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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Literature – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 30, 2012|Literature|0 comments

Literature After sex? : on writing since queer theory / edited by Janet Halley and Andrew Parker. Feminism in West African novel / M. Farida Begum. The negritude moment : explorations in francophone African and Caribbean literature and thought / F. Abiola Irele. Neo-imperialism in children’s literature about Africa : a study of contemporary fiction / by Yulisa Amadu Maddy, Donnarae MacCann. The Oxford India anthology of Bengali literature /

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