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  • Syria from Reform to Revolt

    Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion

    par Max Weiss, Donatella Della Ratta, Shayna Silverstein, Laura Ruiz de Elvira, Andreas Bandak, Thomas Pierret ...
    Collections series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    As Syria’s anti-authoritarian uprising and subsequent civil war have left the country in ruins, the need for understanding the nation’s complex political and cultural realities remains urgent. The second of a two-volume series, Syria from Reform to Revolt: Culture, Society, and Religion draws together closely observed, critical and historicized analyses, giving vital insights into Syrian society ... En savoir plus

    $34.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A Tunisian Tale

    A Modern Arabic Novel

    par Hassouna Mosbahi ...
    Traduit par Max Weiss ...
    Collections series
    An unconventional novel that explores the darker side of modern Tunisian societyAfter ne’er-do-wells spread rumors about a widowed mother’s weak moral character among the people of a slum on the outskirts of Tunis that festers with migrants who have come to the metropolis from the heartland in search of a better life, her twenty-year-old son takebe matters into his own hands and commits an ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Beekeeper

    Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq

    par Dunya Mikhail ...
    Traduit par Max Weiss ...
    The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from DaeshSince 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won’t convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women.The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Formations of Belief

    Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular

    par Professor Katja Guenther, Max Weiss, Yaacob Dweck, Stefania Pastore, Peter Brown, Caterina Pizzigoni, Victoria Smolkin0, Brad S. Gregory1, Peter E. Gordon2, Muhammad Qasim Zaman3, Anthony T. Grafton4 ...
    Collections series Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University
    For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life—and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. Formations of Belief brings together many of today's leading historians to shed critical light on secularism's origins, its present crisis, and whether it ... En savoir plus

    $60.49 CAD

  • Revolutions Aesthetic

    A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria

    par Max Weiss ...
    Collections series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A comprehensive intellectual, ideological, and political project—a Ba'thist cultural revolution—sought to align artistic endeavors with the ideological interests of the regime. The ensuing agonistic struggle pitted official aesthetics of power against alternative modes of creative ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Roundabout of Death

    par Faysal Khartash ...
    Traduit par Max Weiss ...
    “A remarkable book, a vivid testimonial to the horrors of the Syrian civil war.”—Robert F. Worth, author of A Rage for Order: The Middle East in TurmoilSet in Aleppo in 2012, when everyday life was metronomically punctuated by steady bombing, Roundabout of Death offers powerful witness to the violence that obliterated the ancient city's rich layers of history, its neighborhoods, and its medieval ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • A Woman in the Crossfire

    Diaries of the Syrian Revolution

    par Samar Yazbek ...
    Traduit par Max Weiss ...
    A well-known novelist and journalist from the coastal city of Jableh, Samar Yazbek witnessed the beginning four months of the uprising first-hand and actively participated in a variety of public actions and budding social movements. Throughout this period she kept a diary of personal reflections on, and observations of, this historic time. Because of the outspoken views she published in print and ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age

    Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda

    Modifié par Jens Hanssen, Max Weiss ...
    What is the relationship between thought and practice in the domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only standard by which to measure intellectual history? How did Arab intellectuals change and affect political, social, cultural and economic developments from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries? This volume offers a fundamental overhaul and revival of modern Arab ... En savoir plus

    $53.99 CAD

  • Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age

    Towards an Intellectual History of the Present

    Modifié par Jens Hanssen, Max Weiss ...
    In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the Middle East descended into a frenzy of political turmoil and unprecedented human tragedy which reinforced regrettable stereotypes about the moribund state of Arab intellectual and cultural life. This volume sheds important light on diverse facets of the post-war Arab world and its vibrant intellectual, literary and political history. Cutting-edge research is ... En savoir plus

    $53.99 CAD

  • Facing Fear

    The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective

    Modifié par Michael Laffan, Max Weiss ...
    Collections series Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University
    Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity. In these times of institutionalized insecurity and global terror, Facing Fear sheds light on the meaning, diversity, and ... En savoir plus

    $60.49 CAD

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    Roundabout of Death

    par Faysal Khartash ...
    Lu par Qarie Marshall ...

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    4 heure 19 min

    Set in Aleppo in 2012, when everyday life was metronomically punctuated by bombing, Roundabout of Death offers powerful witness to the violence that obliterated the ancient city's rich layers of history, its neighborhoods and medieval and Ottoman landmarks. The novel is told from the perspective of an ordinary man, a schoolteacher of Arabic for whom even daily errands become life-threatening tasks ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : eBook

    Aussi disponible en : eBook

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