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This long-awaited book is a vivid history of Frelimo, the
liberation movement that gained power in Mozambique following the
sudden collapse of Portuguese rule in 1974. The leading scholar of
the liberation struggle in Portuguese Africa, John Marcum completed
this work shortly before his death, after a lifetime of research
and close contact with many of the major Mozambican nationalists of
the time. Assembled from his rich archive of unpublished letters,
diaries, and transcribed conversations with figures such as Eduardo
Mondlane, Adelino Gwambe, and Marcelino dos Santos, this book
captures the key issues and personalities that shaped the era. With
unique insight into the Mozambican struggle and the tragic
short-sightedness of U.S. policy, Conceiving Mozambique encourages
a dispassionate re-examination of the movement's costs as well as
its remarkable accomplishments.
This long-awaited book is a vivid history of Frelimo, the
liberation movement that gained power in Mozambique following the
sudden collapse of Portuguese rule in 1974. The leading scholar of
the liberation struggle in Portuguese Africa, John Marcum completed
this work shortly before his death, after a lifetime of research
and close contact with many of the major Mozambican nationalists of
the time. Assembled from his rich archive of unpublished letters,
diaries, and transcribed conversations with figures such as Eduardo
Mondlane, Adelino Gwambe, and Marcelino dos Santos, this book
captures the key issues and personalities that shaped the era. With
unique insight into the Mozambican struggle and the tragic
short-sightedness of U.S. policy, Conceiving Mozambique encourages
a dispassionate re-examination of the movement's costs as well as
its remarkable accomplishments.
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I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist (Paperback)
Edmund Burke III; Baya Gacemi; Translated by Paul Cote, Constantina Mitchell; Foreword by Fanny Colonna
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The Algerian journalist Baya Gacemi takes a dangerous political
step in writing the "autobiography" of a young Algerian woman whom
she met through a program for female victims of Islamist violence
in Algiers. Nadia, from a small town in central Algeria that has
been especially affected by the struggle between Islamist
terrorists and the authorities, married a local hooligan whose
rebellious spirit she found irresistible. Unfortunately, her
husband was already transforming himself from petty criminal to
foot soldier and then local emir of the Islamic Action Group.
Nadia's ensuing nightmare lasted over four years. As a result of
the growing polarization between Islamists and the local government
Nadia had become an outcast reviled by relatives and threatened by
neighbors. By 1996, with Nadia pregnant and destitute and her
husband hunted by government agents, her parents expelled her from
their home. Gacemi provides a human face to the cultural wars that
have torn Algeria and the Middle East apart, revealing the roots of
terrorism and the impact of the nightmarish struggle of the women
caught up in it. Baya Gacemi is an Algerian journalist. Paul Cote
and Constantina Mitchell are freelance translators in Montreal.
They have cotranslated Letter from Morocco, Cry of the Gull, and
Deaf Planet. Fanny Colonna is the director of research emerita at
the French National Center of Scientific Research. Edmund Burke III
is a professor of Middle Eastern and world history at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, and the editor (with David N.
Yaghoubian) of Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East,
second edition.
The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations
throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans,
isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often
framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded
in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in
most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of
misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmental imaginaries,
increasingly undermined by contemporary ecological data, that the
eleven authors in this volume question. This is the first volume to
critically examine culturally constructed views of the
environmental history of the Middle East and suggest that they have
often benefitted elites at the expense of the ecologies and the
peoples of the region. The contributors expose many of the
questionable policies and practices born of these environmental
imaginaries and related histories that have been utilized in the
region since the colonial period. They further reveal how power, in
the form of development programs, notions of nationalism, and
hydrological maps, for instance, relates to environmental knowledge
production. Contributors: Samer Alatout, Edmund Burke III, Shaul
Cohen, Diana K. Davis, Jennifer L. Derr, Leila M. Harris, Alan
Mikhail, Timothy Mitchell, Priya Satia, Jeannie Sowers, and George
R. Trumbull IV
The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations
throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans,
isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often
framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded
in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in
most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of
misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmental imaginaries,
increasingly undermined by contemporary ecological data, that the
eleven authors in this volume question. This is the first volume to
critically examine culturally constructed views of the
environmental history of the Middle East and suggest that they have
often benefitted elites at the expense of the ecologies and the
peoples of the region. The contributors expose many of the
questionable policies and practices born of these environmental
imaginaries and related histories that have been utilized in the
region since the colonial period. They further reveal how power, in
the form of development programs, notions of nationalism, and
hydrological maps, for instance, relates to environmental knowledge
production. Contributors: Samer Alatout, Edmund Burke III, Shaul
Cohen, Diana K. Davis, Jennifer L. Derr, Leila M. Harris, Alan
Mikhail, Timothy Mitchell, Priya Satia, Jeannie Sowers, and George
R. Trumbull IV
Orientalism, as explored by Edward Said in 1978, was a far more
complex phenomenon than many suspected, being homogenous along the
lines of neither culture nor time. Instead, it is deeply embedded
in the collective reimaginings that were--and are--nationalism. The
dozen essays in "Genealogies of Orientalism" argue that the
critique of orientalism, far from being exhausted, must develop
further. To do so, however, a historical turn must be made, and the
ways in which modernity itself is theorized and historicized must
be rethought. According to Joan W. Scott, author of "The Politics
of the Veil," the essays in this collection "develop a remarkable
perspective on Edward Said's Orientalism, placing it in a long
historical context of critiques of colonial representations, and
deepening our understanding of the very meaning of modernity."
Looking beyond the usual geography of colonial theory, this work
broadens the focus from the Middle East and India to other Asian
societies. By exploring orientalism in literary and artistic
representations of colonial subjects, the authors illuminate the
multifaceted ways in which modern cultures have drawn on
orientalist images and indigenous self-representations. It is in
this complex, cross-cultural collision that the overlapping of
orientalism and nationalism can be found.
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