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  • Rubble

    by Seraj Assi ...
    In a world scarred by indiscriminate bombing, forced starvation, and mass displacement, a nameless survivor lies crushed beneath the rubble of a bombing—alive, but barely.Entombed in darkness with no hope of rescue, he must navigate the thin edge between life and death using only his hearing, sense of smell, and the volatile power of his imagination. Above him a genocide unfolds. Below, in his ... Read more

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  • Rubble

    A Novel

    by Seraj Assi ...
    Entombed in darkness with no hope of rescue, he must navigate the thin edge between life and death using only his hearing, sense of smell, and the volatile power of his imagination. Above him a genocide unfolds. Below, in his fragile pocket of air, he begins to witness it in ways no unburied survivor ever could. As hours blur into days, hallucination and reality weave together. Memories seep ... Read more

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  • The History and Politics of the Bedouin

    Reimagining Nomadism in Modern Palestine

    by Seraje Assi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    This book examines contending visions on nomadism in modern Palestine, with a special focus on the British Mandate period. Extending from the late Ottoman period to the founding of the State of Israel, it highlights both ruptures and continuities with the Ottoman past and the Israeli present, to prove that nomadism was not invented by the British or the Zionists, but is the shared legacy of ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

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    Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe

    by Jo Roberts ...
    1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward the new State of Israel, Arab refugees are fleeing, many under duress. Sixty years later, the memory of trauma has shaped both peoples' collective understanding of who they are.After a war, the victors write history. How was the story of the exiled Palestinians erased -- from textbooks, maps, even the land? How do Jewish and ... Read more

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  • The Dönme

    Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

    by Marc David Baer ...
    This book tells the story of the Dönme, the descendents of Jews who resided in the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam along with their messiah, Rabbi Shabbatai Tzevi, in the seventeenth century. For two centuries following their conversion, the Dönme were accepted as Muslims, and by the end of the nineteenth century rose to the top of Salonikan society. The Dönme helped transform Salonika into ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Forgotten Voices

    Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya

    by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida ...
    In Forgotten Voices, Ali Abdullatif Ahmida employs archival research, oral interviews and comparative analysis to rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of modern Libya. ... Read more

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  • Palestinian Identity

    The Construction of Modern National Consciousness

    by Rashid Khalidi ...
    This foundational text now features a new introduction by Rashid Khalidi reflecting on the significance of his work over the past decade and its relationship to the struggle for Palestinian nationhood. Khalidi also casts an eye to the future, noting the strength of Palestinian identity and social solidarity yet wondering whether current trends will lead to Palestinian statehood and independence. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Palestine Nakba

    Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory

    by Nur Masalha ...
    2012 marks the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba - the most traumatic catastrophe that ever befell Palestinians. This book explores new ways of remembering and commemorating the Nakba. In the context of Palestinian oral history, it explores 'social history from below', subaltern narratives of memory and the formation of collective identity. Masalha argues that to write more truthfully about the Nakba ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Palestinian Village Histories

    Geographies of the Displaced

    by Rochelle Davis ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques and churches put to other uses, and cemeteries plowed under, Palestinian communities were left geographically dispossessed. Palestinians have since carried their village names, memories, and possessions with them into the diaspora, transforming their ... Read more

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  • The Modern Middle East

    A Social and Cultural History

    by Ilan Pappé ...
    This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and gender histories of the region over its political and economic history. Distancing himself from more traditional modernising approaches, Ilan Pappé is concerned with the ideological question of whom we investigate in the past rather than how we ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora

    Representations of Place and Transnational Identity

    by Jumana Bayeh ...
    Series series Written Culture and Identity
    The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences. Jumana Bayeh presents an important and major study of the literature of the Lebanese diaspora. Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex ... Read more

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  • Memories of Absence

    How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco

    by Aomar Boum ...
    There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt. Once a thriving community, by the late 1980s, 240,000 Jews had emigrated from Morocco. Today, fewer than 4,000 Jews remain. Despite a centuries-long presence, the Jewish narrative in Moroccan history has largely been suppressed through national historical amnesia, Jewish absence, and a growing dismay over the Palestinian ... Read more

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