This new edition places Sarah Ann Freeman Mix (1832-1884) in the context of American religious history and establishes her influence both on the emerging faith healing movement and on other female hea
Out el Kouloub (1899-1968) fled Cairo after the 1952 revolution and wrote five books in French, this one published as Trois contes de l'amour et da la mort by Editions Correa in 1940. It portrays li
Wessinger (history of religions, Loyola U.) presents 18 papers that explore three interrelated patterns of some millennial religious movements: violence by outsiders, the initiation of violence to pre
Sanford Sternlicht focuses on the life of C.S. Forester, his writing, character models, chronology, the historical background of The Hornblower Saga, and the nautical veracity of the novels and storie
Levenback (George Washington U.) examines Woolf's war consciousness and looks at how her sensitivity to representations of war in the popular press and authorized histories affected the development of
Booker (English, U. of Arkansas) offers a reading of Irish author O'Brien's major works within the context of the carnivalesque ambivalence of Menippean satire and of Mikhail Bakhtin's work in general
In Iran, since the mid-nineteenth century, one issue has been a common concern: how should Iran become modern? More than a century of struggle for or against modernity has constituted much of the soci
Bringing the rich terrain of Arab American histories to bear on conceptualizations of "race" in the U.S., this groudbreaking volume fills a critical gap in the field of ethnic studies. Unlike most imm
Contending that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks transformed the nearly invisible Arab/Muslim-American ethnic/ cultural group to a "white but not quite" racial minority, Jamal (politics, Princ
Chronicling the experience of young Andean families as their lives extend between the Ecuadorian highlands and New York City, this book takes an in-depth look at transnational labor migration and gend
In this ethnographic study, carried out in a rural village of highland Ecuador and among Ecuadorian immigrants in Queens, New York, Pribilsky (anthropology, Whitman College) explores the role of gende
May 1948: a dramatically reborn Israel put out the call for Jews to return to their new homeland. Between 1948 and 1951, over one million Jews from disparate nations across the world converge upon Isr
Among the photographs in this joint biography is the Trocmeplaque at the Avenue of the Righteous of the Nations, VadYashem, Jerusalem. Unsworth (liberal arts, Smith College), whomet the Trocmes while
Amin (Arabic literature, culture, and theater, Villanova U.) offers a history of the career of Alfred Farag, one of Egyptian theater's most significant playwrights, and a critical analysis of his work
Political repression often paradoxically fuels popular movements rather than undermining resistance. When authorities respond to strategic nonviolent action with intimidation, coercion, and v
Political repression often paradoxically fuels popular movements rather than undermining resistance. When authorities respond to strategic nonviolent action with intimidation, coercion, and v
This work chronicles the Egyptian women’s movement over the past 20 years, from the period during and after the Mubarak regime through the period after the ousting of Morsi’s government (1994 through
On December 20, 2011, Egyptian women of all ages and backgrounds—urban and rural, working class and upper class—came out in force to Cairo’s Tahrir Square in one of the largest uprisings in the countr
Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems brings together in one volume Haddad’s seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years. The central poem,
In this work, Hazo casts his eye back upon a career devoted to poetry. With works that are arranged loosely under the themes of love, family, and aging, this volume affirms Hazo’s status as one
