Zed Books: 608 books
A Daughter of Isis
The Early Life of 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...