First published in 1911, Ameen Rihani’s Book of Khalid is widely considered the first Arab American novel. The semi autobiographical work chronicles the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib,
The 18 chapters in this volume examine the function of concurrent enrollment programs that provide high-achieving high school students with the opportunity to take courses for college credit that are
The latest contribution to the New Netherland Documents series, this volume provides a translation from the Dutch of the proceedings of New Netherland’s council meetings from 1656 to 1658. Included am
International contributors in Middle Eastern history, Jewish studies, Arabic studies, and Islamic studies explore issues and controversies related to Middle Eastern minorities in the 20th and 21st cen
"During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror. Deployed by the military as linguistic as well as cultu
The Thomas Indian School and the "Irredeemable" Children of New York tells the story of the Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children and its relationship to the Iroquois, or Ha
The Salome Ensemble probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they crea
For centuries before its "rebirth" as a spoken language, Hebrew writing was like a magical ship in a bottle that gradually changed design but never voyaged out into the world. Isolated, the ancient He
The Salome Ensemble probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they crea
The Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen was a pioneering figure in early nineteenth-century abolitionism and African American literature. A highly respected leader in the AME Zion Church, Rev. Loguen was popul
Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Tall’s From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration of the connections we have with places—and the loss to
The author examines environmental sound in contemporary Northern Irish poetry by Ciaran Carson, Derek Mahon, and Paul Muldoon and how they reimagine belonging and community-building in the wake of con
From the 17th century through the 20th, a common strain of Irish lament involved an analogy with the Jews, says Bender, not only with the ancient Israelites being conquered and oppressed, but in how I
The book cites that conflicted Syria--from spring uprising to civil war--has suffered from ill-informed and confusing news coverage and has revealed the dearth of expert writing on the country, making
The author explores the effects of market Orientalism on the Arab states of the Persian Gulf (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman) and how emerging markets are ima
This study analyzes the writings of Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamida al-Na'na', Hoda Barakat, Samar Yazbek, and Salwa al-Neimi, Arab women writers who experienced the trauma of authoritarian r
Roby documents the discrimination of the minority but dominant European Ashkenazi Jews against the majority Mezrahim, or Jews from the Middle East and Asia, during the first two decades of the state o
When Bashar al-Asad smoothly assumed power in July 2000, just seven days after the death of his father, observers were divided on what this would mean for the country’s foreign and domestic politics.
An advocate for alternatives to incarceration for youths and adults, Weissman elevates the stories of four young people about their experiences in the US school-to-prison pipeline, and connects their
European and US scholars of international relations examine Syrian politics during the first decade of the 20th century, from Bashar al-Asad's accession in July 2000 to the outbreak of the revolt agai
