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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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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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The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel's Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /During the postwar period of 1948-56, over 400,000 Jews from the Middle East and Asia immigrated to the newly established state of Israel. By the...
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Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Crisis before the Storm
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /During the decade that preceded Syria's 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival...
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Painting the Middle East
HardcoverOriginal price $9.95 - Original price $9.95Original price $9.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /"We each paint our lives and frame our experiences of the world in a distinctive way for reasons that we cannot always understand," writes Ann Ke...
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Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the...
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Democracy and the Nature of American Influence in Iran, 1941-1979
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Collier presents a timely and fresh reexamination of one of the most important bilateral relationships of the last century. He delves deeply into...
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Reconstructing Rural Egypt: Ahmed Hussein and the History of Egyptian Development
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Johnson's book provides the rich and untold story of the architect behind Egypt's inspired and highly successful social reform policies. The Rura...
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Veils and Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /'There are no walls around the house here.' I wrote in my diary, in an entry dated December 24, 1967. This was a few days after my arrival in Ame...
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Veils and Words / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /'There are no walls around the house here.' I wrote in my diary, in an entry dated December 24, 1967. This was a few days after my arrival in Ame...
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International Relations of the Contemporary Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This is a much needed, up-to-date, general overview of the role of the Middle East in international relations. The book was specifically designed...
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Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780815623434 Media Type: Hardcover(1st ed) Publisher: Syracuse University Press Publication Date: 01-01-1985 Pages: 360 Pr...
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Egypt from Independence to Revolution, 1919-1952 / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Between the revolution in 1919 and the coup d'etat in 1952, Egypt enjoyed a diversity of political experience that has not been sufficiently appr...
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Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /"Confronting the past" has become a byword for democratization. How societies and governments commemorate their violent pasts is often appraised as...
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One Family's Response to Terrorism: A Daughter's Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the ...
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Ottoman Children and Youth During World War I
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Described by historians as a total war, World War I was the first conflict that required a comprehensive mobilization of all members of society, re...
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Readings in Syrian Prison Literature: The Poetics of Human Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The simple act of inscription, both minute and epic, can be a powerful tool to bear witness and give voice to those who are oppressed, silenced, an...
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Life on Drugs in Iran: Between Prison and Rehab
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /When they initiated a war on drugs in 1979, Iran developed a reputation as having some of the world's harshest drug penalties and as an opponent of...
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Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue. More than a century after the ea...
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Generations of Dissent: Intellectuals, Cultural Production, and the State in the Middle East and North Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic...
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The Lost Orchard: The Palestinian-Arab Citrus Industry, 1850-1950
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948, devastated Palestinian lives and shattered Palestinian society, culture, and economy. It also nipped i...
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We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /While the occupation of Iraq and its aftermath has received media and political attention, we know very little about the everyday lives of Iraqis. ...
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In the Wake of the Poetic: Palestinian Artists After Darwish
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last...
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