Explores the gendered identities of two generations of men in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. Gustavo Barbosa compares... Læs mere
Few incidents in crime history have been as notorious as the 1927 murder of Queens suburbanite Albert Snyder by his wife... Læs mere
An exploration of family law as it pertains to women with regard to marriage, divorce and inheritance in the Middle East.... Læs mere
This volume grew out of a series of lectures by the author in 1944. He analyzes the centrality of Zion to biblical and Talmudic thought, how it inspired medieval thinkers and mystics, and how it moved modern Jews from Moses Hess to Ray Kook and A.D. Gordon.
Red Jacket was an Iroquois diplomat who, as a representative of the Seneca and Six Nations, met and negotiated with American presidents from George Washington to... Læs mere
Focuses on two centres of Western Armenian literary production following the Armenian genocide to examine the intersection of violence and art,... Læs mere
Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels. Bell numbered among her friends T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby, and Arabian... Læs mere
Offers a country-by-country critical assessment of the available scholarship on Arab families. Sixteen chapters focus on specific countries or groups of countries;... Læs mere
In this innovative volume, Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of three cinemas, yielding rich insights on the layers of representation and the ways in which those representations are challenged and disrupted.
Israel's 1977 political election resulted in a dramatic defeat for the ruling Labor movement. The government passed into the hands of... Læs mere
The act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between surrender and conquest, yielding conscious and unconscious effects on language. First published... Læs mere