Zed Books imprint: 608 books

A Daughter of Isis

The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi

by Nawal El Saadawi
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

Volume one of the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, the Arab world's leading feminist. Paints a beautifully textured portrait of the childhood that moulded Saadawi into a novelist and fearless campaigner for freedom and the rights of women Combines Saadawi’s love of the Arabic...

God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels

God Dies by the Nile, Searching, The Circling Song

by Nawal El Saadawi
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

God Dies by the Nile is Saadawi’s attempt to square religion with a society in which women are respected as equals; Searching expresses the poignancy of loss and doubt with the hypnotic intensity of a remembered dream; while in The Circling Song, Saadawi pursues the conflicts of sex, class, gender and military violence deep into the psyche.

Walking through Fire

The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi

by Nawal El Saadawi
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

'Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.' Nawal El Saadawi is one of the greatest writers to come out of the Arab...

The Morality of China in Africa

The Middle Kingdom and the Dark Continent

by Jerry Liu, Patrick Mazimhaka
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013

Edited with authority by the influential and respected Stephen Chan, this unique collection of essays gathers together for the first time both African and Chinese perspectives on China's place in Africa. The book starts with an excellent introductory essay from Stephen Chan, written in his usual elegant...
by Hamid Dabashi
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015

'In Can Non-Europeans Think? Dabashi takes his subtle but vigorous polemic to another level.' Pankaj Mishra What happens to thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical pedigree? In this powerfully honed polemic, Hamid Dabashi argues that they are invariably marginalised, patronised...

Reclaiming the F Word

Feminism Today

by Catherine Redfern, Doctor Kristin Aune
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013

Feminism is so last century. Surely in today's world the idea is irrelevant and unfashionable? Wrong. Since the turn of the millennium a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge these assumptions. Based on a survey of over a thousand feminists, Reclaiming the F Word reveals the what,...

The Experiment

Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921

by Eric Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017

For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism. The experience of...

African Cities

Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

by Professor Garth Myers
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011

In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. He argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies....

Turkey

The Insane and the Melancholy

by Ece Temelkuran
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016

The author is one of Turkey’s most respected journalists and authors, as well as being an outspoken critic of the Erdogan regime. Written in a vivid, novelistic style which can appeal beyond the usual current affairs readership to reach a wider trade audience. Provides a unique...

The Arab Spring

The End of Postcolonialism

by Hamid Dabashi
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012

This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East. In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven...

Nigeria

A New History of a Turbulent Century

by Richard Bourne
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

‘If you want to understand Nigeria’s history in one succinct go, this is a very good choice.’ Noo Saro-Wiwa Known as the African Giant, Nigeria's story is complex and often contradictory. How, despite the ravages of colonialism, civil war, ongoing economic disappointment and most recently...

Solidarity

Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism

by David Featherstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012

Despite the frequency with which the word 'solidarity' is invoked the concept itself has rarely been subjected to close scrutiny. In this original and stereotype-busting work, David Featherstone helps redress this imbalance through an innovative combination of archival research, activist testimonies...

1997

The Future that Never Happened

by Richard Power Sayeed
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017

Provides an in-depth account of crucial events, ranging from the death of Diana to the Steven Lawrence inquest, as well as looking beyond politics to consider the role of music, art and popular culture Highly topical, not only in coinciding with the 20th anniversary of that year, but also...

The Global Minotaur

America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

by Yanis Varoufakis
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2015

'The emerging rock-star of Europe's anti-austerity uprising.' Daily Telegraph 'A spirited book.' New Yorker In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed...
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