Serpent of the Nile. Women and Dance in the Arab World, Paperback - Wendy Buonaventura

Features a celebration of female dancers of the Arab world. This book traces the origins of this ancient art, which survived in the face of commerc...

The New Middle East is one of the first comprehensive books to critically examine the Arab popular uprisings of 2011-12. It contains meticulous and...

Reducere. What is it like to be a young person in the Arab world today? This lively collection of eight short stories about Arab teenagers living in Iraq, Tu...

A collection of new plays exploring life in the Middle East.Publisher: Nick Hern BooksNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 216 x 1...

Description Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Nadia YaqubEditor: Rula QuawasWomen's transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab w...

DescriptionNations are haemorrhaging refugees around the world. How displaced peoples are treated is under constant scrutiny- whether in the UK, th...

Contributor(s): Author: Nawal El SaadawiA classic of modern Arab writing, The Hidden Face of Eve receives fresh life with this beautiful new editio...

'These 39 Arab writers are all under the age of 40. They haveflung open the doors on Arabic culture inviting the reader to transcendcultural bounda...

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

The alien influences behind the rise and fall of Egypt's Golden Age - Explains how Akhenaten was the last pharaoh entrusted with the sacred and anc...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Makiya first gives us the stories of Khalil, Abu Haydar, Omar, Mustafa, and Taimour--the Arab and Kurdish heroes of this book. Their testimony, rev...

DescriptionNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay col...

This book investigates the cultural and political conflicts that translation brought into the new Abbasid state from a sociological perspective, tr...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): Mohammed El SaidNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 214 x 135 x 31Cover type: Har...

Despite substantial spending on education and support for reform, the quality of education in many, if not most, Arab countries remains low. Which ...

Nazi Germany and the Arab World - Francis R. Nicosia

Reducere. DescriptionFULL REVISED AND EXPANDED SECOND EDITIONThis book is a practical map that will help you understand the people and demystify the culture ...

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

Reducere. Arabic was among the first languages in which the Gospel was preached. The Book of Acts mentions Arabs as being present at the first Pentecost in J...

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

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

"Lyn Julius provides a riveting account of a fascinating, but disgracefully overlooked subject. Anyone who really wants to understand the Middle Ea...

Reducere. DescriptionWomen travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both...

Reducere. A. J. Racy is well known as a scholar of ethnomusicology and as a distinguished performer and composer. In this pioneering book, he provides an int...

Reveals how Jewish and Arab women have navigated the intersection of tradition, assimilation, and Kentucky's cultural landscape.Publisher: The Univ...

A one-of-a-kind collection of original contemporary recipes from across the Arab world from acclaimed author Reem Kassis

The inimitable Jenni Murray celebrates great women from around the world - rescuing some from obscurity and shining a new light on familiar names

DescriptionTaking Shape traces the emergence and development of abstraction in the Arab world through paintings and sculpture dating from the 1950s...

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title argues that this apparent par...

This groundbreaking work chronicles the author's quest to uncover previously unexplained areas of the life of T.E. Lawrence, the enigmatic desert f...

The 2020 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture has a particular focus on sustainability. The report provides objective, reliable ...

A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China

A lucid, powerful, and very human account of the transformation of the Arab world in the years following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, by the autho...

A fascinating memoir by ex-diplomat Sir Terence Clark about his life in the Middle East and his never-ending love affair with Salukis.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hugh KennedyIn this engaging history, world-renowned historian Hugh Kennedy deftly sews together the stories of the people,...

Reducere. Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women's resistance before, during, and after the Arab Spring Images of women pro...

Reducere. 2014-SILVER LIVING NOW BOOK AWARD - Recognizing the Year's Best Books for Better Living. HONORED AS THE FINALIST FOR 2014-USA BEST BOOK AWARDS in t...

Reducere. DescriptionEverybody's Doin' It is the eye-opening story of popular music's seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York C...

DescriptionA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Persian is one of the great lingua francas of w...

The latest book in the series on the treasures of The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Doris Behrens-AbouseifIl...

Reducere. Based on the author's online photography project, this stunning collection features portraits of 500 women from more than 50 countries, accompanied...

Reducere. Women Artists in History from Antiquity to the Present introduces students to the many ways in which women have participated in the visual cultures...

Learn from some of the most successful women in finance as they share practical advice, combined with real-life journeys from people who have achie...

Examining the triangular relationship between Iran, Britain and the Gulf Arab shaykhdoms, this is the first book to investigate the origins of the ...

DescriptionWendy Adele-Marie's study of Nazi women as guards, overseers, and others who worked in the concentration and death camps during the geno...

Reducere. This book is the most comprehensive history to appear before the public of the art which has been so fundamental an expression in every period of h...

Reducere. DescriptionThe sweeping scientific and social history of the humble dung beetle The humble and industrious dung beetle is a marvelous beast: the 6,...