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Brother Tariq

Author : Caroline Fourest
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458779165
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Brother Tariq written by Caroline Fourest and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of Tariq Ramadan is well known in the West. Thanks to his urbane manner and articulate way of expressing himself - in a number of languages - this Swiss-born academic is a regular contributor to television and radio features dealing with Islam (and Islamism) and the West. In England, his reputation as a ''moderate'' has won him praise - and even an invitation from the Prime Minister to serve on the government's task force on preventing extremism. Meanwhile, as the grandson of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ramadan enjoys a certain status in Islamic circles - a kind of ambassador for his grandfather's brand of political Islam. So who is the real Tariq Ramadan and what does he stand for? In this incisive and insightful study of the man, well-known French writer and journalist Caroline Fourest dissects the public pronouncements of Tariq Ramadan. Drawing on his numerous books, articles and speeches as sources, she demonstrates with chilling clarity that the West has been beguiled by Ramadan's doublespeak. Tariq Ramadan is slippery. He says one thing to his faithful Islamist followers and something else entirely to his Western audience. His choice of words, the formulations he uses - even his tone of voice - vary, chameleon-like, according to his audience. In most people, this would be merely funny or irritating, but Tariq Ramadan is too influential a figure to be dismissed so lightly. Caroline Fourest does an incalculable service. In this long-overdue English translation of Brother Tariq she proves, once and for all, that Tariq Ramadan is not to be trusted. Ramadan has been portrayed as the Martin Luther King of Islam. This study reveals that he is a far more sinister character at the forefront of a militant and reactionary Islam.

Pugsley Binks

Author : Lynne Leatham
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Pugsley Binks written by Lynne Leatham and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Puglsey has the adventure of his life spiraling through dark alleys, dank underground corridors and scary passageways, and meeting questionable characters from otherworldly portals in none other than New York City. On his first day in his new school, he is assigned a science project with the school nerd who insists it be on dragons. “There’s no such thing as dragons...but maybe, could dragons really exist?” This story contains excitement, danger, a riddle to solve, and even a little romance. Its twists and turns will keep you on the edge of your seat. About the Author Lynne Leatham is a talented writer with a unique way of weaving a creative and fun story with lots of plot twists, turns, and colorful characters. She grew up in Othello, Washington and went to Ricks College, meeting, and marrying her husband in her sophomore year. She has raised six children and now resides in Wellsville, Utah. She has been a professional cake decorator for twenty-five years and now is retired, giving her lots of time to pursue her real passion—writing. Leatham says, “Writing gets into your blood and you can’t leave it alone.” She has other talents, but family and friends are always her highest, the real loves of her life.

The Good House

Author : Tananarive Due
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743296168
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Good House written by Tananarive Due and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Due's spine tingling tale of supernatural suspense "weaves a stronger net than ever" (Kirkus Reviews") as a woman searches for the inherited power that can save her hometown from the forces of evil.

Historical Dictionary of Yemen

Author : Charles Schmitz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538102331
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Yemen written by Charles Schmitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yemen has experienced wrenching changes that have transformed the country in yet unknown ways. The country exploded in a popular revolution against the long-time rule of Ali Abdallah Saleh. While the country appeared to slip toward civil war, Yemeni political elite rallied with international backers to put together a transitional government with a plan to revise the country’s constitution. The transitional government began with a cautious sense of optimism and the prospect of substantial change for the better, but ended in collapse because of a failure to govern. The politics of the street overran an ineffective transitional government that could not address the urgent concerns of Yemeni citizens for security and jobs. Instead, populist leaders exploited people’s dissatisfactions and threw the country into civil war. The Houthi organization covertly allied with its former enemy, Ali Abdallah Saleh, to overthrow the transitional government and declare war on the rest of the country. Saleh seems unable to conceive of life outside of the Presidential Palace and his Houthi allies appear to believe they are destined to rule. Unfortunately, those opposed to Saleh and the Houthi also seem unable to provide effective rule in spite of massive backing from the Gulf States. The incompetence, infighting, and incoherence of the Hadi government bode equally ill for the future of the country. The one hope may be that a new generation of Yemeni leaders emerges to displace the dismal failures of this one. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Yemen contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Yemen.

