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Kate Herrity
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Golnar Nikpour
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THE PALESTINIAN PRISONERS MOVEMENT
Julie M. Norman
BLINDFOLD
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LES JANGO
Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
PRISON WRITING AND THE LITERARY WORLD
Michelle Kelly
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Claire Westall
VOICES OF A MASSACRE
Nasser Mohajer
TAZMAMART
Aziz Binebine
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R. Shareah Taleghani
THESE CHAINS WILL BE BROKEN
Ramzy Baroud
MANUSCRITS DE L'EXTRÊME
Laurence Le Bras
LA CHAMBRE DE L'ARAIGNÈE
Mohammed Abdel Nabi
IN QUEST OF JUSTICE
Khaled Fahmy
SARA
Sakine Cansiz
FROM SLAVES TO PRISONERS OF WAR
Will Smiley
PRISON NOTEBOOK
Ibrahim El Salahi
ASSESSING THE THREAT POSED BY TUNISIAN FOREIGN FIGHTERS
Tunisian Institute for Strategic Studies (ITES)
ORIENTAL PRISONS
Arthur Griffiths
HOW THE GLOVES CAME OFF
Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault
A HISTORY OF SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION IN IRAN
Behnaz A. Mirazi
LE COMPLOT
Sami Kourda
THE SOCIAL LIFE OF MEMORY
Sonja Hegasy
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Norman Saadi Nikro
THE SHELL
Mustafa Khalifa
THE RETURN
Hisham Matar
FALLGIRLS
Ryan Ashley Caldwell
BEYOND THE BARBED WIRE
Abdellatif Laâbi
WE ARE ARRESTED
Can Dündar
THE QUEUE
Basma Abdel Aziz
UNE FEMME NOMMÉE RACHID
Fatna El Bouih
PRISONS DE FRANCE
Farhad Khosrokhavar
SLAVES OF ONE MASTER
Matthew S. Hopper
SLAVERY, AGRICULTURE, AND MALARIA IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA
Benjamin Reilly
THE PRISONER
Omar Shahid Hamid
MY TORTURESS
Bensalem Himmich
INSIDE THE INSIDE
Chris Toensing
,
Amanda Ufheil-Somers
RÉCITS D'UNE SYRIE OUBLIÉE
Yassin Al Haj Saleh
OPÉRATION CÉSAR
Garance Le Caisne
BLACK MOROCCO
Chouki El Hamel
GADDAFI'S HAREM
Annick Cojean
ARABIC PRISON LITERATURE
Geula Elimelekh
CAPTIVE REVOLUTION
Nahla Abdo
PRISONS IN THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Kent F. Schull
THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN OTTOMAN TUNISIA
Ismael M. Montana
THAT SMELL
Sonallah Ibrahim
LE SOUFFLE DE LA BETE IMMONDE
Sami Kourda
THE QUESTION
Henri Alleg
PRISON, PUNISHMENT AND SOCIETY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1800-1950
Anthony Gorman
HEALING THE NATION
Yücel Yanıkdağ
GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT
Donna El Hindi
MUBARAK'S MAZRA'A
Ian Nisbet
TORTURE AND IMPUNITY
Alfred W. McCoy
TELL THIS IN MY MEMORY
Eve Troutt Powell
TIME IN THE SHADOWS
Laleh Khalili
THE CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD IN A MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC SOCIETY
Carl F. Petry
SYRIE, L'ÉTAT DE BARBARIE
Michel Seurat
THE SLAVE GIRLS OF BAGHDAD
Fuad Mathew Caswell
THE REVOLT OF AFRICAN SLAVES IN IRAQ IN THE 3RD / 9TH CENTURY
Alexandre Popovic
RACE AND SLAVERY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Terence Walz
,
Kenneth M. Cuno
THE MAN IN BLUE PYJAMAS
Jalal Barzanji
PRISON WRITINGS
Abdullah Öcalan
WOMEN AND SLAVERY IN THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Madeline C. Zilfi
POLICING AND PRISONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Laleh Khalili
,
Jillian Schwedler
TORTURE AND DEMOCRACY
Darius Rejali
THE BALLAD OF ABU GHRAIB
