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25 produkter
Opening the Gates, Second Edition
An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing
Av Margot Badran, miriam cooke
Häftad, 2004
373 kr
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Praise for the first edition:"An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces—essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches—by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism is a foreign …
Blood Into Ink
South Asian And Middle Eastern Women Write War
Av Miriam Cooke
Inbunden, 2019
2521 kr
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"These writings on war by Middle Eastern and South Asian women are passionate, bitter, and deeply attached to place and circumstance. They should be part of our essential reading. At the tail end of this century, they help to remap a vivid, splintering world".--Meena Alexander, author of "Fault …
Women Claim Islam
Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
Av Miriam Cooke
Häftad, 2000
746 kr
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This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible.
Women and the War Story
Av Miriam Cooke
Häftad, 1997
349 kr
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In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women's contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, Cooke looks at how …
Tribal Modern
Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
Av Miriam Cooke
Häftad, 2014
270 kr
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In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up …
Women and the War Story
Av Miriam Cooke
E-bok, 1997
579 kr
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In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts the emerging tradition of women''s contributions to what she calls the "War Story," a genre formerly reserved for men. Concentrating on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, Cooke looks at …
Tribal Modern
Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
Av Miriam Cooke
E-bok, 2014
446 kr
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In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up …
War's Other Voices
Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War
Av Miriam Cooke, Roger Owen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
1677 kr
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This book challenges the assumption that men write of war, women of the hearth. The Lebanese war has seen the publication of many more works of fiction by women than by men. Miriam Cooke has termed these women the Beirut Decentrists, as they are decentred or excluded from both literary canon and …
Gendering War Talk
Av Miriam Cooke, Angela Woollacott
Häftad, 2014
566 kr
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In a century torn by violent civil uprisings, civilian bombings, and genocides, war has been an immediate experience for both soldiers and civilians, for both women and men. But has this reality changed our long-held images of the roles women and men play in war, or the emotions we attach to …
Gendering War Talk
Av Miriam Cooke, Angela Woollacott
Inbunden, 2016
2527 kr
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In a century torn by violent civil uprisings, civilian bombings, and genocides, war has been an immediate experience for both soldiers and civilians, for both women and men. But has this reality changed our long-held images of the roles women and men play in war, or the emotions we attach to …
Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop
Av Bruce B. Lawrence, miriam cooke
E-bok, 2006
347 kr
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Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks. The earliest networks were Mediterranean trade routes that quickly expanded into transregional paths for pilgrimage, scholarship, and conversion, each network complementing and reinforcing the others. This volume …
War's Other Voices
Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War
Av Miriam Cooke
Häftad, 1996
250 kr
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This is a study of Arab writers such as Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaikh, Emily Nasrallah and Etel Adnan. It presents a constructive literary approach to the ravages of the civil war in the Lebanon. The ways in which women's consciousness is awakened in terms of female liberation is a theme.
Dissident Syria
Making Oppositional Arts Official
Av miriam cooke
Inbunden, 2007
1427 kr
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From 1970 until his death in 2000, Hafiz Asad ruled Syria with an iron fist. His regime controlled every aspect of daily life. Seeking to preempt popular unrest, Asad sometimes facilitated the expression of anti-government sentiment by appropriating the work of artists and writers, turning works of …
Dissident Syria
Making Oppositional Arts Official
Av miriam cooke
Häftad, 2007
395 kr
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From 1970 until his death in 2000, Hafiz Asad ruled Syria with an iron fist. His regime controlled every aspect of daily life. Seeking to preempt popular unrest, Asad sometimes facilitated the expression of anti-government sentiment by appropriating the work of artists and writers, turning works of …
Dissident Syria
Making Oppositional Arts Official
Av miriam cooke
E-bok, 2007
580 kr
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From 1970 until his death in 2000, Hafiz Asad ruled Syria with an iron fist. His regime controlled every aspect of daily life. Seeking to preempt popular unrest, Asad sometimes facilitated the expression of anti-government sentiment by appropriating the work of artists and writers, turning works of …
Women Claim Islam
Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
Av Miriam Cooke
E-bok, 2004
857 kr
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This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible.
Women Claim Islam
Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
Av Miriam Cooke
E-bok, 2004
876 kr
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This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible.
Dancing in Damascus
Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution
Av miriam cooke
Inbunden, 2016
2521 kr
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On March 17, 2011, many Syrians rose up against the authoritarian Asad regime that had ruled them with an iron fist for forty years. Initial successes were quickly quashed, and the revolution seemed to devolve into a civil war pitting the government against its citizens and extremist mercenaries. …
Dancing in Damascus
Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution
Av miriam cooke
Häftad, 2016
650 kr
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On March 17, 2011, many Syrians rose up against the authoritarian Asad regime that had ruled them with an iron fist for forty years. Initial successes were quickly quashed, and the revolution seemed to devolve into a civil war pitting the government against its citizens and extremist mercenaries. …
Dancing in Damascus
Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution
Av miriam cooke
E-bok, 2016
760 kr
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On March 17, 2011, many Syrians rose up against the authoritarian Asad regime that had ruled them with an iron fist for forty years. Initial successes were quickly quashed, and the revolution seemed to devolve into a civil war pitting the government against its citizens and extremist mercenaries. …
Dancing in Damascus
Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution
Av miriam cooke
E-bok, 2016
785 kr
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On March 17, 2011, many Syrians rose up against the authoritarian Asad regime that had ruled them with an iron fist for forty years. Initial successes were quickly quashed, and the revolution seemed to devolve into a civil war pitting the government against its citizens and extremist mercenaries. …
Gendering War Talk
Av Angela Woollacott, Miriam Cooke
E-bok, 2014
874 kr
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In a century torn by violent civil uprisings, civilian bombings, and genocides, war has been an immediate experience for both soldiers and civilians, for both women and men. But has this reality changed our long-held images of the roles women and men play in war, or the emotions we attach to …
Nazira Zeineddine
A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism
Av Miriam Cooke
E-bok, 2012
279 kr
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In 1928, a young Lebanese woman, Nazira Zeineddine al-Halabi, wrote a book called "Unveiling and Veiling", an indictment of patriarchal oppression in which she boldly stated that the veil was un-Islamic, directly challenging the teachings of "wiser" male scholars. Considered by many an attack on …
Nazira Zeineddine
A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism
Av Miriam Cooke
Inbunden, 2010
415 kr
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In 1928, a young Lebanese woman, Nazira Zeineddine al-Halabi, wrote a book called "Unveiling and Veiling", an indictment of patriarchal oppression in which she boldly stated that the veil was un-Islamic, directly challenging the teachings of "wiser" male scholars. Considered by many an attack on …
Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop
Av Bruce B. Lawrence, miriam cooke
E-bok, 2006
347 kr
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Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks. The earliest networks were Mediterranean trade routes that quickly expanded into transregional paths for pilgrimage, scholarship, and conversion, each network complementing and reinforcing the others. This volume …
