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Sexuality and Modernity in Today’s Iran

By Lynne Rogers

Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran

By Kamran Talattof

Syracuse University Press, 2011

When asked to publically support Feminism, French writer George Sands declined with the claim, “When women liberated their own beds, the rest would follow.” Iranian scholar Kamran Talattof would probably agree with Sands provided that the liberation was accompanied by an in

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Dam Foolishness & Other Recollections

By Wided Khadraoui

Dam Foolishness & Other Recollections

By Raff Ellis

Cune Press, 2011

“Dam Foolishness & Other Recollections” is Raff Ellis’ love letter to small town America. The short stories, occasionally overlapping in a seamless narrative, are based on the author’s life.

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The Only Diner in the Restaurant: A Travel Writer’s Perspective on the Arab Spring

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Daniel Hugh-Jones

Several excellent articles and books have been written concerning the revolutions of the Arab Spring, most by participants, relatives of the fallen, political analysts or foreign correspondents. Tom Chesshyre makes no claim to any of these perspectives. Instead, he deals with the subject of life during and after revolution with the light touch and charm of a travel writer.

A Tourist in the Arab Spring

By Tom Chesshyre

Bradt Travel Guides, Ltd., The Globe Pequot Press Inc., 2013

When the first violent images of the Arab Spring flashed across our television screens, most of us watched with interest, wished the demonstrators more or less success in their efforts, depending on our points of view, and then got on with our lives.

The American Mirage: Immigrant or “Un-American?”

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Frances Khirallah Noble

Carlos ben Carlos Rossman, a Puerto Rican Jew, is in for a surprise. When he lands in New York Harbor in 1950, he realizes that the American melting pot is more fable than fact. In many cases, diversity is likely to make one “Un-American” rather than American. Language, culture, religion, or even something as simple as a green baseball bat, when all of the other kids own plain pine bats, can result in ostracism.

In the House UN-American

By Benjamin Hollander

Clockroot Books, 2013

“In the House UN-American” is about tribes, how they differ and whether it’s possible to become a member of one you weren’t born into. Carlos ben Carlos Rossman, a Puerto Rican Jew (a double-pronged tribe!) lands in New York Harbor in 1950.