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Download or read book Fatima's Scarf written by David Caute and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his earliest years, Gamal Rahman was a troublemaker. By the time The Devil: an Interview is published, Gamal is living in exile in England. Publicly damned and burned by incensed Muslims in the Yorkshire city of Bruddersford, his book generates communal upheaval. Racial tensions erupt. Muslim girls, inspired by the fourteen-year-old Fatima, embark on a bitter strike to defend their right to wear the scarf of modesty in school. While the claims of women fuel the flames, young men embrace the Sons of Allah, dedicated to the execution of the apostate author Gamal Rahman. What should a writer owe to himself, and what to society?
Download or read book Fatima written by Arian Ahmadi and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatima grew up living with her sister and their abusive uncle. She sold scarves and polished shoes on the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan. Whatever money she made, her uncle would take from her and spend it on alcohol. Fatima's dream was to go to school and have a career. Her uncle on the other hand had other plans for her. For a bit of money, he sold her off to a complete stranger, whom she had to marry and leave her sister, Hawa behind. She thought now that she was married, she was going to live her dreams and go to school. But her husband listened to whatever his mother would tell him to do. He turned out to be just as abusive as her uncle. Married life was completely different from what Fatima thought it would be. She faces many hardships but gets stronger each day.
Book Synopsis What Fatima Did by : Atiha Sen Gupta
Download or read book What Fatima Did written by Atiha Sen Gupta and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatima Merchant is feisty and strong-willed. At 17, she drinks, smokes and parties. On the eve of her 18th birthday, without word or warning or explanation, she adopts the hijab. Suddenly, to her friends and family she is no longer the Fatima they thought they knew. What Fatima Did... is a funny and provocative exploration of attitudes to identity, freedom and multiculturalism in contemporary London.
Book Synopsis The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman by : Melanie Magidow
Download or read book The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman written by Melanie Magidow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in English for the first time, and the only Arabic epic named for a woman, The Tale of Princess Fatima recounts the thrilling adventures of a legendary medieval warrior universally known throughout the Middle East and long overdue to join world literature's pantheon of female heroes. A Penguin Classic A fearsome, sword-slinging heroine who defeated countless men in stealth attacks on horseback, Dhat al-Himma, or Princess Fatima, was secretly given away at birth because she wasn't male, only to triumph as the most formidable warrior of her time. Known alternately as "she-wolf," "woman of high resolve," and "calamity of the soul," she lives on in this rousing narrative of female empowerment, in which she leads armies of more than seventy thousand men in clashes between rival tribes and between Muslims and Christians; reconciles with her father after taking him prisoner; and fends off her infatuated cousin, who challenges her to a battle for the right to marry her. Though her cousin suffers an ignominious defeat, he impregnates Fatima against her will and, when she gives birth to a Black son, disowns his own son, who also grows up to be a great warrior, eventually avenging his mother's honor. The epic culminates in a showdown between Fatima and another formidable warrior woman, and earns Fatima a place alongside the likes of Circe, Mulan, Wonder Woman, Katniss Everdeen and other powerful women.
Book Synopsis Grave Message by : Mary Jennifer Payne
Download or read book Grave Message written by Mary Jennifer Payne and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Selling Points In this paranormal thriller, a teenager tries to solve the mystery of her friend’s death, with the help of a ghost. The main character is dyslexic but that is incidental to the storyline. The author is a special education teacher who teaches students with dyslexia. One of the first titles in the new Orca Anchor line of hi-lo books with reading levels of 1.0 to 2.0. Enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.
Book Synopsis Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient by : Liliana Sikorska
Download or read book Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient written by Liliana Sikorska and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction. Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."
Book Synopsis In the Language of Miracles by : Rajia Hassib
Download or read book In the Language of Miracles written by Rajia Hassib and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A New York Times Editors’ Choice • “Assured and beautifully crafted . . . Hassib is a natural, graceful writer with a keen eye for cultural difference. . . . [She] handles the anatomy of grief with great delicacy. . . . In the Language of Miracles should find a large and eager readership. For the beauty of the writing alone, Hassib deserves it.” —Monica Ali, The New York Times Book Review “[A] sensitive, finely wrought debut . . . sharply observant of immigrants’ intricate relationships to their adopted homelands, this exciting novel announces the arrival of a psychologically and socially astute new writer.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) For readers of House of Sand and Fog, a mesmerizing debut novel of an Egyptian American family and the wrenching tragedy that tears their lives apart, from the author of A Pure Heart Samir and Nagla Al-Menshawy appear to have attained the American dream. After immigrating to the United States from Egypt, Samir successfully works his way through a residency and launches his own medical practice as Nagla tends to their firstborn, Hosaam, in the cramped quarters of a small apartment. Soon the growing family moves into a big house in the manicured New Jersey suburb of Summerset, where their three children eventually attend school with Natalie Bradstreet, the daughter of their neighbors and best friends. More than a decade later, the family’s seemingly stable life is suddenly upended when a devastating turn of events leaves Hosaam and Natalie dead and turns the Al-Menshawys into outcasts in their own town. Narrated a year after Hosaam and Natalie’s deaths, Rajia Hassib’s heartfelt novel follows the Al-Menshawys during the five days leading up to the memorial service that the Bradstreets have organized to mark the one-year anniversary of their daughter’s death. While Nagla strives to understand her role in the tragedy and Samir desperately seeks reconciliation with the community, Khaled, their surviving son, finds himself living in the shadow of his troubled brother. Struggling under the guilt and pressure of being the good son, Khaled turns to the city in hopes of finding happiness away from the painful memories home conjures. Yet he is repeatedly pulled back home to his grandmother, Ehsan, who arrives from Egypt armed with incense, prayers, and an unyielding determination to stop the unraveling of her daughter’s family. In Ehsan, Khaled finds either a true hope of salvation or the embodiment of everything he must flee if he is ever to find himself. Writing with unflinchingly honest prose, Rajia Hassib tells the story of one family pushed to the brink by tragedy and mental illness, trying to salvage the life they worked so hard to achieve. The graceful, elegiac voice of In the Language of Miracles paints tender portraits of a family’s struggle to move on in the wake of heartbreak, to stay true to its traditions, and above all else, to find acceptance and reconciliation.
Book Synopsis British Novelists Since 1960 by : Merritt Moseley
Download or read book British Novelists Since 1960 written by Merritt Moseley and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains biographical sketches of representative British novelists whose work began to appear roughly around 1960.
Download or read book The Night Counter written by Alia Yunis and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An immigrant-ethnic cocktail laced with political oppression, but before shaking, [Alia Yunis] adds Scheherazade, the fabled storyteller who kept herself alive by distracting her tyrannical husband for a thousand and one nights." --Carolyn See, Washington Post After 85 years, Fatima knows that she is dying because for the last 991 days she has been visited by the immortal storyteller from The Arabian Nights, Scheherazade. Just as Scheherazade spun magical stories for 1,001 nights to save her own life, Fatima has spent each night telling Scheherazade her life stories. But with only nine days left before her death, Fatima has a few loose ends to tie up. She must find a wife for her openly gay grandson, teach Arabic (and birth control) to her 17-year-old great-granddaughter, make amends with her estranged husband, and decide which of her troublesome children should inherit her family's home in Lebanon--a house she herself has not seen in nearly 70 years. Fatima’s children are spread far apart and are wrapped up in their own chaotic lives seemingly disinterested in their mother and their inheritances. But as she weaves stories of her husband, children, and grandchildren, Fatima brings together a family that is both capricious and steadfast, affectionate and also smothering, connected yet terribly alone. Taken all together, they present a striking and surprising tapestry of modern Arab American life. Shifting between America and Lebanon over the last hundred years, Alia Yunis crafts a bewitching debut novel imbued with great humanity, imagination, family drama and a touch of magic realism. Be prepared to feel utterly charmed.
