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Publication Women in the Middle East and North Africa(1999-12-01) Sharkey, Heather JPublication Battle for Peace in Sudan: An Analysis of the Abuja Conferences, 1992-1993 [Review](2002-01-01) Sharkey, Heather JIn 1992, in an effort to end the Sudanese civil war, President Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria offered to sponsor peace talks between the Sudanese government (dominated by the National Islamic Front), and the southern-based Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). Held in the Nigerian capital of Abuja in 1992 and 1993, the talks ultimately ended in failure, allowing one of the world's long est and deadliest conflicts to continue unabated. Battle for Peace in Sudan is a fascinating study of these negotiations, written by Wondu, who served as official notetaker of the SPLM delegation, and Lesch, a political scientist and Sudan specialist. The book should be required reading for anyone interested in the religious dynamics of the second Sudanese civil war, the start of which, in 1983, coincided with the regime's introduction of Shari'a hudud laws. This assertion of Islamic law, which grew stronger after 1989, antagonized the predominantly non-Muslim southern Sudanese population, and added to longstanding grievances about the country's grossly unequal regional distribution of political power and wealth.Publication Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798–1831(2012-08-01) Sharkey, Heather JPublication Lawha li-tha`ir sudani: al-Imam al-Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad b. 'Abd Allah (1844-1885)(1993) Sharkey, Heather JPublication Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town(2006-12-01) Sharkey, Heather JPublication Women, Work, and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa(1998-09-01) Sharkey, Heather JPublication Artillery of Fire: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East(2008-01-01) Sharkey, Heather JLucid and elegantly written, Ussama Makdisi's Artillery of Heaven accomplishes two big things. First, while examining 19th century American missionary encounters in the Arab Ottoman territories, it presents a model for a new kind of transnational history that sheds light on American engagement with the world. Second, and at a time when much of the Arab past has been "effectively demarcated ... as a forbidden no-man's land" because of fear of what "divisive narratives" of the past may dredge up (p. 219), it scrutinizes the raw history of the "multi-religious world" in the Ottoman region that is now Lebanon.Publication The Near East Since the First World War: A History to 1995,(1997-07-01) Sharkey, Heather JPublication American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims From the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism(2010-07-01) Sharkey, Heather JPublication Postcards from North Africa(2014-01-01) Sharkey, Heather J; Rawson, Katie