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  • My Brother, My Land

    A Story from Palestine

    by Sami Hermez ...
    A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family's care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation.In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • War Is Coming

    Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon

    by Sami Hermez ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead, a politics of "no victor, no vanquished" was promoted, in which the political elite agreed simply to ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • War Is Coming

    Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon

    by Sami Hermez ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead, a politics of "no victor, no vanquished" was promoted, in which the political elite agreed simply to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    My Brother, My Land

    A Story from Palestine

    by Sami Hermez ...
    Narrated by Neil Shah ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 31 min

    A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family's care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation.In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the decades that followed and their lives ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance

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    In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A woman’s slightest infractions were met with brutal public beatings. That is why it is both appropriate and incredible that the sole effective civil resistance to Taliban rule was ... Read more

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  • Islam and the Arab Awakening

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    One of the most important developments in the modern history of the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring began in Tunisia in December 2010, bringing down dictators, sparking a civil war in Libya, and igniting a bloody uprising in Syria. Its long-term repercussions in Egypt and elsewhere remain unclear. Now one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers examines and explains it, in this searching, ... Read more

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  • Covering Islam

    How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **In this classic work, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even the most "objective" coverage of the Islamic world. • With a new foreword by Laleh Khalili"No one stuyding the relations between the West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work." --The New York Times Book Review**From the Iranian hostage crisis through ... Read more

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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

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  • The Arab Winter

    A Tragedy

    by Noah Feldman ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceWhy the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrongThe Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was neverthel... ... Read more

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  • The Making of a Human Bomb

    An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance

    by Nasser Abufarha, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–06). In so doing, he sheds much-needed light on how Palestinians have experienced and perceived the broader conflict. During the Intifada, many of the martyrdom operations ... Read more

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  • Arab Spring Dreams

    The Next Generation Speaks Out for Freedom and Justice from North Africa to Iran

    Edited by Sohrab Ahmari, Nasser Weddady ...
    From a gay man secretly mourning his lover's suicide in Morocco to a young woman denied schooling because of religious discrimination in Iran, Arab Spring Dreams spotlights some of the Middle East's most outspoken young dissidents. The essayists cover a wide range of experiences, including premarital sex, the lack of educational opportunities, teenage marriage, and the fight for political freedom. ... Read more

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  • Nakba

    Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory

    Edited by Lila Abu-Lughod, Ahmad Sa'di ...
    Series series Cultures of History
    For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the injustice of the past.By focusing on memories of the Nakba or "catastrophe" of 1948, in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were ... Read more

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