Syracuse University Press: 176 books
by Mariz Tadros
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
On December 20, 2011, Egyptian women of all ages and backgrounds—urban and rural, working class and upper class—came out in force to Cairo’s Tahrir Square in one of the largest uprisings in the country’s history. The demonstrators gathered as citizens and likewise as women demanding social...
by Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
The Iranian Constitutional Revolution was the twentieth century’s first such political movement in the Middle East. It represented a landmark in Iranian history because of the unlikely support it received from Shi‘ite clerics who historically viewed Western concepts with suspicion, some claiming...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Mohammad Mosaddeq is widely regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran's modern history. Mosaddeq became prime minister of Iran in May 1951 and promptly nationalized its British-controlled oil industry, initiating a bitter confrontation between...
by Thomas Philipp
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Jurji Zaidan was one of the leading thinkers of the Arab renaissance.
Through his historical novels, his widely read journal, al-Hilal, which is still
published today, and his scholarly works, he forged a new cultural Arab
identity. In this book, Philipp shows how Zaidan popularized the idea of
society...
TV on Strike
Why Hollywood Went To War Over the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
On November 9, 2007, the Avenue of the Stars, a six-lane concourse that runs through the most affluent business district in Los Angeles, was swelling with striking writers and their supporters. It was day five of the Writers Guild of America strike against film and television production entities,...
Political Acts
Women in Northern Irish Theatre, 1921-2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921, theatre has often captured and reflected the political, social, and cultural changes that the North has experienced. From the mid–twentieth century, theatre has played a particularly important role in documenting women’s experiences...
Shahaama
Five Egyptian Men Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Nayra Atiya gathered the oral histories of five Egyptian men: a fisherman, an attorney, a scholar, a business- man, and a production manager. Through personal interviews over the course of several years, Atiya intimately captured the everyday triumphs and...
Graves of Upstate New York
A Guide to 100 Notable Resting Places, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Graves of Upstate New York presents a fascinating look at the lives and deaths of 100 legendary Americans who are laid to rest in Upstate New York. D’Imperio takes readers on a journey across the state, visiting an array of famous New York grave sites, from Mark Twain, Harriet Tubman, and James...
by Kim Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
"The Only Thing That Matters" is a collection of poems that engage with and expound upon the work of poet Fanny Howe. Through a specific process designed by the author, Jensen combines Howe’s words and her own to create entirely new poems that challenge our understanding of postmodernist work. The...
Interpreters of Occupation
Gender and the Politics of Belonging in an Iraqi Refugee Network
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror. Deployed by the military as linguistic as well as cultural interpreters—translating the "human terrain" of Iraq—members of this network urgently honed...
All Dressed Up
Modern Irish Historical Pageantry
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of significant historical, political, and religious events became increasingly popular—and increasingly grand—in Ireland. These public pageants, a sort of precursor to today’s opening ceremonies at the Olympic games, mobilized huge...
Helene Schweitzer
A Life of Her Own
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Born in Berlin, Helene Schweitzer came of age in Strasbourg during a time of great social, architectural, and historical developments. It was in this cultural milieu, as a history professor’s daughter, that Helene met a young pastor named Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) and developed a deep friendship...
by Lisa J. M. Poirier
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts. However, European invaders and indigenous people alike learned to negotiate the complexities of cross-cultural encounters...
The Bernal Story
Mediating Class and Race in a Multicultural Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
For eight years, the San Francisco neighborhood of Bernal Heights was
mired in controversy. Traditionally a working-class neighborhood known
for political activism and attention to community concern, Bernal house a
diverse population of Latino, Filipino, and European heritage. The branch
library,...