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Author spotlight: Nicola Pratt on women’s activism in the Middle East
Oct 13 2020
For this year's virtual MESA conference, UC Press author Nicola Pratt joined us to talk about her book Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women's Activism in Egypt, Jordon, and Lebanon and what the West gets wrong about women's activism in the Middle East.Nicola Pratt is Associate Professor o
The History and Politics of Lebanon: A Reading List
Aug 05 2020
In light of the horrific explosion that took place on August 4th in Beirut, UC Press is providing a list of titles to help understand and contextualize the history of Lebanon and the ongoing struggles faced by this nation.Embodying GeopoliticsGenerations of Women's Activism in Egypt, Jor
The Global Protests of October 2019
Oct 31 2019
By Paul Almeida, author of Social Movements: The Structure of Collective MobilizationOctober 2019 witnessed an inordinate clustering of massive civil disobedience in the global South. These protests include major social movement campaigns in Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Honduras