Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Africa written by Ghada Hashem Talhami and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Women in the Middle East and North Africa includes a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and a dictionary section that has over 400 cross-referenced entries on various aspects of Middle Eastern feminism and culture, touchi...

Download or read book Women and Power in the Middle East written by Suad Joseph and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeen essays in Women and Power in the Middle East analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. Published at different times in Middle East Report, the journal of the Middle East Research and Information Project, the essays document empirically the similarities and differences in the gendering of relations of power in twelve countries—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iran. Together they seek to build a framework for understanding broad patterns of gender in the Arab-Islamic world. Challenging questions are addressed throughout. What roles have women played in politics in this region? When and why are women politically mobilized, and which women? Does the nature and impact of their mobilization differ if it is initiated by the state, nationalist movements, revolutionary parties, or spontaneous revolt? And what happens to women when those agents of mobilization win or lose? In investigating these and other issues, the essays take a look at the impact of rapid social change in the Arab-Islamic world. They also analyze Arab disillusionment with the radical nationalisms of the 1950s and 1960s and with leftist ideologies, as well as the rise of political Islamist movements. Indeed the essays present rich new approaches to assessing what political participation has meant for women in this region and how emerging national states there have dealt with organized efforts by women to influence the institutions that govern their lives. Designed for courses in Middle East, women's, and cultural studies, Women and Power in the Middle East offers to both students and scholars an excellent introduction to the study of gender in the Arab-Islamic world.

Download or read book The Arab State and Women s Rights written by Elham Manea and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers studying gender politics in Arab societies have been puzzled by a phenomenon common in many Arab states – while women are granted suffrage rights, they are often discriminated against by the state in their private lives. This book addresses this phenomenon, maintaining that the Arab state functions according to a certain ‘logic’ and ‘patterns’ which have direct consequences on its gender policies, in both the public and private spheres. Using the features of the Arab Authoritarian state as a basis for a theoretical framework of analysis, the author draws on detailed fieldwork and first-hand interviews to study women’s rights in three countries - Yemen, Syria, and Kuwait. She argues that the puzzle may be resolved once we focus on the features of the Arab state, and its stage of development. Offering a new approach to the study of gender and politics in Arab states, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of gender studies, international politics and Middle East studies.

Download or read book Women on the March written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assad or We Burn the Country written by Sam Dagher and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanitarian disaster. In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice about how to respond to Arab Spring-inspired protests. Tlass pushed for conciliation but Assad decided to crush the uprising -- an act which would catapult the country into an eight-year long war, killing almost half a million and fueling terrorism and a global refugee crisis. Assad or We Burn the Country examines Syria's tragedy through the generational saga of the Assad and Tlass families, once deeply intertwined and now estranged in Bashar's bloody quest to preserve his father's inheritance. By drawing on his own reporting experience in Damascus and exclusive interviews with Tlass, Dagher takes readers within palace walls to reveal the family behind the destruction of a country and the chaos of an entire region. Dagher shows how one of the world's most vicious police states came to be and explains how a regional conflict extended globally, engulfing the Middle East and pitting the United States and Russia against one another. Timely, propulsive, and expertly reported, Assad or We Burn the Country is the definitive account of this global crisis, going far beyond the news story that has dominated headlines for years.

Download or read book Syria written by Munzer Eid Alzamalkani and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to provide missing details of the Syrian revolution in 2011, and to clear up the prevailing misconception about the war in Syria. I offer in this book a different approach to observing the Syrian revolution by dividing it into phases, and using more precise terms. Thus I have divided the Syrian revolution into three phases:1) Revolution from below, where popular and peaceful uprising was the mainstream character of the Syrian revolution; 2) Internal war, where mutual violence was spread formally and nationally after the formation of the Free Syrian Army (FSA); 3) Holy war (Jihad), where most revolutionaries have turned into national Jihadists accompanied with the arrival of global Jihadists to Syria to fight the Assad regime, and to establish the Islamic State (Caliphate). Furthermore, the rising and elapse of ISIS is investigated comprehensively in this book. I use the term internal war rather than civil war in order to be more specific in analyzing the war in Syria. Also, the international relations of the Syrian revolution occupies considerable part of this book. The behavior of states and sub-state actors regionally and internationally, and the stance of the international organizations towards the Syrian revolution are critically examined. In addition, the massacres and war crimes which have been committed by Bashar Assad, Iran, and their militias against the people in Syria are well documented in this book.

