On September 11, 2001, the photographer Abbas watched the World Trade Center towers fall in New York―live on Siberian TV. It spurred him to begin a journey through the Islamic world that would last se
From the lens of Magnum's Abbas Attar - the mystical world of the Hindu revealed, from ancient rites to contemporary beliefsThis latest in Abbas's transcendent series of books on major world religions
Following the dictum that biography is the ultimate history, Milani (Iranian studies, Stanford U.) profiles 150 people to recount the history of Iran from the outbreak of World War II to the Islamic R
This book investigates the sources and implications of our encounters with suffering in contemporary politics and culture, exploring the forces that determine how suffering matters. It counters liber
The Jews of Iraq constituted one of the oldest and most deeply rooted Jewish communities in the world. But in the early 1950s most of them left for Israel, under circumstances that remain the subject
This self teaching manual includes everything you need to learn Pashto alphabet or review your reading skills.This book covers everything from the basic words to pronunciation and practice. Drills and
A noted scholar of contemporary Iran, Milani looks at the history of the Iran-U.S relationship, honing in on the myth of the U.S. as the "Great Satan." In chapters dealing with the fall of the Shah, t
Based on the author's lectures, this book introduces symplectic field theory. Beginning with compactness results for holomorphic curves, the coverage includes extensions of certain compactness results
This text features a careful treatment of flow lines and algebraic invariants in contact form geometry, a vast area of research connected to symplectic field theory, pseudo-holomorphic curves, and Gro
This grammar reference provides a detailed parallel and comparative study of a number of Arabic language varieties spanning the major regions of the Arab world. Special focus is paid to their syntacti
For the last 60 years, Saudi Arabia has assumed a vital economic role and has been situated on the center stage of the global economic and political scene. While the market was once dominated by Ameri
