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Cover of محمد أمير: أيام المماليك

محمد أمير: أيام المماليك

‘يسرد هذا الكتاب فترة حرجة من تاريخ مصر والعرب، يغوص في التفاصيل الخاصة لدولة المماليك، من بداية نشأتها وكيف وصل المماليك إلى الحكم وسيطروا على الدولة، بعد زمن من التشرد والرق وخبرة المعارك والحروب، …

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محمد أمير: التاريخ السري للمافيا

ماذا تعرف عن المافيا؟ وهل بالفعل تعرف أشهر عصابات المافيا العالمية؟ في هذا الكتاب يتحدث محمد أمير عن عصابات المافيا المشهورة وما سببوه من رعب في أنحاء العالم. محمد أمير كاتب وروائي وباحث مصري صدر …

Cover of Bethany Erin Hicks: Migration and the Construction of German Identities, 1949–2004

Bethany Erin Hicks: Migration and the Construction of German Identities, 1949–2004

Migration, in its many forms, has often been found at the center of public and private discourse surrounding German nationalism and identity, significantly influencing how both states construct conce …

Cover of Manuela Consonni & Philip Galland Nord: Witnessing the Witness of War Crimes, Mass Murder, and Genocide

Manuela Consonni & Philip Galland Nord: Witnessing the Witness of War Crimes, Mass Murder, and Genocide

Rethinking the concepts of ‘witnessing’ and ‘witness’ is highly relevant to the study of war crimes, mass murder and genocide. Through multiple readings, the volume shows the meanings and functions o …

Cover of Christoph Bernhardt & Andreas Butter: Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints

Christoph Bernhardt & Andreas Butter: Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints

Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, building projects and architectural icons played an important role in the self-portrayal of the competing systems. However, as the current research shows, we al …

Cover of Luiz Burlamaqui: The Making of a Global FIFA

Luiz Burlamaqui: The Making of a Global FIFA

In 1974, the Brazilian sports official João Havelange was elected FIFA’s president in a two-round election, defeating the incumbent Stanley Rous. The story told by Havelange himself describes a priva …

Cover of Rahul Kumar: Football and Fascism

Rahul Kumar: Football and Fascism

Football and Fascism. The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal tells the hidden history of football and discusses its political, social and cultural foundations, during the longest running authori …

Cover of James Koranyi & Emily Hanscam: Digging Politics

James Koranyi & Emily Hanscam: Digging Politics

Digging Politics explores uses of the ancient past in east-central Europe spanning the fascist, communist and post-communist period. Contributions range from East Germany to Poland to Romania to the …

Cover of Roni Mikel-Arieli: Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State

Roni Mikel-Arieli: Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State

The lens of apartheid-era Jewish commemorations of the Holocaust in South Africa reveals the fascinating transformation of a diasporic community. Through the prism of Holocaust memory, this book exam …

Cover of Eleanor Wheeler: Letters from Prague

Eleanor Wheeler: Letters from Prague

Eleanor M. Wheeler, a correspondent for the Religious News Service, wrote letters from Prague to her friends in the USA from 1947 to 1957. Her husband, George Shaw Wheeler, was a colonel in the US Ar …