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Baghdad Burning

Author : ʻĀliyah Mamdūḥ
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 1558614893
Pages : 324 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (614 users)

Download Baghdad Burning PDF Full or another Format written by ʻĀliyah Mamdūḥ and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In August 2003 a young Iraqi blogger began reporting her experiences as a civilian observer in Baghdad. Calling herself Riverbend, she has offered searing eyewitness accounts of daily life in the war zone and has garnered a worldwide audience hungry for unfiltered news and fresh analysis." "Riverbend's blog, Baghdad Burning, collected here for the first time, responds to events both personal and political - from the impact on her family of the invasion's aftermath to the Abu Ghraib prison abuses. She reveals for us most sharply the fate of Iraqi women, whose rights and freedoms are falling victim to rising fundamentalisms." "Describing the reality of regime change in Iraq in a voice at turns outraged, witty, and deeply moving, Riverbend is a witness to the recent events that are shaping the future of her homeland."--BOOK JACKET.

Baghdad Burning II

Author : Riverbend
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2009-05-01
ISBN 10 : 9781558616349
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (558 users)

Download Baghdad Burning II PDF Full or another Format written by Riverbend and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riverbend, the young Iraqi woman whose “articulate, even poetic prose packs an emotional punch,” continues her blog from her hometown of Baghdad (The New York Times). Riverbend, the pseudonymous recipient of a Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Literary Reportage, continues her chronicle of daily life in occupied Baghdad. Drawn from her popular blog, this volume spans from October 2004 through March 2006. In her distinctively wry yet urgent prose Riverbend, now 27, tells of life in a middle-class, secular, mixed Shia-Sunni family. She describes the attacks she sees on TV, raids in her neighborhood, fuel shortages, rolling blackouts, and water shortages, all while offering insightful critiques of the Iraqi draft constitution and American Media. Riverbend reveals how, for the first time in her life, she feels lesser due to her gender. Dispelling reductive, media-driven stereotypes, she explains that most Iraqis are tolerant people, prefer secular to religious government, oppose a civil war, and desperately want the occupation to end.

Baghdad Burning

Author : Riverbend
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 0714531332
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (531 users)

Download Baghdad Burning PDF Full or another Format written by Riverbend and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable young Iraqi woman gives a human face to war in Iraq. The Riverbend blog is recognised around the world as a crucial source of information not available through the mainstream media.

Baghdad Burning

Author : Riverbend
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2005-04-01
ISBN 10 : 9781558616165
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (558 users)

Download Baghdad Burning PDF Full or another Format written by Riverbend and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the fall of Bagdad, women’s voices have been largely erased, but four months after Saddam Hussein’s statue fell, a 24 year-old woman from Baghdad began blogging. In 2003, a twenty-four-year-old woman from Baghdad began blogging about life in the city under the pseudonym Riverbend. Her passion, honesty, and wry idiomatic English made her work a vital contribution to our understanding of post-war Iraq—and won her a large following. Baghdad Burning is a quotidian chronicle of Riverbend’s life with her family between April 2003 and September of 2004. She describes rolling blackouts, intermittent water access, daily explosions, gas shortages and travel restrictions. She also expresses a strong stance against the interim government, the Bush administration, and Islamic fundamentalists like Al Sadr and his followers. Her book “offers quick takes on events as they occur, from a perspective too often overlooked, ignored or suppressed” (Publishers Weekly). “Riverbend is bright and opinionated, true, but like all voices of dissent worth remembering, she provides an urgent reminder that, whichever governments we struggle under, we are all the same.” —Booklist “Feisty and learned: first-rate reading for any American who suspects that Fox News may not be telling the whole story.” —Kirkus

Legacy of Iraq

Author : Benjamin Isakhan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-12
ISBN 10 : 9780748696178
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (748 users)

Download Legacy of Iraq PDF Full or another Format written by Benjamin Isakhan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Legacy of Iraq' critically reflects on the abject failure of the 2003 intervention to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy, underpinned by free-market capitalism, its citizens free to live in peace and prosperity. It argues that mistakes made by the coalition and the Iraqi political elite set a sequence of events in motion that have had devastating consequences for Iraq, the Middle East and for the rest of the world. Today, as the nation faces perhaps its greatest challenge in the wake of the devastating advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and another US-led coalition undertakes renewed military action in Iraq, understanding the complex and difficult legacies of the 2003 war could not be more urgent. Ignoring the legacies of the Iraq war and denying their connection to contemporary events could means that vital lessons are ignored and the same mistakes made again.

War Without End

Author : Michael Schwartz
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Release Date : 2016-12-05
ISBN 10 : 9781608460540
Pages : 320 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (68 users)

Download War Without End PDF Full or another Format written by Michael Schwartz and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Schwartz gets behind the headlines, revealing the real dynamics of the Iraq debacle and its legacy.