Botros Brothers

Author : Leslie North
Publisher : Relay Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Botros Brothers written by Leslie North and published by Relay Publishing. This book was released on with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passion and intrigue in an exotic desert paradise… Three sexy, arrogant, and brash brothers, and one spirited sister, search for love under the burning desert sun. Unexpected babies, forbidden romance, and long-held secrets make for a passionate saga in this delightful boxset by bestselling romance author Leslie North… In The Sheik’s Accidental Pregnancy, when Sarah starts work at the Botros Oil Company she doesn’t expect the tall and sexy CEO to be so rude, arrogant, and combative. After a heated argument leads to an unforgettable night of passion, they both agree it can never happen again. But there are consequences to their secret affair… In The Sheikh’s Defiant Girlfriend, Sheikh Amir Botros, a notorious womanizer, has finally met his match in Soraya, his best friend’s sister. He’s determined to make her his, and he won't take no for an answer. Why is she so attracted to a man she knows she should despise? But what happens when forces beyond their control conspire to tear them apart? In The Sheikh’s Secret Past, no matter how much Soraya tries to fight it, she can't resist Amir's playful charms. When the Botros matriarch invites the family to visit an exotic paradise in the heart of the desert, a woman from Amir's past is waiting for them. And she carries a secret that could destroy the Botros family, including Soraya and Amir, once and for all… And in Sheikh’s Determined Police Officer, Aaliyah Botros is beginning to wonder if she’ll ever get her chance at love. When she bumps into her old flame Joseph, she’s delighted to find that he’s even more handsome, muscular and disarming than she remembered. It only takes one magical night to reignite the passion between them. But with her strict family standing in the way, is their relationship doomed from the start? This series was originally published in 2014 as The Botros Brothers Series.

The World Turned Upside Down

Author : Melanie Phillips
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 159403575X
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The World Turned Upside Down written by Melanie Phillips and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. Millions more advance popular conspiracy theories: AIDS was created in a CIA laboratory, Princess Diana was assassinated, and the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. In The World Turned Upside Down, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of irrationality is the slow but steady marginalization of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which science and modernity are based. Without its religious traditions, the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. Scientists skeptical of global warming are hounded from their posts, Israel is demonized, and the US is vilified over the war on terror—all on the basis of blatant falsehoods and obscene propaganda. Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of rationality leaves the West vulnerable to its legitimate threats. Faced with the very real challenges of spiraling demographics and violent, confrontational Islamism, the West is no longer willing or able to defend the modernity and rationalism that it once brought into being.

30 Monologues and Duologues for South Asian Actors

Author : Kali Theatre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350203904
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book 30 Monologues and Duologues for South Asian Actors written by Kali Theatre and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to celebrate the 30th anniversary year of Kali Theatre this is a brand new book of 30 monologues and duologues spoken by South Asian characters to be performed by actors from a South Asian/dual heritage background in auditions, workshops and acting classes. Drawn from, or adapted from the rich collection of full-length plays by women writers of South Asian descent that Kali Theatre have developed and presented over the past 30 years, this collection is a celebratory, revolutionary and necessary addition for actors and performers. From writers such as Rukhsana Ahmad and Nessah Muthy to new writers commissioned as part of Kali's SOLOS series curated during lock-down, this anthology captures a mix of powerful and original work. This vital collection features a concise history of Kali Theatre's origins and a full list of the plays that Kali Theatre has publicly presented over the past 30 years, making it a celebratory offering from one of the UK's most inspiring theatre companies.

The Brotherhood

Author : Erick Stakelbeck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621570347
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Brotherhood written by Erick Stakelbeck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brotherhoods is the chilling chronicle of the alleged crimes and betrayals of NYPD Detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, notorious rogue cops who stand charged with the ultimate form of police corruption-shielding their crimes behind their badges while they worked for the mob. These crimes included murder, kidnapping, torture, and the betrayal of an entire generation of New York City detectives and federal agents. This gripping real-life detective story reveals two brotherhoods, both with hierarchies, rituals, and codes of conduct. Chased for seven years by William Oldham, the brilliant and determined detective who didn't let the case die, Detectives Caracappa and Eppolito are at the centre of an investigation that moves from the mobbed-up streets of Brooklyn to Hollywood sets and the Las Vegas strip. Co-written with prize-winning investigative journalist Guy Lawson, the story spans three decades and showcases a cast of characters that runs the gamut from capo psychopaths to grieving mothers to a group of retired detectives and investigators working to see that justice is done.This quintessential American mob tale, both bizarre and compelling, ranks with such modern crime classics as Serpico, Donnie Brasco, and Wiseguy.

Virgins? What Virgins?

Author : Ibn Warraq
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616143126
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Virgins? What Virgins? written by Ibn Warraq and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging collection of insightful, controversial, and often-witty essays, the renowned author of Why I Am Not a Muslim has created a representative selection of his best work on the Koran and various problems posed by the interaction of Islam with the West. The title of the collection comes from an article that originally appeared in the London Guardian on recent textual studies of the Koran. This research suggests that, contrary to a longstanding Muslim belief about the afterlife, a harem of beautiful virgins may not be waiting for the faithful male departed in heaven. For the many readers of his books who have wondered about his background, the author begins with a charming personal sketch about his upbringing in England and his unabashed Anglophilia. A section on Koranic criticism includes excerpts from two of his books, What the Koran Really Says and Which Koran? No stranger to controversy and polemics, the author devotes two sections to articles that consider the totalitarian nature of contemporary political Islam and explore the potential for an Islamic Reformation comparable to the Protestant Reformation in the West. The concluding section is composed of Ibn Warraq''s journalism, including a critique of reputed Muslim reformer Tariq Ramadan, a defense of Western culture ("Why the West Is Best)," an article about the Danish cartoons that provoked widespread Muslim outrage, and even a commentary on heavy metal music in a Muslim setting. This thoughtful, engaging collection on diverse topics will interest both longtime readers of Ibn Warraq and those new to his work.

Interpreters of Occupation

Author : Madeline Otis Campbell
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 081565359X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Interpreters of Occupation written by Madeline Otis Campbell and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Iraq War, thousands of young Baghdadis worked as interpreters for US troops, becoming the front line of the so-called War on Terror. Deployed by the military as linguistic as well as cultural interpreters—translating the "human terrain" of Iraq—members of this network urgently honed identification strategies amid suspicion from US forces, fellow Iraqis, and, not least of all, one another. In Interpreters of Occupation, Campbell traces the experiences of twelve individuals from their young adulthood as members of the last Ba’thist generation, to their work as interpreters, through their navigation of the US immigration pipeline, and finally to their resettlement in the United States. Throughout, Campbell considers how these men and women grappled with issues of belonging and betrayal, both on the battlefield in Iraq and in the US-based diaspora. A nuanced and richly detailed ethnography, Interpreters of Occupation gives voice to a generation of US allies through their diverse and vividly rendered life histories. In the face of what some considered a national betrayal in Iraq and their experiences of otherness within the United States, interpreters negotiate what it means to belong to a diasporic community in flux.

The Taste of British South Asian Theatres: Aesthetics and Production

Author : Chandrika Patel
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483433404
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book The Taste of British South Asian Theatres: Aesthetics and Production written by Chandrika Patel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taste of British South Asian Theatres: Aesthetics and Production offers critical analysis of eight British Asian performances, using an east-west approach of references and theories, the latter including the Rasa theory of the Natyashastra, Brecht's Gestus and semiotics, making a striking contribution to the understanding of one of the most outstanding examples of diasporic artistic activity in recent history. With illustrations, the productions discussed are The Marriage of Figaro (Tara Arts), Curry Tales (Rasa Productions), Mr Quiver: intimate (Rajni Shah), Rafta, Rafta...(National Theatre), Nowhere to Belong: Tales of an Extravagant Stranger (RSC/Tara Arts), A Fine Balance (Tamasha), Deadeye (Kali Theatre) and the Gujarati play Lottery Lottery (Shivam Theatre). "In the search for new models of criticism, Patel's study of eight performances has advanced a subtle recipe that provides a new resource for diaspora studies." -Graham Ley Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theory, University of Exeter

