The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of transformation from medieval to modern. In this vanished Mecca, vividly brought to li
James Joyce's iconoclastic epic Ulysses (1922) is by no means an unexpected end to a history of the Irish Catholic novel, admits Nolan (English, National U. of Ireland-Maynooth), but she takes a relat
While imprisoned by the Nazis at the Dachau-Kaufering concentration camp, members of the Irgun Brith Zion somehow managed to continue to publish an underground Hebrew-language journal, Nitzotz (Spark)
Sports marketing consultant Youmans tells the story of boxer Carmen Basilio, who famously challenged and defeated Sugar Ray Robinson for the middleweight championship of the world in 1957. Basilio's r
Cultural critic George Steiner fled from the Nazis as a child in 1940 and became a naturalized US citizen in 1944. Through his writing, he has played a major role in introducing the works of prominent
D'Imperio, a country radio broadcaster living in Upstate New York, identifies both famous and unknown stone and metal tributes worth visiting in New York State. Each entry describes the town where the
Collado-Scharz is the founder and chairman of the cultural non-government organization FundaciA3n Voz del Centro, and producer and host of the radio program La Voz del Centro. Here he presents an Engl
Having witnessed the outbreak of deadly violence between supporters of rival soccer teams from neighboring Palestinian Arab towns in northern Israel--the predominantly Christian town of Kafr Yassif an
When a delegation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom traveled to Haiti in 1926 to study its occupation by the US, the WILPF represented a new alliance of white women peace activ
This is the story of marching men and clashing ships, of suffering, and of occasional heroic deeds. As in wars past, and for similar reasons, Lake Champlain and the region surrounding Lower Canada, Ve
Within the spectrum of American literary traditions, Arab American literature is relatively new. Writing produced by Americans of Arab origin is mainly a product of the twentieth century and only star
As women across the globe have sprung free from the traditional oppressions of patriarchal societies over the last 150+ years, Milani (Persian literature and studies in women and gender, U. of Virgini
Hanna (Arabic studies, American University, Cairo) presents this history and economical analysis of the role of Egyptian artisans and artisan guilds in the development of independent economic structur
Eleven chapters, presented by Kamrava (director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown U.'s School of Foreign Service in Qatar), explore the reasons for changing internatio
This book looks at the formation of the modern (pre-colonial) Egyptian State in the late 19th century through the lens of police and other official interactions with women, particularly non-elite wome
Diks (English and Irish literature, U. of Missouri, Kansas City) examines the writing career of Samuel Becket, arguing that the famously modest and guarded author was, in fact, firmly in control of hi
The 1917 transition of rule in Jerusalem from the Ottomans to the British is treated generally as a rupture, according to Jacobson (the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzlia, Israel), who here suggests
