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This list of fiction and subsequent conflict of 2011, telecommunications and cable nonfiction books, compiled according to their own histories companies, and new media by Rachael Harkness of and relationship to Muammar models in the nineties. Now Portland Public Library Gaddafi's regime. more than fifty years after the provides a range of first publication, and twenty perspectives on the issues Dabashi, Hamid. The Arab years after the reissue, this raised by the POV Spring: The End of classic deserves a revisit as documentary Point and Postcolonialism. New York: media undergoes changes with Shoot. Palgrave Macmillian, 2012. the Internet. In this landmark book, Hamid Two-time Oscar® nominee Dabashi argues that the Prashad, Vijay. Arab Spring, Marshall Curry’s Point and revolutionary uprisings that Libyan Winter. Oakland, CA: Shoot rides shotgun with Matt have engulfed multiple countries AK Press Publishers, 2012. VanDyke, who films his self- and political climes from This brief, timely analysis transformation from a timid 26- Morocco to Iran and from Syria situates the assault on Libya in year-old to a motorcycle-driving to Yemen, were driven by a the context of the winds of rebel, fighting in the Libyan 'Delayed Defiance' - a point of revolt that swept through the revolution. A co-production of rebellion against domestic Middle East in the Spring of Marshall Curry Productions, tyranny and globalized 2011. Prashad explores the American Documentary | POV disempowerment alike - that recent history of the Gaddafi and ITVS. Winner, Best signifies no less than the end of regime, the social forces who Documentary Feature Award, Postcolonialism. opposed him, and the role of 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. the United Nations, NATO, and Gillmor, Dan. We the Media: the rest of the world's ADULT NONFICTION Grassroots Journalism by the superpowers in the bloody civil People, For the People. war that ensued. Ahmari, Sohrab and Nasser Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Weddady. Arab Spring Media, 2006. It is no secret Shirky, Clay. Here Comes Dreams: The Next that big media today is facing a Everybody: The Power of Generation Speaks Out for tidal wave of change with the Organizing Without Freedom and Justice from Internet. As readily available Organizations. New York: North Africa to Iran. New tools such as smartphones and Penguin, 2008. Examining the York: Palgrave Macmillian, blogs enable grassroots sea change in social 2012. From a gay man secretly journalists to publish in real organization enabled by new mourning his lover's suicide in time and bypass large media technology, Shirky highlights Morocco to a young woman organizations, columnist and the ramifications, as groups of denied schooling because of blogger Dan Gillmor sheds light unrelated people around the religious discrimination in Iran, on how the lines between globe are able to organize and Arab Spring Dreams spotlights “reader” and “journalist” are affect change. From online some of the Middle East's most blurred in the new future of activists, to Wikipedia editors to outspoken young dissidents. journalism. religious extremists, Shirky The essayists cover a wide attempts to pin down and study range of experiences, including Hilsum, Lindsey. Sandstorm: this technological phenomenon premarital sex, the lack of Libya in the Time of affecting social interactions and educational opportunities, Revolution. New York: The behavior. teenage marriage, and the fight Penguin Press, 2012. for political freedom. Interweaving Libya’s history of St. John, Ronald Bruce. colonialism, monarchy, and Libya: From Colony to Cole, Peter and Brian dictatorship with the stories of Independence. Oxford: McQuinn. The Libyan individuals living under the Oneworld Publications, Revolution and its Gaddafi regime, Hilsum takes us 2008. Libya’s past is often one Aftermath. New York: into a world previously unknown of subjection and foreign rule. Oxford University Press, until Gaddafi’s fall from power. From the ancient Greeks to 2015. This book offers a novel, Mussolini’s Italy, formal incisive and wide-ranging McLuhan, Marshall. independence did not come until account of Libya's '17 February Understanding Media: The 1951, when Gaddafi took power. Revolution' by tracing how Extensions of Man. St. John navigates this lengthy critical towns, communities and Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. history, and writes at a time political groups helped to shape Around the time of publishing of when Gaddafi’s regime made its course. Each community, McLuhan’s classic text, media overtures of détente with a wary whether geographical (e.g. was undergoing disruption: by West, bringing into context the Misrata, Zintan), television. In the thirtieth recent history preceding his tribal/communal (e.g. Beni anniversary reissue, Harper downfall. Walid) or political (e.g. the editor Lewis Lapham describes a Muslim Brotherhood) took its changing media landscape with own path into the uprisings and the mergers of

