Middle East
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From  NEW! Chapters 51-54From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "Passports and Visas", "Dubai", "The Upside-Down Coffee Cup of God", and "The World Keeps Turning . . . So Do We". Topics discussed … | Jamal Saeed | 46 | 2022 | $4.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapters 6-10From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "My Penelope Wove Nothing", "The Berlin Wall, Saddam Hussein, and the Wooden Penis", "Rufaida (1996)", "The Bank of Little Stones (March … | Jamal Saeed | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Complex Restructuring of the Community |
Chapter five, Complex Restructuring of the Community, covers the years of transition from 1950 to 1967, when Canada began to gradually open its borders to immigration with new laws and selection … | Houda Asal | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Conclusion |
The Conclusion reflects on how the values which secular Arab nationalists promoted were antithetical to U.S. capitalist class interests, which were embodied in U.S. imperialist ideology. That … | Stephen Gowans | 30 | 2017 | $3.00 Add |
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From  ConclusionHer Name is Maram |
In the conclusion, the author tries to find the girl with the green dress who first inspired him to travel to Palestine and meet its writers and artists. | Marcello Di Cintio | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From NEW! Conclusion |
The Conclusion summarizes the scope of the book, focusing on tying together the historical continuities through the hundred year arc of the book, as well as commenting on the visibility, public … | Houda Asal | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Coordinating Struggles |
Chapter seven, Coordinating Struggles, begins with the fourth period of the author’s study, 1967 to 1975, looking at Arab organizing in Canada after the immigration laws changed in 1967. … | Houda Asal | 34 | 2020 | $3.40 Add |
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From  Dispossession, Appropriation, and Repressive DevelopmentFrom: For Land and Culture |
In this chapter, Vahabzadeh traces the evolution of land ownership on the Iranian plateau from ancient tribal systems through the twentieth century. | Peyman Vahabzadeh | 26 | 2024 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Diversion |
The conclusion Diversion reflects on how at the end of World War II, US officials celebrated the Middle East as a ‘stupendous source of strategic power’ and an immense ‘material … | Stephen Gowans | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From Divide et Impera |
Mass movements can be organized around different aspects of personal identity such as race, class, religion, sect, ethnicity, language, sex, and position within the international division of … | Stephen Gowans | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
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From Division |
Chapter Five focuses on the division between the ideologies of Arabism and Islamism which arose in the Arab States during the mid-twentieth century. Arabism spawned Arab socialism, which promoted … | Stephen Gowans | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From Echoes of Hitler |
There were echoes of Hitler in Syria’s conflict, but they had nothing whatever to do with Bashar al-Assad, who, as we have seen, was falsely depicted as a dictator in order to manufacture … | Stephen Gowans | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Fighting Anti-Semitism 1919-1929 |
In this chapter, Jerome examines Albert Einstein’s evolving relationship with Zionism and Jewish identity from 1919 to 1929. | Fred Jerome | 28 | 2024 | $2.80 Add |
For Land and CultureThe Grassroots Council Movement of Turkmens in Iran, 1979-1980 |
For Land and Culture offers the first comprehensive account of a long forgotten and neglected grassroots movement. In the wake of Iran’s 1979 revolution, Turkmen peasants collectively … | Peyman Vahabzadeh | 272 | 2024 | View |
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From NEW! Fragmented Political Mobilizations |
Chapter six, Fragmented Political Mobilizations, explores the increasing fragmentation in the Arab secular communities and organizations in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, often around terminology … | Houda Asal | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From I Do Not Have an Account in the Bank of Wars |
In this chapter the author crosses into Israel to meet with Palestinian writers living there. | Marcello Di Cintio | 42 | 2018 | $4.20 Add |
