Brings together experts on the rich intellectual, cultural, social, and political history of the Middle East, providing necessary historical context to familiarize teachers with the latest scholarship. Each chapter includes easy- to-explore sources to supplement any curriculum, focusing on valuable and controversial themes.

“What might it mean to take the dead seriously?” asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to critical human rights scholarship. In Timor-Leste, a new nation-state that experienced centuries of European colonialism before a violent occupation by Indonesia from 1975 to 1999, the dead are active participants in social and political life.

A story of courage, resilience, and love, Unswerving challenges readers’ preconceived notions of disability, of limitations, and of the inevitability of fate.

Offers close readings of Carl Th. Dreyer’s Nordisk films alongside his mature work reveal a stylistic throughline Doxtater terms ‘art melodrama,’ a form combining the ambiguity, stylization, and consciousness of art cinema with the heightened emotional expressivity and dramatic embodiments characteristic of melodrama.

Makes the case that conspiracy theories are fundamentally a folklore genre, akin to and often involving other belief narratives like rumor and legend

By focusing on one particular type of NGO - those organized to help prevent the spread and transmission of HIV in Kenya - Megan Hershey interrogates the ways NGOs achieve (or fail to achieve) their planned outcomes. Along the way, she examines the slippery slope that is often used to define ""success"".