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Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gerard Prunier
RRP: £35.00£31.24In mid-2004 the Darfur crisis in Western Sudan forced itself on to the centre stage of world affairs. A formerly obscure 'tribal conflict' in the heart of Africa has escalated into what could be the first genocide of the twenty-first century. Its... -
Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter by Zohra Drif
RRP: £30.99£18.75This gripping insider's account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria's national liberation movement to combat her country's French occupiers. When the movement's leaders turned to Drif and her female... -
South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War by Hilde F. Johnson 9781784536442
RRP: £65.00£63.98In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as... -
Alamein by C E Lucas Phillips 9781800551817
RRP: £15.99£14.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800551817Author C E Lucas PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 494Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
The Holocaust and North Africa by Aomar Boum 9781503607057
RRP: £23.99£20.84The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory-Muslim as well as Jewish-in the post-war years. The Holocaust and North... -
Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism and Political Change in Egypt by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham 9780231125734
RRP: £30.00£23.29Mobilizing Islam explores how and why Islamic groups succeeded in galvanizing educated youth into politics under the shadow of Egypt's authoritarian state, offering important and surprising answers to a series of pressing questions. Under what conditions... -
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill
RRP: £10.99£9.57First published in 1899 and revised for the 1902 edition by its author Winston Churchill, this history of the River War in Sudan vividly chronicles the military campaign that altered the destinies of England, Egypt, and the Arabian peoples in northeast... -
Ancient Egypt: A Social History by B. G. Trigger
RRP: £34.99£30.49The rich and extensive floodplain of the River Nile can claim to be the cradle of one of the earliest and most spectacular civilizations of antiquity. Ancient Egypt: A Social History, first published in 1983, presents an innovative perspective on the... -
The Animal in Ottoman Egypt by Alan Mikhail 9780190655228
RRP: £35.99£26.85Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of... -
Trans-Saharan Africa in World History by Ralph A. Austen 9780195337884
RRP: £25.99£17.61During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's... -
The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom, and Islam in the Black Atlantic by Joao Jose Reis
RRP: £30.99£28.88Winner of the Casa de las America Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino Jose Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century. The book tells the story... -
North Africa, Revised Edition: A History from Antiquity to the Present by Phillip C. Naylor
RRP: £27.99£24.54North Africa has been a vital crossroads throughout history, serving as a connection between Africa, Asia, and Europe. Paradoxically, however, the region's historical significance has been chronically underestimated. In a book that may lead scholars to... -
Modern Algeria, Second Edition: The Origins and Development of a Nation by John Ruedy
RRP: £20.99£18.37Praise for the first edition:"[E]ssential reading for Maghreb specialists as well as for anyone interested in issues of nation-building and political culture in Africa." -Africa Today"[T]he best and most comprehensive history of modern Algeria in English... -
Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa by Jocelyn Hendrickson
RRP: £41.95£34.00Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa examines Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval and early modern Iberia and North Africa. The fall of al-Andalus, or reconquista, has long been... -
Armies Of God: Islam and Empire on the Nile, 1869-1899 by Dominic Green 9780099487050
RRP: £15.99£11.61This is the story of what happens when a liberal minded Prime Minister is caught between two sets of fundamentalists, one Islamic, the other Christian. It could be a tale of our time. But this is actually the story of Islam and the Empire on the Nile c... -
British Somaliland: An Administrative History, 1920-1960 by Brock Millman 9780367868840
RRP: £41.99£36.75British Somaliland provides a history of the administration of the British Somaliland Protectorate from the time when Somaliland first became governable, following the defeat of Abdullah Hassan, to independence. Describing the interplay between general... -
Electric News in Colonial Algeria by Arthur Asseraf
RRP: £34.99£32.01How do the things which connect us also serve to divide us? Electric News in Colonial Algeria traces how news circulated in a particularly divided society: Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells a... -
A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce by James Copnall
RRP: £20.00£17.84What 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... -
Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950 by Aomar Boum
RRP: £23.99£20.84This 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... -
Tripoli: A History by John Wright 9781909930193
RRP: £14.99£13.64It 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... -
The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish and Muslim Space in Morocco's Red City by Emily Benichou Gottreich
RRP: £20.99£18.37"[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... -
The Animal in Ottoman Egypt by Alan Mikhail 9780199315277
RRP: £84.00£65.53Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of... -
Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics by Olivia C. Harrison
RRP: £19.99£17.54Souffles-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... -
Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan by Christopher Tounsel 9781478011767
RRP: £20.99£18.37On 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... -
Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges by Marvine Howe 9780195169638
RRP: £30.49£26.16In Morocco, Marvine Howe, a former correspondent for The New York Times presents an incisive and comprehensive review of the Moroccan kingdom and its people, past and present. It addresses emerging issues and problems - equal rights for women,... -
European Revolutionaries and Algerian Independence, 1954-1962 by Ian Birchall 9780850366655
RRP: £20.00£18.24Apologies 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: The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily by Matt King 9781501763465
RRP: £48.00£41.72Dynasties 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... -
Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future by Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik 9781503635913
RRP: £23.99£20.84Upon 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 Forgotten Frontier: A History of the Sixteenth-Century Ibero-African Frontier Andrew C. Hess 9780226330310
RRP: £32.00£31.11The 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... -
Emir Abd El-Kader: Hero and Saint of Islam by Ahmed Bouyerdene
RRP: £17.99£15.69The Algerian warrior and Sufi saint, Emir Abd el-Kader, shows his spiritual qualities in the fight against the French colonial authorities. "The New York Times" called the Emir "one of the few great men of the century," while Abraham Lincoln and Pope... -
Exit the Colonel by Ethan Chorin 9781610391719
RRP: £40.00£27.78In 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... -
Inventing the Berbers: History and Ideology in the Maghrib by Ramzi Rouighi 9780812251302
RRP: £70.00£60.31Before 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... -
Electric News in Colonial Algeria by Arthur Asseraf 9780198844044
£97.81How do the things which connect us also serve to divide us? Electric News in Colonial Algeria traces how news circulated in a particularly divided society: Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells a... -
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium by Susan Slyomovics
RRP: £23.99£21.24This 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... -
Black Egyptians: The African Origins of Ancient Egypt by Segun Magbagbeola 9780957369597
RRP: £35.00£28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957369597Author Segun MagbagbeolaFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Akasha Publishing LtdPublisher Akasha Publishing LtdWeight(grams)... -
Out of Exile: Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan by Craig Walzer 9781642595420
RRP: £21.99£14.83Decades of conflicts and persecution have driven millions from their homes in all parts of the northeast African country of Sudan. Many thousands more have been enslaved as human spoils of war. In their own words, the narrators of Out of Exile recount... -
The Origins of the Libyan Nation: Colonial Legacy, Exile and the Emergence of a New Nation-State Anna Baldinetti 9780415845625
RRP: £47.99£41.81Libya 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... -
Tripoli Witness: The Remarkable First Hand Account of Life Through the Insurgency Rana Jawad 9781908531131
RRP: £9.95£6.78Apologies 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 -
The Struggle for South Sudan by Luka Biong Deng Kuol 9781788315180
£28.02South Sudan, the world's youngest country, has experienced a rocky start to its life as an independent nation. Less than three years after gaining independence in 2011 following a violent liberation war, the country slid back into conflict. In the wake... -
The Legacy of Egypt by J.Rendel Harris 9780198219125 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£3.10The contribution of Egypt to modern knowledge and civilization is less direct than that of Greece or Rome, but nonetheless many aspects of ou r everyday life owe their origins to Egyptian influence. One outstanding legacy is the calendar of 365 days, and...