Search Results: Returned 13 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 13
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2012., Palgrave Macmillan Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "During the Arab Spring, the world saw a long-suppressed group in the Middle East--young people--assert itself and demand its rights. But youthful dissent did not appear overnight; for decades it has been simmering beneath the surface in countries from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, from Iran to Egypt. In Arab Spring Dreams, a number of young Middle Easterners describe their experiences with the region's laws and cultural mores, including the crime of holding hands before marriage, discrimination and harassment over religious beliefs, and young women fighting for the right to complete their educations. They also discuss how previous uprisings, particularly the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, might be channeled to effect change in their own countries. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, these stories present a decisive call for change at a crucial point in the evolution of the Middle East"--
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2012., Palgrave Macmillan Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "During the Arab Spring, the world saw a long-suppressed group in the Middle East--young people--assert itself and demand its rights. But youthful dissent did not appear overnight; for decades it has been simmering beneath the surface in countries from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, from Iran to Egypt. In Arab Spring Dreams, a number of young Middle Easterners describe their experiences with the region's laws and cultural mores, including the crime of holding hands before marriage, discrimination and harassment over religious beliefs, and young women fighting for the right to complete their educations. They also discuss how previous uprisings, particularly the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, might be channeled to effect change in their own countries. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, these stories present a decisive call for change at a crucial point in the evolution of the Middle East"--
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c2006., Greenhaven Press Call No: 320.956 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Series Title: At issue. International politics
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c1996., Facts on File Call No: 323.1 19159 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Conflict and crisis in the post-cold war world
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1988., F. Watts Call No: 956 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discusses, in text and illustrations, the history and importance of the Middle East and the ethnic, religious, and political divisions which continue to be the source of conflict in the region.
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c2000., Greenhaven Press Call No: 320.956 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Opposing viewpoints seriesSummary Note: Presents articles for both sides of the questions: Why is the Middle East a conflict area? Are Palestinians treated justly? What role should the U.S. play in the Middle East? How does religion affect the Middle East?.
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2000., Greenhaven Press Call No: 956.04 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Opposing viewpoints series
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2000., Greenhaven Press, Inc. Call No: 956.04 WIL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Opposing viewpoints seriesSummary Note: Discusses why the Middle East is a conflict, area, the role of religion there, the role of the US, and how peace could be advanced.
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c2017., Essential Library/Abdo Pub. Call No: 956.05 CAP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The Syrian Conflict covers the struggle that erupted in Syria in early 2011, discussing the key players, the underlying causes, and the continuing human toll of the violence. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--From the publisher's web site.
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2014., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Exiled to the United States after her father, a Middle Eastern dictator, is killed in a coup, fifteen-year-old Laila must cope with a completely new way of life, the truth of her father's regime, and her mother and brother's ways of adjusting.
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2014., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: REALISTIC F CAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Exiled to the United States after her father, a Middle Eastern dictator, is killed in a coup, fifteen-year-old Laila must cope with a completely new way of life, the truth of her father's regime, and her mother and brother's ways of adjusting.
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2015., Adolescent, Ember Call No: Realistic FIC Carleson Edition: First Ember edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Laila's father, king of an unnamed Middle Eastern country, is killed, she and her mother and brother flee to America to live a life of exile. Only now does Laila learn that her father was not the rightful king, but was seen as a dictator in the American newspapers. She cannot believe it, but she questions the life of ease she enjoyed as a princess--it may have been ill-gotten. When her mother works with the CIA to regain the throne, Laila wonders which side is the right side.
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[2014], Adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Teen Fiction Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Exiled to the United States after her father, a Middle Eastern dictator, is killed in a coup, fifteen-year-old Laila must cope with a completely new way of life, the truth of her father's regime, and her mother and brother's ways of adjusting.