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The Intelligence State in Tunisia

Security and Mukhabarat, 1881-1965

By: Omar Safi

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The Intelligence State in Tunisia

Security and Mukhabarat, 1881-1965

By: Omar Safi

For most Arab regimes, intelligence, security apparatus and the secret services, are central to their domestic politics. Yet despite this, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the relationship between intelligence and politics in any Arab state. This book examines how security apparatus and intelligence influenced the domestic politics of Tunisia, from the implementation of French Protectorate in 1881 to the aftermath of the independence up to 1965. Based on unprecedented access to the sources of the Ministry of Interior and the First Ministry during Bourguiba's regime, as well as the national, diplomatic and military archives of France, Italy and the United Kingdom, the book is the first to trace the evolution of the Tunisian security community. Omar Safi argues that from an apparatus designed to maintain colonial control, intelligence became an instrument to drive the political agendas of the ruling elite. The book sheds new light on the influence of intelligence, presenting it as the fundamental, and generally ignored, 'missing dimension' of North African domestic politics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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183860572X

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9781838605728

Egypt's Beer

Stella, Identity, and the Modern State

By: Omar D. Foda

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Egypt's Beer

Stella, Identity, and the Modern State

By: Omar D. Foda

Although alcohol is generally forbidden in Muslim countries, beer has been an important part of Egyptian identity for much of the last century. Egypt’s Stella beer (which only coincidentally shares a name with the Belgian beer Stella Artois) became a particularly meaningful symbol of the changes that occurred in Egypt after British Occupation. Weaving cultural studies with business history, Egypt’s Beer traces Egyptian history from 1880 to 2003 through the study of social, economic, and technological changes that surrounded the production and consumption of Stella beer in Egypt, providing an unparalleled case study of economic success during an era of seismic transformation. Delving into archival troves—including the papers of his grandfather, who for twenty years was CEO of the company that produced Stella—Omar D. Foda explains how Stella Beer achieved a powerful presence in all popular forms of art and media, including Arabic novels, songs, films, and journalism. As the company’s success was built on a mix of innovation, efficient use of local resources, executive excellence, and shifting cultural dynamics, this is the story of the rise of a distinctly Egyptian “modernity” seen through the lens of a distinctly Egyptian brand.

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University of Texas Press

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1477319557

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9781477319550

Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan

By: Omar Sadr

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Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan

By: Omar Sadr

This book analyses the problematique of governance and administration of cultural diversity within the modern state of Afghanistan and traces patterns of national integration. It explores state construction in twentieth-century Afghanistan and Afghan nationalism, and explains the shifts in the state’s policies and societal responses to different forms of governance of cultural diversity. The book problematizes liberalism, communitarianism, and multiculturalism as approaches to governance of diversity within the nation-state. It suggests that while the western models of multiculturalism have recognized the need to accommodate different cultures, they failed to engage with them through intercultural dialogue. It also elaborates the challenge of intra-group diversity and the problem of accommodating individual choice and freedom while recognising group rights and adoption of multiculturalism. The book develops an alternative approach through synthesising critical multiculturalism and interculturalism as a framework on a democratic and inclusive approach to governance of diversity. A major intervention in understanding a war-torn country through an insider account, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations, especially those concerned with multiculturalism, state-building, nationalism, and liberalism, as well as those in cultural studies, history, Afghanistan studies, South Asian studies, Middle East studies, minority studies, and to policymakers.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000760901

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9781000760903

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

A New Translation from the Persian

By: Omar Khayyam

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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

A New Translation from the Persian

By: Omar Khayyam

A repository of subversive, melancholic and existentialist themes and ideas, the rubaiyat (quatrains) that make up the collected poems attributed to the 12th century Persian astronomer Omar Khayyam have enchanted readers for centuries. In this modern translation, complete with critical introduction and epilogue, Juan Cole elegantly renders the verse for contemporary readers. Exploring such universal questions as the meaning of life, fate and how to live a good life in the face of human mortality, this translation reveals anew why this singular collection of poems has struck a chord with such a temporally and culturally diverse audience, from the wine houses of medieval Iran to the poets of Western twentieth century modernism.

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177

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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075560055X

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9780755600557

Queer Companions

Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan

By: Omar Kasmani

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Queer Companions

Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan

By: Omar Kasmani

In Queer Companions Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan’s most important site of Sufi pilgrimage. Conjoining queer theory and the anthropology of Islam, Kasmani outlines the felt and enfleshed ways in which saintly affections bind individuals, society, and the state in Pakistan through a public architecture of intimacy. Islamic saints become lovers and queer companions just as a religious universe is made valuable to critical and queer forms of thinking. Focusing on the lives of ascetics known as fakirs in Pakistan, Kasmani shows how the affective bonds with the place’s patron saint, a thirteenth-century antinomian mystic, foster unstraight modes of living in the present. In a national context where religious shrines are entangled in the state’s infrastructures of governance, coming close to saints further entails a drawing near to more-than-official histories and public forms of affect. Through various fakir life stories, Kasmani contends that this intimacy offers a form of queer world making with saints.

