21st century

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21st century

The atomic bazaar

the rise of the nuclear poor
2007
Discusses the danger that exists due to the production of nuclear weapons in poor countries that are potentially hostile to the West, and considers the likelihood of terrorists obtaining nuclear weapons, leaving the U.S. and other Western countries without a clear target for retaliation.

Pop culture Arab world!

media, arts, and lifestyle
2005
Traces the history and controversies surrounding popular culture in the Arabic-speaking world, and discusses how the region's political atmosphere influences its media, arts, and lifestyle.

Islam

2006
Presents a collection of essays that examine issues related to Islam, providing information on its history, corebeliefs, radical sects, terrorism, and more.

180 more

extraordinary poems for every day
2005
Presents a comprehensive anthology of one hundred eighty poems by a number of contemporary poets such as Mark Halliday, Donna Masini, Robert Bly, and others.

Dinarzad's children

an anthology of contemporary Arab American fiction
2004
Presents twenty four selections of short fiction by nineteen Arab-American writers that focus on ethnic issues, social and domestic affairs, stereotyping, estrangement, and assimilation into American culture and lifestyle.

Children at war

2005
Explores how children have been used as soldiers around the world throughout history, focusing on new strategies in the twenty-first century that target children, turning them into soldiers and terrorists.

The resistance to poetry

2004
Explores how poets use ambiguous language and metaphors to try and convey language, and discusses how the same ambiguous language leads to a reader's distrust of the poem and what it seems to be talking about.

The new imperialism

2003
Explores the underlying factors that have contributed to the United States shift from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage.

Poetry 180

a turning back to poetry
2003
Presents 180 works by such contemporary poets as Edward Hirsch, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Paul Muldoon.

September 11, 2001

American writers respond
2002
A collection of writings in which poets, fiction writers, and essayists explore their feelings and reactions in the months following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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