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This book is the first comprehensive examination of North Africa's political, security, and economic developments since the 2011 Arab Uprisings shook the Middle East.

North Africa in Transition examines how the people and governments of North Africa have responded to the Arab uprisings that shook the region's politics in 2011. With individual chapters detailing key developments in Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, the authors bring together a wide range of expertise to assess how a previously under-explored and politically static region underwent bursts or...

Sometimes life's most fulfilling journeys begin without a map

An executive at a New York cosmetics firm, Sarah has had her fill of the interminable hustle of the big city. When her husband, Josh, is offered a new job in suburban Virginia, it feels like the perfect chance to shift gears.

While Josh quickly adapts to their new life, Sarah discovers that having time on her hands is a mixed blessing. Without her everyday urban struggles, who is she? And how can she explain to Josh, who assumes they are on the same page, her ambivalence about starting a family?

It doesn't help...

In "Becoming the People of the Talmud," Talya Fishman examines ways in which circumstances of transmission have shaped the cultural meaning of Jewish traditions. Although the Talmud's preeminence in Jewish study and its determining role in Jewish practice are generally taken for granted, Fishman contends that these roles were not solidified until the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. The inscription of Talmud which Sefardi Jews understand to have occurred quite early, and Ashkenazi Jews only later precipitated these developments. The encounter with Oral Torah as a written corpus...

Eine einzigartige Geschichte über Macht, Scham, weibliche Lust und den gefährlichen Grat zwischen Begehren und Beherrschen

Eve ist queer, jung, lebt in Brooklyn und ist mit einer Frau zusammen. Dann lässt sie sich auf eine Affäre mit einem Hetero-Paar ein: Nathan und Olivia. Die Dreiecksbeziehung entwickelt sich schnell von einem unverbindlichen und vermeintlich selbstbestimmten Abenteuer zu einem Machtspiel. Nathan beginnt, die zwei Frauen zu manipulieren und gegeneinander auszuspielen. Im Ringen um Nathans Zuneigung erlebt Eve ein sexuelles Erwachen, bei dem...

A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: Forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York.

Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, didn t suffer in the exact way he needs to have suffered to qualify for the restitution the German government has been paying out to Holocaust survivors. But suffer he has as a Jew in the war; as a second-class citizen in the USSR; as an immigrant to America. So? Isn t his grandson a writer...