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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “adam ehsan ali”
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  • Arab and Middle Eastern Sport

    Critical Muslim Perspectives

    Edited by Adam Ehsan Ali, Umer Hussain ...
    Series Book 27 - Research in the Sociology of Sport
    There is a scarcity of sociological literature on the role and place of sport within the Arab World and the Middle East that centralizes a critical Muslim perspective. This is significant given both their immense geographical scope and the continued and emerging social and political issues within the Muslim world, in which sport and physical cultures play an important role. This timely edited ... Read more

    $145.19 CAD

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  • Catalyze: The Rise of LGBTQ+ Movements in the Middle East & North Africa

    by Mike Figueredo ...
    Increased access to the internet in authoritarian and nominally democratic countries has been nothing short of transformative. Individuals that care about social justice causes deemed too taboo to exist are no longer forced to silently acquiesce and accept the status quo. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/non-binary and queer/questioning people in socially conservative, authoritarian regimes in ... Read more

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  • Arab Youth

    Social Mobilisation in Times of Risk

    Edited by Samir Khalaf, Roseanne Saad Khalaf ...
    In 2011, Arab youth took to the streets in their thousands to demand their freedom. Although it is too early to speculate on the ultimate outcome of the uprisings, one auspicious feature stands out: they reveal the genesis of a new generation sparked by the desire for civil liberties, advocacy for human rights, and participatory democracy. This unique volume explores some of the antecedents of the ... Read more

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  • Nation-Building, State and the Genderframing of Women's Rights in the United Arab Emirates

    by Vania Carvalho Pinto ...
    The extensive changes to Emirati women's traditional rights and roles have been one of the most visible transformations taking place in the United Arab Emirates throughout its almost forty years of modern history. This book offers an interpretation of why and how these modifications came about. Its aim is to analyse the promotion of educational, employment and political rights for women as ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Education

    by Khadim Hussain ...
    Dr. Khadim Hussain's new book 'Rethinking Education: Critical Discourse and Society' provides an insight to readers on critical discourses in Pakistani society and its links with education system in the country. Potentially it is a harbinger of a transformation in our society where reason and critical thinking have rusted and consequently it could be translated into the stupendous power of the ... Read more

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  • The Political Science of the Middle East

    Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings

    Edited by Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, Sean Yom ...
    A definitive overview of what political scientists are working on within the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab Uprisings of 2011-12 catalyzed a new wave of rigorous, deeply informed research on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In The Political Science of the Middle East, Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom present the definitive overview of this pathbreaking ... Read more

    $37.19 CAD

  • Sports and Society in the Middle East

    Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 2

    Edited by Nicholas S. Hopkins ...
    Series Book 2 - Cairo Papers in Social Science
    The sociology of sports in the Middle East has been neglected compared to other world regions. This volume aspires to encourage a greater focus on this topic. Here are assembled papers that discuss various aspects of this subject. As it happens all deal with football (soccer) largely in Egypt but including other Middle Eastern countries. Some are historically or politically oriented while others ... Read more

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  • Vulnerability and Resilience to Violent Extremism

    An Actor-Centric Approach

    Edited by Juline Beaujouan, Veronique Dudouet, Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic, Johanna-Maria Hülzer, Marie Kortam, Amjed Rasheed ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Countering Violent Extremism
    This book examines the actors that shape societal dynamics leading to, or preventing, violent extremism from taking roots in their communities, including state representatives, religious institutions, and civil society actors.The volume contributes to an emerging stream of research focusing on intra- and inter-group dynamics to explain the emergence and persistence of, or resilience against, ... Read more

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  • Wired Citizenship

    Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East

    Edited by Linda Herrera ...
    Series series Critical Youth Studies
    Wired Citizenship examines the evolving patterns of youth learning and activism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In today’s digital age, in which formal schooling often competes with the peer-driven outlets provided by social media, youth all over the globe have forged new models of civic engagement, rewriting the script of what it means to live in a democratic society. As a result, ... Read more

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  • Precarious Lives

    Waiting and Hope in Iran

    by Shahram Khosravi ...
    Series series Contemporary Ethnography
    In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared visions of a futureless tomorrow, widespread home(land)lessness, intense individualism, and a growth of incivilities. On the other, daydreaming and hope ... Read more

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  • Arab Family Studies

    Critical Reviews

    Edited by Suad Joseph ...
    Series series Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
    Family remains the most powerful social idiom and one of the most powerful social structures throughout the Arab world. To engender love of nation among its citizens, national movements portray the nation as a family. To motivate loyalty, political leaders frame themselves as fathers, mothers, brothers, or sisters to their clients, parties, or the citizenry. To stimulate production, economic ... Read more

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