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Fiery and candid, I Killed Scheherazade is a provocative exploration of what it means to be an 'Arab woman' today.

In-depth study of diverse Shi'a groups, from Iraq to Aghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon and Senegal, and their relations with Iran. Contributors include Olivier Roy, Alessandro Monsutti, Joseph Alagha, Kinda Chaib, Thierry Zarcone, Mara A. Leichtman, Pierre-Jean Luizard, Peter Harling and Mariam Abou Zahab.

Examines the dynamics of Arab foreign-policy-making in the twenty-first century. This book includes four case studies, the Middle East Peace process, the Water crisis, the Food crisis, and Saudi Arabia's foreign policy, that enable a wide-ranging analysis for understanding contemporary Arab politics and its role in world affairs.

Rebecca has a most unusual problem: no matter how hard she tries, she can't stop broadcasting her feelings to people around her. Luckily, she's discovered how to trap and store her feelings in personal objects - but just how much emotional baggage can Unit 207, E Z Self Storage hold?

Offers an account of a cross-cultural marriage.

Nowhere in the world is university education expanding as rapidly as in the six-member state of the Gulf Cooperation Council. This study, with contributions by key decision makers, charts this dramatic development, exploring the challenges faced and placing the accomplishments within the social, economic and political context of the region.

A collection of soups, salads, meats and deserts. It includes over a hundred inventive recipes: lentil soup with tomatoes, calamari and coriander salad, five-spice lamb and rice, fried halloumi cheese with quince jam, pumpkin kibbeh, pears in arak, and rose ice cream, to name but a few.

The Arabic alphabet has a fascinating history, one that is entwined with the development of culture and society in the Middle East. This book traces the origins of the Arabic alphabet back to Aramaic, a descendant of Phoenecian, which itself gave rise to the Hebrew and Greek alphabets.

A tale of the 21st century's Ice Age, reversing the effects of global warming and sending Europeans to the warmth of Africa, if they are to survive.

Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her extraordinarily small size. When her father dies, she must make her own way in a world that treats her as an entertaining curiosity.

In the streets armed militias carve out their territories, while ragged construction workers rebuild the city. At any moment, the bombs will start falling. Meanwhile, Zena and her friend Maya must try to make sense of their lives amidst the craziness, and negotiate the city's obsessions including cosmetic surgery, husband hunting and Kalashnikovs.

Claire and Gabrielle Sahli are sisters growing up in 1920s Cairo. Of Levantine descent, they occupy a precarious position in Egypt's increasingly nationalist world. With the early death of their father, the sisters find themselves dependent on others as they attempt to maintain their position in a volatile society.

Three sisters struggle to change the course of their destinies in a China that does not belong to them. Yumi uses her dignity, Yuxiu her seductive powers, and Yuyang her desire for success. This story vividly captures the demonic desire for power that possesses people.

Presents a study of the alternatives confronting Iraq as it seeks to rebuild its oil industry while constructing a new political system. This work provides an assessment of Iraq's oil industry.

On the shores of Lake Como a man and a woman talk about longing and belonging; a translator finds himself drawn into the personal and political turmoil of the poet he translates; a woman's quiet world is eroded by World War II and the division of her country.

Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Based on interviews of imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters, this title provides an account of ruined lives - both the victims' and the killers'.

Taking us on travels through Europe, and across to the US, this book offers perspectives on literature, geopolitics, East and West. It also says that while the Eastern bloc is gripped by Western modernization, the West is becoming increasingly Sovietized, with Internet banking, speed dating and automatic supermarket checkouts.

Provides an assessment of the Israel-Lebanon conflict. This work describes the popular basis of Hezbollah in Lebanon among the Shiites, and its relation to the country's other religious communities and political forces. It analyzes the regional roles of Syria, Iran and Hamas as well as the politics of US and Europe.

Presents a rebuttal of the cultural reductionism of Max Weber and others who have tried to explain the politics and society of the Middle East by reference to some unchanging entity called 'Islam,' typically characterised as instinctively hostile to capitalism. This work looks at the facts, analysing economic texts with his customary common sense.

Against the backdrop of Nazism, in a multi-racial Turkey giving sanctuary to many of Europe's fleeing Jews, a group of teenage friends struggles to understand events while reeling from (and relishing) the sexual and emotional discoveries of adolescence. This work is a spine-tinglingly erotic tale of love, courage and the forging of conscience.

People of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited Great Britain for centuries. Professor Paul Gilroy has assembled a living visual history of their social life in the modern British Isles. Published in association with Getty Images,this volume faeture 321 b&w photographs, commentary by Paul Gilroy and a preface from Professor Stuart Hall.

A linguist flying to a conference in Helsinki has landed in a strange city where he can't understand a word anyone says. As one claustrophobic day follows another, he wonders how he'll get by in this society that looks so familiar, yet is strange. In a vision of hell, Budai must learn to survive in a world where words and meaning are unconnected.

Based on the twelfth-century Sufi poem, "The Conference of the Birds", this poem is accompanied by illustrations painted on ceramic tiles, typical of the Medieval Persian style.

A sequel to "The Genesis of Arabic Narrative Discourse (Saqi)", this book investigates a number of crucial questions related to the genre's development such as: Why did the Arabic short story take certain trajectories and what determined its path? Can the study of this genre provide us with wider insights into the culture as a whole?

Arab cultural discourse has been slow to respond to changing sexual behaviour. The contributors to this collection pick up the slack, ranging across such disciplines as literature, history, sociology and psychology.

Reveals how, military and political leaders in Belgrade followed the pattern of manipulating cultural motifs in order to justify their repression of Kosovans, and their aggression in Croatia and Bosnia. This work also reveals how Croatian and Bosnian military and political elites mobilized their own social memories during post-Yugoslav wars.

Presenting diverse stories by Palestinian women, this title offers a critical insight into their society in times of hardship and turmoil, yet look beyond to the warmth of human relations and hope of better times. Writers who were children during the first intifada appear alongside those who remember the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war.

From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. Their loyalty to their corps was infinite, as the Ottomans conquered the Balkans as far as the Danube, and Syria, Egypt and Iraq. Who were they? Why were they an elite? Why did they decline and what was their end? This book aims to answer these questions.

Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many years in the white middle-class Henman household in London, cleaning for Vanessa and looking after her only child, Justin. More than ten years after Mary has left, Justin is too depressed to get out of bed. To his mother's surprise, he asks for Mary. This work confronts racism and class conflict with humour.

Features stories of dysfunctional marriages, abnormal goings on in rural outposts, urban alienation and kitchen sink dramas where the woman is no longer tied to the kitchen sink, but railing against past wrongs. This work also talks about various issues of domestic violence, child abuse, and abortion.