Syracuse University Press: 176 books
Other People's Diasporas
Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
With the economic rise of the "Celtic Tiger" in the 1990s, Irish culture was deeply impacted by a concurrent rise in immigration. A nation tending to see itself as a land of emigrants now saw waves of newcomers. Moynihan takes as her central question a formulation by sociologist Steve Garner: "What...
Anxiety of Erasure
Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Far from offering another study that bemoans Arab women’s repression and veiling, Anxiety of Erasure looks at Arab women writers living in the diaspora who have translated their experiences into a productive and creative force. In this book, Al-Samman articulates the therapeutic effects of revisiting...
by Yirmi Pinkus
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Winner of The Israel Institute's Literary Prize
As they do every year, Yosef Zinman, a well-to-do Tel Aviv grocer, and his beloved wife Zippi plan a vacation during the holiday of Sukkot to Seefeld in the mountainous Tirols region of Austria. This year, Zippi decides to invite her sister, who has...
Mirror for the Muslim Prince
Islam and the Theory of Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In this volume, a group of distinguished scholars reinterpret concepts and canons of Islamic thought in Arab, Persian, South Asian, and Turkish traditions. They demonstrate that there is no unitary "Islamic" position on important issues of statecraft and governance. They recognize that Islam is a...
Pragmatism in Islamic Law
A Social and Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate the changing needs of society. Since the formative period of Islamic law, jurists have debated whether it is acceptable for a law to be selected based on...
Israelites in Erin
Exodus, Revolution, and the Irish Revival
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
From the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century, the story of the Israelites’ liberation from bondage in Egypt served as the archetypal narrative for the birth of the Irish nation. Exodus was critical to both colonial and anticolonial conceptions of Ireland and Irishness. Although...
Legends Never Die
Athletes and their Afterlives in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
With every touchdown, home run, and three-pointer, star athletes represent an American dream that only an elite group blessed with natural talent can achieve. However, Kimball concentrates on what happens once these modern warriors meet their untimely demise. As athletes die, legends rise in their...
The Rotinonshonni
A Traditional Iroquoian History through the Eyes of Teharonhia:wako and Sawiskera
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
In The Rotinonshonni Through the Eyes of Teharonhia:wako and Sawiskera, Brian ‘Natoway’ Rice seeks to offer a comprehensive history based on the oral traditions of the Rotinonshonni (people of the longhouse). The book has its origins in Rice’s study with traditional Cayuga royaner Jacob Thomas,...
by Janjira Sombatpoonsiri
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
"If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide," wrote
the late Mahatma Gandhi, expressing the potent power of humor to sustain and
uplift. Less obvious is humor’s ability to operate as a cunning weapon in nonviolent
protest movements. Over the last few decades, activists...
by Bensalem Himmich
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
In this harrowing novel, a young Moroccan bookseller is falsely accused of being
involved in jihadist activities. Drugged and carried off the street, Hamuda is
"extraordinarily rendered" to a prison camp in an unknown location where he
is interrogated and subjected to various methods of torture.
Narrated...
by Sahar Mandour
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In this finely observed novel, five young Lebanese women navigate their professional and social lives in a city interrupted by random explosions. It is not a war zone, but there is no peace either; Beirut stands at the edge of both. These women, much like their country, have been shaped by the events...
Who Will Die Last
Stories of Life in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
"Who Will Die Last?" is a collection of David Ehrlich’s short stories originally written in Hebrew and each translated by a different person. The translators are writers, teachers, activists, doctors, or rabbis, and they all bring a unique voice to stories of life and the search for meaning within...
Gene Basset’s Vietnam Sketchbook
A Cartoonist’s Wartime Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
In 1965, Gene Basset, a well-known political cartoonist, was sent to Vietnam
by his newspaper publishing syndicate. His assignment: to sketch scenes of the
increasingly controversial war in order to help the newspaper-reading public
better understand the events occurring in Southeast Asia.
In much...
Sports Business Unplugged
Leadership Challenges from the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
For more than seven years, the incisive commentary of Burton and O’Reilly has graced the pages of SportsBusiness Journal, the industry’s leading trade journal. Now, fifty of their most recent columns are collected in one volume, providing thoughtful and deeply knowledgeable insight into many of...