April 6th, 2009

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Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood


Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood


$4.89


In 1940, harems still abounded in Fez, Morocco. They weren’t the opulent, bejeweled harems of Scherezade, but the domestic sprawl of extended families encamped around a walled courtyard that marked the edges of women’s lives. Though born into this tightly sheltered world, Fatimi Mernissi is constantly urged by her rebellious mother to spring beyond it. Worried that Mernissi is too shy and qu…

Wreckful's Run


Wreckful’s Run



The masterly new thriller from the author of The Bone Box is based on potentially explosive current international reality, as well as actual archeological finds of great magnitude. The Islamic Republic of Iran threatens to destroy ‘the great Satan’ America and wipe off the map ‘the little Satan’ Israel. Against this background, Avi “Wreckful” Inbar, an Israeli fighter pilot, flies a mission to bom…


Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People


Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People


$6.70


Countless movies have portrayed Arabs as loathsome lechers who terrorise, murder, and finally die in drovesl In Reel Bad Arabs film scholar Jack Shaheen exposes in fascinating detail this appalling side of the Hollywood ‘dream’ machine. This stupendous study dissects this slanderous history dating from cinema’s earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature Bedouin bandits, sini…


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