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New Approaches to Migration?
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 170.00This book critically evaluates the transnational communities approach to contemporary international migration. It does so through a specific focus on the relationship between 'transnational communities' and 'home'. The meaning of 'home' for international migrants is changing and evolving, as new globally-oriented identities are developed. These issues... more...
Iraqi Women
Zed Books 2007; US$ 28.95Nadje Al-Ali challenges the myths and misconceptions which have dominated debates about Iraqi women, bringing a much needed gender perspective to bear on the central political issue of our time. She traces the political history of Iraq from post-colonial independence, to the emergence of a womens movement in the 1950s and Saddam Husseins... more...
Women and War in the Middle East
Zed Books 2009; US$ 32.95Women and War in the Middle East provides a critical examination of the relationship between gender and transnationalism in the context of war, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East. more...
What Kind of Liberation?
University of California Press 2008; US$ 22.95In the run-up to war in Iraq, the Bush administration assured the world that America's interest was in liberation?especially for women. The first book to examine how Iraqi women have fared since the invasion, What Kind of Liberation? reports from the heart of the war zone with dire news of scarce resources, growing unemployment, violence, and seclusion.... more...
Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 32.00Challenging recent scholarship which has dwelt on Islamic activism, Nadje Al-Ali explores the anthropological and political significance of secular-oriented activism by focusing on the women's movement in Egypt. The author frames her work around current theoretical debates in Middle Eastern and post-colonial scholarship and interviews with members... more...
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