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Africa map: US admits 'unfortunate error' after mislabelling countriesA State Department presentation at HIV conference put Ivory Coast in East Africa and made Nigeria landlocked.www.bbc.co.uk🇺🇦 Advance stock of ‘To Die With Such Men’ pb edition by @shannonmonaghan.bsky.social now available! ‘Explores in bloody detail… what it’s really like to volunteer on Ukraine’s front line.’ @thetimes.com 20% discount w/code MONAGHAN20 tinyurl.com/bp848r22 Read an extract 👉 tinyurl.com/5csnd7ut
Spain is deploying military to the N African enclave of Ceuta after thousands of migrants breached the border. Why do border security policies fail? Read Dr. Matilde Rosina’s interview in the LSE Review of Books about her book, ‘The Migration Question’, coauthored w/ Professor Leila Simona Talani. 👇
LSE Review of BooksNEW INTERVIEW: Matilde Rosina on migration myths & why border security policies fail Matilde @lse-ei.bsky.social speaks about The Migration Question: Politics, Economics & the Failure of Border Security, co-authored with Leila Simona Talani @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
All eyes on Gaza to see if the historic Hamas disarmament holds and how Israel responds. Let us remember 'the tragedy of the Palestinians, caught between Hamas’s fanaticism and Netanyahu’s ethnic cleansing' (The Guardian).
Hurst PublishersRead a free extract from ‘A Historian in Gaza’ ➡️ tinyurl.com/tm4vhnsj
Sample & purchase @newrepublic.com's ‘Book of the Week’: @abuaardvark.bsky.social 's‘ America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region’ here 👉 tinyurl.com/4w22j22s ‘Persuasively argues that the U.S. efforts to shape the Middle East have failed.’
🏙️ Lucky enough to be in Edinburgh this August? Tix still available for the book festival event ‘dirty money’ & cities on the 24th. Hear our author of 'Uneasy Streets' @urbanmorph.bsky.social in conversation w/bestselling author @oliverbullough.bsky.social. Tickets available 👉 tinyurl.com/4am82hxp
Oliver Bullough & Caroline Knowles: Dirty Money | Edinburgh International Book Festivalno descriptiontinyurl.comRead ‘From Survival to Justice: A Conversation with Judge Theodor Meron’ by Kate Hamilton of the UK FCDO in the latest blog from the 'European Jrnl of International Law' here: tinyurl.com/y3m7r3jb Pick up your copy of Judge Meron’s inspirational story, ‘A Thousand Miracles,’ ➡️ tinyurl.com/4dx6326t
📢 Still time to book: ‘The Far Right Has Risen’ at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Aug 22nd. Featuring @vjmalletft.bsky.social (author of ‘Far-Right France’), @nikeshshukla.bsky.social, @trillingual.bsky.social w/@talatyaqoob.bsky.social chairing. Tickets here ➡️ tinyurl.com/2xnem774
📚🩺Visiting the Edinburgh International Book Festival this August? Tickets are still available to hear @caitjan.bsky.social discuss her new book, ‘Healthy Scepticism’ in conversation with Elizabeth Finkel & chaired by @profdevisridhar.bsky.social. August 18th. Book your ticket 👉 tinyurl.com/2kuy3zwa
Elizabeth Finkel & Caitjan Gainty: Beyond Reasonable Doubt | Edinburgh International Book Festivalno descriptiontinyurl.comTo read more about Eswar Prasad's analysis, see his latest book, 'The Doom Loop: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling into Disorder.' Sample and purchase 👉 tinyurl.com/mr3y6b2w t.co/IEKqUXDzOE
China needs a new growth modelThis matters for Beijing’s sake and for the rest of the world economytinyurl.comSee Carla Kaplan’s biography of Decca Mitford, ‘Troublemaker’, finalist for both the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography & the National Book Critics Circle Award 'Book of the Year' @newyorker.com Read a sample & purchase here ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc7w4jrw
Miguel R. NuñoEl 22 de julio de 1996 muere con 78 años, 🖊️ Jessica Mitford Una de las célebres 'hermanas Mitford' Vivió en contra de lo esperado por su aristocrática familia inglesa y destacó como activista política, periodista y escritora. 📖 Nobles y rebeldes Es más que una muy entretenida memoria autobiográfica.
🇮🇷 R. Templer’s ‘The Shah’s Party: And the Iranian Revolution That Followed’ reviewed in the Aug issue of @historytoday.com: ‘Remind[s] us that, although the shah & Khomeini agreed on almost nothing, both understood the power of Iran’s cultural nationalism.’ Sample & purchase 👉 tinyurl.com/5ybcwy3a
📢 Looking for a book about empire, colonialism, & its long legacy for a course this autumn? Check out these new pbs from @alanlester.bsky.social, @mark-condos.bsky.social & @amalkc.bsky.social. @eriklinstrum.bsky.social, @garethknapman.bsky.social, @bickers.bsky.social, @eicathomefinn.bsky.social
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Sample of "The Arab Bureau" by Eamonn Gearon, Rob JohnsonPeek inside this book and discover another great read.tinyurl.comAsian Review of Books🎧 Drops today: the ARB New Books Network Podcast features Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Eamonn Gearon, author of “The Arab Bureau” @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 👇 Available below and wherever you get your podcasts. asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...
Will the US take military action in Mali? To understand further context on why Mali is at the epicentre of crises in the Sahel, see ‘Sahel: The Perfect Storm’ by Morten Bøås. ➡️ tinyurl.com/rzp4nbfv
The Washington PostExclusive: The Trump administration is weighing military action in Mali to target an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, said current and former officials. If approved, it would be the eighth nation that President Trump has ordered strikes on in his second term.
PB edition of the critically acclaimed ‘The Truth About Empire’ edited by @alanlester.bsky.social w/foreword by @sathnam.bsky.social out now! ‘Book of the Year’ @historyextra.bsky.social Extracted in @theguardian.com Sample 👉 tinyurl.com/38u2ndw3 & use code TRUTH20 for a 20% off in buy link.
As we consider a Le Pen Presidency, learn more about Marine Le Pen’s remarkable transformation of RN and what that means for Europe & the wider world in ‘Far-Right France’ by @vjmalletft.bsky.social 'Crisp . . . meticulous.’ @observeruk.bsky.social 25% off w/code FRANCE25 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3bkxkurr
Far-Right France | Hurst PublishersThe story of the French far right’s unstoppable rise—from the woes of a broken society to the powerful personalities upending the status quo.tinyurl.comLes JoursMarine Le Pen, dont la culpabilité a été reconnue par la cour d’appel, joue la carte du pourvoi. Mais peu importe que la Cour de cassation tranche avant ou après la présidentielle, la patronne du RN a un boulevard devant elle.
Now available in Paperback 📚 ‘Highly recommended’ — The Muslim World Book Review Get 20% off 'Hope and Despair: Israel's Future in the New Middle East' by @michaelhorowitz.bsky.social w/code HOROWITZ20 ➡️ tinyurl.com/nmyhfmas