Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david mcmurray”
Skip side bar filters

  • Encountering Morocco

    Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding

    by Kevin Dwyer, David McMurray, Katherine E. Hoffman, Paul A. Silverstein, Emilio Spadola, Jamila Bargach, Charlotte van den Hout, Karen Rignall, Deborah Kapchan ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers–from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first stint in the field to the seasoned fieldworker returning with spouse and children. They offer frank descriptions of what it ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Arab Revolts

    Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East

    Edited by David McMurray, Amanda Ufheil-Somers ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    A collection of essays examining the underlying causes of 2011's Arab uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen.The 2011 eruptions of popular discontent across the Arab world, popularly dubbed the Arab Spring, were local manifestations of a regional mass movement for democracy, freedom, and human dignity. Authoritarian regimes were either overthrown or put on notice that the old ways ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry

    by Edmund Reiss, David Chamberlain, Chauncey Wood, Gail McMurray Gibson, James I. Wimsatt, V. A. Kolve, Bernard F. Huppé, John Gardner, D. W. Robertson Jr. ...
    Innovative and thorough, Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry presents nine essays that reexamine the literary iconography of Middle English. Chaucer’s work is the most well-known, and possibly the most significant, remnant of the Middle Ages; investigations into his writing and meanings are fruitful even today. The essays collected by John P. Hermann and John J. Burke Jr. invite scholars to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Between Banat

    Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives

    by Mejdulene Bernard Shomali ...
    In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature, art, and film. Moving from The Thousand and One Nights and the Golden Era of Egyptian cinema to contemporary novels, autobiographical writing, and prints and graphic novels that imagine queer Arab futures, Shomali uses what she calls queer Arab ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Allegory of Love

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    The Allegory of Love is a study in medieval tradition—the rise of both the sentiment called "Courtly Love" and of the allegorical method—from eleventh-century Languedoc through sixteenth-century England. C. S. Lewis devotes considerable attention to The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to such poets as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and Thomas Usk. ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • The Limits of Whiteness

    Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race

    by Neda Maghbouleh ...
    When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and others from the Middle East are white. Indeed, a historical myth circulates even in immigrant families like Roya's, proclaiming Iranians to be the "original" white race. But based on the treatment Roya and her family receive in American ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Arab Uprisings:What Everyone Needs to Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by James L. Gelvin ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Beginning in December 2010 popular revolt swept through the Middle East, shocking the world and ushering in a period of unprecedented unrest. Protestors took to the streets to demand greater freedom, democracy, human rights, social justice, and regime change. What caused these uprisings? What is their significance? And what are their likely consequences? In an engaging question-and-answer format, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Hamlet in Purgatory

    Expanded Edition

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall of Purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution--as well as a capacious new reading of the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Diasporic Condition

    Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World

    by Ghassan Hage ...
    Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory.In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage engages with the diasporic Lebanese community as a shared lifeworld, defining a common cultural milieu that transcends spatial and temporal ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Battle for the Arab Spring

    Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Making of a New Era

    by Lin Noueihed, Alex Warren ...
    This "lucidly written" account of the 2011 wave of revolutions "includes a wealth of astute analysis on the politics of the region, from Morocco to Oman" (Paul Hockenos, The National).Sparked by the protest of a single vegetable seller in Tunisia, the flame of revolutionary passion swept across the Arab world in what has come to be called the Arab Spring of 2011. Millions took to the streets in ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    This entertaining and learned volume contains book reviews, lectures, and hard to find articles from the late C. S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth–century reader how to read and understand old books and manuscripts. Highlighting works by Spenser, Dante, Malory, Tasso, and Milton, Lewis provides a refreshing update to medieval and Renaissance criticism, and equips modern ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

    Into the New Millennium

    by Jon W. Anderson, Paul A. Silverstein, Nefissa Naguib, Susanne Dahlgren, Cortney L. Hughes, Emilio Spadola, Suad Joseph, Dawn Chatty, Sondra Hale, Kim Shively, Lara Deeb, Christine Hegel-Cantarella, Jessica Winegar, Sebastian Maisel, Charlotte Karagueuzian, Pamela Chrabieh Badine, Seteney Shami ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD