducido por Jane Kuntz ...
    Series series Swiss Literature
    When Quentin's lover announces that she's leaving him for his brother and moving to America, he replies spontaneously that he too is leaving the country: but going where? To Tahas, he improvises: "a city whose very name sounded exotic." Following through on this impulse, Quentin soon finds a job exactly where he claimed to be going . . . and with his departure from familiar Europe, finds himself ... Leer más

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  • Talismano

    Traducido por Jane Kuntz ...
    Series series Tunisian Literature Series
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  • A History of the Grandparents I Never Had

    de Ivan Jablonka ...
    Traducido por Jane Kuntz ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Ivan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were perfect strangers. When he set out to uncover their story, Jablonka had little to work with. Neither of them was the least bit famous, and they left little behind except their two orphaned children, a handful of letters, and a passport. Persecuted as communists in Poland, ... Leer más

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  • In the Shadow of the Wall

    The Life and Death of Jerusalem's Maghrebi Quarter, 1187–1967

    Traducido por Jane Kuntz ...
    The Maghrebi Quarter of Jerusalem long sat in the shadow of the Western Wall, the last vestige of the Second Temple. Three days after the June '67 War, Israeli forces razed the Quarter, its narrow alleys widened and homes removed, to create the Western Wall Plaza. With this book, Vincent Lemire offers the first history of the Maghrebi Quarter—spanning 800 years from its founding by Saladin in 1187 ... Leer más

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  • Western Privilege

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    Traducido por Jane Kuntz ...
    Series series Worlding the Middle East
    Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers, high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this book, Amélie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class backgrounds shape experiences of privilege, and investigates the processes that lead to ... Leer más

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  • Ninette of Sin Street

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    Published in Tunis in 1938, Ninette of Sin Street is one of the first works of Tunisian fiction in French. Ninette's author, Vitalis Danon, arrived in Tunisia under the aegis of the Franco-Jewish organization the Alliance Israélite Universelle and quickly adopted—and was adopted by—the local community.Ninette is an unlikely protagonist: Compelled by poverty to work as a prostitute, she dreams of a ... Leer más

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  • Bau: Artist at War

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