Errol Morris
,
Philip Gourevitch
SAYYID QUTB AND THE ORIGINS OF RADICAL ISLAMISM
John Calvert
LA GAMELLE ET LE COUFFIN
Fathi Bel Haj Yahia
QU'AS-TU FAIT DE TA JEUNESSE
Gilbert Naccache
TAZMAMORT RÉCIT
Aziz Binebine
BEYOND PRISON
Ahmed Othmani
THE LUCIFER EFFECT
Philip Zimbardo
PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS
Esmail Nashif
BORJ ERROUMI XL
Sami Ben Gharbia
PRISONERS
Jeffrey Goldberg
THE COMPLETE PERSEPOLIS
Marjane Satrapi
BLACKWATER
Jeremy Scahill
AS IF SILENT AND ABSENT
Ehud R. Toledano
PRISONER OF TEHRAN
Marina Nemat
WE LIVED TO TELL
Azadeh Agah
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Shadi Parsi
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Sousan Mehr
CULTURES OF CONFINEMENT
Ian Brown
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Frank Dikötter
PRISON WRITINGS
Abdullah Öcalan
TORTURE AND THE TWILIGHT OF EMPIRE
Marnia Lazreg
LA COQUILLE
Moustafa Khalifé
A QUESTION OF TORTURE
Alfred W. McCoy
FOR BREAD ALONE
Mohamed Choukri
LES PHILOTOON'S
Abdel El-Hafed Benotman
IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY
Jill Cutler
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Jeremy Brecher
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Brendan Smith
ABOLITION AND ITS AFTERMATH IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AFRICA AND ASIA
Gwyn Campbell
CONFESSIONS OF AN INNOCENT MAN
William Sampson
THE TORTURE PAPERS
Karen J. Greenberg
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Joshua L. Dratel
TORTURE AND TRUTH
Mark Danner
RESISTANCE
Souha Bechara
DANS CINQ ANS IL N'Y AURA PLUS DE CORAN
Abdelwahab Sdiri
THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN LANDS OF ISLAM
Eve Troutt Powell
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John O. Hunwick
UNE SI DOUCE DICTATURE
Taoufik Ben Brik
ALGÉRIENNE
Anne Nivat
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Louisette Ighilahriz
TAZMAMART
Ahmed Marzouki
SLAVERY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST
Shaun Elizabeth Maron
FATMA
M'Hamed Benguettaf
LA PRISONNIÈRE
Malika Oufkir
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Michèle Fitoussi
SLAVERY IN THE ARAB WORLD
Murray Gordon
MEN IN THE SUN
Ghassan Kanafani
SLAVERY AND ABOLITION IN THE OTTOMAN MIDDLE EAST
Ehud R. Toledano
PEURS ET MENSONGES
Aïssa Khelladi
PRISON NUMBER 5
Mehdi Zana
SLAVERY IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND ITS DEMISE, 1800-1909
Y. Hakan Erdem
ARRÊT FIXE
M'Hamed Benguettaf
L'EMIR ABDELKADER AUTOBIOGRAPHIE
Abd Al Qadir Ibn Muhyī Al-Dīn
VASTE EST LA PRISON
Assia Djebar
ET POURTANT MARCHER
Ahmed Kalouaz
MEMOIRS FROM THE WOMEN'S PRISON
Nawal El Saadawi
BARRED
Barbara Harlow
AINSI NAQUIT UN HOMME
Myriam Ben
DES DOUARS ET DES PRISONS
Jacqueline Guerroudj
THE THIEF AND THE DOGS
Naguib Mahfouz
POÈMES DE PRISON
Zhor Zerari
LA MONTAGNE DU LION
Mustapha Tlili
DES PRISONS
Jean Favard
THE COLONIAL HAREM
Malek Alloula
ITINÉRAIRES BRÛLANTS
Chabane Ouahioune
,
Saïd Akrour
CHRONIQUES DE LA CITADELLE D'EXIL
Abdellatif Laâbi
CRISTAL
Gilbert Naccache
LE TALISMAN
Mohammed Dib
LETTRES DE PRISON
Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi
DJAMILA BOUPACHA
Gisèle Halimi
,
Simone de Beauvoir
BARBEROUSSE
Mustapha G
THE GANGRENE
Jerome Lindon
LA GANGRÉNE
Jerome Lindon
L'AFFAIRE AUDIN
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
LA QUESTION
Henri Alleg
LA PRISON EST POUR LES HOMMES
Chérif Ait Atmann