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“nadia jamal”

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  • Headstrong Daughters

    Inspiring stories from the new generation of Australian Muslim women

    by Nadia Jamal ...
    How would you feel, as a guest, about sitting in a suburban living room that is for women only?What if you wanted a baby but as a single woman could not have one outside of a marriage?Could you stay home to mourn a husband for four months and ten days?Headstrong Daughters takes us inside the lives of Muslim women in Australia today. They are working professionals, mothers, and students. At home ... Read more

    $11.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Glory Garage

    Growing up Lebanese Muslim in Australia

    by Nadia Jamal, Taghred Chandab ...
    We call the obsession with collecting household items for married life the glory garage syndrome. We're talking serious shopping here and it affects many Lebanese girls long before an engagement ring is on their finger.A generation ago, our parents migrated to Australia as young men and women, leaving their families behind in Lebanon. They worked hard in factories and shops and taxis in their new ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Race, Class, and Nationalism in the Twenty-First-Century Caribbean

    by Dylan Kerrigan, Stanley H. Griffin, Juan Vicente Iborra-Mallent, Kimberly Palmer, Antonia Mungal, Maria Therese Gomes, Julio Cesar Guanche Zaldivar, Maikel Pons Giralt, Amilcar Sanatan, Gerald Stell, Savrina Chinien, Nadia Whiteman-Charles, Brendan Jamal Thornton, Diego I. Ubiera, Jerome Teelucksingh, Duane Edwards, Jack Menke, Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente, Annita Montoute ...
    This collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in the contemporary Caribbean. Despite the plethora of studies on nationalism in the Caribbean, few have attempted to look at the phenomenon as a political invention that does not—and cannot—serve the interests of all: how essentialist, reductive, overdetermining nationalism is a political ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • Creole Indigeneity

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  • Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and Beyond

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  • I Am Malala

    How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

    by Malala Yousafzai ...
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  • The Promise and Perils of Populism

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Carlos de la Torre ...
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  • Africa's Contemporary Challenges

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  • Karbala, The Complete Picture

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    The book starts by tracing the ancestors of Imam Husein (as) and Yazeed, the two principal figures involved in the tragedy of Karbala. The family tree of Imam Husein (as) is looked at in detail, with particular reference to those who are connected with the tragedy of Karbala.The book then explores systematically the regional, political and religious developments during the time of the Holy Prophet ... Read more

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  • Queer and Trans Migrations

    Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation

    by Eithne Luibheid, Karma R. Chavez, Anna Carastathis, Jack Caraves, Ryan Conrad, Katherine Fobear, Monisha Das Gupta, Jamila Hammami, Edward Ou Jin Lee0, Leece Lee-Oliver1, Hana Masri2, Yasmin Nair3, Bamby Salcedo4, Fadi Saleh5, Rafael Ramirez Solorzano6, José Guadalupe Herrera Soto7, Myrto Tsilimpounidi8, Suyapa Portillo Villeda9, Sasha Wijeyeratne0, Ruben Zecena1, AB Brown2, Elif Sari3, Julio Capo Jr.4 ...
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    A war correspondent’s bestselling, “commanding . . . eye-opening account” of five years on the Middle East frontlines (Publishers Weekly, starred review).In 1998, Joris Luyendijk was stationed just outside of Cairo. It wasn’t for his journalism skills. It was because he was fluent in Arabic. What followed—from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the post 9/11 war in Iraq—would be literal ... Read more

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