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Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics introduces and makes available, for the first time in English, an incandescent corpus of experimental leftist writing from North Africa. Founded in 1966 by Abdellatif...

What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011, two new nations came into being. In South Sudan a former rebel movement faces colossal challenges in building a new country. At independence it was...

This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved-Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the...

"[The Mellah of Marrakesh] captures the vibrancy of Jewish society in Marrakesh in the tumultuous last decades prior to colonial rule and in the first decades of life in the colonial era. Although focused on the Jewish community, it offers a compelling...

It has been called a "Noble Possession", abused as "A Nest of Corsairs" and extolled as "The Pearl of the Mediterranean". This city of Tripoli, one of the oldest on both the Mediterranean and the fringes of the Sahara, and...

A new volume in the Society for Studies series Short North African Histories, this book brings togeher the best stories of intrepid desert drivers in the early 20th century, crossing the vast and sometimes dangerous expances of the Sahara.The exploration...

On July 9, 2011, South Sudan celebrated its independence as the world's newest nation, an occasion that the country's Christian leaders claimed had been foretold in the Book of Isaiah. The Bible provided a foundation through which the South Sudanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850366655Author Ian BirchallFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd

Dynasties Intertwined traces the turbulent relationship between the Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In doing so, it reveals the complex web of economic, political, cultural, and military connections...

Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and offered military and financial aid to Black liberation struggles. Tangier and Algiers attracted Black American and Caribbean artists eager to escape...

The sixteenth-century Mediterranean witnessed the expansion of both European and Middle Eastern civilizations in the guises of the Hapsburg monarchy and the Ottoman empire. Here, Andrew C. Hess considers the relations between these two dynasties in light...

Before the Arabs conquered northwest Africa in the seventh century, Ramzi Rouighi asserts, there were no Berbers. There were Moors (Mauri), Mauretanians, Africans, and many tribes and tribal federations such as the Leuathae or Musulami; and before the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986085314Author Paolo SensiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press

This book demonstrates how Morocco and other semi-arid countries can find solutions to water scarcity by rediscovering traditional methods of water resource management. The book begins by examining indigenous water heritage, considering the contribution...

Libya is a typical example of a colonial or external creation. This book addresses the emergence and construction of nation and nationalism, particularly among Libyan exiles in the Mediterranean region. It charts the rise of nationalism from the colonial...

Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 ended over two decades of civil war and led to South Sudan's independence. Peacemaking that brought about the agreement and then sought to sustain it involved, alongside the Sudanese, an array of regional and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908531131Author Rana JawadFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad Publishing

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In Exit the Colonel, Ethan Chorin, a longtime Middle East scholar and one of the first American diplomats posted to Libya after the lifting of international sanctions, goes well beyond recent reporting on the Arab Spring to link the Libyan uprising to a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781670322128Author Mohsen HamliFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941716250Author Kebede HaileFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Allwrite PublishingPublisher Allwrite PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511600415Author Sam Taylor King IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548404796Author Klaus SchwanitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain's fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco's side in the 1930s. What brought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541348929Author O a BrantleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798857320709Author Mohammed JiariFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 127g

This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357977548Author Charles F PfeifferFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787291757356Author Richard Alburtus MorriseyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Stanford Inversiones SpaPublisher Stanford Inversiones SpaWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460965177Author Michael M OgbeidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The compelling true story of Nelly Benatar-a hero of the anti-Fascist North African resistance and humanitarian who changed the course of history for the "last million" escaping the Second World War. When France fell to Hitler's armies in June 1940, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798637679874Author K S HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981184927Author Matt ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647484842Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 290g

This book explores the way in which British and American visitors experienced Algeria and about their imaginary responses to the country. It also attempts to trace the elaboration and evolution of the perception of Algeria in the West with particular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798841944409Author Joaquin de la SierraFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781985341678Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Egypt's Belle Epoque was a period of incredible extravagance during which the Khedive Ismail's Cairo became the mirror image, both architecturally and socially, of decadent Paris. The glamour and hedonism of the era reached its peak during the...