Islamic Titles Spring 2019 {IPG} The Gift of Ramadan Rabiah York Lumbard, Laura K. Horton Summary Sophia wants to fast for Ramadan this year. She tries to keep busy throughout the day so she won’t think about food. But when the smell of cookies is too much, she breaks her fast early. How can she be part of the festivities now? Contributor Bio Rabiah York Lumbard is an American Muslim author of several award-winning picture books including Albert Whitman & Company Angels , Everyone Prays , and Pine and the Winter Sparrow . Her debut YA novel, What They Hide , will be 9780807529065 published by Random House in 2019. She currently lives in Qatar. Laura K. Horton is a freelance illustrator Pub Date: 4/1/19 On Sale Date: 4/1/19 with a passion for family, creativity, and imagination. She earned her BFA in illustration and animation from $16.99/£14.99 UK the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. When not working, she enjoys drinking tea, reading, and game Discount Code: LON designing. 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His intent was to bring the very best of the Arabic world—scholars, government bureaucrats, architects, educators, commercial knowhow, poets, and artisans—to Mosaic Press his massive kingdom. Effectively, he was to transform his kingdom to become a leading force in the world. He 9781771614047 succeeded, indeed, and his pilgrimage brought his Malian kingdom to the attention of Europe. For the next Pub Date: 5/10/19 On Sale Date: 5/10/19 two centuries, Italian, German, and Spanish cartographers produced new maps of the world showing the vital $18.95 routes which connected Africa to Arabia. Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback Contributor Bio 260 Pages Jean-Louis Roy is the author of numerous books including The Age of Diversity: The New Cultural Map and Carton Qty: 48 Ontario in Transition . He has served as President of the International Partnership and the Centre de la History / Africa HIS001050 Francophonie in the Americas. He was Director of Le Devoir before being appointed Québec’s Delegate General in Paris, a post he held until 1990. from 1990 to 1998 he was Secretary General of the Agence de la 9 in H | 6 in W Francophonie in Paris. Jean-Louis Roy is currently a visiting researcher at the Public Law Research Centre of the University of Montreal (CRDP). Rebuilding Islam in Contemporary Spain The Politics of Mosque Establishment, 1976-2013 Avi Astor Summary Following Spain’s democratic transition during the late 1970s, political and business elites strategically exploited Spain’s rich Islamic heritage in order to further projects of national redefinition, tourist promotion, and urban revitalization. Toward the onset of the 21st century, however, tensions surrounding Islam’s growing presence in Spain became increasingly common. These tensions centered largely around the presence, or proposed establishment, of mosques in Barcelona and its greater metropolitan area. This book examines how Islam went from being an aspect of Spain’s national heritage to a pressing social Sussex Academic Press problem to be managed and controlled. The core of Rebuilding Islam in Contemporary Spain centers on the 9781845199661 shifting political and social dynamics surrounding the establishment of mosques, and the question of why Pub Date: 1/1/19 On Sale Date: 1/1/19 anti-mosque mobilizations have been more prevalent and intense in Catalonia than other Spanish regions. $49.95 Revised Dissertation. Discount Code: 20 Trade Paperback Contributor Bio 222 Pages Avi Astor is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow with the Research Group on the Sociology of Religion (ISOR) in the Carton Qty: 24 Department of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He researches a variety of topics related History / Europe to religion, culture, and identity in contemporary Spain. His work has appeared in several prominent journals, HIS045000 Series: Sussex Studies in including Theory and Society, The International Migration Review, The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Spanish History and The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.5 in T | 0.7 lb Wt IPG Spring 2019 Islamic Titles - March 2019 Page 2 {IPG} The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava Thomas Schmidinger, Andrej Grubacic, Michael Schif... Summary In early 2018, Turkey invaded the autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin in Syria and is currently threatening to ethnically cleanse the region. Between 2012 and 2018, the “Mountain of the Kurds” (Kurd Dagh) had been one of the quietest regions in a country otherwise torn by civil war. 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Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback Contributor Bio 176 Pages Thomas Schmidinger is a political scientist and a cultural and social anthropologist. He is the secretary- Carton Qty: 68 general of the Austrian Society for the Promotion of Kurdology, coeditor of the Vienna Kurdish Studies History / Middle East HIS026000 Yearbook, and author of Rojava: Revolution, War and the Future of Syria's Kurds . Andrej Grubacic is the chair of the Anthropology and Social Change department at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.5 in T | 0.5 lb Wt books include Don't Mourn, Balkanize . Michael Schiffmann is a linguist, cultural scientist, translator, editor, and author. They Say We Are Infidels On the Run With Persecuted Christians in the Middle East Mindy Belz Summary The rise of ISIS and the murderous trail they have carved across the Middle East have brought the fate of thousands of Iraqi and Syrian Christians to the forefront of the news. This book, drawing on eye-witness accounts, brings that suffering into clear focus. Beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the book traces the story of the war, the occupation, and the resulting impact on Iraqi and Syrian churches, to the present day. The book traces the lives of key individuals and their families, as the author returns again and again, over a twelve year period. Lion Hudson Contributor Bio 9780745968674 Mindy Belz is an editor and journalist for WORLD Magazine. She has been reporting from on the ground in the Pub Date: 3/18/16 Middle East for over a decade. She lives in North Carolina, USA. $16.95/$22.95 Can./£12.99 UK/€14.99 EU Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback 344 Pages Carton Qty: 1 History / Middle East HIS026030 8.5 in H | 5.5 in W IPG Spring 2019 Islamic Titles - March 2019 Page 3 {IPG} Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East From European Colony to US Power Projection Platform Stephen Gowans Summary Washington has poured billions into Israel’s economy and military, and since 1967, Israel has undertaken innumerable operations on Washington’s behalf, against states that reject US supremacy and economic domination. The self-appointed Jewish state has become a watch-dog capable of sufficiently punishing neighboring countries discourteous towards the West. Stephen Gowans challenges the specious argument that Israel controls US foreign policy, tracing the development of the self-declared Jewish state through its efforts to suppress regional liberation movements integrated into the US empire as a pro-imperialist Sparta of the Middle East. Baraka Books 9781771861830 Contributor Bio Pub Date: 5/15/19 Stephen Gowans is an independent political analyst and author of two acclaimed books, Washington’s Long On Sale Date: 5/15/19 $24.95 War on Syria (2017) and Patriots, Traitors, and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom (2018), Discount Code: SHO both published by Baraka Books.