August/September/October NEW ARRIVALS!
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
New Arrivals Sept/October 2009:
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Engaging the Muslim World | ||
| Juan Cole | |||
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Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, hardcover, 228 pp
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| Investigating the faulty logic of the Bush years and how best to change course with US-Islamic relations. Meticulously researched, Cole debunks popular misconceptions about the nature of US-Islamic relations and provides a helpful guide on how to move forward in forward in key countries such as Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran as well as the seemingly elusive Al-Qaeda and goal of American energy independence.
“The Obama administration, as it seeks to correct a decade of self-fulfilling phobias, will find no better guide than this nuanced, clear-headed, visionary book.” -The Huffington |
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| List Price: $26.95 | |||
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The Night Counter: A Novel | ||
| Alia Yunis | |||
| Shaye Areheart Books, 2009, hardback, 365 pp. | |||
| Eighty-five year old, Fatimah Abdullah is dying. Just as Scheherazade, the storyteller of the Arabian nights, spun magical stories for 1,001 nights to save her own life, Fatima has spent each night telling the mysterious Scheherazade her life stories, all the while knowing that on the 1,001st night, her storytelling will end forever. “Yunis takes readers on a magic carpet ride….[A] sometimes serious, sometimes funny, but always touching tale of a Middle Eastern family putting down deep roots on U.S. soil.” –Publishers Weekly |
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Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide | ||
| Ben White, Forward by John Dugard | |||
| Pluto Press, 2009, paperback, 172 pp. | |||
| A powerfully concise guide for beginners and experts alike detailing the tragedy of Israeli Apartheid. Highly readable with excellently researched testimonies. It compares the system of apartheid within Israel itself as well as West Bank.
“Most accessible… this book is an excellent guide” - Ilan Pappe “A highly commendable effort to throw light on a fraught subject” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu . |
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Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive? | ||
| David Ray Griffin | |||
| Olive Branch Press. 2009, paperback, 101 pp | |||
| From the acclaimed writer of the New Pearl Harbor duet comes an tackles the claim that bin Laden is no longer with us. Using meticulous evidence and concise language this is a must read for anyone interested in the controversy or conspiracy surrounding the elusive Bin Laden. | |||
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The Iraqi Cookbook | ||
| Lamees Ibrahim | |||
| Interlink Books, 2009, hardcover, 302 pp. | |||
| A beautiful and tasty collection from Morocco, Libya and Tunisia, complete with contextual articles and stories by local cooks that gives character to these uniquely North African recipes. Photographs by Simon Wheeler. | |||
| List Price: $35.00 | |||
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Sharq | ||
| Marcel Khalife with Italian Phillharmonic and Choir of Piacenza | |||
| Nagam Records, 2007, CD, 38 min., 9 tracks. | |||
| Live recording of Khalife’s latest composition “Sharq”. A fusion of East and West, old and new, Sharq (Orient) is the placement of Eastern melody and its unique expressiveness in a new context that propels it forward as a complete medium of expression. Combining elements of mawwal, tarab, muwashah, samai, qadd, longa, and sufi, this concert recording is a unique musical biography | |||
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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East | ||
| Sandy Tolan | |||
| Bloomsbury, 2007, paperback, 384 pp. | |||
| A moving work bringing the tragedies of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a human scale. In 1967, Bashir, a young Palestinian journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing his beloved old stone house that he had fled nineteen years earlier. Instead, he is greeted by he was greeted by Dalia, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship tested over the next thirty-five years in ways that neither could imagine. | |||
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Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story | ||
| Paul Fitzgerald & Elizabeth Gould | |||
| City Lights Publishing, 2009, paperback,300 pp | |||
| A telling work by two seasoned journalists providing a highly readable history of the roots of the conflict in Afghanistan and the impact of the current NATO occupation. A must read for anyone wanting a clear background of Afghanistan and what its’ future may hold.
“…A critically important contribution to our understanding of some of the most dramatic and significant developments of current history…” — Noam Chomsky |
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New Arrivals August 2009:
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Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora | ||
| Sarah M.A. Gualtieri | |||
| University of California Press, 2009, paperback, 270 pp. | |||
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Between Arab and White focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement in the United States in the years before World War II, but also continues the story up to the present. It presents an original analysis of the ways in which people mainly from current day Lebanon and Syria the largest group of Arabic-speaking immigrants before World War II came to view themselves in racial terms and position themselves within racial hierarchies as part of a broader process of ethnic identity formation.
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While Einstein was a secular Jew and a Cultural Zionist – he supported the establishment of Jewish cultural centers within Palestine and elsewhere – he opposed the establishment of a Jewish state with borders and an army, and he never wavered from arguing forcefully for equal rights and equal power for the Arabs whom he called “kinfolk” of the Jews..
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The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship | ||
| James Scott | |||
| Simon & Schuster, 2009, Hardback, 374 pp. | |||
| On June 8, 1967, the Israeli Air force and navy pounded the liberty as the ship trolled alone in international waters off the coast of the Gaza Strop, eavesdropping on the war between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The attack left 34 Americans killed and injured 171 injured in the most deadly assault on an American ship since the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the waning days of World War II. | |||
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Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror | ||
| Mahmood Mamdani | |||
| Three Leaves Press, 2009, hardback, 398 pp. | |||
| From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is an important book unlike any other that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis.
“…radical reevaluation of the Darfur problem is a major contribution to understanding and, it is to be hoped, to ending a shocking human disaster.” - Sir Brian Urquhart, former Under-Secretary of the United Nations “Bold, near brilliant reexamination of the conflict in Darfur…” - Publishers Weekly |
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Danger ZOne: A Diplomat’s Fight for America’s Interest | ||
| John Gunter Dean | |||
| New Academia Publishing, 2009, paperback, 232 pp. List: $26, AET $20 | |||
| Compelling autobiography by former Ambassador John Gunther Dean who outlines his role as an activist diplomat. From an assassination attempt linked to Israel during his mission in Lebanon, to stints in Vietname and Cambodia, Dean provides an unheralded insider look into the struggles of diplomatic life | |||
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Iranophobia: The Logic of Israeli Obsession | ||
| Haggai Ram | |||
| Stanford Press, 2009, paperback, 220 pp. | |||
| Haggai Ram demonstrates that the conflict between Israel and Iran may not be as essential and polarized as common knowledge assumes. He explores the connection between domestic anxieties about the nature of the Jewish state as well as exaggerated and displaced strategic concerns in the era of the “war on terrorism.”
“Boldly challenges conventional assumptions about Iran and works to debunk Israeli and Western myths” - Yehouda Shenhav, Tel Aviv University
“… the most insightful book about the current-day Israel and the social psychology of its own fearful fantasies… an indispensable, piece of scholarship for anyone interested in eh current tug-of-war between the Islamic Republic and the Jewish state.” - Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, author of Iran: a People Interrupted |
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State Practices & Zionist Images:
Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel |
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| David A. Wesley | |||
| Berghahn Books, 2009, paperback, 256 pp. | |||
| Although the Israeli state subscribes to the principles of administrative fairness and equality for Jews and Arabs before the law, the reality looks very different. Focusing on Arab land loss inside Israel proper and the struggle over development resources, this study explores the interaction between Arab local authorities, their Jewish neighbors, and the agencies of the national government in regard to developing local and regional industrial areas. | |||
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Slingshot Hip Hop | ||
| Jackie Salloum | |||
| 2008, DVD, 94 min.Arabic, English & Hebrew
Subtitles available in English, Arabic, French |
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| Official Selection at Sundance, Best Director at Beirut International Film Festival, Audience Award at Films de Femmes Festival, and Awarded at the Festival des Libertes.
“Profoundly uplifting… Its a refreshing take on the conflict” - Now Toronto “The Culture of Hip Hop and Rap is at its most powerful and yet its most tender in Slingshot Hip Hop” - Chuck D, Public Enemy Follow DAM - the first ever Palestinian Hip Hop group from their early years to their world wide success. Through DAM we meet Mahmoud Shalabi, an irreverent rapper from Akka, along with R&B singer Abeer and rap duo Arapeyat, rising female artists determinded to express themselves. And trapped within Gaza the rap group PR have begun emulating DAM to protest their own terrible conditions |
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From Veils to Thongs: An Arab Chick’s Surivival Guide to Balancing One’s Ethnic Identity in America | ||
| Dalel B. Khalil | |||
| iUniverse Inc., 2008, paperback, 229 pp. | |||
| A Syrian-American woman’s hilarious guide to balancing her Western lifestyle and Eastern roots. A great guide for Arab-American women and anyone looking to understand the current cultural tug of war between east and west on a more personal scale. | |||
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