Almost Tomorrow

Author : Sean Martin McQuade
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796000647
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Almost Tomorrow written by Sean Martin McQuade and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though this book Almost Tomorrow is fictional, it is based upon the life story of an Anglo-Indian lady from Goa prepartition of India oriented around 1947 and, there afterwards, includes tales of the lives of her extended family. Parveen and her younger sister Bulbul had, through no fault of their own, ended up trapped for life as bonded labourers in the brick-kiln industry in Pakistan. Their drama began at an early age when their family moved from Goa to a small railway town called Kamoke situated in rural Punjab. The years just after World War 2, with the partition of the Indian subcontinent and the formation of Pakistan and India as separate independent nations, came into being. An account of one single massacre in the Kamoke railway station provides the reader with a window into what might possibly have happened to a portion of approximately 1.5 million people who were murdered or killed during the mayhem. Also, that year, the mighty British Raj was preparing to finalise their occupation of the Indian subcontinent and return to Great Britain. They had repulsed a Japanese massive attempt to invade Northeast India from Burma. The British army, along with the support of a couple of Indian regiments and American air support, suppressed the advance. One of Lord Louis Mountbatten’s chief contribution was to coordinate the partition on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. He also was responsible for drawing up the new international (Radcliffe Line) boundary between the two new countries. The agreement went ahead on the 14–15 August 1947 in the company of Prime Minister Nehru representing India and Jinnah, the ‘Quaid-E-Azam’ (Founder of the Nation), representing Pakistan.

Understanding Bereaved Parents and Siblings

Author : Cathy McQuaid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100038750X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Bereaved Parents and Siblings written by Cathy McQuaid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Bereaved Parents and Siblings is based on lived experiences and provides insight, ideas, and inspiration on how to support the bereaved, how to talk to them about their experience, and how to help people manage their own shock or grief. Part I of the book contains ten stories from parents and six from siblings sharing their experiences. Each narrator discusses their relationship with the person who died; what led up to the death; the impact of the loss on the speaker; as well as what helped and what hindered them in their grief. Part II is aimed at professionals and draws on various topics such as grief and bereavement models, transgenerational loss, resilience, protection, and creative ways of working with grief. The book will be an essential read for the bereaved and the professionals, family, and friends who are supporting them.

The Idea of European Islam

Author : Mohammed Hashas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351604007
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of European Islam written by Mohammed Hashas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspicions about the integration of Islam into European cultures have been steadily on the rise, and dramatically so since 9/11. One reason lies in the visibility of anti-Western Islamic discourses of salafi origin, which have monopolized the debate on the "true" Islam, not only among Muslims but also in the eyes of the general population across Europe; these discourses combined with Islamophobic discourses reinforce the so-called incompatibility between the West and Islam. This book breaks away from this clash between Islam and the West, by arguing that European Islam is possible. It analyzes the contribution that European Islam has made to the formation of an innovative Islamic theology that is deeply ethicist and modern, and it clarifies how this constructed European Islamic theology is able to contribute to the various debates that are related to secular-liberal democracies of Western Europe. Part I introduces four major projects that defend the idea of European Islam from different disciplines and perspectives: politics, political theology, jurisprudence and philosophy. Part II uses the frameworks from three major philosophers and scholars to approach the idea of European Islam in the context of secular-liberal societies: British scholar George Hourani, Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane and the American philosopher John Rawls. The book shows that the ongoing efforts of European Muslim thinkers to revisit the concept of citizenship and political community can be seen as a new kind of political theology, in opposition to radical forms of Islamic thinking in some Muslim-majority countries. Opening a new path for examining Islamic thought "in and of" Europe, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Islamic Studies, Islam in the West and Political Theology.

