Widely known throughout the Arab world as a leading poet, journalist, and literary critic, Abbas Beydoun's writing is infused with the politics and culture of his native Lebanon. In Blood Test, his f
This "oral" history of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project uses interviews of the men who designed and built the Seaway to portray how it felt to be part of one of the largest and most successfu
Phelps was the Washington news editor for The New York Times from 1965 to 1974, and he has written this volume to explore the balance he had to maintain between his moral ideals and faith and the prac
Taylor (disabilities studies, Syracuse U.) explores the role of several World War II-era conscientious objectors in exposing substandard conditions in psychiatric hospitals after performing civilian p
In this biography of Colonel John Henry Patterson, Denis Brian reveals his subject to be a composite of diverse identities. An Irish-born soldier, lion hunter, bridge builder, East African game warde
Mary Turner has little use for sacrifice. As the niece of Erastus Corning, the prominent banking and railway magnate, she is accustomed to financial security, society balls, and the flirtatious atten
The semi-autobiographical stories in this collection are populated with outsized and magnetic characters and subtly layer the specifics of the Jewish experience with the universal dilemmas of childhoo
This is the third novel by Modarressi to be translated from Persian into English, telling the story of an Iranian teenager, the grandson of an Austrian woman, who feels out of place in Iran due to his
People may be surprised to learn that Muslims were among the righteous Gentiles who saved Jews from the Holocaust, in accordance with the traditional Muslim Albanian moral code of Besa, treating stran
In this second volume in a two-volume set, Halman (Turkish literature, Bilkent U., Ankara, Turkey) and Warner (Institute for Aegean prehistory) bring together eight modern Turkish plays in English tra
On the southern edge of Manhattan stands a quiet piece of Americana. Governors Island, situated in New York Harbor, blends a sense of nostalgia with twenty-first-century amenities. The pristine setti
Set during the Lebanese civil war, this novel chronicles the splintering of the Al-Mukhtars, a Lebanese family whose love and trust for one another is strained by the increasing economic, social, and
Sports journalists Mandelaro and Pitoniak take readers back to the early 19th century and the inception of the Rochester Red Wings, and follows the careers of the players and managers who developed th
On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University in Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics,was shot in the back of the head as he stepped out of an elevator on h
From Orhon inscriptions to Orhan Pamuk, the story of Turkish literature from the eighth century A.D. to the present day is rich and complex, full of firm traditions and daring transformations. Spanni
Growing Up In Los Angeles in me 1970's and 1980's, roughly half of Furman's high school basketball teammates lived in the largely Anglo, and increasingly Jewish, San Fernando Valley, while the other h
"Martyrdom Street is a luscious tapestry, a cozy quilt, made of the mosaics of lives and loves and fears and tribulations, told by and about Iranian women, with a voice at once poised and decorous and
Probing, wide-ranging, brimming with passion and outrage, Melhem’s eighth collection of poems grips the reader with accounts of individual triumphs and the ongoing catastrophic conflicts of our world.
A boy finds himself alone with his first love in a toboggan stalled atop the Matterhorn at Disneyland. A woman, bitter about her marriage to a man turned blind, must decide if he lives or dies. A man
In this pair of moving, gracefully poignant novellas, sisters Pokras and Yariv explore the world of the elderly with deft humor and heart-wrenching detail. Pokras’ Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz introduces us
