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  • Generation Revolution

    On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East

    by Rachel Aspden ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book of the Year*“*An excellent social history of Egypt’s persistent pathologies, as well as a universal story about the difficulties of changing deeply ingrained societal attitudes.” —*New York Times Book ReviewGeneration Revolution* unravels the complex forces shaping the lives of four young Egyptians on the eve and in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, and what their ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • A Road Unforeseen

    Women Fight the Islamic State

    by Meredith Tax ...
    A secular feminist army courageously challenges the Islamic StateIn war-torn northern Syria, a democratic society—based on secularism, ethnic inclusiveness, and gender equality—has won significant victories against the Islamic State, or Daesh, with women on the front lines as fierce warriors and leaders.A Road Unforeseen recounts the dramatic, underreported history of the Rojava Kurds, whose all ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Truth

    Inside the Lies That Put the White House on Trial and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity

    by Joseph Wilson ...
    Through the last three presidential administrations and two wars with Iraq, no one has personally witnessed, influenced, or fueled news over more history-making events than Joseph Wilson. The last American diplomat to sit face-to-face with Saddam Hussein, he is a consummate insider who has the intelligence, principles, and independence to examine current American foreign policy and the inner ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Invisible Arab

    The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions

    by Marwan Bishara ...
    The Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al Jazeera English and the anchor of the program "Empire", combines on-the-ground reporting, extensive research and scholarship, and political commentary in this book on the complex influences that made the revolutions possible. Bishara argues that the inclusive, pluralistic ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen

    Egypt's Road to Revolt

    by Hazem Kandil ...
    Revolutions are difficult to understand, let alone predict. Egypt’s revolt last year was no exception. The military’s abandonment of Mubarak confused many observers, who had always assumed that the leader and the generals stood or fell together. But as the violence of the transitional period discredited the armed forces, academics fell back in relief on the same age-old assumptions about officers ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia

    Social Protest and Authoritarian Rule After the Arab Spring

    Edited by Amin Saikal, Amitav Acharya ...
    The protests that swept across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011 confounded long-time observers of the region, in both the media and academia. After addressing the conditions in the Middle East and North Africa that produced these attempts at revolution, Amin Saikal and Amitav Acharya explore the global impact of the protests, both in terms of their ideological influence on ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • Egypt in Flux

    Essays on an Unfinished Revolution

    by Adel Iskandar ...
    No chapter in Egypt's contemporary history has been more turbulent and unpredictable than the past three years. In a very short period of time, the Arab world's most populous country has seen a transition from rule by an iron-fisted dictatorship to a populist uprising to military omnipotence to Islamist electoral victory to constitutional turmoil to societal polarization. Egypt's iconic revolution ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whatever Happened to the Egyptian Revolution?

    by Galal Amin ...
    Translated by Jonathan Wright ...
    In his latest exploration of the Egyptian malaise, Galal Amin first looks at the events of the months preceding the Revolution of 25 January 2011, pointing out the most important factors behind popular discontent. He then follows the ups and downs (mainly the downs) of the Revolution: the causes of rising hopes and expectations, mingled with successive disappointments, sometimes verging on despair ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whatever Happened to the Egyptians?

    Changes in Egyptian Society from 1850 to the Present

    by Galal Amin ...
    Based on both academic research and the author's own personal experiences and impressions, this delightful and informative book examines the underlying causes of some of the more disturbing social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that characterize Egyptian society in the 1990s. Egypt's crisis of culture and other woes are often attributed to the 'open door policy' (Infitah) initiated ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Power Struggles in the Middle East

    The Islamist Politics of Hizbullah and the Muslim Brotherhood

    by Eva Dingel ...
    Who are the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizbullah? What do the two movements - one Sunni and one Shi'a - have in common? Despite being classified by a number of countries as 'terrorist' organisations, both are in fact serious political players in the states in which they operate - Egypt and Lebanon. Both have, at various points, advocated pan-Islamism: the unity of Muslims under an Islamic state or ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Politics and the Peasantry in Post-War Turkey

    Social History, Culture and Modernization

    by Sinan Yildirmaz ...
    When the Ottoman Empire collapsed following the First World War, the feudal system which had survived untouched in much of Anatolia began to change. Kemal Ataturk's task of building a nation 'from the people up' meant that the peasantry, by far Turkey's largest ethnographic group, became an important symbol of social cohesion. Here, Sinan Yildirmaz analyses the history of modern Turkey through the ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD

  • Initiative to Stop the Violence

    Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence

    by al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah ...
    Translated by Prof. Sherman Jackson ...
    Series series World Thought in Translation
    Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt’s al-Gama‘ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In later years, however, the organization issued a surprising renunciation of violence, repudiating ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD