Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – Dec 2012 to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 21, 2014|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Red star over Iraq : Iraqi communism before Saddam / Johan Franzén. Languages of love and hate : conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean / edited by Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson. Mongol rule in Seljuk Anatolia. The politics of conquest and history-writing 1243-1282. Sara ur Yildiz. The people want : a radical exploration of the Arab Uprising / Gilbert Achcar ; translated from the French by G.M.

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 10, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam & Islamic philosophy The essentials of Ibāḍī Islam / Valerie J. Hoffman. Muslims and the new media : historical and contemporary debates / Göran Larsson. Walking a tightrope : women and veiling in the United Kingdom / Ayesha Salma Kariapper. Difference and disability in the medieval islamic world : blighted bodies / Kristina L. Richardson. Whatever happened to the islamists : salafis, heavy metal muslims, and the lure of

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Middle East and Central Asia – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 3, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Middle East Raising capital on Arab equity markets : legal and juridical aspects of Arab securities regulation / Lu’ayy Minwer Al-Rimawi. Peace, propaganda, & the promised land [videorecording] : U.S. media & the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Media Education Foundation directors, Sut Jhally, Bathsheba Ratzkoff producer, Bathsheba Ratzkoff writers, Bathsheba Ratzkoff, Sut Jhally. Psalms [sound recording] / Khaled Jubran. Race and slavery in the Middle East : histories of trans-Saharan Africans

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History – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 29, 2012|History|0 comments

Presenting history: past and present / Peter Beck Making history: the historian and uses of the past / Jorma Kalela State, society and culture in Indian history / Satish Chandra Subaltern lives: biographies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world, 1790-1920 / Clare Anderson The Gulf States : a modern history / David Commins.  Is history fiction? / Ann Curthoys and John Docker. Diplomacy and nation-building in Africa : Franco-British

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