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Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries
Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multicultural literature. Focusing on the development of migration literature in Sweden, Denmark, Flanders, and the Netherlands, the volume argues that the political and institutional preconditions for the development of ‘multicultural’ literatures are still given within the frame of the nation-state. As a consequence, both the field of ‘migration literature’ and the (multi-)lingual quality of literary texts are shaped differently in each state and in each language area. The volume delineates the development of multicultural literature in Sca...
The Kurds: My Friends in the North
Delving into history and mixing eye-witness accounts with compelling anecdotes from his journalistic career, John Cookson examines the Kurds' eternal quest for independence, he tells of his encounters with Kurdish guerrillas in their mountain hideouts and his travels with Kurdish smugglers, he documents survivors' stories from Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaign and reveals for the first time how Iraqi Kurdistan was saved from being overrun by murderous jihadis in the summer of 2014. He also digs through secret archives to discover why Sir Winston Churchill and Middle East titans like T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell... made a fateful decision to leave the Kurds landlocked and doomed to an eternity of conflict. John Cookson is an award-winning journalist who began his career in Fleet Street and afterwards spent 30 years as a senior correspondent at Sky News, Fox News, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, Euronews and African start-up Arise News. He is also a qualified lawyer.
Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman
A revisionist reading of Ottoman history during the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520-66), examining the life of a bureaucrat, Celalzade Mustafa.
Minority Theatre on the Global Stage
All over the world, in the most varied contexts, contemporary theatre is a rich source for increasing the visibility of communities generally perceived by others as minorities, or those who see themselves as such. Whether of a linguistic, ethnic, political, social, cultural or sexual nature, the claims of minorities enjoy a privileged medium in theatre. Perhaps it is because theatre itself is linked to the notions of centre and periphery, conformism and marginality, domination and subjugation – notions that minority theatre constantly examines by staging them – that it is so sensitive to the issues of troubled and conflicted identity and able to give them a universal resonance. Among the...
Dimensions of Transformation in the Ottoman Empire from the Late Medieval Age to Modernity
Eighteen expert researchers have come together to provide original articles and new perspectives on transformation throughout Ottoman history, in order to honor the life’s work of Metin Kunt. Kunt’s work revolutionized our understanding of change in Ottoman political, social and cultural history in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This new collection focuses on the contributions of key players in these fields and includes chapters on Ottoman artisans in a changing political context, Ottoman chief scribes and the rhetorics of political survival in the 17th century, and empiricism in the Ottoman Empire. Contributors are Antonis Anastasopoulos, Iris Agmon, Tülay Artan, Karl K. Barbir, Fatih Bayram, Suraiya Faroqhi, Cornell H. Fleischer, Pál Fodor, Mehmet Kalpaklı, Cemil Koçak, B. Harun Küçük, Aslı Niyazioğlu, Mehmet Öz, Kaya Şahin, Derin Terzioğlu, Ekin Tuşalp-Atiyas, Christine Woodhead, N. Zeynep Yelçe, Elizabeth A. Zachariadou.
Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume 23 (2020)
This volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law takes a close look at the role of so-called “expert manuals” in the interpretation and development of the international law of armed conflict and connected branches of international law relating to military operations. While these manuals can and do play an undoubtedly useful role, their proliferation raises a number of questions. What degree of authority do they have and how much weight should be given to the views expressed in them? What is the methodology they employ and how effective is it in ensuring an as objective and impartial interpretation of the law as possible? What is their place in the doctrine of sources? While ...
Holy White Lies
The White Lie is a translation for a fatwa in Arabic, Al-Kedhb al-Abyad, issued by theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi, chairman for The European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR). Al-Qaradawi and his companions are part of one of the biggest movements in the world, The Muslim Brotherhood. The book presents extensive research in the Muslim Brotherhood sources to understand the ideology and strategies of the movement from the most important primary sources and how it uses White Lies to reach the aim of their strategies. It also shows examples of the application of these strategies in the West with a documented study in Sweden, where the author relied on the documents of the archives of Swedish g...
De vrijwilligster
Amsterdam, 2006. De spanningen in de multiculturele samenleving lopen op. Willemijn, studente sociologie, gaat aan de slag als vrijwilligster om een jonge Turkse importbruid Nederlands te leren spreken. In een kale betonnen flat in Geuzenveld ontwikkelt zich al snel een vriendschap tussen Willemijn en de innemende Nuray. Börek en ramadan, een louche advocaat, leugens bij de IND en een veel te dure plasmatelevisie beheersen de wereld die Willemijn betreedt. Maar ook Nurays problemen komen het leven van Willemijn binnensijpelen. Problemen met haar verblijfsvergunning. Problemen met haar man Mustafa. Geldproblemen. Willemijn, die zo graag de redder in nood speelt, verliest langzaam haar grenzen uit het oog. Als Nuray en Mustafa op straat komen te staan, is ze al te diep in hun leven verstrikt geraakt. Hoever wil Willemijn gaan om Nuray te helpen?
#ISIS (Nederlandse Editie)
Dunya een moedig zeventienjarig sjiitische moslim tienermeisje reist met haar toegewijde familie naar Qatar vanuit Londen wanneer het vliegtuig een noodlanding maakt in Beiroet, Libanon. De Islamitische Staat van Irak en de Levant (I. S. I. L.) breekt op spectaculaire wijze het vliegveld binnen en doodt de passagiers na een ineenstorting van Libanon. Dunya weet te ontsnappen met de hulp van een heerlijk tienermeisje. Haar vriend komt erachter dat de Islamitische Staat van Irak en de Levant (I. S. I. L.) enkele gijzelaars vasthouden vanaf het vliegveld in Damascus, Syrië. Nu moeten Dunya en haar nieuwe vrienden naar Damascus gaan om te weten te komen of haar broer Hakeem een gijzelaar is in Syrië. Dunya ontmoet een eenzame strijder die de Islamitische Staat van Irak en de Levant (I. S. I. L.) wil verlaten na een teleurstellende paar walgelijke jaren. Hij biedt aan om Dunya te helpen bij haar zoektocht. Dunya en haar vrienden debatteren of het vertrouwen van de Islamitische Staat van Irak en het Levant (I. S. I. L.) lid een goed idee is. Dunya neemt een paar risico's op zoek naar haar broer Hakeem. Een nieuw probleem leidt tot een verandering in haar plannen.