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128

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Duke University Press

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1478022655

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9781478022657

Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary

By: Omar Khalifah

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Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary

By: Omar Khalifah

The late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), has been represented in many major works of Egyptian literature and film, and continues to have a presence in everyday life and discourse in the country. Omar Khalifah's analysis of these representations focuses on how the historical character of Nasser has emerged in the Egyptian imaginary. He explores the recurrent images of Nasser in literature and film and shows how Nasser constitutes a perfect site for plural interpretations. He argues that Nasser has become a rhetorical device, a figure of speech, a trope that connotes specific images constantly invoked whenever he is mentioned. His study makes a case for literature and art to be seen as alternative archives that question, erase, distort and add to the official history of Nasser.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474410200

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9781474410205

Jerusalem in Muhammad’s Strategy

The Role of the Prophet Muhammad in the Conquest of Jerusalem

By: Abdallah Ma’rouf Omar

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Jerusalem in Muhammad’s Strategy

The Role of the Prophet Muhammad in the Conquest of Jerusalem

By: Abdallah Ma’rouf Omar

This book is the first to study the detailed political relationship between the Prophet Muhammad and Jerusalem in a number of Muslim sources. Usually, the study of this relationship in Muslim sources has always been limited to the oral traditions of the Prophet Muhammad on the virtues of Jerusalem, the Holy Land and al-Aqsa Mosque, in addition to Muhammad’s famous Night Journey. This book takes this issue in a new direction, revealing that the Prophet Muhammad was, in fact, the true planner of the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem that took place five years after his death. This conquest marked a major shift in the history of the Holy Land and changed the face of that region. This book opens the gate for understanding the way in which the Prophet Muhammad shaped the image of Jerusalem and built its status in the Muslim mind.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527537358

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9781527537354

The Intelligence State in Tunisia

Security and Mukhabarat, 1881-1965

By: Omar Safi

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Security and Mukhabarat, 1881-1965

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838605738

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9781838605735

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

By: Omar El Akkad

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

By: Omar El Akkad

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad, an urgent and necessary reckoning with what it means to live in the West today.

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1923059459

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A Tale of Two Omars

A Memoir of Family, Revolution, and Coming Out During the Arab Spring

By: Omar Sharif

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A Tale of Two Omars

A Memoir of Family, Revolution, and Coming Out During the Arab Spring

By: Omar Sharif

A powerful and essential memoir of self-discovery . . . Brimming with beautiful remembrances of his grandfather and terrifying stories of abuse and homophobia, this is an essential book that shines a much-needed light on the intersection of Arab and queer identity." —Abdi Nazemian, Lambda Literary Award–winning author of Like a Love Story, a Stonewall Honor Book The grandson of Hollywood royalty on his father’s side and Holocaust survivors on his mother’s, Omar Sharif Jr. learned early on how to move between worlds, from the Montreal suburbs to the glamorous orbit of his grandparents’ Cairo. His famous name always protected him wherever he went. When, in the wake of the Arab Spring, he made the difficult decision to come out in the pages of The Advocate, he knew his life would forever change. What he didn’t expect was the backlash that followed. From bullying, to illness, attempted suicide, becoming a victim of sex trafficking, death threats by the thousands, revolution and never being able to return to a country he once called home, Omar Sharif Jr. has overcome more challenges than one might imagine. Drawing on the lessons he learned from both sides of his family, A Tale of Two Omars charts the course of an iconoclastic life, revealing in the process the struggles and successes that attend a public journey of self-acceptance and a life dedicated in service to others.

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Catapult

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1640095586

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9781640095588

American War

By: Omar El Akkad

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American War

By: Omar El Akkad

Une nouvelle guerre a éclaté aux États-Unis opposant le Nord aux États sudistes rebelles à tout contrôle des énergies fossiles. Sarat Chestnut a six ans quand son père est tué et qu’elle doit rejoindre un camp de réfugiés avec sa famille. Cette tragédie signe la fin d’une enfance ensoleillée près du Mississippi. D’une fillette curieuse et vive, Sarat se mue au fil des épreuves et des injustices en une héroïne insaisissable, féroce, révoltée. Bientôt, sous l’influence d’un homme qui la prend sous son aile, elle se transformera en une impitoyable machine de guerre. Portrait d’un conflit dévastateur qui détruit l’espoir et l’humain sur son passage, American War fait écho à toutes les luttes fratricides qui naissent aux quatre coins du monde.

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Flammarion

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2081411563

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Book's by Omar Safi

The Intelligence State in Tunisia

The Intelligence State in Tunisia

Egypt's Beer

Egypt's Beer

Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan

Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

Queer Companions

Queer Companions

Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary

Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary

Jerusalem in Muhammad’s Strategy

Jerusalem in Muhammad’s Strategy

The Intelligence State in Tunisia

The Intelligence State in Tunisia

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

A Tale of Two Omars

A Tale of Two Omars

American War

American War

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