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Julie Peteet offers a fascinating tour through the rich cultural history of hammams, or baths, in the Mediterranean and Middle East. These sacred structures date back to the Bronze and Iron Ages and...

In Hazo?s latest collection, The Less Said, the Truer, he brings together new poems as well as selections from three previous books?They Rule the World (2016), When Not Yet is Now (2019), and The...

This meticulously researched book offers a comprehensive analysis of strategic cooperation in authoritarian regimes, specifically focusing on Yemen's Joint Meeting Parties?an alliance composed of...

Unbridled passions threatened nineteenth-century America, a vulnerable young nation already feeling beset by foreigners, corruption, and disease. Purifying crusaders like Hamilton College philosophy...

Since coming to power in 2003, Turkey?s governing party, the AKP, has made poverty relief a central part of their political program. In addition to neoliberal reforms, AKP?s program has involved an...

In this deftly turned story, author Frances Khirallah Noble presents a story that is at once sublimely comic yet surprisingly erudite in the subjects it tackles. Its hero, Kahlil Gibran Hourani, is...

Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle?s centenary adaption of J. M. Synge?s classic The Playboy of the Western World had a sold-out run when it was produced at Dublin?s Abbey Theater in 2007 and was brought...

A group of strangers risk death along the New York State Thruway to save a soldier from a burning truck. The true story, as told by football legend Jim Brown, of how the number 44 rose to prominence...

For over fifty years, Hazo's poetry has meditated on themes of mortality and love, passion and art, and courage and grace in a style that is unmistakably his own. In this new collection, he offers...

On March 27, 1933, representatives from across the American religious spectrum came to Madison Square Garden, united in a shared purpose to speak out against the rise of fascism in Germany and Adolph...

Author: Nahma SandrowPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1996Number of Pages: 456 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0815603290ISBN-13: 9780815603290

Discussions surrounding the veil often run along essentialist and ahistorical lines, associating Islam with oppression, shame, and honor. Contributing to these stereotypes, the media in both the East...

Abraham Karpinowitz (1913?2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories. He survived the...

Hadiya Hussein?s poignant 2017 novel plunges readers into a haunting and powerful story of resilience. Set at the end of Saddam Hussein?s brutal reign, the novel follows Narjis, a young Iraqi woman,...

Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination...

Originally published in 2020, Hassouna Mosbahi?s riveting novel explores the human psyche amidst the turbulent aftermath of the Arab Spring in Tunisia. Through the experiences of three friends,...

Conspicuously missing from narratives of the Lebanese Civil War are the stories of women who took part in daily social activism and political advocacy during the tumultuous conflict. What the War...

Opening with the ominous scene of one young school girl whispering an urgent account of Nazi horror to another over birthday cake, Ozsv?h's extraordinary and chilling memoir tells the story of her...

In the rich tradition of oral storytelling, Chief Irving Powless Jr. of the Beaver Clan of the Onondaga Nation reminds us of an ancient treaty. It promises that the Haudenosaunee people and...

In Makuck s fourth collection of short stories he once again explores the fertile territory of small, rural American towns. With tenderness and clarity, he excavates the mundane surface of everyday...