Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World - Atef Alshaer

The Nakba or 'catastrophe' of 1948 saw hundreds of thousands of Palestinians dispossessed from their land to create the state of Israel, creating a...

Description"Flawless . . . Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."--Robert...

Reducere. Lina Khatib examines the cinematic depictions of major political issues, from the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Gulf War, to Islamic fundamentalism,...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ussama MakdisiIllustration(s): 3 mapsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 150 ...

By assembling a range of fictional works from different parts of the Arab world that incorporate older characters, this book draws on a range of th...

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Reducere. The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life. This volume explores the emergence of ideas and...

'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 823Collection: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe SeriesPublication date: 2017Dimensi...

The Sound of Modern Polish Poetry unearths recordings from Polish poets such as Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and Zbigniew Herbert. Analyzing...

Reducere. DescriptionIn scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have ...

'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner ...

An examination of the part played by violent non-state actors in Middle Eastern and North African current affairs. Individual chapters on the Islam...

A journey through the uncomputable remains of computer historyPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Alexander GallowayNumber of pages: 288Publication da...

We're Still Here provides powerful, on the ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and politics. Drawing on years of fieldwork an...

DescriptionThis book examines the ways in which Arab civil society actors have attempted to influence public policies. In particular, the book stud...

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co LtdNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s):...

DescriptionViolent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines...

DescriptionWhere there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But "dictator novels" do not simply respond to the reality of dictatorship....

A wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.

Aside from large-scale civic mobilisations, no force was more critical to the outcomes of the 2011 Arab uprisings than the armed forces. Nearly a d...

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their prope...

Reducere. Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her suc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Isa BlumiSince March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces--supported by Britain and the United States--has w...

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Reducere. The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash ar...

This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race ...

Reducere. The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the impo...

Essays on the six monarchies of the Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and UAE.

Featuring a new foreword by Robin E. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racis...

Reducere. A delightful collection of soul-inspiring poems from the world's great religious and spiritual traditions, accompanied by Ivan M. Granger's meditat...

Reducere. DescriptionEnfleshing Theology honors and engages the life work of M. Shawn Copeland, whose theology is groundbreaking and prophetic, traversing th...

In Faith and Politics in the Public Sphere, Ugur explores the politics of religious engagement in the public sphere by comparing two modernist cons...

This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty...

Reducere. Kelly examines five church-state relations over a three-century period to show the impact of Calvin's thought on civil government. Though primarily...

This volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. Focusing on developmen...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...