The second edition includes three new chapters on the Arab Spring and Iran's Green Movement and is fully updated to reflect recent events. At heart, the book remains a study of agency in times of constraint.

The story of a grassroots political movement that flourished throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

This volume presents an overview of the madrasas in countries such as China, Indonesia, Malayisia, India and Pakistan."--Publisher description.

"This volume challenges the prevalent idea in Western media and policy circles that people, societies, and politics in the Middle East can merely be explained by reference to religion and static interpretations of culture."—Nadje Al-Ali, ...

THE STORY: A fierce thunderstorm has shut down airports up and down the East Coast.

The author considers these new laws alongside older statutes to comment on the patterns and dynamics of change both in the texts of the laws, and in the processes through by which they are drafted and issued.

" In fact, he taught at Boston University for nearly four decades, and with this book, Ariel Burger--devoted prot g , apprentice, and friend--takes us into the sacred space of Wiesel's classroom.

The writing here is funny and down–to–earth, the characters are recognizably fallible, and the message is quietly profound: We are not ever really alone, however lonely we feel." —The Wall Street Journal