Book Synopsis A Silent Reckoning by : Nikita Slater
Download or read book A Silent Reckoning written by Nikita Slater and published by Nikita Slater Writing Services Ltd.. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Silent Reckoning is the second book in International Bestselling Author Nikita Slater's mafia romance Sinner's Empire Trilogy. One year. Jozef is ready to reclaim the woman who got away from him and start their lives together. He has watched, he has waited and now he will build his empire with his woman at his side. One year. Shaun never thought she'd see him again. The man who ripped her life into little pieces and left her to deal with the shambles. Now he's back and he's determined to pick up where they left off. A Silent Reckoning is Book 2 of 3 in the Sinner’s Empire trilogy. All three books are now available for purchase. Keywords: possessive alpha male, dark romance, jealous possessive, gothic romance, seductive romance, alpha hero, antihero, antihero romance, antihero dark romance, suffering heroine, obsessive hero, abduction to love, first in trilogy, passionate lovers, tortured heroine, sexually romantic books, series, romantic suspense, forbidden romance, capture fantasy, thriller, crime, mafia romance, enforcer, kidnap, love books, love stories, contemporary mafia romance, family saga, enemies to lovers, mobster, dark mafia romance, billionaire romance, possessive alpha romance, bestselling series, bad boy, non-verbal, no cheating, kidnapping, nonverbal, stalker, mercenary, doctor, protective, steamy, abused heroine, dominance submission, caged, marriage, captive romance, mob boss
Book Synopsis Sinner's Empire: The Complete Trilogy: An interracial dark mafia captive romance by : Nikita Slater
Download or read book Sinner's Empire: The Complete Trilogy: An interracial dark mafia captive romance written by Nikita Slater and published by Nikita Slater Writing Services Ltd.. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 1085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark mafia trilogy by USA Today Bestselling Author Nikita Slater. Shaun's life changes in an instant when she's kidnapped from a hospital where she works as a surgeon with Doctors Without Borders. She's faced with two choices; save the mafia informant or die. She finds herself in a dangerous situation where the only man she can trust is the vicious enforcer to a crime family. Jozef Koba. From the operating room to an opulent glittering ballroom and a forced engagement, Shaun is wildly out of her depth. Every step she takes is monitored and the man who kidnapped her watches her like a feral dog preparing to strike. A mob war. A family in crisis. A rise to power. Together, Jozef and Shaun, must show the world a new Koba empire, built from the ashes of destruction and put back together with the strength of their love. NOTE: The Sinner's Empire Trilogy contains sensitive subject matter, with some scenes containing elements of PTSD and panic attacks, please read with caution. Keywords: romance series, romance trilogy, possessive alpha male, dark romance, jealous possessive, gothic romance, seductive romance, alpha hero, antihero, antihero romance, antihero dark romance, suffering heroine, obsessive hero, abduction to love, passionate lovers, tortured heroine, sexually romantic books, series, romantic suspense, forbidden romance, capture fantasy, thriller, crime, mafia romance, enforcer, kidnap, love books, love stories, contemporary mafia romance, family saga, enemies to lovers, mobster, dark mafia romance, billionaire romance, possessive alpha romance, bestselling series, bad boy, non-verbal, no cheating, kidnapping, nonverbal, stalker, mercenary, doctor, protective, steamy, abused heroine, dominance submission, caged, marriage, captive romance, mob boss
Book Synopsis International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 by : Europa Publications
Download or read book International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 written by Europa Publications and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writersoffers invaluable information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world, including many up-and-coming writers as well as established names. With over 8,000 entries, this updated edition features: * Concise biographical information on novelists, authors, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors, and critics * Biographical details of established writers as well as those who have recently risen to prominence * Entries detailing career, works published, literary awards and prizes, membership, and contact addresses where available * An extensive listing of major international literary awards and prizes, and winners of those prizes * A directory of major literary organizations and literary agents * A listing of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Book Synopsis Representing the Exotic and the Familiar by : Meenakshi Bharat
Download or read book Representing the Exotic and the Familiar written by Meenakshi Bharat and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a “fetishizing process”, as Graham Huggan has called it, which separates a “first world” from a “third world”, the Occident from the Orient. The essays collected here re-assess this tendency, not least by focusing on the kinds of intellectual tourism and dilettantism to which it has given rise. The wider context of these analyses is a postcolonial scenario where literatures and languages can move from the “exotic” to the comparatively “familiar” space of contemporary writings; where an exotic mythos can live on into the familiar present; and where certain perceptions and representations of peoples, of literatures, and of languages have turned exoticization and familiarization into global modes of mass-cultural consumption. Especially by exploring the liminalities between different cultures, this collection manages to trace both the history and the politics of exoticist representation and, in so doing, to make a significant critical intervention.
