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The Wild Fox of Yemen : Poems
by Threa Almontaser
"By turns aggressively reckless and fiercely protective, always guided by faith and ancestry, Threa Almontaser's incendiary debut asks how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival. A love letter to the country and people of Yemen, a portrait of young Muslim womanhood in New York after 9/11, and an extraordinarily composed examination of what it means to carry in the body the echoes of what came before, Almontaser's polyvocal collection sneaks artifacts to and from worlds, repurposing language and adapting to the space between cultures"
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The Hollow Half : A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
by Sarah Aziza
Intertwines the author's account of her recovery from an eating disorder with her look into family secrets tied to Palestinian displacement, exploring how her personal trauma reflects generational struggles with colonization and patriarchy in a journey through memory, survival and self-discovery.
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The Cave : A Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria
by Amani Ballour
Tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria. Growing up in a closely confined society, she dared to dream—first of an education, then of a career—that allowed her to make her mark on the world and protect the country she loves. A passionately committed humanitarian, she is determined that others will escape the horrors she survived.
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Loved Egyptian Night: The Meaning of the Arab Spring
by Hugh Roberts
Hugh Roberts fundamentally reassesses the Arab Spring, refuting the stories the Western powers fed to the world. There is no doubt that the toppling of Ben Ali in Tunisia in January 2011 and what followed amounted to a political revolution. But the uprisings in Egypt, Libya, and Syria-countries with quite different histories and political traditions-were never revolutions. As Hugh Roberts explains, the bitter conclusions of these episodes were inscribed in their misunderstood beginnings.
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The rebel's clinic : the revolutionary lives of Frantz Fanon
by Adam Shatz
This eye-opening new biography of the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era whose writings about race, revolution and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world offers a dramatic reconstruction of his extraordinary life. Illustrations.
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A Rift in Time : Travels with my Ottoman Uncle
by Raja Shehadeh
An engrossing family memoir that shines a light on Palestine's history, offering a sober yet hopeful view of its people's struggles for freedom, from the award-winning author of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I. The quest for his great-uncle Najib Nassar, an Ottoman journalist-the details of his life, and the route of his great escape from occupied Palestine-consumed award-winning writer Raja Shehadeh for 2 years. As he traces Najib's footsteps, he discovers that today it would be impossible to flee the cage that Palestine has become. A Rift in Time is a family memoir written in luminescent prose, but it is also a reflection on how Palestine-in particular the disputed Jordan Rift Valley-has been transformed. Most of Palestine's history and that of its people is buried deep in the ground: whole villages have disappeared, and names have been erased from the map. Yet by seeing the bigger picture of the landscape and the unending struggle for freedom as Shehadeh does, it is still possible to look towards a better future, free from Israeli or Ottoman oppression.
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My Great Arab Melacholy
by Lamia Ziadâe
My Great Arab Melancholy is a beautiful, elegiac and award-winning book from Lebanese writer and illustrator Lamia Ziadé. Blending the author's years of research, personal memoir, and more than 300 illustrations, this compelling history of the modern Arab world explores the major thinkers, struggles, and turning points that have shaped the Middle East as we know it today.
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The Cleopatras : the forgotten queens of Egypt
by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Recapturing the lost world of Hellenistic Egypt and tracing the kingdom's final centuries before its fall to Rome, a noted historian tells the dramatic story of the seven Cleopatras who styled themselves as goddess-queens, ruling through the canny deployment of arcane rituals, opulent spectacles and unparalleled wealth.
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The Next Conversation : Argue Less, Talk More
by Jefferson Fisher
Provides a three-part communication system?—?Say it with control, confidence, and to connect?—?to help readers handle tough situations, assert themselves, set boundaries, and improve relationships by transforming the way they communicate, with practical strategies and phrases for any conversation.
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On Air : The Triumph and Tumult of NPR
by Steve Oney
This riveting account is an epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America's most celebrated but least understood media empires.
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Lincoln's Peace : The Struggle to End the American Civil War
by Michael Vorenberg
An historian explores the complexities of defining the Civil War's end, challenging traditional narratives and revealing how the transition from war to peace unfolded over a prolonged and multifaceted period, impacting not only the nation but also individual lives.
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