Books
Jerusalem’s Urban Dynamic: The Ottoman and British Occupations
By Lynne Rogers
From Empire to Empire
By Abigail Jacobson
Syracuse University Press, 2011
In “From Empire to Empire,” Abigail Jacobson analyzes the social tapestry of Jerusalem during the city’s transition from Ottoman Rule to the British Mandate between 1912 and 1920.
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The Historical Novel Revived
By Wided Khadraoui
Tree of Pearls, Queen of Egypt
By Jurji Zaydan
Syracuse University Press, 2012
The “Tree of Pearls, Queen of Egypt” by Jurji Zaydan was originally published in 1914 and was recently translated and released in English by Samah Selim, an assistant professor at Rutgers University.
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Tribalism: A Modern Approach to the Gulf
By Hilary Hesse
Tribal Modern
By Miriam Cooke
University of California Press, 2014
By way of geological fluke, one of the world’s most forbidding regions improbably became one of its wealthiest: in 1908 oil was discovered in the Middle East.
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Images of a Failed “New World Order”
By D.W. Aossey
The Migrant Image
By T.J. Demos
Duke University Press Books, 2013
Given the current state of the U.S and world economies many have begun to question whether the egalitarian promises of Globalism and the New World Order, ushered onto the world stage in the wake of the Cold War, are actually panning out as promised.
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Breaking Away from Extremism
Narratives of Immigration
By Lynne Rogers
Immigrant Narratives, Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature
By Wail Hassan
Oxford University Press, 2011
Wail S. Hassan’s “Immigrant Narratives, Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature” covers approximately 100 years of Arab-Anglophone writing.
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Can Ethnic Media Correct Ethnic Bias?
By D.W. Aossey
Understanding Ethnic Media
By Matthew Matsaganis, Vikki Katz, and Sandra Ball-Rokeach
Sage Publications, 2010
If anyone understands how American media works and is leveraged, it should be the Arab-American community.
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'Meanderings' Through Turkey
By Frances Khirallah Noble
Meander
By Jeremy Seal
Bloomsbury, 2012
“Meander” is a travel guidebook that has everything –historical background, colorful local folk, cultural perspective, captivating description, beautiful writing – and yet lacks certain expected elements; it contains no hotel rates, no shopping guides, no airline schedules, and no tips for tourists.
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Women of Letters Key Players in Iran’s Social Revolution
By Noah Bricker
Words, Not Swords
By Farzaneh Milani
Syracuse University Press 2011
The condition of women in Iran is paradoxical. Iranian women can vote and run for elected office, but they must adhere to a strict dress code. They drive cars and even taxis, but are forbidden to operate bicycles.
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