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Orientalism: A Reader / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A selection of key readings that provide an introduction to the intense 20th century debates around OrientalismIn the period of decolonization th...
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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, ...
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Moroccan Folktales
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled wi...
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Bad Girls of the Arab World
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Women’s transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Simu...
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Voices From Iran: The Changing Lives of Iranian Women
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Mahnaz Kousha interviewed fifteen Iranian women in Tehran who originally came from cities and towns throughout Iran. The youngest was 38, the eld...
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Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this tran...
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Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigat...
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Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey's commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigat...
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The Urban Social History of the Middle East, 1750-1950
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The great cities of the Middle East and North Africa have long attracted the attention and interest of historians. With the discovery and wider use...
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Nomads in the Middle East
HardcoverOriginal price $84.99 - Original price $84.99Original price $84.99$92.99$92.99 - $92.99Current price $92.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780521816298 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 12-02-2021 Pages: 294 Product D...
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Nomads in the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780521531634 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 12-02-2021 Pages: 250 Product D...
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Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi'i Iran, Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Law of Desire explores an institution in which sexuality, morality, religious rules, secular laws, and cultural practices converge. Drawing on rich...
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The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood Among Young Afghans in Iran
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The Pearl of Dari takes us into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle...
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Conflict Mediation in the Arab World
PaperbackOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /The Middle East and North Africa region has been plagued with civil wars, international interventions, and increasing militarization, making it one...
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Conflict Mediation in the Arab World
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /The Middle East and North Africa region has been plagued with civil wars, international interventions, and increasing militarization, making it one...
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Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A gripping account of thirteen women who joined, endured, and, in some cases, escaped life in the Islamic State—based on years of immersive repor...
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My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Family's Past
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Ar...
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Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought a...
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The Middle East and Islamic World Reader: An Historical Reader for the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this insightful anthology, historians Marvin E. Gettleman and Stuart Schaar have assembled a broad selection of documents and contemporary sch...
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Children of Afghanistan: The Path to Peace
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The first comprehensive look at youth living in a country attempting to rebuild itself after three decades of civil conflict, Children of Afghani...
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Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Sara A. Whaley Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association, 2017AMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2017 Millions of Egypti...
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About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Antiquities have been pawns in empire-building and global rivalries; power struggles; assertions of national and cultural identities; and cross-c...
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Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia: A New Social History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Byzantine rule over Anatolia ended in the eleventh century, leaving the population and its Turkish rulers to build social and economic institutio...
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You and Yours
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic langu...
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