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  • Deep History

    The Architecture of Past and Present

    by Andrew Shryock, Daniel Lord Smail ...
    Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep past was left out of most historical writing almost as soon as it was discovered. This breakthrough book, as important for readers interested in the present as in the past,brings science into history to offer a dazzling ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

  • The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology

    Form, Duration, Difference

    Edited by Judith Scheele, Andrew Shryock ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    "An exciting and intellectually fluent work that avoids most of the clichés of contemporary anthropological thought." —Gregory Starrett, coeditor of Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle EastDespite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scandal of Continuity in Middle East Anthropology

    Form, Duration, Difference

    Edited by Judith Scheele, Andrew Shryock ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Despite a rich history of ethnographic research in Middle Eastern societies, the region is frequently portrayed as marginal to anthropology. The contributors to this volume reject this view and show how the Middle East is in fact vital to the discipline and how Middle Eastern anthropologists have developed theoretical and methodological tools that address and challenge the region's political, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Beyond Refuge in Arab Detroit

    by Thomas A. Klug ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    Detroit's Arab and Chaldean communities in the balance between cultural vitality and precarity.Bronze Medalist for IPPY Book Awards in the Great Lakes Non-Fiction category!Detroit's Arab and Chaldean communities are now over a century old. Their neighborhoods, business districts, and cultural influence continue to grow. Whether Muslim or Christian, Yemeni, Iraqi, Palestinian, or Lebanese, these ... Read more

    $50.94 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Arab Spring

    The End of Postcolonialism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a 'Delayed Defiance' - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment ... Read more

    $28.49 CAD

  • Ambiguities of Domination

    Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

    by Lisa Wedeen ...
    Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for them. During the thirty-year rule of President Hafiz al-Asad's regime, his image was everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Muslim Diaspora

    Gender, Culture and Identity

    Edited by Haideh Moghissi ...
    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
    Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group’s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country.The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the Diaspora and demonstrate that identity is always constructed in relation to others. They show how religious identity in diaspora is mediated by ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Islam in Liberalism

    by Joseph A. Massad ...
    "Demonstrates that Western liberal 'democracy', portrayed as foreign to 'Islam', necessarily serves an imperial project. . . . timely and controversial." — Politics, Religion & IdeologyIslam is often associated with words like oppression, totalitarianism, intolerance, cruelty, misogyny, and homophobia, while its presumed antonyms are Christianity, the West, liberalism, individualism, freedom, ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora

    Representations of Place and Transnational Identity

    by Jumana Bayeh ...
    Series series Written Culture and Identity
    The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences. Jumana Bayeh presents an important and major study of the literature of the Lebanese diaspora. Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex ... Read more

    $50.79 CAD

  • Learning in Morocco

    Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream

    by Charis Boutieri ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been implemented coherently. In recent years, national policies to promote the use of Arabic have come into conflict with the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English

    Idea, Nation, State

    by Cara Cilano ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and developments, including pre-20th century Islamic history, the 1947 partition, the 1971 Pakistani war, the Zia ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • In the Time of Oil

    Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town

    by Mandana Limbert ...
    Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. In the Time of Oil describes how people in Bahla, an oasis town in the interior of Oman, experienced this dramatic transformation ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD