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  • Initiative to Stop the Violence

    Sadat's Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence

    by al-Gama'ah al-Islamiyah ...
    Translated by Prof. Sherman Jackson ...
    Series series World Thought in Translation
    Formerly one of the largest and most militant Islamic organizations in the Middle East, Egypt’s al-Gama‘ah al-Islamiyah is believed to have played an instrumental role in numerous acts of global terrorism, including the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In later years, however, the organization issued a surprising renunciation of violence, repudiating ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

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    Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

    by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon ...
    "[A] fascinating window on Afghan life under the Taliban . . . a celebration of women . . . who support . . . loved ones with tenacity, inventiveness and sheer guts." — PeopleThe life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil war—a rare achievement for any Afghan woman—Kamila was subsequently ... Read more

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  • The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

    by Vali Nasr ...
    The New York Times bestseller: "Historically incisive, geographically broad-reaching, and brimming with illuminating anecdotes."—Max Rodenbeck, New York Review of BooksProfiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr has become one of America's leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, admired and welcomed by both media and government for his ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Islamic Exceptionalism

    How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World

    by Shadi Hamid ...
    In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East. Divides among citizens aren't just about power but are products of fundamental disagreements over the very nature and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • On the State of Egypt

    What Caused the Revolution

    by Alaa Al Aswany ...
    Translated by Jonathan Wright ...
    On 25 January 2011, bestselling Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany joined a million protestors in Tahrir Square calling for President Hosni Mubarak's departure. This was the moment he and other pro-democracy activists had been working towards, but could never be sure would come.Why did Egypt unexpectedly revolt? In a weekly newspaper column Al Aswany had been exposing the injustices of the Mubarak ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen

    Egypt's Road to Revolt

    by Hazem Kandil ...
    Revolutions are difficult to understand, let alone predict. Egypt’s revolt last year was no exception. The military’s abandonment of Mubarak confused many observers, who had always assumed that the leader and the generals stood or fell together. But as the violence of the transitional period discredited the armed forces, academics fell back in relief on the same age-old assumptions about officers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Berber Government

    The Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria

    by Hugh Roberts ...
    The Berber identity movement in North Africa was pioneered by the Kabyles of Algeria. But a preoccupation with identity and language has obscured the fact that Kabyle dissidence has been rooted in democratic aspirations inspired by the political traditions of Kabylia itself, a Berber-speaking region in the north of Algeria. The political organisation of pre-colonial Kabylia, from which these ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Rethinking Political Islam

    Edited by Shadi Hamid, William McCants ...
    For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever came to power. Now, they have answers: confusing ones. In the Levant, ISIS established a government by brute force, implementing an extreme interpretation of Islamic law. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Tunisia's Ennahda Party governed in coalition with two secular parties, ratified a liberal constitution, and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

    Updated Edition

    by Jenny White, Jenny White ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Generation Revolution

    On the Front Line Between Tradition and Change in the Middle East

    by Rachel Aspden ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book of the Year*“*An excellent social history of Egypt’s persistent pathologies, as well as a universal story about the difficulties of changing deeply ingrained societal attitudes.” —*New York Times Book ReviewGeneration Revolution* unravels the complex forces shaping the lives of four young Egyptians on the eve and in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, and what their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The UAE

    Geopolitics, Modernity and Tradition

    by William Gueraiche ...
    The seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates were little known until the spectacular success of Dubai. The branding of the city not only raised awareness of Dubai, and brought Emiratis one of the highest standards of living in the world, it also spread positive representations of the UAE to the world at large, in striking contrast to more familiar representations of the Middle East. ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • The Mosaic of Islam

    A Conversation with Perry Anderson

    by Suleiman Mourad, Perry Anderson ...
    A comprehensive introduction to the faith and politics of IslamToday, 23 percent of the global population is Muslim, but ignorance and misinformation about Islam persist. In this fascinating and useful book, Perry Anderson interviews the noted scholar of Islam Suleiman Mourad about the Qurʾan and the history of the faith.Mourad elucidates the different stages in Islam’s development: the Qurʾan as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD