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  • Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution

    Voices from Tunis to Damascus

    Modifié par Matthew Cassel, Layla Al-Zubaidi ...
    An English PEN Award–winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab SpringAs revolution swept through the Arab world in spring of 2011, much of the writing that reached the West came via analysts and academics, experts and expats. We heard about Facebook posts and tweeted calls to action, but what was missing was testimony from on-the-ground participants—which is precisely ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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  • A Thousand Farewells

    A Reporter's Journey From Refugee Camp To The Arab Spring

    par Nahlah Ayed ...
    A Thousand Farewells is the heartfelt and personal chronicle of a journalist who has devoted her career to covering one of the world’s most volatile regions.In 1976, Nahlah Ayed’s family gave up a comfortable life in Winnipeg for the squalor of a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. The transition was jarring but it was during this unsettling period that Ayed first closely observed the ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • All We Leave Behind

    A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others

    par Carol Off ...
    Winner of the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-FictionFinalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingFinalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fictionFinalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for NonfictionAn incredible work of non-fiction that reads like a thriller, All We Leave Behind is the true story of a family fleeing the death ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Lovers

    Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families and Escaped an Honor Killing

    par Rod Nordland ...
    A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner—an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world.Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Letters to My Daughters

    A Memoir

    par Fawzia Koofi ...
    In the vein of Infidel comes this spellbinding memoir of survival and courage from Afghanistan’s most popular female politician.On the day Fawzia Koofi was born, her mother set her under the blazing Afghan sun to die. She was the nineteenth child of twenty-three in a family with seven wives, and her mother did not want another daughter. Despite severe burns that lasted into her teenage years, ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Rosewater (Movie Tie-in Edition)

    A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

    An impassioned, searing memoir of one man’s brutal imprisonment by the Iranian government that “turns a lens not only on Iran’s surreal justice system but on the history and culture that helped produce it” (The Washington Post), with a foreword by Jon Meacham“Clear and compelling . . . A gripping tribute to human dedication and a cogent indictment of a corrupt regime.”—Washington Independent ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Tower of the Sun

    Stories from the Middle East and North Africa

    Prize-winning author Michael J. Totten’s gripping first-person narratives from the war zones, police states, and revolutionary capitals of the Middle East and North Africa paint a vivid picture of peoples and nations at war with themselves, each other, and—sometimes—with the rest of the world.His journeys take him from Libya under the gruesome rule of Muammar Qaddafi to Egypt before, during and ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Marriott Cell

    An Epic Journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to Freedom

    Award-winning journalist Mohamed Fahmy's widely anticipated account of his wrongful incarceration in Cairo's maximum-security Scorpion Prison for terrorists and political leaders, and his subsequent battle for justice, opens a remarkable window onto the closed world of Islamic fundamentalism and the bloody geopolitical struggles that dominate our headlines. An important book that reads like a ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • People Like Us

    Misrepresenting the Middle East

    par Joris Luyendijk ...
    A war correspondent’s bestselling, “commanding . . . eye-opening account” of five years on the Middle East frontlines (Publishers Weekly, starred review).In 1998, Joris Luyendijk was stationed just outside of Cairo. It wasn’t for his journalism skills. It was because he was fluent in Arabic. What followed—from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the post 9/11 war in Iraq—would be literal ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Veiled Courage

    Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance

    par Cheryl Benard ...
    In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A woman’s slightest infractions were met with brutal public beatings. That is why it is both appropriate and incredible that the sole effective civil resistance to Taliban rule was ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Strong Horse

    Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations

    par Lee Smith ...
    In this provocative and timely book, Middle East expert Lee Smith overturns long-held Western myths and assumptions about the Arab world, offering advice for America’s future success in the region.Seeking the motivation behind the September 11 attacks, Smith moved to Cairo, where he discovered that the standard explanation—a clash of East and West—was simply not the case. Middle East conflicts ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled

    Voices from Syria

    par Wendy Pearlman ...
    LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDALReminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.Against the backdrop of the wave of demonstrations known as the Arab Spring, in 2011 hundreds of thousands of Syrians took ... En savoir plus

    $25.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus