Syracuse University Press: 176 books
by Muhammad Zafzaf
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Considered one of Morocco’s most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by prostitutes, thieves, and addicts living in the margins of society. In The Elusive Fox, Zafzaf’s first novel to be translated into English, a young teacher...
by Darren Kew
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
African nations have watched the recent civic dramas of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street asking if they too will see similar civil society actions in their own countries. Nigeria—Africa’s most populous nation—has long enjoyed one of the continent’s most vibrant civil society spheres,...
Bridging the High School-College Gap
The Role of Concurrent Enrollment Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Concurrent enrollment programs offer high-achieving high school students the opportunity to take college credit-bearing courses taught by college-approved high school teachers. This low-cost, scalable model brings accelerated coursework to urban, suburban, and rural students. In this book, scholars...
by Amy Young Evrard
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Among various important efforts to address women’s issues in Morocco, a particular set of individuals and associations have formed around two specific goals: reforming the Moroccan Family Code and raising awareness of women’s rights. Evrard chronicles the history of the women’s rights movement,...
Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa
Gender, Media, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
This text provides an analysis of the social and cultural impacts of war, social unrest and political violence in two societies that have undergone traumatic conflict and upheaval. By investigating various means of communication, Segall shows how groups of affected people in Iraq and South Africa reposition themselves to cope with collective trauma.
Nepali Migrant Women
Resistance and Survival in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
In this pathbreaking and timely work, Hamal Gurung gives voice to the growing number of Nepali women who migrate to the United States to work in the informal economy. Highlighting the experiences of thirty-five women, mostly college educated and middle class, who take on domestic service and unskilled...
Modernizing Marriage
Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In 1910, when Khedive Abbas II married a second wife surreptitiously, the contrast with his openly polygamous grandfather, Ismail, whose multiple wives and concubines signified his grandeur and masculinity, could not have been greater. That contrast reflected the spread of new ideals of family life...
Planning the American Indian Reservation
From Theory to Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
American Indian reservation planning is one of the most challenging and poorly understood specializations within the American planning profession. Charged with developing a strategy to protect irreplaceable tribal homelands that have been repeatedly diminished over the ages through unjust public policy...
Writing Suburban Citizenship
Place-Conscious Education and the Conundrum of Suburbia
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
In the past century, more and more Americans have been migrating from rural areas and urban centers to suburban communities. As a result, the majority of American youth are educated in the suburbs, and the ways in which they learn to be citizens are shaped by their suburban surroundings. Because many...
The Revolt of the Young
Essays by Tawfiq al-Hakim
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898–1987) is recognized as one of the most important figures in the history of modern Arabic literature. Considered a pioneer in many literary forms, including drama, novels, and short stories, al-Hakim influenced generations of Egyptian writers. The Revolt of the Young is a collection...
Righting Educational Wrongs
Disability Studies in Law and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Righting Educational Wrongs brings together the work of scholars from the fields of disability studies in education and law to examine contemporary struggles around inclusion and access to education. Specifically, contributors examine disability related policies and practices as they contribute to or undermine educational access for individuals with disabilities.
Postcolonial Overtures
The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Postcolonial Overtures explores the importance of sound in contemporary Northern Irish writing, focusing on the work of three canonical poets: Ciaran Carson, Derek Mahon, and Paul Muldoon. Obert argues that these poets respond to what Edward Said calls "geographical violence"—to the stratification...
National Elections in Turkey
People, Politics, and the Party System
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
What determines voting behavior in Turkey? At a time when the center-right, religious-conservative leadership of the Justice and Development Party has dominated government and the political scene in Turkey—so much so that the democratic credentials of the regime have come into question—many have...
The Candidate
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The Candidate is one of the most masterful, psychologically penetrating novels in Armenian diaspora literature. Published in 1967 at a time of political awakening among the descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide, the novel explores themes of trauma, forgiveness, reconciliation, friendship,...