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Borne of a professional development workshop, Teaching for Justice highlights the commitment and efforts of LIS faculty and instructors who feature social justice theory and strategies in their courses and classroom practices. This book is geared towards LIS instructors who have begun to incorporate social justice into their course content, as well as those who are interested in learning more about how to address social justice in their classr...

"miriam cooke's engrossing book is probably the best, most readable, innovative, and intelligent work on the articulation of the tribal and the modern in the Gulf region." --Taieb Belghazi,  Research Group on Migration and Culture, Faculty of Letters, Rabat “cooke exquisitely captures the civilizational barzakh of the Arab Gulf states—the generative space connecting/disconnecting, mixing/separating “the tribal” and “the modern."  She argues...

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.

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This volume selects major moments and key players from the seventh century to the twenty-first that have defined Muslim networks as the building blocks for Islamic identity and social cohesion. The contributors invoke the past not only to understand the present but also to reimagine the future through the prism of Muslim networks, at once the shadow and the lifeline for the global Muslim community.

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 violence, or what we think war can accomplish? This provocative collection addresses such questions in exploring male and female experiences of war--from ...

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. As of late 2015, almost 300, 000 Syrians have been killed and over half of a total population of 23 million forced out of their homes. Nine million a...

A study of the state-encouraged production of "dissident art" in Syria under the thirty-year authoritarian rule of Hafiz Asad, and the filmmakers, fiction writers, playwrights, and artists that contested their own appropriation.

A study of the state-encouraged production of "dissident art" in Syria under the thirty-year authoritarian rule of Hafiz Asad, and the filmmakers, fiction writers, playwrights, and artists that contested their own appropriation.

From Homer's hymn to Apollo to the writing of French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida, this anthology juxtaposes the voices and experiences of travelers, exiles, and colonizers who have lived in or visited the Mediterranean region since before 1200 B C E.

In 1928, 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. Considered by many an attack on Islam, it caused uproar and was banned by many clerics. In this latest addition to Makers of the Muslim World series, miriam cooke paints an intimate portrait of the life and work of this pioneering champion of Islamic feminism.

An extensive and rewarding study of women writers -- the Beirut Decentrists". -- World Literature Today

Margot Badran is Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor of Religion and Preceptor at the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa at Northwestern University. Her books include Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt, as well as Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist: Huda Shaarawi, which she translated, edited, and introduced. Her permanent residence is in Cairo, Egypt.miriam cooke...

Miriam Cook's melic prose animates the existence of each of the women portrayed in her new novel. With Samya, we live in Palestine of the 1920s and are imprisoned during the imposition of the British Mandate, with Assia we experience the massacre of Deir Assin, the death of a son, and the establishment of the State of Israel, with Maryam we survive war and diaspora -- the Suez War, the Intifada, the Iran-Iraq War, and the scattering of a famil...