Reading the Arab World
Reading the Arab World (Routledge, 2021) by Yehia Mohamed allows students to learn how the Arabic language works in the real world. The content-based textbook for intermediate to advanced students is…
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Black Blocks, White Squares: Crosswords with an Anarchist Edge
Offering a unique way to explore key concepts in political science, Black Blocks, White Squares: Crosswords with an Anarchist Edge (AK Press, 2021) by Leonard Williams is a collection of fifty-one…
A Frequency Lexicon of Standard Arabic Used in Children’s TV Programs: A Corpus-based Lexicon
Mahmoud Al-Ashiri’s book in Arabic, A Frequency Lexicon of Standard Arabic Used in Children’s TV Programs: A Corpus-based Lexicon (Dar Konoz Almarefa Publishers, 2021), offers an invaluable resource for designing and…
Darfur Allegory
Darfur Allegory (University of Chicago Press, 2021) by Rogaia Abusharaf is a dispatch from the humanitarian crisis that explains the historical and ethnographic background to competing narratives that have informed…
World Literature Decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal
World Literature Decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal (Routledge 2021) by Ian Almond seeks to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history – not just by…
Palestine as Metaphor
Palestine as Metaphor (Olive Branch Press) gives insight into of the greatest Arabic language poets of the 20th century, the late Palestinian author and cultural icon Mahmoud Darwish. The book…
Law and Politics under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni
Abu Ma’ali al-Juwayni (d.478/1085) lived in a politically tumultuous period. The rise of powerful dynastic families forced the Abbasid Caliph into a position of titular power, and created instability. He…
Philosophy as Love of Wisdom: Its Relevance to the Contemporary Crisis of Meaning
This volume gathers the proceedings of the international conference of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy “Re-learning to be Human for Global Times: Philosophy as Love of Wisdom”…
The Interest Group Society
Considered the gold standard on interest group politics, this book analyzes interest groups within the intuitive framework of democratic theory. Readers gain an understanding of the workings of interest groups…
God at the Grassroots 2016: The Christian Right in American Politics
God at the Grassroots 2016 sees a distinguished group of political scientists, many of whom have been studying the Christian Right for more than two decades, assess the 2016 elections…
Locating the Shari'a
The study of the sharīʿa has enjoyed a renaissance in the last two decades and it will continue to attract interdisciplinary attention given the ongoing social, political and religious developments…
Fatima Jinnah: Mother of the Nation
Although fifty years have passed since the death of Fatima Jinnah – author, activist and stateswoman known in Pakistan as the ‘mother of the nation’ – this is the first…
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