The W Effect

Author : Laura Flanders
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 1558614710
Pages : 324 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (614 users)

Download The W Effect PDF Full or another Format written by Laura Flanders and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and essential collection, Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd, Maria Hinojosa, and a host of other frontline thinkers, journalists, and activists employ wit, outrage, and cold, hard facts to expose the "W Effect,"a comprehensive incursion into women's rights. In recent years, women around the globe have come under attack-both literally, in the case of war and punitive repression, and more subtly, in the case of eroded rights and economic power. Yet this dangerous trend has not, to date, been comprehensively documented and deconstructed-in part because women are finding it harder to gain access to the mainstream media. Both a harsh reality check and a hopeful starting point for new action, The W Effect brings together the premier feminist voices to provide cutting-edge reports; fresh, empowering analyses; and engaging, provocative ideas for the future-including a resource guide for information and activism. At this pivotal time, The W Effect is a necessary book for feminists of all ages and genders, for all progressive activists, for students, and for anyone interested in current politics and the future of women's rights and women's lives in America and around the world. With reports on: affirmative action, the Patriot Act, welfare "reform," sexual freedom, reproductive rights, the impact of the religious right, education funding and Title IX, public health policy, globalization, international HIV/AIDS policy, the International Court and the U.N., and more. Journalist and broadcaster Laura Flanders was the founder of the Women's Desk at FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), where, for 10 years, she hosted the syndicated radio program CounterSpin. Flanders currently hosts "Working Assets Radio" and is a contributor to The Nation, The Progressive, Ms. and In These Times. She is the author of Real Majority, Media Minority, The Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting and Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (April 2003).

Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media

Author : John D. H. Downing
Publisher : SAGE
Release Date : 2011
ISBN 10 : 9780761926887
Pages : 633 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (761 users)

Download Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media PDF Full or another Format written by John D. H. Downing and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging all communication media this one-volume encyclopedia includes around 250 essays on the varied experiences of social movement media internationally in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Imagining Iraq

Author : Suman Gupta
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2011-01-19
ISBN 10 : 9780230298118
Pages : 210 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (23 users)

Download Imagining Iraq PDF Full or another Format written by Suman Gupta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the run-up to, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts addressing that context were produced, circulated and viewed as taking a position for or against the invasion, or contributing political insights. This book provides an in-depth survey of such texts to examine what they reveal about the condition of literature.

Iraqi Women

Author : Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-07-04
ISBN 10 : 9781848137127
Pages : 242 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (848 users)

Download Iraqi Women PDF Full or another Format written by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war in Iraq has put the condition of Iraqi women firmly on the global agenda. For years, their lives have been framed by state oppression, economic sanctions and three wars. Now they must play a seminal role in reshaping their country's future for the twenty-first century. Nadje Al-Ali challenges the myths and misconceptions which have dominated debates about Iraqi women, bringing a much needed gender perspective to bear on the central political issue of our time. Based on life stories and oral histories of Iraqi women, she traces the history of Iraq from post-colonial independence, to the emergence of a women's movement in the 1950s, Saddam Hussein's early policy of state feminism to the turn towards greater social conservatism triggered by war and sanctions. Yet, the book also shows that, far from being passive victims, Iraqi women have been, and continue to be, key social and political actors. Following the invasion, Al-Ali analyses the impact of occupation and Islamist movements on women's lives and argues that US-led calls for liberation has led to a greater backlash against Iraqi women.

Persuasive Acts

Author : Shari Stenberg
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2020-03-03
ISBN 10 : 9780822987512
Pages : 464 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (822 users)

Download Persuasive Acts PDF Full or another Format written by Shari Stenberg and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina’s state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the state capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first-century woman rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, and everyday social media users, who give new meaning to Aristotle’s ubiquitous definition of rhetoric as the discovery of the “available means of persuasion.” Women’s persuasive acts from the first two decades of the twenty-first century include new technologies and repurposed old ones, engaged not only to persuade, but also to tell their stories, to sponsor change, and to challenge cultural forces that repress and oppress. Persuasive Acts: Women’s Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century gathers an expansive array of voices and texts from well-known figures including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, Michelle Obama, Lindy West, Sonia Sotomayor, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, so that readers may converse with them, and build rhetorics of their own. Editors Shari J. Stenberg and Charlotte Hogg have complied timely and provocative rhetorics that represent critical issues and rhetorical affordances of the twenty-first century.

