Politics & Social Sciences
White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Te...
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Tel Aviv, the Zionist project’s ‘White City’, is said to have risen from the sands of the desert. Acclaimed worldwide for its architectural heritage and gleaming Bauhaus-inspired Modernism, it is ostensibly designed to be a safe home for the Jewish people. However, the reality of the city’s establi..
Who Rules the World?
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The world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights. In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the way that the United States, d..
Why Peace and Prayer Are Not Enough: A Primer on J...
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How can we begin to understand the violent brutality that haunts the Holy Land today? See through the eyes of an American Lutheran pastor who has spent years of her life dedicated to the people there that she grew to love. She worked on the ground in Jerusalem, Ramallah and other parts of the West ..
Why We're Polarized
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Discover how American politics became a toxic system, why we participate in it, and what it means for our future--from journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein. After Election Day 2016, both supporters and opponents of the soon-to-be president hailed his victory as a hist..
Winds of Change
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Recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa have radically destabilised the region, which is beset with rising religious and political tensions, sectarian conflict and terrorism. It is a region in crisis and suffering from a paralysis of will. However, it is also vastly rich in culture a..
Woman's Place
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The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the US approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. While the analysis of these developments is rich and vast, there remains a significant void. The diverse actors contributing to ..
Women Resisting Sexual Violence and the Egyptian R...
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Women were at the forefront of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, with the Arab Spring protests providing an unprecedented opportunity to make their voices heard. But these women also faced an intense backlash from Egypt’s patriarchal authorities, with female activists subjected to sexual violence and..
WTF?
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There has been a people's revolt against the way the West has been run. Brexit, Trump, the recent British and French elections saw millions of people shouting that they were sick to death of things never getting better. In WTF Robert Peston gives us his highly personal account of what those who have..
You Cant Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny,...
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What happens when we can’t joke about some of the most important stuff in life? In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing their views would alienate them from the people they care about most. Those people should probably not read this book in public. In Yo..
Genocide Bad
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Part activist memoir, part crash course in Jewish and Palestinian history, Genocide Bad dismantles Zionist propaganda and maps a course towards collective liberation in ten unapologetic essays. Part activist memoir, part crash course in Jewish and Palestinian history, Genocide Bad&nbs..
The Message
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In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book’s banning, ..