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£14.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780593134597 | ISBN 10: 0593134591
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.Â
“I cannot even begin to convey the clarity, the intensity, th ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472282507 | ISBN 10: 1472282507
‘Impossible to put down while you’re reading, and impossible to forget about when you’ve finished’ GlamourÂ
After a gruelling job interview where she was interrogated about everything from her political leanings to her family background, ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780863563973 | ISBN 10: 086356397x
It is a little-known secret that Arabic literature has a long tradition of erotic writing. Behind that secret lies another - that many of the writers are women. We Wrote in Symbols celebrates the works of 75 of these female writers of Arab heri ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788161299 | ISBN 10: 1788161297
In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people, killing or ens ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781471164422 | ISBN 10: 147116442x
The story of the woman who inspired change with her call for greater freedoms for women.
Manal al-Sharif was born in Mecca the year fundamentalism took hold in Saudi Arabia. As a young girl she would burn her brother's boy band CDs in the ov ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846044885 | ISBN 10: 184604488x
Journalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the uprising in Syria turned to bloodshed, she was determined to take action and secretly returned several times. The Crossing is her rare, powerful and courageous testament ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780143107378 | ISBN 10: 0143107372
The writings of one of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century - the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' - and the subject of a new film starring Nicole Kidman.
In the last century, few people lived more astounding - or influential - li ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908323996 | ISBN 10: 190832399x
How did Syria’s revolution lose its way?
My House in Damascus illuminates the darker recesses not just of Syria’s history and politics, but also its society and secrets. Drawing on the author’s firsthand knowledge of Syria’s many communitie ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848859272 | ISBN 10: 1848859279
Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with the Arabian Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycl ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848139541 | ISBN 10: 1848139543
Women in Israel provides a fresh, gendered analysis of citizenship in Israel.
Working from a framework of Israel as a settler-colonial regime, this important, insightful book presents historical and contemporary comparative approaches to th ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848851924 | ISBN 10: 1848851928
Freya Stark is most famous for her travels in Arabia at a time when very few men, let alone women, had fully explored its vast hinterlands. In 1934, she made her first journey to the Hadhramaut in what is now Yemen - the first woman to do so alone. E ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781583229170 | ISBN 10: 1583229175
In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palesti ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844673681 | ISBN 10: 1844673685
Ghada Karmi’s acclaimed memoir relates her childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948, and coming of age in the coffee-bars of Golders Green, the middle-class Jewish quarter in North London. A gentle humor describes t ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863566387 | ISBN 10: 0863566383
"Being a woman in Iran is hard, and working as a woman photographer is even harder."(Shadi Ghadirian)
Shadi Ghadirian is one of Iran's leading contemporary photographers. Born in Tehran in 1974, she has exhibited widely in Europe and the US, and ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847080509 | ISBN 10: 1847080502
Rachel Corrie was a young American activist killed on March 16th 2003, as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in the Gaza strip. She was twenty-three years old. Let Me Stand Alone reveals Corrie's striking gifts as a poe ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780719562525 | ISBN 10: 071956252x
Aged sixteen, Marina Nemat was arrested for reasons she didn't understand and taken to Evin, Tehran's notorious prison. Her world was about to change for ever.
Marina was interrogated, tortured and finally sentenced to death. At the last mom ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781862078116 | ISBN 10: 1862078114
Surprisingly funny, and refreshingly different from any other writings on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law describes Suad Amiry's experience of living on the West Bank from the early eighties to the present. Amiry t ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904456483 | ISBN 10: 1904456480
'Don't shoot the clowns!' As a circus performer in a war zone these are the fist words you need to know in English and Arabic, especially if you are trying to help wounded civilians in a city under siege. Don't Shoot the Clowns is Jo Wilding's accoun ... more
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