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Outcast Europe

Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War 1936-48

By: Sharif Gemie,Laure Humbert,Fiona Reid

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Outcast Europe

Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War 1936-48

By: Sharif Gemie,Laure Humbert,Fiona Reid

An original perspective on the experience of refugees and relief workers.

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A&C Black

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1441102442

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9781441102447

Women's Writing and Muslim Societies

The Search for Dialogue, 1920 - Present

By: Sharif Gemie

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Women's Writing and Muslim Societies

The Search for Dialogue, 1920 - Present

By: Sharif Gemie

An analysis of a hundred prominent, commercially successful works by women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, concerning Muslim living in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the UK and the USA.

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196

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University of Wales Press

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0708325416

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9780708325414

French Muslims

New Voices in Contemporary France

By: Sharif Gemie

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French Muslims

New Voices in Contemporary France

By: Sharif Gemie

This book provides a detailed analysis of the political arguments about the place of Muslims in contemporary France, and also discusses the ideas put forward by a range of Muslim thinkers. France has become the setting for one of the most important conflicts in the modern world. On the one hand, it possesses a rigidly organized, centralized state, whose bureaucrats and civil servants are animated by a code of secular activism. On the other hand, France is also the home for Europe's largest Muslim minority, variously estimated at numbering between four and six million people. This means that in terms of simple numbers, France can be counted as the world's fifteenth Islamic power. Previous conflicts with religion have left a deep impression on French political culture: from the sixteenth and seventeenth-century conflicts between Catholics and Protestants played to the formation of the collaborationist Vichy government in 1940. In recent decades, Muslims have been stigmatized as an irreconcilable minority unable to adapt to the secular culture of the majority of French citizens. This work draws out the political implications of the current conflict. It is based on events and publications produced in a single five year period, beginning with the shock of the 2002 Presidential elections, in which Le Pen was the second most successful candidate, ranging through the legislation of March 2004 which banned the Islamic headscarf from French state schools, and which sparked off a series of bad-tempered exchanges between left and right-wing French nationalists, anti-racism campaigners, secularists, anti-clericals and a variety of Muslim authors.

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University of Wales Press

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0708323189

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9780708323182

Women's Writing and Muslim Societies

The Search for Dialogue, 1920-present

By: Sharif Gemie

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Women's Writing and Muslim Societies

The Search for Dialogue, 1920-present

By: Sharif Gemie

Women’s Writing and Muslim Societies looks at the rise in works concerning Muslim societies by both western and Muslim women – from pioneering female travellers like Freya Stark and Edith Wharton in the early twentieth century, whose accounts of the Orient were usually playful and humorous, to the present day and such works as Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran and Betty Mahmoody’s Not Without My Daughter, which present a radically different view of Muslim Societies marked by fear, hostility and even disgust. The author, Sharif Gemie, also considers a new range of female Muslim writers whose works suggest a variety of other perspectives that speak of difficult journeys, the problems of integration, identity crises and the changing nature of Muslim cultures; in the process, this volume examines varied journeys across cultural, political and religious borders, discussing the problems faced by female travellers, the problems of trans-cultural romances and the difficulties of constructing dialogue between enemy camps.

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University of Wales Press

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1783165413

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9781783165414

French Muslims

New Voices in Contemporary France

By: Sharif Gemie

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New Voices in Contemporary France

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251

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University of Wales Press

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1783165979

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9781783165971

The hippie trail

A history

By: Sharif Gemie,Brian Ireland

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The hippie trail

A history

By: Sharif Gemie,Brian Ireland

This is the first history of the Hippie Trail. It records the joys and pains of budget travel to Kathmandu, India, Afghanistan and other ‘points east’ in the 1960s and 1970s. Written in a clear, simple style, it provides detailed analysis of the motivations and the experiences of hundreds of thousands of hippies who travelled eastwards. The book is structured around four key debates: were the travellers simply motivated by a search for drugs? Did they encounter love or sexual freedom on the road? Were they basically just tourists? Did they resemble pilgrims? It also considers how the travellers have been represented in films, novels and autobiographical accounts, and will appeal to those interested in the Trail or the 1960s counterculture, as well as students taking courses relating to the 1960s.

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Manchester University Press

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1526114631

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9781526114631

The Hippie Trail

A History, 1957-78

By: Sharif Gemie,Brian Ireland

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The Hippie Trail

A History, 1957-78

By: Sharif Gemie,Brian Ireland

Tracing the history of the Hippie Trail and those who followed it, this book explores the motivations and experiences of these young travellers, mapping their everyday interactions with locals and the joys and hardships of independent budget travel.

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1526114623

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9781526114624

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Outcast Europe

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Women's Writing and Muslim Societies

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Women's Writing and Muslim Societies

French Muslims

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