Nonfiction - Middle Eastern Reads
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A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /What worlds take root in war? In this book, anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ec...
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Kurds in Dark Times: New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /With an estimated population of 35 million, Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without an independent state of their own. Kurds consti...
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Kurds in Dark Times: New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /With an estimated population of 35 million, Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without an independent state of their own. Kurds consti...
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Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Treating the everyday as central to the study of regional and international politics, this book reconstructs the last two decades of the Libyan Ara...
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The Myth of Middle East Exceptionalism: Unfinished Social Movements
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /More than a decade after the birth of contemporary social movements in the Middle East and North Africa scholars are asking what these movements ha...
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The Myth of Middle East Exceptionalism: Unfinished Social Movements
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /More than a decade after the birth of contemporary social movements in the Middle East and North Africa scholars are asking what these movements ha...
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Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /In the past two decades, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has developed from an elite phenomenon to an increasingl...
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Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In the twenty-first century, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has developed from an elite phenomenon to an increas...
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The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable...
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War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of me...
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War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of me...
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The Politics of Crisis-Making: Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Traditionally, humanitarianism is considered a nonpolitical urgent response to human suffering. However, this characterization ignores the politics...
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The Last Days of the Afghan Republic: A Doomed Evacuation Twenty Years in the Making
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Part memoir and part historical account, The Last Days of the Afghan Republic tells the story of four Afghans--how the evacuation forced them from ...
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Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Displacing Territory explores the core concepts of territory and belonging--and humanizes refugees in the process. Based on fieldwork with Palesti...
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Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed...
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Between Conflict and Collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli Workplace
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed...
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A Global Idea: Youth, City Networks, and the Struggle for the Arab World
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /A Global Idea outlines how youth--as shown by the Arab Spring uprisings and subsequent state responses--became a prominent social and political cat...
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A Global Idea: Youth, City Networks, and the Struggle for the Arab World
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /A Global Idea outlines how youth--as shown by the Arab Spring uprisings and subsequent state responses--became a prominent social and political cat...
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Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$91.99$91.99 - $91.99Current price $91.99| /Among the most progressive of Zionist settlement movements, Hashomer Hatzair proclaimed a brotherly stance on Zionist-Palestinian relations. Until ...
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Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This thought-provoking exploration of literature and art examines contemporary Israeli works created in and about diaspora that exemplify new ways ...
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War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /War-torn Ecologies, An-archic Fragments identifies a conceptual intersection between war, affect, and ecology from the Middle East. It creates a co...
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War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /War-torn Ecologies, An-archic Fragments identifies a conceptual intersection between war, affect, and ecology from the Middle East. It creates a co...
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Shia Power Comes of Age: The Transformation of Islamist Politics in Iraq, 2003-2023
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Shia politics roared to the center of power in Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003 after decades of marginalization under Saddam Hussein. A new ge...
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God's Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /During decades of turmoil, war, and regime change in Iraq, one influential figure has loomed above all others: Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.As th...
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