MIDDLE EAST – ZED Books

Memoirs from the Women's Prison

Nawal El Saadawi Translated by Marilyn Booth In 1981, the celebrated author and activist Nawal el Saadawi was imprisoned by the Sadat regime in her native Egypt, for ‘crimes against the state’. Through haunting and evocative prose, Saadawi here recounts how she and her fellow prisoners continued to resist even in captivity, and to form a community which transcended divisions between secular and religious activists. She reveals both the harrowing detail and the everyday mundanity of prison life, as well as the bravery and resolve of all women resisting oppression – and of political prisoners around the world. Memoirs from the Women’s Prison is an unforgettable, landmark work of prison writing that offers a rare insight into the indomitable, soaring literary mind of the Arab world’s leading feminist.

UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 256 pages PB 9781786997708 • £12.99 / $17.95 Zed Books

Decolonial Solidarity in Palestine-Israel

Settler Colonialism and Resistance From Within Teodora Todorova, University of Warwick, UK Through the analytical lens of settler colonial studies, this book examines the impact of Israeli scholars’ and civil society activists’ new ‘decolonial solidarity’ with Palestine through case studies of three activist groups: Zochrot, Anarchists Against the Wall, and the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). In doing so, Todorova extends the framework of settler colonial studies beyond scholarly analysis and into the realm of activist practice. She also looks at how decolonial solidarity has shaped, and been influenced by, the writings of both Palestinian and Israeli theorists. The book shows that new forms of civil society activism, bringing together Palestinian and Israeli activists, can rejuvenate the resistance to occupation and the Israeli state’s growing authoritarianism.

The Muslim Speaks

Khurram Hussain, Lehigh University, USA Rather than imagining it as an issue external to a discrete West, Khurram Hussain constructs Islam as internal to the elaboration and expansion of the West. In doing so he reveals three discursive traps – ‘freedom’, ‘reason’ and ‘culture’ – that inhibit the availability of Islam as a feasible, critical interlocutor in Western deliberations about moral, intellectual and political concerns. Through close examination of this inhibition, Hussain posits that while Islamophobia is clearly a moral wrong, ‘depoliticization’ more accurately describes the problems associated with the lived experience of Muslims in the West and elsewhere. Weaving together his conclusions in the hope of a common world, Khurram Hussain boldy deems that what Islam needs is not depoliticization, but infact repoliticization.

UK October 2020 • US August 2020 • 384 pages PB 9781786998880 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781786998873 • £70.00 / $95.00 ePub 9781786999719 • £17.09 / $22.16 ePdf 9781786998866 • £17.09 / $22.16

Zed Books

UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 240 pages HB 9781786996411 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781786996435 • £65.00 / $81.30 ePdf 9781786996428 • £65.00 / $81.30 Zed Books

Turkey's New State in the Making

Transformations in Legality, Economy, Ideology and Coercion Edited by Pinar Bedirhanoglu, Çaglar Dölek, Funda Hülagü & Özlem Kaygusuz Turkey’s New State in the Making examines the historical specificities of the ongoing AKP-led radical state transformation in Turkey within a global, legal, financial, ideological, and coercive neoliberal context. Arguing that rather than being an exception, the new Turkish state has the potential to be a model for political transformations elsewhere, problematizing how specific policies the AKP adapted to refract social dispositions have been radically redefining the republican, democratic and secular features of the modern Turkish state.

UK August 2020 • US September 2020 • 320 pages HB 9781786998705 • £70.00 / $95.00 ePub 9781786998729 • £63.00 / $78.84 ePdf 9781786998736 • £63.00 / $78.84 Zed Books

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These vital books on Politics, Development & Economics, Africa, and Gender & Sexualities join our academic division alongside the prestigious I.B. Tauris lists in Politics & International Relations, the Middle East and Area Studies.

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