Book Synopsis Fatima's Baby by : Nicolai Andreyevich
Download or read book Fatima's Baby written by Nicolai Andreyevich and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2022, 60-year-old Fatima is a barren, aging Muslima. Her cruel husband, Azzam is senior imam at the East London Mosque, the largest in England. Fatima carries the disfiguring scars from his abuse. Despite having four wives, Azzam is still desperate for a male heir. One wife has been stoned for her sins; the others are to him, but cattle. Fatima is worthless and expendable in his eyes, so she is chosen to go to the Celebration in Jerusalem. If she dies, there is no loss. There, he tells her, she will conceive a son by receiving The Gift, promised by the mysterious and powerful creature known as The One. Fatima is shocked when she finds herself young and, yes, pregnant. With this realization comes a new kind of horror. She knows that the punishment for adultery is stoning, and Azzam always says that there must be punishment. No longer fearing for her own well-being, Fatima now fears for the fate of her child. She has Azzam to contend with, but also his brother, Hassana man who used to rape her cruelly until Azzam punished her with scalding water. Although, blessed by the One, Fatima feels helpless to protect her baby. After all, she is just a woman.
Book Synopsis I Do Remember Memories...the good, the painful, the struggles, and the joys by : Elder Carrie M. McDaniel
Download or read book I Do Remember Memories...the good, the painful, the struggles, and the joys written by Elder Carrie M. McDaniel and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book you will find the author's remembrances of her days of lack (sometimes not knowing where the next whatever was coming from), struggles, many of them with pain and sorrows, and finally, the many once-in-lifetime moments of joys and victories! Sometimes, it is necessary to remember just how far the Lord has brought you, and what he has brought you through. She knows that as she remembers her experiences, she would not have made it without the Lord on her side. In reading this book you may find that some of your memories are just like hers. She would encourage you to take a moment and show the Lord just how grateful you are to him for not keeping you in some of those memories. Also, she wants you to choose to praise the Lord in your own way, but after you've finished, please continue reading this book, and get ready to answer the author's final question: She still remembers. Do you? Some Scriptures to read as you remember: Psalms 124:1a, aEURoeIf it had not been the Lord who was on our sideaEUR|aEUR Psalms 124:8, aEURoeOur help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth.aEUR
Book Synopsis The Road to Fatima Gate by : Michael Totten
Download or read book The Road to Fatima Gate written by Michael Totten and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road to Fatima Gate is a first-person narrative account of revolution, terrorism, and war during history’s violent return to Lebanon after fifteen years of quiet. Michael J. Totten’s version of events in one of the most volatile countries in the world’s most volatile region is one part war correspondence, one part memoir, and one part road movie. He sets up camp in a tent city built in downtown Beirut by anti-Syrian dissidents, is bullied and menaced by Hezbollah’s supposedly friendly “media relations” department, crouches under fire on the Lebanese-Israeli border during the six-week war in 2006, witnesses an Israeli ground invasion from behind a line of Merkava tanks, sneaks into Hezbollah’s postwar rubblescape without authorization, and is attacked in Beirut by militiamen who enforce obedience to the “resistance” at the point of a gun. From the Cedar Revolution that ousted the occupying Syrian military regime in 2005 to the devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006 to Hezbollah’s slow-motion but violent assault on Lebanon’s elected government and capital, Totten’s account is both personal and comprehensive. He simplifies the bewildering complexity of the Middle East; gains access to major regional players as well as to the man on the street; and personally witnesses most of the events he describes. The Road to Fatima Gate should be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the Middle East, Iran’s expansionist foreign policy, the Arab-Israeli conflict, asymmetric warfare, and terrorism in the aftermath of September 11.
Book Synopsis A History of the Booker Prize by : Merritt Moseley
Download or read book A History of the Booker Prize written by Merritt Moseley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists, winners, and controversies of the Booker Prize. The book also functions as an example of literary criticism for each of the books involved, analyzing the judging process and the winning books. Exploring themes such as literary vs. popular fiction, the role of Postcolonial work in what began as a very "British" prize, the role of marketing, publishing, and the Booker organization itself, the book offers a crucial view into literary prize culture. The book spends time looking at exclusions, as well as the overall role and function of the literary prize. What books aren’t included and why? Why has the Booker become so significant? This book will be of use to anyone with an interest in, or studying, contemporary literature, literary prizes, literary culture and British literature, as well as publishing studies.
