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Another Road to Damascus: An Integrative Approach to 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri (1808-1883) by Tom Woerner-Powell 9783110496994
RRP: £114.50£108.58This text challenges existing writing on 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri which divides his life into two juxtaposed phases separated by narratives of conversion: from Francophobia to Francophilia, from militarism to pacifism, from activism to quietism, from... -
From Wilderness to Paradise: A Sixth-Century Mosaic Pavement at Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenaica, Libya by Jane Chick 9781803277301
£35.22From Wilderness to Paradise presents an in-depth study of the large mosaic pavement in the East Church at Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenaica, Libya. The pavement, which survives almost in its entirety, consists of fifty panels, each containing a different image... -
Vandal Heaven: Reinterpreting Post-Roman North Africa by Simon Elliott 9781636242873
RRP: £29.95£21.75North Africa was one of the richest parts of the Roman Empire, the agricultural powerhouse of the Mediterranean. It was also home to some of the emperor’s biggest imperial estates, and prosperous cities of all kinds. Its loss to the Vandals in the first... -
Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950 by Aomar Boum 9781503611511
RRP: £74.00£64.45This 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... -
Geopolitics and Governance in North Africa: Local Challenges, Global Implications by Sarah Yerkes 9781399503693
£95.86Examines the impact of the changing geopolitical environment on a range of governance issues in North Africa Discusses cases from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Mauritania, using field work carried out throughout the region Situates the... -
Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics by Olivia C. Harrison 9780804794701
RRP: £83.00£72.11Souffles-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... -
Global Trade and Cultural Authentication: The Kalabari of the Niger Delta by Joanne B. Eicher 9780253062598
RRP: £62.00£53.96Global Trade and Cultural Authentication, edited by Joanne Eicher, showcases the complexity and enduring aesthetic and economic power of Kalabari crafts. The Kalabari people, most of whom make their homes in the eastern Niger Delta region of western... -
Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa by James McDougall 9780253001245
RRP: £66.00£56.93The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this... -
New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance by Robert Lang 9780231165068
RRP: £100.00£81.50Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's presidency, from 1987 to 2011, the country became the... -
Nihna NAS Al-Bahar - We Are the People of the River: Ethnographic Research in the Fourth Nile Cataract Region, Sudan by Cornelia Kleinitz 9783447068918
RRP: £87.00£82.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447068918Author Cornelia KleinitzFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 739g -
New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance by Robert Lang 9780231165075
RRP: £30.00£24.45Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's presidency, from 1987 to 2011, the country became the... -
The Holocaust and North Africa by Aomar Boum 9781503605435
RRP: £99.00£85.74The 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... -
Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya by Matthew H. Ellis 9781503605008
RRP: £23.99£20.84Desert Borderland investigates the historical processes that transformed political identity in the easternmost reaches of the Sahara Desert in the half century before World War I. Adopting a view from the margins-illuminating the little-known history of... -
The Moroccan Soul: French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912-1956 by Spencer D. Segalla 9781496202147
RRP: £23.99£20.84Following the French conquest of Morocco in 1911 the French established a network of colonial schools for Moroccan Muslims designed to further the agendas of the conquerors. The Moroccan Soul examines the history of the French educational system in... -
Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria by Brock Cutler 9781496232533
RRP: £54.00£46.79Between 1865 and 1872 widespread death and disease unfolded amid the most severe ecological disaster in modern North African history: a plague of locusts destroyed crops during a disastrous drought that left many Algerians landless and starving. The... -
Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar by Burleigh Hendrickson 9781501766220
RRP: £108.00£93.40Decolonizing 1968 explores how activists in 1968 transformed university campuses across Europe and North Africa into sites of contestation where students, administrators, and state officials collided over definitions of modernity and nationhood after... -
The Muslim Conquest of Iberia: Medieval Arabic Narratives Nicola Clarke (University of Oxford, UK) 9780415719155
RRP: £53.99£46.87Medieval Islamic society set great store by the transmission of history: to edify, argue legal points, explain present conditions, offer political and religious legitimacy, and entertain. Modern scholars, too, have had much to say about the usefulness of... -
Remembering Turkana: Material Histories and Contemporary Livelihoods in North-Western Kenya by Samuel F. Derbyshire 9780367431099
RRP: £115.00£99.36This book explores aspects of the socio-economic and political history of the Turkana of northern Kenya, examining the making and re-making of the regional economy via the trajectories of socio-material interaction that have structured key practices,... -
Polity And Society In Contemporary North Africa by I. William Zartman 9780367299279
RRP: £39.99£35.06In the twenty-five years since the last comprehensive book on state and society in North Africa was published, the nations of the Maghrib have undergone profound social, political, and economic changes. The region has, for example, experienced one of the... -
The Power of Islam in Morocco: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives Mohamed El Mansour 9780367264154
RRP: £115.00£99.36The study of Muslim societies has been for a long time the appanage of western Orientalists and European ethnographers whose view from the outside rarely accounted for the complex reality of these societies. This Variorum volume by an eminent North... -
The Calls of Islam: Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco by Emilio Spadola 9780253011367
RRP: £66.00£56.93The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new... -
Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity by Jonathan Wyrtzen 9781501700231
RRP: £39.00£34.52"There is no question that the value of a detailed account of Moroccan colonial history in English is an important addition to the field, and Wyrtzen's book will undoubtedly become a reference for Moroccan, North African, and Middle Eastern historians... -
Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt by Heba Arafa Abdelfattah 9781399520751
RRP: £95.00£77.27Explores the formative years of Egyptian cinema (1919 52) to contest the contradiction between Islam and innovation Discusses over 30 feature films, drawing on English and Arabic archival material including records of the British Foreign Office, the... -
Dividing the Nile: Egypt's Economic Nationalists in the Sudan 1918-56 by David E. Mills 9789774166389
RRP: £39.99£33.17Most scholarship has attributed Sudanese independence in 1956 to British dominance of the Condominium, historical animosity toward Egypt, or the emergence of Sudanese nationalism. Dividing the Nile counters that Egyptian entrepreneurs failed to develop a... -
Saharan Hunter-Gatherers: Specialization and Diversification in Holocene Southwestern Libya by Savino di Lernia 9780367538798
RRP: £39.99£35.06Archaeological and rock art evidence, much of which is unpublished until now, is used to explore the crucial period that encompasses the onset of the “Green Sahara” to the introduction of domestic livestock. It provides a basis for understanding the... -
Habib Bourguiba, Islam and the Creation of Tunisia by Norma Salem 9781032667782
RRP: £91.99£80.20First published in 1984, Habib Bourguiba, Islam and the Creation of Tunisia is a study of Habib Bourguiba, the founder of independent Tunisia, that argues that Islam played a vital role in the development of the Tunisian nationalist movement. This book... -
The Sudanese Zār Ṭumbura Cult: Slaves, Armies, Spirits and History by Gerasimos Makris 9781032394039
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book offers a historically sensitive ethnography of the zār ṭumbura spirit possession cult, associated with descendants of African slaves who live mainly in the area of Greater Khartoum, Sudan. It considers the history and transformations of... -
Barbary Captives: An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa by Mario Klarer 9780231175241
RRP: £117.00£103.99In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis,... -
Edgar Cayce's Sphinx, the Hall of Records & the Holy Grail by Karen Pressler
RRP: £17.95£13.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732579224Author Karen L PresslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Bunker Pressler BooksPublisher Bunker Pressler BooksWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm)... -
Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future by Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik
RRP: £74.00£64.45Upon 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... -
Libya: A Modern History by John Wright
RRP: £120.00£103.61First published in 1981, Libya: A Modern History traces the history of Libya from 1900 to 1980, showing how its first monarchic constitution was modelled by the UN Commission, and survived precariously until the military coup of 1969. The author traces... -
How the Church Under Pius XII Addressed Decolonization: The Issue of Algerian Independence by Marialuisa Lucia Sergio
RRP: £125.00£107.86By paying attention to Algerian Independence, this book reconstructs the action of the Catholic Church regarding the issues of the spread of Islam in colonies, to Arab nationalism, Marxist propaganda in non-European countries, and the effects of the... -
Four Aspects of Egypt by John Marlowe
RRP: £110.00£95.11First Published in 1966 Four Aspects of Egypt provides a picturesque tour of Egypt for visitors and new arrivals in the country. John Marlowe takes us on a journey by discussing the splendour and durability of the remains of Egypt's ancient civilization;... -
The African Origins of Rhetoric by Cecil Blake
RRP: £47.99£41.81Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treatises Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical theory and challenges what is often advanced as the "darkness metaphor" -- the rhetorical construction of... -
Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa by James McDougall
RRP: £23.99£20.84The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this... -
Algerian Imprints: Ethical Space in the Work of Assia Djebar and Helene Cixous by Brigitte Weltman-Aron
RRP: £50.00£39.12Born and raised in French Algeria, Assia Djebar and Helene Cixous represent in their literary works signs of conflict and enmity, drawing on discordant histories so as to reappraise the political on the very basis of dissensus. In a rare comparison of... -
Occidentalism: Literary Representations of the Maghrebi Experience of the East-West Encounter Zahia Smail Salhi 9781474453226
RRP: £21.99£17.97Evaluates the East-West encounter portrayed in Maghrebi literature from colonial times to the post-9/11 period.Book InformationISBN 9781474453226Author Zahia Smail SalhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh... -
Hoarding Memory: Covering the Wounds of the Algerian War by Amy L. Hubbell
RRP: £39.00£34.12Hoarding Memory looks at the ways the stories of the Algerian War (1954-62) have proliferated among the former French citizens of Algeria. By engaging hoarding as a model, Amy L. Hubbell demonstrates the simultaneously productive and destructive nature... -
Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco by Driss Maghraoui
RRP: £45.99£40.53Exploring the concept of 'colonial cultures,' this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies. Challenging both the colonial vulgate, and the nationalist paradigm, Revisiting the Colonial Past in... -
Subalterns and Social Protest: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford, UK) 9780415665827
RRP: £43.99£38.44The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the...