Women’s rights in the Arab world

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|November 19, 2013|Anthropology and Sociology, Development Studies, Gender, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

Thomson Reuters Foundation has published its third annual poll of gender experts, focusing on women’s rights in Arab League states. It used over 300 experts to review assess the extent to which states adhered to key provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The website has rankings, graphs and a full methodology.

South Asia – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 8, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Gujarati communities across the globe : memory, identity and continuity / edited by Sharmina Mawani and Anjoom Mukadam. Bamboo : the wonderful grass / by G.K. Ghosh. Dalits and environment : a critical analysis / D.V. Rao, P. Lakshmi. Narrative noodles : essays on Indian novels in English / C.L. Khatri. A report on the preservation of Buddhist monuments at Bamiyan in Afghanistan / by B.B. Lal and R. Sengupta ; edited

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Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 5, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Muslim and Christian understanding : theory and application of A Common Word / edited by Waleed El-Ansary and David K. Linnan. Animals in the Qur’an / Sarra Tlili. Deradicalising violent extremists : counter-radicalisation and deradicalisation programmes and their impact in muslim majority states / Hamed El-Said & Jane Harrigan. Innovation in Islam : traditions and contributions / ed. by Mehran Kamrava. The good Muslim : reflections on classical Islamic

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Development Studies – September and October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 28, 2012|Development Studies|0 comments

 e-books Coming climate crisis?  : consider the past, beware the big fix / Claire L. Parkinson. Available from Dawsonera. Abortion in Asia local dilemmas, global politics / edited by Andrea Whittaker. Available from Dawsonera. United in discontent : local responses to cosmopolitanism and globalization / edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos and Elisabeth Kirtsoglou. Available from Dawsonera. e-book and print Ethics for disaster / Naomi Zack. [Also available as an e-book from

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