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  • The Suspended Disaster

    Governing by Crisis in Bouteflika's Algeria

    by Thomas Serres ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
    After Algeria’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for a fifth term in early 2019, a popular peaceful uprising erupted calling for change. Bouteflika, who had been in office since 1999, was eventually forced to resign, but the Hirak (“movement”) continued to protest the country’s inequalities and entrenched ruling elite.The Suspended Disaster examines the dynamics of the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Suspended Disaster

    Governing by Crisis in Bouteflika's Algeria

    by Thomas Serres ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
    After Algeria’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his intention to run for a fifth term in early 2019, a popular peaceful uprising erupted calling for change. Bouteflika, who had been in office since 1999, was eventually forced to resign, but the Hirak (“movement”) continued to protest the country’s inequalities and entrenched ruling elite.The Suspended Disaster examines the dynamics of the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • North Africa and the Making of Europe

    Governance, Institutions and Culture

    Edited by Dr Muriam Haleh Davis, Dr Thomas Serres ...
    This innovative edited collection brings together leading scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe to examine how European identity and institutions have been fashioned though interactions with the southern periphery since 1945. It highlights the role played by North African actors in shaping European conceptions of governance, culture and development, considering the construction of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States

    by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman ...
    Like many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber/Amazigh peoples of North Africa are demanding linguistic and cultural recognition and the redressing of injustices. Indeed, the movement seeks nothing less than a refashioning of the identity of North African states, a rewriting of their history, and a fundamental change in the basis of collective life. In so ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Why the French Don't Like Headscarves

    Islam, the State, and Public Space

    by John R. Bowen ...
    The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social ills, from violence against females in poor suburbs to anti-Semitism. Why the French Don't Like ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal

    Edited by Mamadou Diouf ...
    Series Book 15 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims

    The State's Role in Minority Integration

    by Jonathan Laurence ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Turkey, Jonathan Laurence challenges the ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Making and Unmaking Nations

    War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa

    by Scott Straus ...
    Winner of the Grawmeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 2018Winner of the Joseph Lepgold PrizeWinner of the Best Books in Conflict Studies (APSA)Winner of the Best Book in Human Rights (ISA)In Making and Unmaking Nations**, Scott Straus seeks to explain why and how genocide takes place—and, perhaps more important, how it has been avoided in places where it may have seemed likely or even ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Republic of Islamophobia

    The Rise of Respectable Racism in France

    by James Wolfreys ...
    Why does Islamophobia dominate public debate in France? Islamophobia in France is rising, with Muslims subjected to unprecedented scrutiny of what they wear, eat and say. Championed by Marine Le Pen and drawing on the French colonial legacy, France's 'new secularism' gives racism a respectable veneer. Jim Wolfreys exposes the dynamic driving this intolerance: a society polarized by inequality, and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Civil War in Syria

    Mobilization and Competing Social Orders

    by Adam Baczko, Gilles Dorronsoro, Arthur Quesnay ...
    Series series Problems of International Politics
    In 2011, hundreds of thousands of Syrians marched peacefully to demand democratic reforms. Within months, repression forced them to take arms and set up their own institutions. Two years later, the inclusive nature of the opposition had collapsed, and the PKK and radical jihadist groups rose to prominence. In just a few years, Syria turned into a full-scale civil war involving major regional and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Only Muslim

    Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France

    by Naomi Davidson ...
    The French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Naomi Davidson traces this turbulence to the 1920s and 1930s, when North Africans first immigrated to French cities in significant numbers. Drawing on police reports, architectural blueprints, posters, propaganda films, and documentation from metropolitan and colonial officials as well as ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Our fighting sisters

    Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954–2012

    by Natalya Vince ...
    Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the twentieth century’s most violent wars of decolonisation. This is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962. Based on new oral history interviews with women who participated in the war in a wide range of roles, from urban bombers to members of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD