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American Sheikhs

Author : Brian VanDeMark
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616144777
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book American Sheikhs written by Brian VanDeMark and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Sheikhs is the story of a great institution—the American University of Beirut (AUB)—and the families who created and fostered it for almost 150 years. Author Brian VanDeMark’s vivid narrative includes not only the colorful history of AUB and many memorable episodes in a family saga, but also larger and more important themes. In the story of the efforts of these two families to build a great school with alternating audacity, arrogance, generosity, paternalism, and vision, the author clearly sees an allegory for the larger history of the United States in the Middle East. Before 1945, AUB’s history is largely positive. Despite American nationalism and presumptions of Manifest Destiny, Middle Easterners generally viewed the school as an engine of constructive change and the United States as a benign force in the region. But in the post-World War II era, with the rise of America as a world power, AUB found itself buffeted by the strong winds of nationalist frustration, Zionism and anti-Zionism, and—eventually—Islamic extremism. Middle Easterners became more ambivalent about America’s purposes and began to see the university not just as a cradle of learning but also as an agent of undesirable Western interests. This story is full of meaning today. By revealing how and why the Blisses and Dodges both succeeded and failed in their attempts to influence the Middle East, VanDeMark shows how America’s outreach to the Middle East can be improved and the vital importance of maintaining good relations between Americans and the Arab world in the new century.

The Sheikh's Batmobile

Author : Richard Poplak
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593762925
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book The Sheikh's Batmobile written by Richard Poplak and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to our pop culture when it meets another culture head-on—especially one that, according to some, is completely at odds with our own? In The Sheikh’s Batmobile, pop culture commentator Richard Poplak sets out on an unusual two-year odyssey. His mission is to see what becomes of his and America’s obsessions—pop songs and sitcoms, Hollywood movies and shoot-'em-up video games, muscle cars and punk music—when they make their way into the Muslim world. Over the course of his journey, Poplak gets body-slammed by WWE fans in Afghanistan, hangs out with hip-hop artists in Palestine, headbangs to heavy metal in Cairo, discovers a world of extreme makeovers in Beirut, bowls with the chief of police in small-town Kazakhstan, and encounters a mysterious Texan who builds rocket-propelled Batmobiles for a clientele of sheikhs. With uproarious humor and keen cultural insight, Poplak asks some vital questions: How is American pop culture consumed and reinterpreted in the Islamic world? What does that say about how we are viewed by young Muslims? And can Homer Simpson bridge the divisions that are tearing our world apart?

Sheikh’s Pregnant American

Author : Leslie North
Publisher : Relay Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sheikh’s Pregnant American written by Leslie North and published by Relay Publishing. This book was released on with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love always finds a way… Sheikh Camil Abadi believes love is just a silly fantasy. Lust, however, is another matter. So when the irrepressible American Piper McCarthy careens into a meeting with him, asking to write about his great-grandparents, he’s much more interested in her than some ancient local legend concerning the infamous Lovers of Al-Fahr… After they share an unforgettable night of pleasure, Camil assumed that was the end of it. But two months later, Piper is back… And Camil is shocked to discover that she’s pregnant with his child. But as they spend more time together, the Sheikh who doesn’t believe in love suddenly finds himself falling head over heels for the beautiful writer. Piper is excited to research the famous Lovers of Al-Fahr. It’s the perfect story for her romantic soul. She only wishes that kind of love would find her. Camil may be the most gorgeous, sexiest man she’s ever met, but love? That’s not in the cards—at least not for Camil. And Piper’s still not sure what she feels. With a baby on the way, will either of them discover the truth in their hearts, before it’s too late?

The Sheikh's Reluctant American

Author : Leslie North
Publisher : Relay Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sheikh's Reluctant American written by Leslie North and published by Relay Publishing. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banished Sheikh Malid Adjalane has no interest in returning to the family business under the watchful eye of his controlling father. But if Malid doesn’t agree to take on a tough deal, he won’t be allowed into the palace to see his dying mother. With no other choice, Malid finds himself deep in negotiations with the largest oil producer in the world. He expected hard work, but he never could have prepared himself for the gorgeous, ambitious woman on the other end of this business deal. Nigella Michaels works hard for her father’s oil company, but she still has a lot to prove. It’s a masculine industry, and with her dad about to retire, this deal could be just what she needs to show him once and for all that she’s the right person to continue his legacy. She’s always worked well with others, and this should be no exception. But not even her meticulous research could have prepared Nigella for the instant attraction she has with Malid. After so many years on his own, it won’t be easy for Malid to put up with his father’s terms. But with Nigella’s help, perhaps they’ll both learn to balance the weight of their family with their own desires.