Download or read book Paper View In Print Second Edition written by Daniel Ford and published by Daniel Ford. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has changed immeasurably since 2020 and this book, written before anyone had ever heard of Covid-19, places the ‘pandemic’ into its true context. Many of the changes in society since 2020 were predicted in this book which explains the real reason for those transformations of society. The book also features an examination of the takeover, infiltration and realignment of the alternative media with mainstream perspectives and perceptions. Paper View: In Print places current events into a completely new context. People find the world and daily events so difficult to understand because they lack the necessary knowledge. Paper View: In Print provides the information to read the world like an open book. The world is run by a cult with global reach and power with a nightmare agenda for humanity. Never before has their agenda been described so concisely, clearly and comprehensively between the covers of one book … until now. Paper View: In Print is a book you will be referring back to many times when seeing current events unfold and society changing around you. Over 660 pages, Daniel Ford provides an invaluable guide to the world and current events. You’ve heard the podcast, now read the book. If you’ve ever wanted Paper View in paper form, then this is the book for you. This is Paper View in print, but it’s so much more. Paper View Extra, you might call it. An enormous amount of new information not in the original podcast episodes is in this book. The book covers a wide range of subjects encompassing the entire spectrum of society, and explains clearly and simply the connections, placing news stories, world events and changes in society in their true context. One of the most controversial and explosive books published in 2020, the book doesn’t hold back and speaks out on the truth behind them. This book could not have been published at a more important time. People have a nagging sense of unease and face constant confusion amidst many questions about the world and society. Paper View: In Print was written to provide the answers, and it does so in an accessible way which connects the dots to form the picture. The book also features various illustrations. Daniel Ford has spent the last 17 years uncovering the answers and investigating official explanations from authority, whose simplistic replies only seem to lead to more questions, not answers, and in this book, he presents a life’s work in dot-connecting to show the true context of our everyday lives. This book is highly recommended for parents, as the book covers every example of how children and young people today are the most targeted age group and generations in human history, including mental health, technology and social media, gender, education/school system among many other subjects.

Download or read book The Origins of the Syrian Conflict written by Marwa Daoudy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a new conceptual framework drawing on human security to evaluate the claim that climate change caused the conflict in Syria.

Download or read book United States of America Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 113th Congress Second Session Volume 160 Part 2 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Retirement Tumultuous Events Why US Presidents Are Impeached written by Cyrus Tahernia, MD, FAAP, FACC and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retirement Tumultuous Events & Why US Presidents Are Impeached By: Cyrus Tahernia, MD, FAAP, FACC Retirement Tumultuous Events & Why US Presidents Are Impeached details adventures and exotic places that author Cyrus Tahernia, MD, FAAP, FACC has been throughout his retirement, while also providing commentary on global events that have occurred. Through detailed reports, Tahernia provides an in-depth look into domestic and foreign politics and expands our world view through his travels abroad.

Download or read book The Beats and the Academy written by Erik Mortenson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beats and the Academy marks the first sustained effort to train a scholarly eye on the dynamics of the relationship between Beat writers and the academic institutions in which they taught. Rather than assuming the relationship between Beat writers and institutions of higher education was only a hostile one, The Beats and the Academy begins with the premise that influence between the two flows in both directions. Beat writers' suspicion of established institutions was a significant aspect of their postwar countercultural allure. Their anti-establishment aesthetic and countercultural stance led Beat writers to be critical of postwar academic institutions that tended to dismiss them as a passing social phenomenon. Even today, Beat writing still meets resistance in an academy that questions the relevance of their writing and ideas. But this picture, like any generalization, is far too easy. The Beat relationship to the academy is one of negotiation, rather than negation. Many Beats strove for academic recognition, and quite a few received it. And despite hostility to their work both in the postwar era and today, Beat works have made it into syllabi, conference resentations, journal articles, and monographs. The Beats and the Academy deepens our understanding of this relationship by emphasizing how institutional friction between the Beats and institutions of higher education has shaped our understanding of Beat Generation literature and culture—and what this relationship between Beat writers and the academy might suggest about their legacy for future scholars.

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Syria written by Rajendra M. Abhyankar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses, through multiple levels of international reality, on the pervasive and widespread effect of the Syrian civil war on the unravelling of established norms---both global or national--- which have determined international relations during the last seven decades. It postulates that since 2011, the Syrian situation has catalysed the breakdown of the international system based on the United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions. The core international values fostered by that system now laid waste, among others, are sovereignty, non-interference, sanctity of UN Security Council approval for waging war, human rights, protection of civilian populations, and the right of people to choose their own governments/leaders. By making the UNSC powerless in providing humanitarian assistance or fostering cease-fire and peace-making it has called into question the principles which have been held immutable for seventy years. More importantly, these norms have been breached by their originators. The book takes a wider perspective melding together the civil war’s international, regional and national consequences to understand how and why this one event has radiated profound consequences for the international system.

Download or read book Leadership written by Kevin Roe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and comprehensive textbook is designed specifically to develop students' understanding of leadership in a variety of contexts. Assuming no prior executive experience, the book combines a wealth of diverse case studies with an engaging writing style to illustrate the practical application of leadership theory in the real-world.

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Download or read book Addiction to Religion written by Mahfooz Kanwar Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Second World War, in the 1950s and beyond, we embraced revolutionary emancipation of women, among other things, which led to an unprecedented sexual and cultural revolution, especially in the West. We discarded some of the old ways of doing things, and we opened the door to a brand-new and modern civilization in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. The sexual and cultural revolution led us to secularism, which challenged many draconian mores, including those in Muslim countries such as Pakistan, Malaysia, Turkey, Iran, Tunisia, and Morocco. That was when I published one of my books, Sociology of Religion: Changing Conceptions in the Structure of Islam. However, in relatively recent times, we have faced the backward process of reverting to traditional norms. That reversed cultural change led to fundamentalism, including fundamentalism in religion, which is a precursor to addiction to religion. That has ultimately resulted in national and international terrorism. That born-again trend encouraged me to do research in this field, including addiction to religion. That led me to write this book. I have concluded in this book that both addiction to drugs and addiction to religion are a disease, a delirium, and a psychic syndrome influenced by a mental disorder. During the last two to three decades, there has been a significant rise in religious fundamentalism leading to addiction to religion, which has caused global havoc. Religion has been hijacked, misused, and abused, largely by semiliterate believers in all organized religions. Religious addiction is perhaps worse than drug addiction. Other books by the Author 1. The Sociology of Family: An Interdisciplinary Approach 2. Sociology of Criminal Behaviour 3. Sociology of Religion: Changing Conceptions in the Structure of Islam 4. Murder and Homicide in Pakistan 5. Issues in Canadian Sociology (with Hewa) 6. Issues in Canadian Sociology, 2nd Ed. (with Swenson) 7. Canadian Sociology (with Swenson) 8. Journey to Success (my autobiography, currently in its tenth edition)

Download or read book Pakistan written by Patrick J. Roelle Sr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pakistan's corrupt government banned UN nuclear inspectors and American forces from the country after American Special Forces executed Osama Bin Laden. With UN oversight neutralized, Al-Qaeda breached Pakistan's nuclear weapons storage. When the theft was discovered, the camouflage of Pakistan's leaders was transparent to Eric Ludlow of the CIA, and to America's military Chief of Staff, Admiral Michaels. Ayeza entered a forced marriage when she was twelve and left Pakistan for her husband's village in Afghanistan. Driven from her home by the senior wives when her husband was away, her husband's brother caught her talking to a boy on the street. He and the men he was with killed the boy and gang raped Ayeza. The village imam condemned her in accordance with Islamic law for enticing the rape. An American patrol rescued her as her husband and his family was stoning her in the street. The CIA later recruited her. A theft of nuclear material meant new rules of engagement. Eric Ludlow sent Ayeza back to her village to get the proof. With proof in hand, Ayeza joined with Logan, the CIA's top Middle East operative, in a search for the weapons. When the government of Pakistan denied the theft, the American administration waffled. Unconvinced, America's CIA and its military leaders placed their careers on the line to find the warheads before they reached their targets in the States. After a two year failed search spanning three continents, a successful nuclear attack on an American city by Islam's crusaders appeared imminent. When the Americans executed Osama Bin Laden Al-Qaeda focused on a target, and, a leader for a leader became radical Islam's rallying call. Convinced by Eric and Admiral Michaels that a weapon had arrived, President Gregory Paxton must choose. Would he seek safety for his family and himself and leave the captiol while risking a major city and its entire population, or would he cave in and trade America's freedom by accepting Al-Qaeda's perverted terms for peace, or, would he hold the enemy responsible?