This study presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century. Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt explores the country's first postcolonial project, arguing that the enduring afterlives of antic…
"This study presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century. Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt explores the country's first postcolonial project, arguing that the enduring afterlives of anti…
"This study presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century. Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt explores the country's first postcolonial project, arguing that the enduring afterlives of anti…
This study presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century. Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt explores the country's first postcolonial project, arguing that the enduring afterlives of antic…
Claims over women's liberation vocalized by Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba began with legal reforms related to family law in 1956. In this book, Amy Aisen Kallander uses this political appropriation of women's rights to look at the importance of women to post-colonia…
Between State Feminism and Global Sisterhood -- Family Planning as Development -- Postcolonial Tunisian Academics -- Fashion, Consumption, and Modern Gender Roles -- Love and Sex -- Conclusion : Love, Politics, and Bread. "This book seeks to answer questions about the origins o…
Claims over women's liberation vocalized by Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba began with legal reforms related to family law in 1956. In this book, Amy Aisen Kallander uses this political appropriation of women's rights to look at the importance of women to post-colonia…
Claims over women's liberation vocalized by Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba began with legal reforms related to family law in 1956. In this book, Amy Aisen Kallander uses this political appropriation of women's rights to look at the importance of women to post-colonia…
"The book argues that the state of Israel's political and intellectual elites have failed to formulate a coherent concept of what it means for the state to be "Jewish." As a result, Israel is conceived primarily in demographic terms - as a state the majority of whose population …
"An important and topical contribution to the field of Middle East Studies, this innovative, provocative, and timely study tackles head-on the main assumptions of the foundation of Israel as a Jewish state. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this study provides a …
Introduction : Beirut in the Global Sixties : Design, Politics and Translocal Visuality - Dislocating the Nation : Mediterraneanscapes in Lebanon's Tourist Promotion - The Hot Third World in the Cultural Cold War : Modernism, Arabic Literary Journals and US Counterinsurgency - T…
Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in Beirut from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, this compelling interdisciplinary study critically examines a global conjuncture in Lebanon's history, marked by anticolonial struggle and complicated by a Cold War…
Introduction : Beirut in the Global Sixties : Design, Politics and Translocal Visuality - Dislocating the Nation : Mediterraneanscapes in Lebanon's Tourist Promotion - The Hot Third World in the Cultural Cold War : Modernism, Arabic Literary Journals and US Counterinsurgency - T…
The Iranian revolution of 1979 not only had an impact on regional and international affairs, but was made possible by the world and time in which it unfolded. This multi-disciplinary volume presents this revolution within its transnational and global contexts. Moving deftly from…
A multi-disciplinary approach to the study of the 1979 Iranian revolution, offering a way to understand it not as a by-product of a globalization process, or as a singular event but as an expression of wide interconnected networks - highlighting the global processes that made th…