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Policing Egyptian Women: Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedival Egypt
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Policing Egyptian Women delineates the intricate manner in which the modern state in Egypt monitored, controlled, and policed the bodies of subalte...
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Improbable Women: Five Who Explored the Middle East
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Zenobia was the third-century Syrian queen who rebelled against Roman rule. Before Emperor Aurelian prevailed against her forces, she had seized al...
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Representing Modern Istanbul: Urban History and International Institutions in Twentieth Century Beyoglu
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul would lose its position as capital yet remain a crucial urban centre in the new Turkish repu...
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Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab 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| /By combining their expertise in English literature and anthropology, Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana bring to these folktales an integral method ...
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The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi'i Islamic Tradition
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /Against the background of long-standing narratives in which Twelver Shi'ism is viewed as fundamentally authoritarian, The School of Hillah and the ...
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Orientalism
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publica...
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Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post col...
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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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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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The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh Al-Saduq and the Development of Twelver Shi'i Hadith Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Ibn Babawayh - also known as al-Shaykh al-Saduq - was a prominent Twelver Shi'i scholar of hadith. Writing within the first century after the vanis...
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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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Crossing the Kingdom: Portraits of Saudi Arabia
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in b...
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The Political History of Modern Iran: Revolution, Reaction and Transformation, 1905 to the Present
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cult...
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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 Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume II: From the End of the Third Millennium BC to the Fall of Babylon
HardcoverOriginal price $165.00 - Original price $165.00Original price $165.00$189.99$189.99 - $189.99Current price $189.99| /This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopota...
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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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Competitive Archaeology in Jordan: Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /An examination of archaeology in Jordan and Palestine, Competitive Archaeology in Jordan explores how antiquities have been used to build narrative...
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Magic Carpet Exodus of Yemenite Jewry: An Israeli Formative Myth
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$172.99$172.99 - $172.99Current price $172.99| /In 1949-50 Operation Magic Carpetbrought the majority of the Jews of Yemen to Israel through secret co-operation between the Imam of Yemen, the Bri...
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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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Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Far and away the most popular sport in the world, football has a special place in Middle Eastern societies, and for Middle Eastern states. With Qat...
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Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political battles that have shaped Egyptian education, from the era of nation-building in...
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Global Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Reporting the Sheikh Jarrah Evictions
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$164.99$164.99 - $164.99Current price $164.99| /The attempts to evict Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah in May 2021 caught the attention of the world. While this small Palestinian neighbourh...
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Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature,...
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Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An incisive exploration of women and work in Egypt's textile industry, showing how globalization's promise of liberation instead set the stage for ...
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