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Emerald Points eBook Series

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  • Conflict, Civil Society, and Women’s Empowerment

    Insights from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

    by Ibrahim Natil ...
    Series series Emerald Points
    Women in conflict zones face steep challenges, and nowhere is this clearer than in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, regions that face reduced foreign aid, foreign occupation, violence, instability, ingrained social conservatism and perpetual political crisis. Yet the stereotypical view that women are unable to act politically in the socially conservative contexts of the Middle East is a long way ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • The Rise and Fall of Human Rights

    Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine

    by Lori Allen ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world—its NGOs, activists, and "victims," as well as their politics, training, and discourse—since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against the Israeli occupation, in failing to end the Israeli occupation, protect basic human rights, or establish an ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Building a House in Heaven

    Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt

    by Mona Atia ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    Charity is an economic act. This premise underlies a societal transformation—the merging of religious and capitalist impulses that Mona Atia calls “pious neoliberalism.” Though the phenomenon spans religious lines, Atia makes the connection between Islam and capitalism to examine the surprising relations between charity and the economy, the state, and religion in the transition from Mubarak-era ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Muslim Fashion

    Contemporary Style Cultures

    by Reina Lewis ...
    In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head-wraps in high black topknots to match their black boot-cut trousers. Participating in the world of popular mainstream fashion—often thought to be the domain of the West—these young Muslim women are part of an emergent ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain

    Edited by Roger Eatwell, Matthew Goodwin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    Since the 1990s, there has been a growing concern about the resurgence of extremist and radical movements in the Western world. Although a variety of challenges to the liberal democratic order have emerged, the main focus of concern among academics, policy-makers and practitioners within Europe and beyond has been on the growth and activities of Islamists and to a lesser extent the extreme right. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Women and War in the Middle East

    Transnational Perspectives

    by Isis Nusair, Riina Isotalo, Shahrzad Mojab, Spike Peterson, Sophie Richter-Devroe, Martina Kamp ...
    Women and War in the Middle East provides a critical examination of the relationship between gender and transnationalism in the context of war, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East. Critically examining the ways in which the actions of various local and transnational groups - including women's movements, diaspora communities, national governments, non-governmental ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Canada and the Middle East

    In Theory and Practice

    Edited by Paul Heinbecker, Bessma Momani ...
    Series series Studies in International Governance
    Canada and the Middle East: In Theory and Practice provides a unique perspective on one of the world’s most geopolitically important regions. From the perspective of Canada’s diplomats, academics, and former policy practitioners involved in the region, the book offers an overview of Canada’s relationship with the Middle East and the challenges Canada faces there. The contributors examine Canada’s ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

    Information Technology and Political Islam

    by Philip N. Howard ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people are developing political identities online, and digital technologies are helping civil society build ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Islamic Education in the United States and the Evolution of Muslim Nonprofit Institutions

    by Sabith Khan, Shariq Siddiqui ...
    Series series New Horizons in Nonprofit Research series
    This book is a novel and ambitious attempt to map the Muslim American nonprofit sector: its origins, growth and impact on American society. Using theories from the fields of philanthropy, public administration and data gathered from surveys and interviews, the authors make a compelling case for the Muslim American nonprofit sector's key role in America. They argue that in a time when Islamic ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Muslims in Singapore

    Piety, politics and policies

    by Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Bryan S. Turner, Alexius Pereira ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and the cultural dominance of its Chinese elite, who are predominantly Buddhist and Christian. Singapore has a highly unusual approach to issues of religious diversity and multiculturalism, adopting a ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Palestine Ltd.

    Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory

    by Toufic Haddad ...
    Series series SOAS Palestine Studies
    ince the 1993 Oslo Accords, the Occupied Palestinian Territory has been the subject of extensive international peacebuilding and statebuilding efforts coordinated by Western donor states and international finance institutions. Despite their failure to yield peace or Palestinian statehood, the role of these organisations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is generally overlooked owing to their ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Islamic NGOs in Bangladesh

    Development, Piety and Neoliberal governmentality

    by Mohammad Musfequs Salehin ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) have emerged in both a development and aid capacity in Bangladesh, providing wide-reaching public services to the country’s population living in extreme poverty. However, resistance to and limitations of NGO-led development - which in conjunction with Bangladesh’s social transformation - led to a new religious-based NGO development practice.Looking at the role ... Read more

    $68.99 USD