{"product_id":"forbidden-agendas-khamsin-9780863561115","title":"Forbidden Agendas: Intolerance \u0026 Defiance in the Middle East","description":"For decades now, the Middle East has been torn by violent conflicts of the most savage kind. There have been five Arab-Israeli wars; wars between other states; numerous civil wars, small and large; struggles by women, students, workers, peasants; religious and class battles. Innumerable books on these subjects have been published; however, \"Forbidden Agendas: Intolerance and Defiance in the Middle East,\" a collection of seventeen articles from the journal Khamsin, stands alone. \u003cbr\u003eThe contributors - who hail from Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran - tackle themes proscribed in much of the region, such as Oriental Jews and Palestinian workers in Israel; women in Israel and the Arab countries; the politics of religion and religious revivalism in the Arab world, Iran, and Israel; the civil war in Lebanon and so on. Moreover, these themes are treated in unorthodox ways: few of these articles are likely to please committed partisans of any of the contending political forces. \u003cbr\u003eReaders of this anthology will find iconoclastic analysis of some of the issues underlying the many conflicts of the region, in the place of the usual repetitions of commonplace claims and the banal jargon of Middle Eastern politics, whether left or right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Khamsin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 086356111X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780863561115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Saqi Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.82w x 1.25d","brand":"Khamsin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202684961023,"sku":"9780863561115","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b10a2fc-bdd3-4861-b4c7-9d9436475218.jpg?v=1756833102","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forbidden-agendas-khamsin-9780863561115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}