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Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the "woman question" in the Middle East (most particularly in Egypt and Iran), especially at the turn of the century, when gender became a highly charged nationalist issue tied up in complex ways with the West. The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary burst of energy and richness in Middle East women's studies, and the...

Louise Farrell was homesick. She had seen hundreds of examples of ancient architecture, mosques, and Hindu shrines. She was bone-tired and irritable, tired of the culture, the filth and poverty, the red dirt piled about everywhere, the crowds of humanity, and the odor of chapattis being baked over cow dung fires. Truth be said, she was eager to return to the clean, wide-open spaces of the Flint Hills of Kansas.

Although her husband Richard had been told that no one could capture the essence of India in the written word, he had notebooks filled with his impressions of the history,...

"Each Step I Take" is the poetic story of one girl's journey through bullying. Told from Lila Dooley's teenage point of view, "Each Step I Take" reflects what many teenagers are experiencing in today's world of growing up with social media and extreme feelings of being excluded by peers or classmates. The poetry, divided into themes of darkness and light, sheds light on how bullying is not just physical-it affects young adults psychologically as well. Lila's message of acceptance and hope is something we all can learn from. As she writes in the poem, "Perfect" Perfect is a word to describe...

You love your morning cup of coffee or that afternoon cup of tea, but you don't like it when you pour yourself a cup of coffee and it turns cold so quickly. You also don't like the water rings that form across the top of your coffee table, ruining the look of the fine wood.

But you don't like the standard cozies that they have in the stores - you want something that is stylish and unique, and that's where this book comes in. In it, you are going to discover a host of different kinds of cozies and coasters, each one that you can...