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Islam and Capitalism
Read more...by reference to some unchanging entity called ‘Islam,’ typically characterised as instinctively hostile to capitalism. Maxime Rodinson looks at the…
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The Dramatic Literature of Nawal El Saadawi
Read more...the poor, that the oppression of women is reprehensible and not uniquely characteristic of the Middle East or the ‘Third…
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All My Friends Are Superheroes
Read moreAll Tom’s friends really are superheroes. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding the Perfectionist is…
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The Waterproof Bible
Read more...across Canada to save the soul of her dying mother. She is green, gill-necked, and very comfortable out of water.…
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The Moon Opera
Read moreIn a fit of jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, disfigures her understudy with boiling water. Spurned by…
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Unspeakable Love
Read moreHomosexuality is a taboo subject in the Arab world. While clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, newspapers write cryptically…
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Arabia Without Sultans
Read more...as it analyses the Arabian peninsula and Iran within the global context of western post-colonial strategy and the political economy…
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The New Post-Oil Arab Gulf
Read more...and education. It also considers the implications of failure for the future survival of their regimes. This study will provide…
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Dubrovnik
Read more...city survived the besieging Yugoslav army, which heavily damaged but did not destroy its cultural heritage. This book is a…
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Imams and Emirs
Read moreIn this classic, comprehensive study of Islamic sects in the contemporary Arab world, Khuri focuses on the Sunni, Shi‘a, Alawis,…
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Lebanon 1860-1960
Read moreA brief, brutal clash in Lebanon in 1958 followed the build-up of tensions between the country’s most prominent communities –…
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A Reader of Modern Arabic Short Stories
Read moreThis reader consists of the full Arabic texts of eleven short stories by established Egyptian, Iraqi, Syrian and Jordanian writers.…