The Emotional Politics of Racism

Author : Paula Ioanide
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-20
ISBN 10 : 9780804795487
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (84 users)

Download The Emotional Politics of Racism PDF Full or another Format written by Paula Ioanide and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against Black, Latino, Arab and Muslim people in the United States, even as a majority of citizens claim to support "colorblindness" and racial equality. With this book, Paula Ioanide examines how emotion has prominently figured into these contemporary expressions of racial discrimination and violence. How U.S. publics dominantly feel about crime, terrorism, welfare, and immigration often seems to trump whatever facts and evidence say about these politicized matters. Though four case studies—the police brutality case of Abner Louima; the exposure of torture at Abu Ghraib; the demolition of New Orleans public housing units following Hurricane Katrina; and a proposed municipal ordinance to deny housing to undocumented immigrants in Escondido, CA—Ioanide shows how racial fears are perpetuated, and how these widespread fears have played a central role in justifying the expansion of our military and prison system and the ongoing divestment from social welfare. But Ioanide also argues that within each of these cases there is opportunity for new mobilizations, for ethical witnessing: we must also popularize desires for justice and increase people's receptivity to the testimonies of the oppressed by reorganizing embodied and unconscious structures of feeling.

Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture

Author : Basuli Deb
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2014-11-13
ISBN 10 : 9781317632108
Pages : 213 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (317 users)

Download Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture PDF Full or another Format written by Basuli Deb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book revisits other such racialized wars in Palestine, Guatemala, India, Algeria, and South Africa. It draws widely on postcolonial literature, photography, films, music, interdisciplinary arts, media/new media, and activism, joining the larger conversation about human rights by addressing the problem of a pervasive public misunderstanding of terrorism conditioned by a foreign and domestic policy perspective. Deb provides an alternative understanding of terrorism as revolutionary dissent against injustice through a postcolonial/transnational lens. The volume brings counter-terror narratives into dialogue with ideologies of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, class, and religion, addressing the situation of women as both perpetrators and targets of torture, and the possibilities of a dialogue between feminist and queer politics to confront securitized regimes of torture. This book explores the relationship in which social and cultural texts stand with respect to legacies of colonialism and neo-imperialism in a world of transnational feminist solidarities against postcolonial wars on terror.

Ethics, Ethnocentrism and Social Science Research

Author : Divya Sharma
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-29
ISBN 10 : 9781000282658
Pages : 238 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 ( users)

Download Ethics, Ethnocentrism and Social Science Research PDF Full or another Format written by Divya Sharma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the ethical and methodological issues that researchers face while conducting cross-cultural social research. With globalization and advanced means of communication and transportation, many researchers conduct research in cross-cultural, multicultural, and transnational settings. Through a range of case studies, and drawing on a range of disciplinary expertise, this book addresses the ethics, errors, and ethnocentrism of conducting law and crime related research in settings where power differences, as well as stereotypes, may come into play. Including chapters from scholars across cultures and settings – including Greece, Canada, Vienna, South Africa, India, and the United States – this book provides an invaluable survey of the issues attending cross-cultural social justice research today. Engaging issues confronted by all cross-cultural researchers this book will be invaluable to those working across the social sciences as well as professionals in criminal justice and social work.

IMuslims

Author : Gary R. Bunt
Publisher : The Other Press
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 10 : 9789839541694
Pages : 376 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (839 users)

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Crisis and Terror in the Age of Anxiety

Author : Luke Howie
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2017-04-20
ISBN 10 : 9781137516299
Pages : 246 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (137 users)

Download Crisis and Terror in the Age of Anxiety PDF Full or another Format written by Luke Howie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book confronts the issues young people face growing up in the confusion and anxiety of today’s highly global society. Young people face their futures consumed with feelings of doubt, uncertainty and ambivalence. The Global Financial Crisis and the rise of the Islamic State means young people are transitioning into adulthood in a time that we call an age of anxiety. They may be the first generation to have fewer opportunities than their parents yet, despite this, they are learning to imagine other kinds of futures. These are futures where economic collapse provides opportunities for entrepreneurialism and innovation, where Islamic State does not need to pose a clear and present danger, and where political action provides hope for a better world. Dealing with the current political and economic climate and progressive campaigns such as Black Lives Matter, Howie and Campbell tackle some of the biggest threats to the future of society. An innovative and wide-reaching study, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of human geography, disaster studies, politics, and sociology.

Iraq's Modern Arabic Literature

Author : Salih J. Altoma
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2010-10-14
ISBN 10 : 0810877066
Pages : 184 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (877 users)

Download Iraq's Modern Arabic Literature PDF Full or another Format written by Salih J. Altoma and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers 60 years of translations, studies, and other writings, which represent Iraq's national literature, including recent works of numerous Iraqi writers living in Western exile. By drawing attention to a largely overlooked but relevant and extensive literature accessible in English, it will serve as an invaluable guide to students of contemporary Iraq, modern Arabic literature and other fields such as women's studies, postcolonial studies, third world literature, American-Arab/Muslim Relations, and disapora studies.