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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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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800750890 | ISBN 10: 1800750897
The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won.Â
In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced o ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784702755 | ISBN 10: 1784702757
In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attacked and swiftly taken by ISIS fighters, and her whole world changed. The jihadists murdered the men and ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846045028 | ISBN 10: 1846045029
In this powerful book, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, tells of her fight for reform inside Iran, and the devastating backlash she faced after winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Having fought tirelessly for democracy, equa ... 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: 9780241246238 | ISBN 10: 0241246237
'That room for all of us, became a place of transgression. What a wonderland it was! Sitting around the large coffee table covered with bouquets of flowers - We were, to borrow from Nabokov, to experience how the ordinary pebble of ordinary life coul ... 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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£20.00 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780760865 | ISBN 10: 1780760868
Becoming Visible in Iran disputes the widespread stereotypes about Muslim women prevalent in the West, providing a vivid account of young women in contemporary Iran. Beginning at home, women are infusing dramatic change by challenging the patriarchal ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908323125 | ISBN 10: 1908323124
A well-known novelist and journalist from the coastal city of Jableh, Samar Yazbek witnessed the first four months of the uprising first-hand and actively participated in a variety of public actions and budding social movements. Throughout this perio ... 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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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141038537 | ISBN 10: 0141038535
Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and blow dry?
May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking, lecturer in English. She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad, dodging bullets before breakfast, bargaining for h ... 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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£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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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780224087407 | ISBN 10: 0224087401
From the author of the highly acclaimed two-volume comic strip autobiography Persepolis, here is a gloriously entertaining and revealing comic-book look into the sex lives of women. When Marjane Satrapi's tough-talking grandmother, mother, eccentric ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846040146 | ISBN 10: 1846040140
Throughout an extraordinary career as a lawyer, writer, activist and dissident Shirin Ebadi has spoken out clearly and strongly for her native Iran and her voice has resonated far beyond its borders. As a dedicated human rights activist and a winner ... 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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