The Poet of Baghdad

Author : Jo Tatchell
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307875091
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Poet of Baghdad written by Jo Tatchell and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1979 Nabeel Yasin, Iraq's most famous young poet, gathered together a handful of belongings and fled Iraq with his wife and son. Life in Baghdad had become intolerable. Silenced by a series of brutal beatings at the hands of the Ba'ath Party's Secret Police and declared an “enemy of the state,” he faced certain death if he stayed. Nabeel had grown up in the late 1950s and early '60s in a large and loving family, amid the domestic drama typical of Iraq's new middle class, with his mother Sabria working as a seamstress to send all of her seven children to college. As his story unfolds, Nabeel meets his future wife and finds his poetic voice while he is a student. But Saddam's rise to power ushers in a new era of repression, imprisonment and betrayal from which few families will escape intact. In this new climate of intimidation and random violence Iraqis live in fear and silence; yet Nabeel’s mother tells him “It is your duty to write.” His poetry, a blend of myth and history, attacks the regime determined to silence him. As Nabeel’s fame and influence as a poet grows, he is forced into hiding when the Party begins to dismantle the city’s infrastructure and impose power cuts and food rationing. Two of his brothers are already in prison and a third is used as a human minesweeper on the frontline of the Iran-Iraq war. After six months in hiding, Nabeel escapes with his wife and young son to Beirut, Paris, Prague, Budapest, and finally England. Written by Jo Tatchell, a journalist who has spent many years in the Middle East and who is a close friend of Nabeel Yasin’s, Nabeel's Song is the gripping story of a family and its fateful encounter with history. From a warm, lighthearted look at the Yasin family before the Saddam dictatorship, to the tale of Nabeel’s persecution and daring flight, and the suspense-filled account of his family’s rebellion against Saddam's regime, Nabeel's Song is an intimate, illuminating, deeply human chronicle of a country and a culture devastated by political repression and war.

Nabeel's Song

Author : Jo Tatchell
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385523130
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Nabeel's Song written by Jo Tatchell and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2007-06-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1979 Nabeel Yasin, Iraq's most famous young poet, gathered together a handful of belongings and fled Iraq with his wife and son. Life in Baghdad had become intolerable. Silenced by a series of brutal beatings at the hands of the Ba'ath Party's Secret Police and declared an “enemy of the state,” he faced certain death if he stayed. Nabeel had grown up in the late 1950s and early '60s in a large and loving family, amid the domestic drama typical of Iraq's new middle class, with his mother Sabria working as a seamstress to send all of her seven children to college. As his story unfolds, Nabeel meets his future wife and finds his poetic voice while he is a student. But Saddam's rise to power ushers in a new era of repression, imprisonment and betrayal from which few families will escape intact. In this new climate of intimidation and random violence Iraqis live in fear and silence; yet Nabeel’s mother tells him “It is your duty to write.” His poetry, a blend of myth and history, attacks the regime determined to silence him. As Nabeel’s fame and influence as a poet grows, he is forced into hiding when the Party begins to dismantle the city’s infrastructure and impose power cuts and food rationing. Two of his brothers are already in prison and a third is used as a human minesweeper on the frontline of the Iran-Iraq war. After six months in hiding, Nabeel escapes with his wife and young son to Beirut, Paris, Prague, Budapest, and finally England. Written by Jo Tatchell, a journalist who has spent many years in the Middle East and who is a close friend of Nabeel Yasin’s, Nabeel's Song is the gripping story of a family and its fateful encounter with history. From a warm, lighthearted look at the Yasin family before the Saddam dictatorship, to the tale of Nabeel’s persecution and daring flight, and the suspense-filled account of his family’s rebellion against Saddam's regime, Nabeel's Song is an intimate, illuminating, deeply human chronicle of a country and a culture devastated by political repression and war.

You Can't Hold Me Down

Author : Jawad Taherpoor
Publisher : Jawad Taherpoor
ISBN 13 : 3000592865
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book You Can't Hold Me Down written by Jawad Taherpoor and published by Jawad Taherpoor. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You Can't Hold Me Down This book is based on a true story, which took place throughout the author’s life. His purpose for writing this book is to encourage the readers by showing that if one has a specific goal or dream in life and is willing to approach it, he will make his way out of the darkness and conquer all the obstacles as he progresses towards his goal.