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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks Publisher Comments With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for "The Wall Street Journal," Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East throughwars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance by Haifa Zangana Publisher Comments In City of Widows, Haifa Zangana tells the story of her country, from the early twentieth century through the US-UK invasion and the current occupation. She brings to light a sense of Iraq as a society mainly of secularists who have been denied, through... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker Publisher Comments *A 2011 National Book Award Finalist* A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah Baker What drives a woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Emirati Women: Generations of Change (Columbia/Hurst) by Jane Bristol Rhys Publisher Comments The discovery of oil in the late 1960s catapulted Abu Dhabi out of isolating poverty. A boom in construction introduced new sightlines to the city's landscape and transformed its infrastructure and economy. The impressive growth of just a few decades... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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My War at Home by Masuda Sultan Publisher Comments Born in Kandahar in 1978, Sultan fled to the United States at age five with her family. Raised in Brooklyn and Flushing, Queens, Sultan saw her life change when she was married by arrangement at the young age of seventeen to a virtual stranger fourteen... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces by Marilyn Booth Publisher Comments Harem Histories is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies. One theme that threads through the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity, and Power by Fatma Müge Göek Publisher Comments Employing a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on gender relations, "Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East" questions long-standing stereotypes about the traditional subordination of women in the region. With essays on gender construction in Iran... (read more) Your price: $25.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World by Jan Goodwin Publisher Comments In recent years, the expanding movement of militant Islam has changed the way millions think, behave, dress, and live, but nowhere has its impact been more powerfully felt than in its dramatic, often devastating effect on the lives of women. Award... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cambridge Middle East Studies #3: Women, Property and Islam: Palestinian Experiences, 1920-1990 by Annelies Moors Publisher Comments According to Islamic law, women are entitled to inherit property, receive a dower at marriage, and to manage their own income. In practice, however, this is not always the case. In an anthropological study of Palestinian women from different stratas of... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mayada, Daughter of Iraq: One Woman's Survival Under Saddam Hussein by Jean Sasson Publisher Comments A member of one of the most distinguished and honored families in Iraq, Mayada grew up surrounded by wealth and royalty. But when Saddam Hussein’s regime took power, she was thrown into cell 52 in the infamous Baladiyat prison with seventeen other... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women, Work and Islamism: Ideology & Resistance in Iran by Maryam Poya Publisher Comments This book explores Islamism in practice and looks at the influence of state, economy and religion on women in Iran. Drawing on original research into women's participation in the work force, the author shows how the Islamization of state and society... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work (Cambridge Middle East Library) by Nadia Hijab Publisher Comments Womanpower unveils the lively but little-reported debate on women's positions in the modern Arab world. It paints a picture drawn from individual stories as well as from national development programs and attempts to explain why the process of social... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman by Joumana Haddad Publisher Comments Joumana Haddad is angry. She finds the Wests portrayal of Arab women appalling and the image projected by many Middle Eastern women infuriating. “Being an Arab today means you need to be a hypocrite,” Haddad boldly states. “We constantly... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East) by Mahnaz Afkhami Publisher Comments Faith and Freedom examines domestic and political violence against women resulting from cultural segregation, conflicting legal codes, and the monopoly on the interpretation of Islamic texts by a select group of male theologians. It includes... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The House of Obedience: Women in Arab Society by Julie Mince Publisher Comments The House of Obedience is about women in the Arab world who are still largely subject to a traditional set of beliefs and customs employed to justify a multiplicity of practices against them. The veil, physical mutilation, forced marriage, incarceration... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Islam of Her Own: Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women's Islamic Movements by Sherine Hafez Publisher Comments Triggered by the massive and often violent civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, in 1968 the Johnson Administration created the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence to analyze violent protest and to make... (read more) Your price: $21.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Status of the Arab Woman: A Select Bibliography by Samira Meghdessian Review Increased attention on life in the Middle East and a growing interest in women both at home and abroad make this a valuable reference source. The 16,000 citations, most published since 1950, encompass the economic, legal, religious, and social status of... (read more) List Price $76.50 Your price: $3.75 Used - Hardcover
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Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women by Marnia Lazreg Publisher Comments "A wonderful read: well-written, well-constructed, well-argued, and highly significant. Lazreg addresses a controversial topic and takes intellectual risks. This little gem of a book is brilliant."--Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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