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Driving meaningful social change requires more than traditional advocacy; it calls for innovative approaches that reshape and challenge norms and inspire collective action. Transformative marketing offers a powerful tool for advancing gender equity by using strategic communication and community-centered engagement to influence attitudes and behaviors on a scale. By amplifying marginalized voices and confronting harmful stereotypes across media and marketplaces, transformative marketing bec...

Education systems and textbooks in selected countries of the Middle East are increasingly the subject of debate. This volume presents and analyzes the major trends as well as the scope and the limits of education reform initiatives undertaken in recent years. In curricula and teaching materials, representations of the “Self” and the “Other” offer insights into the contemporary dynamics of identity politics. By building on a network of scholars working in various countries in the Middle Eas...

This book explores the different ways women have been liberating themselves from the shackles of patriarchy and cultural laws that inhibit their independence and freedom to show that women are also contributing meaningfully to society. Women have worked to attain freedom through speaking out, writing memoirs, fiction, plays, poetry, and essays. The creative experiences of women are captured in this book, thus fulfilling the book's aim to give women voices to air their views and show that t...

This book explores entrepreneurship transformation as a response to recent global disruptions (such as technological advancements, emergency healthcare, and climate change) from the perspective of female entrepreneurs. This book illustrates how entrepreneurship and international business have enormous transformative power to advance inclusive economic development, embrace pluralism, and encompass minority groups. By analysing several case studies of female international entrepreneurs, this...

The objective of the following collected volume is to encourage a critical reflection on the relationship between "power" and "non-power" in our contemporary "world" and, proceeding from various philosophical traditions, to investigate the multifaceted aspects of this relationship. The authors’ respective investigations proceed from an intercultural perspective and fall predominantly in the domain of political theory and philosophy.This volume takes an intercultural political persp...

Food and travel writer Diala Canelo shares 100 healthy, vegetable-forward recipes inspired by her international travel.On any given day, you'll find Diala Canelo travelling around the world, walking the streets of her favourite cities-- including Barcelona, Paris, Melbourne, Mexico City, Florence, and Santo Domingo, where she grew up near the sea--places that inspire her flavourful and nourishing cooking. Influenced by local flavours, fresh ingredients, and a passi...

These are stories of my childhood. African elders pass down family histories through stories. Some stories were told by uncles, some were experiences of family times in the Ndiuhu, Ezeofor village. All the stories are real, but fictionalized to protect the identities of the characters. For three years, as a boy, my family fled to the village as the Biafran War raged. A turbulent time that also provided rich opportunities to immerse in village life with relatives also displaced from various...

Debates on the future of the African continent and the role of gender identities in these visions are increasingly present in literary criticism forums as African writers become bolder in exploring the challenges they face and celebrating gender diversity in the writing of short stories, novels, poetry, plays and films. Controversies over the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer (LGBTIQ) communities in Africa, as elsewhere, continue inthe context of criminalization and/...

Through an analysis of historical and contemporary literature, Visions of Womanhood in Contemporary African Literature argues that African women were not relegated to the background in African society until after colonization. Blessing Diala-Ogamba analyzes the history of women’s roles in African society through oral stories and biographies to show how colonialization worked to oppress women in Africa and explores the ways contemporary African literature confronts and works to overcome its...

How can hope flourish from the devastation of war, oppression, and forced migration?For the people featured in this book, this is not a philosophical question – it is a lived reality. Drawn from first-hand experience of violent conflict and displacement, the stories in this book belong to three extraordinary individuals who found a path to hope through action in the face of violence.Ideal reading for academics, artists, and activists who are working around ...

Adnan is the heartwarming story of a refugee boy’s attempts to heal his mother’s mental health issues with the power of his creativity as they rebuild their lives in their new home.Sometimes, when something sad happens, people can push it so far down because it hurts too much.That’s why Mummy doesn’t remember.This touching and sensitively told children's book is a story about a boy and his mother, about trauma and r...

Adnan is the heartwarming story of a refugee boy’s attempts to heal his mother’s mental health issues with the power of his creativity as they rebuild their lives in their new home.Sometimes, when something sad happens, people can push it so far down because it hurts too much.That’s why Mummy doesn’t remember.This touching and sensitively told children's book is a story about a boy and his mother, about trauma and r...