A historical survey of the Iraqi media from its beginning up to the present day, focusing on the post-2003 media scene and the political and societal divisions that occurred in Iraq after US-led occup
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION 2018For fans of The Kite Runner comes this remarkable debut, the number one bestselling title in Iraq, Dubai and the UAEBaghdad, 1991. In the
In the first American edition, a Jerusalem-based sociologist and teacher of Middle Eastern dance, presents aspects of the traditional but eroding cultures of Arab countries unknown to most Westerners.
Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together
This book examines how African, Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American diasporas use media to communicate among themselves and to integrate into European countries. Whereas migrant communities conti
Listen to a short interview with Rawi AbdelalHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneThe rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one funda
How do national identities affect the world economy? Building on the insight that nationalisms and national identities endow economic policy with social purpose, Rawi Abdelal proposes a novel theoreti
This monograph presents in great detail a large number of both unpublished and previously published Babylonian mathematical texts in the cuneiform script. It is a continuation of the work A Remarkable
After his undertaker father’s death, laconic, Greek mythology– reading Pavlov is approached by a member of the mysterious Hellfire Society— an antireligious sect that, among many rebellious and often
Award-winning author Helon Habila has been described as "a courageous tale teller with an uncompromising vision…a major talent" (Rawi Hage). His new novel Travelers is a life-changing encounter with t
The author has left his Middle-Eastern home and settled in a chilly, western city. He lives as an exile, untrusted, unwanted, foreign. A stranger trying to make sense of a strange land. But he brings
In Montreal's restless immigrant community, our unnamed narrator is living in despair. Forced to visit a therapist after a suicide attempt, he brings us back to his childhood in a war-torn country, f
The novel takes place during one month of a bitterly cold winter in Montreal's restless immigrant community, where a self-described "thief" has just tried but failed to commit suicide by hanging hims
Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown up on the Christian side of war-torn Beirut. Now on the verge of adulthood, they must choose their futures: to remain in the exhausted, corr
There are two types of taxi driver in the Carnival city - the spiders and the flies. The spiders sit and stew in their cars, waiting for the calls to come to them. But the flies wander the streets, lo
Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Ec
Poetry. ARAB ON RADAR is Angele Ellis' first book of poetry. She was a prizewinner in the 2007 RAWI Competition for Creative Prose for "Desert Storms," an excerpt of a novel in progress. ARAB ON RADAR
There are two types of taxi drivers in the Carnival city - the spiders and the flies. The spiders sit and stew in their cars, waiting for the calls to come to them. But the flies are wanderers - they
"A cab driver in a crime-filled, apocalyptic city begins a romance with a book-loving, married fare, who offers a ray of light and happiness in the grittiness around him in this new novel by the autho
A classic Mahfouz story exploring themes of marriage across class lines, spirituality, and the harsh realities of a precarious life.Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi, the main character in this most recen
"This is a great and very beautiful novel."?Le Devoir"One of my favorite writers in the world is Jacques Poulin." ?Rawi Hage"Poulin shares a mix of detached humor, fantasy, and compassion with Vonnegu
"Constructing the International Economy is an impassioned, compelling case for stepping back from the realist view of the modern economy to understand how its institutions, practices, and theories ha
Alone with their authoritarian father on an immense estate surrounded by a forest, a pair of siblings speak a language and inhabit a universe of their own making. When their father commits suicide, th
The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions of international courts and arbitrators as well as judgments of national courts. Volume 136 reports on, amongst others, the decisions (2000–2008) of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Awas Tingni Case concerning native land title, the English Court of Appeal 2006 judgment in Al Rawi and the 2008 United States Supreme Court opinion in Medellín v. Texas.