Delve Deeper into Point and Shoot A film by Marshall Curry

perspective of a child, dealing ADULT FICTION with both a private and public FICTION FOR YOUNGER nightmare in the face of a READERS Azzam, Fadi. Sarmada. repressive regime. London: Swallow Editions, Nye, Naomi Shihab. 19 2011. A cosmopolitan man Shimon, Samuel. Beirut 39. Varieties of Gazelle: Poems living in Paris, Rafi finds his New York, NY: Bloomsbury, of the Middle East. New world shaken when he meets a 2010. Beirut 39 provides an York, NY: Greenwillow woman who claims she is the important look at the Arab- Books, 2002. Fowzi, who reincarnation of a woman speaking world today, through beats everyone at dominoes; murdered in an honor killing. the eyes of thirty-nine of its Ibtisam, who wanted to be a Moved by her story, Rafi goes to brightest young literary stars. doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who the woman’s town of Sarmada, knows every eggplant and a fictional town in Syria. There, peach in his West Bank garden; he discovers a deep web of NONFICTION FOR YOUNGER mysterious Uncle Mohammed, secrets, desires, and beauty in READERS who moved to the mountain; a this town of coexisting religions. girl in a red sweater dangling a Haerens, Margaret, and Lynn book bag; children in velvet Al-Koni, Ibrahim. The M. Zott. The Arab Spring. dresses who haunt the candy Bleeding of the Stone. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, bowl at the party; Baba Northampton, MA: Interlink 2013. This volume in the Kamalyari, age 71; Mr. Dajani Publishing Group, 2002. The Opposing Viewpoints series and his swans; Sitti Khadra, moufflon, a wild sheep prized explores the topic of the Arab who never lost her peace inside. for its meat, continues to Spring, the revolutionary wave Maybe they have something to survive in the remote mountain of demonstrations and protests tell us. desert of southern Libya. Only occurring in the Arab world that Asouf, a lone bedouin who began in late 2010, by cherishes the desert and presenting varied expert Stolz, Joelle. The Shadows of identifies with its creatures, opinions that examine many of Ghadames. New York, NY: knows exactly where it is to be the different aspects that Delacorte Books for Young found. Now he and the moufflon surround this issue. Readers, 2004. At the end of together come under threat the 19th Century, in the Libyan from hunters who have already Marston, Elsa. Santa Claus city of Ghadames, Malika slaughtered the once numerous in Bagdad and Other Stories watches her merchant father desert gazelles. The novel About Teens in the Arab depart on one of his caravan combines pertinent ecological World. Bloomington, IN: expeditions. She too yearns to issues with a moving portrayal Indiana University Press, travel to distant cities, and of traditional desert life and of 2008. What is it like to be a longs to learn to read like her the power of the human spirit to young person in the Arab world younger brother. But nearly 12 resist. today? This lively collection of years old, and soon to be of eight short stories about Arab marriagable age, Malika knows Matar, Hisham. Anatomy of teenagers living in Iraq, Tunisia, that—like all Muslim women— a Disappearance. New York: Egypt, the West Bank, Lebanon, she must be content with a Dial Press, 2011. Born into Syria, Jordan, and a Palestinian more secluded, more limited exile, eleven-year-old Nuri, the refugee camp engagingly life. Then one night a stranger son of worldly parents who fled depicts young people's enters her home . . . someone the revolution in their Arab experiences growing up in the who disrupts the traditional country, is transfixed along with Middle East. order of things—and who affects his widowed father by an Arab- Malika in unexpected ways. English woman who joins their Willis, Terri. Libya: family, a situation that is Enchantment of the World. complicated by Nuri's father's New York, NY: Children’s disappearance. Press, 2008. Describes the

geography, plants, animals, Matar, Hisham. In the history, economy, language, Country of Men. New York: sports, arts, religions, culture, Dial Press, 2006. In Libya in and people of the North African 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman country of Libya. navigates between Tripoli’s ruins, his father’s anti-Gaddafi activities, and his mother’s alcoholism. He only has his neighbor Kareem and father’s best friend Moosa as friends and confidants. Matar’s debut novel confronts the reader from the