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1) Infidel
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Language
English
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Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, the author's story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no story could be timelier or more significant. In this memoir she tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to...
Author
Publisher
Interlink Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Nicholas Dylan Ray grew up next to an American national park, whose mountains and forests he explored to escape his troubled home. As ayoung man, he left the United States, and aged twenty-two set out on a six-month journey from France to Tibet, travelling through Turkey. That journey forms the first chapter of this book, and led to a career working with the Middle East. In middle age, the author returned to the road, travelling throughout Turkey....
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The China Questions 2 assembles top experts to explore the key considerations in US-China relations today, including conflict over Taiwan, economic and military competition, public health concerns, and areas of cooperation. Rejecting the new-Cold War mindset, the authors take the world's most important bilateral relationship on its own terms"--
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
"In Hubs of Empire, Matthew Mulcahy argues that it is useful to view Barbados, Jamaica, and the British Leeward Islands, along with the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, as a single region. Separated by thousands of miles of ocean but united by shared history and economic interest, these territories formed the Greater Caribbean. Although the Greater Caribbean does not loom large in the historical imaginations of many Americans, it was the wealthy...
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