The Sheikh's American Fiancée

Author : Leslie North
Publisher : Relay Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sheikh's American Fiancée written by Leslie North and published by Relay Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christina is in the tiny country of Kattahar for one reason and one reason only - she is looking for a potential donor for her adorable neophyte who is desperate for a kidney. While Christina is stumbled upon a family secret, her sister, Kasha, is adopted and her birth mother, Sabrina, and a potential kidney donor, is living in Kattahar. With her world thrown into a tailspin, Christina heads to Kattahar to seek Sabrina out. What's not in her plans is getting involved with anyone, including the sinfully hot man she can't keep her eyes off. But when she asks her to be his fiancée, she's more than a little intrigued. As desperate for Christina to find her sister's birth mother, Dakaric, the King of Al Qalb, is just as desperate to keep power-hungry, crown-seeking women from distracting him from his goal of making his country prosperous. Christina just happens to be the perfect woman at the perfect time. She's only in Kattahar for a week, just long enough to pose for some PR photos and prove his "fiancée" exists. If she agrees to keep the gold diggers away, she will help her find Kasha's mother. The only hitch in his plan is his growing attraction to Christina, who is starting to look more and more perfect in every way. But desert sand is not all that swirls around them. Secrets and lies threaten their blossoming attraction before it can take root. Now Christina and Dakaric must decide if they want their temporary engagement to become an everlasting one.

The Sheikh’s American Lover

Author : Leslie North
Publisher : Relay Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sheikh’s American Lover written by Leslie North and published by Relay Publishing. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Single-mother Hannah Fisher is fine just the way she is. She works hard, earns an honest wage and raises her son without any support. So when Prince Sheikh Chakir decides to “rescue” her from her rather un-royal life, she can’t help but challenge his every move. Prince Sheikh Chakir can’t believe how much he enjoys spending time with Hannah as he prepares her son for royal life. If only his elders didn’t disapprove of her. For things to work out between them, he needs her to be traditional, silent and proper: not independent, opinionated or quite so sexy… But with the crown unconvinced of their compatibility and Hannah ready to pull away from her hot chemistry with the Prince, Sheikh has a serious decision to make: break a few rules or risk a broken heart.

The Sheikh’s American Assistant

Author : Leslie North
Publisher : Relay Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sheikh’s American Assistant written by Leslie North and published by Relay Publishing. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makayla Riggs is convinced her father was wrongfully convicted, and she’s going to prove it. Her father died in prison in Qadir, a tiny Arabic country, after being found guilty of stealing a diamond from the royal family. Convinced her father was framed by the al Baians, the powerful family he was working for, Makayla heads to Qadir and finds an unlikely ally in Sheikh Baqir Abdul-Rahman, who has his own suspicions about the al Baians. As the two work together to uncover the truth, Makayla can’t help but find herself falling under the charming sheikh’s spell. How can she not when Baqir is the only one who believes her father was framed? Baqir is trying to solve several other jewelry thefts and knows he’s treading in dangerous territory to place blame for all the thefts on the al Baians. Yet he finds himself willing to do just about anything to help Makayla. Their long nights investigating the original theft brings them closer, and it isn’t long before the two finally give in to the red-hot chemistry that's been torturing them since they met. When Makayla is threatened by the al Baians, Baqir is desperate to protect her; a kind of desperation that feels like more than chemistry: he’s fallen deeply in love with the beautiful American. But will Baqir be too late to save Makayla, will she disappear forever from his life?

From Sheikhs to Sultanism

Author : Christopher M. Davidson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197650317
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book From Sheikhs to Sultanism written by Christopher M. Davidson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muhammad bin Salman Al-Saud and Muhammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the respective princely strongmen of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have torn up the old rules. They have spurred game-changing economic master plans, presided over vast anti-corruption crackdowns, tackled entrenched religious forces, and overseen the mass arrest of critics. In parallel, they also appear to have replaced the old 'sheikhly' consensus systems of their predecessors with something more autocratic, more personalistic, and perhaps even analytically distinct. These are the two wealthiest and most populous Gulf monarchies, and increasingly important global powers--Saudi Arabia is a G20 member, and the UAE will be the host of the World Expo in 2021-2022. Such sweeping changes to their statecraft and authority structures could well end up having a direct impact, for better or worse, on policies, economies and individual lives all around the world. Christopher M. Davidson tests the hypothesis that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are now effectively contemporary or even 'advanced' sultanates, and situates these influential states within an international model of autocratic authoritarianism. Drawing on a range of primary sources, including new interviews and surveys, From Sheikhs to Sultanism puts forward an original, empirically grounded interpretation of the rise of both MBS and MBZ.

American Islam

Author : Paul M. Barrett
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708304
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book American Islam written by Paul M. Barrett and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid, dramatic portraits of Muslims in America in the years after 9/11, as they define themselves in a religious subculture torn between moderation and extremism There are as many as six million Muslims in the United States today. Islam (together with Christianity and Judaism) is now an American faith, and the challenges Muslims face as they reconcile their intense and demanding faith with our chaotic and permissive society are recognizable to all of us. From West Virginia to northern Idaho, American Islam takes readers into Muslim homes, mosques, and private gatherings to introduce a population of striking variety. The central characters range from a charismatic black imam schooled in the militancy of the Nation of Islam to the daughter of an Indian immigrant family whose feminist views divided her father's mosque in West Virginia. Here are lives in conflict, reflecting in different ways the turmoil affecting the religion worldwide. An intricate mixture of ideologies and cultures, American Muslims include immigrants and native born, black and white converts, those who are well integrated into the larger society and those who are alienated and extreme in their political views. Even as many American Muslims succeed in material terms and enrich our society, Islam is enmeshed in controversy in the United States, as thousands of American Muslims have been investigated and interrogated in the wake of 9/11. American Islam is an intimate and vivid group portrait of American Muslims in a time of turmoil and promise.

Quarterly Essay 14 Mission Impossible

Author : Paul McGeough
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921825138
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 14 Mission Impossible written by Paul McGeough and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second Quarterly Essay of 2004, Paul McGeough offers a dramatic account of why Iraq remains in chaos despite desperate American efforts to create a model democracy in the Middle East. According to McGeough, Iraq to this day remains a tribal society. It cannot be governed without the cooperation of the true powers in the land, the tribal and religious sheikhs. Those who have ruled Iraq in the past, including Saddam Hussein and the British before him, understood this fact. The Americans, by contrast, seem to have missed the point. In Mission Impossible, Paul McGeough enters the world of key Iraqi tribal and religious leaders. There are vivid portraits of the sheikhs' role in the fall and capture of Saddam, as well as their part in the growing insurgency. There are glimpses, too, of a history that once involved Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell, and which pre-dates Islam, stretching back thousands of years. Combining reportage and analysis in brilliant fashion, this groundbreaking essay is well timed to coincide with the next major phase in Iraq's troubled history. "Throughout the history of their region, the sheikhs have been the powerbrokers, deciding who would reign between the great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates." —Paul McGeough, Mission Impossible

American Crescent

Author : Sayyid Hassan Qazwini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991025015
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book American Crescent written by Sayyid Hassan Qazwini and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fallujah Awakens

Author : Bill Ardolino
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612511295
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Fallujah Awakens written by Bill Ardolino and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cradle of an insurgency that plunged Iraq into years of chaos and bloodshed, Fallujah conjures up images of the brutal house-to-house fighting that occurred during the 2004 U.S. invasion of the iconic city. But attacks in the area actually peaked two years later, when American and Iraqi government forces struggled with a reinvigorated insurgency and the prospect of premature withdrawal by U.S. forces. Fallujah Awakens tells the story of the remarkable turnaround that followed. Journalist Bill Ardolino explains how local tribal leaders and U.S. Marines forged a surprising alliance that helped secure the famous battleground. It is one of the few books to recount events from both American and Iraqi perspectives. Based on more than 120 interviews with Iraqis and U.S. Marines, Ardolino describes how a company of reservists, led by a medical equipment sales manager from Michigan, succeeded where previous efforts had stalled. Circumstance combined with smart, charismatic leadership enabled Americans to build relationships with members of a Sunni tribe—once written off as dangerous and intractable— who pushed al Qaeda and other insurgents from their notoriously rebellious area. Accidental killings, intertribal rivalries, insurgents, and intrigue all conspired to undo the tenuous alliance forged between the Americans and tribesmen on Fallujah’s Peninsula. But the partnership was cemented after a Marine commander’s risky decision to welcome nearly 100 injured civilians onto a secure American facility after a ruthless chemical attack by al Qaeda. The book’s gripping storyline will appeal to readers of historical nonfiction. Its exhaustive documentation will prove valuable to military students, analysts, and historians and will help policy makers better understand what is possible in counterinsurgency. Photographs and maps further enhance the reader’s understanding of everything from tribal dynamics to the geography of firefights.

THE SHEIKH'S WAYWARD WIFE

Author : Sandra Marton
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596378398
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book THE SHEIKH'S WAYWARD WIFE written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Layla has been cursed with terrible luck ever since she decided to fly to the desert nation of Al Ankhara in search of the father she never knew. After their reunion, her father tricks her, locks her up in his estate and gives her away, as if she’s an object, to be married to an unknown enemy! But it’s not like Layla to give up easily. She manages to escape her guard and make a run for it, until she’s spotted by none other than the handsome and haughty Sheikh Halil.

Shariah

Author : William J. Boykin
Publisher : Center for Security Policy
ISBN 13 : 9780982294765
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Shariah written by William J. Boykin and published by Center for Security Policy. This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the result of months of analysis, discussion and drafting by a group of top security policy experts concerned with the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time: the legal-political-military doctrine known within Islam as "shariah." It is designed to provide a comprehensive and articulate "second opinion" on the official characterizations and assessments of this threat as put forth by the United States government. The authors, under the sponsorship of the Center for Security Policy, have modeled this work on an earlier "exercise in competitive analysis" which came to be known as the "Team B" Report. The present Team B II report is based entirely on unclassified, readily available sources. As with the original Team B analysis, however, this study challenges the assumptions underpinning the official line in the conflict with today's totalitarian threat, which is currently euphemistically described as "violent extremism," and the policies of co-existence, accommodation and submission that are rooted in those assumptions.

American Dervish

Author : Ayad Akhtar
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316192821
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book American Dervish written by Ayad Akhtar and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.

After the Sheikhs

Author : Christopher Davidson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019024450X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book After the Sheikhs written by Christopher Davidson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps, fast-growing populations, and powerful modernising and globalising forces impacting on their largely conservative societies, they have demonstrated remarkable resilience. Obituaries for these traditional monarchies have frequently been penned, but even now these absolutist, almost medieval, entities still appear to pose the same conundrum as before: in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring and the fall of incumbent presidents in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, the apparently steadfast Gulf monarchies have, at first glance, re-affirmed their status as the Middle East s only real bastions of stability. In this book, however, noted Gulf expert Christopher Davidson contends that the collapse of these kings, emirs, and sultans is going to happen, and was always going to. While the revolutionary movements in North Africa, Syria, and Yemen will undeniably serve as important, if indirect, catalysts for the coming upheaval, many of the same socio-economic pressures that were building up in the Arab republics are now also very much present in the Gulf monarchies. It is now no longer a matter of if but when the West s steadfast allies fall. This is a bold claim to make but Davidson, who accurately forecast the economic turmoil that afflicted Dubai in 2009, has an enviable record in diagnosing social and political changes afoot in the region.

A Muslim American Slave

Author : Omar Ibn Said
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299249530
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book A Muslim American Slave written by Omar Ibn Said and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling “the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language,” as one local newspaper reported. Ibn Said soon became a local celebrity, and in 1831 he was asked to write his life story, producing the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic. In A Muslim American Slave, scholar and translator Ala Alryyes offers both a definitive translation and an authoritative edition of this singularly important work, lending new insights into the early history of Islam in America and exploring the multiple, shifting interpretations of Ibn Said’s narrative by the nineteenth-century missionaries, ethnographers, and intellectuals who championed it. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction, contextual essays and historical commentary by leading literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora, photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction and by photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The volume also includes contextual essays and historical commentary by literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora: Michael A. Gomez, Allan D. Austin, Robert J. Allison, Sylviane A. Diouf, Ghada Osman, and Camille F. Forbes. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians