The Internet in the Middle East

The Internet in the Middle EastA surprising look at how the Internet does, and does not, affect public discourse and social practice in the Middle East and Kuwait in particular. Providing one of the first ethnographies of the Internet revolution in the Arab world, The Internet in the Middle East analyzes the ways in which the Internet affects public discourse and social practice in Islamic society. With a special focus on Kuwait, Deborah L. Wheeler offers an intimate journey

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the civil war between al-Amīn and his half-brother al-Maʾmūn

Disclosing the origins of Bataille's most influential concepts

This chapter provides an ecological approach to the problem of coffee leaf rust

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) began in 1957 with a small group of public figures and grew into a mass movement

both moral and stylistic

Conservation Agriculture

and María Zambrano-who engage literary resources in order to reach beyond philosophy to the essential sources of life

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