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The Afghan Mona Lisa

Author : Anosha Roya Zereh
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483646858
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Afghan Mona Lisa written by Anosha Roya Zereh and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Afghan woman has been spoken for, depicted in numerous ways since the fall of the Taliban in 2011. Afghan women have been represented in the Western media, both in the television and the news broadcast copiously. They have made the Times magazine cover page, revealed in the National Geographic, and have been pronounced as victims of womans rights. Their crime simply being born in Afghanistan as a woman in an era unfavorable to their gender. I have investigated and listened to long hours of heartbreaking stories by Afghan women in numerous countries, conversed with old and young women, and read plentiful anecdotes of Afghan womens narratives around the world for over ten years. Although I cannot claim what they have experienced completely, I have exerted years of love inscribing for them their narratives, their depiction of what took place in their lives, as well as their interpretation of their struggles and daily burdens. Although they are my words, nevertheless they represent their rightful voice. While it is my pen that was used to write these poems, in every poem, in every verse, it is the fighting potency of these women. And we witness through their lens the long-suffering echoed throughout the book in their own words. I am blessed to have been favored as an unassuming envoy for their voices.

The Pearl of Dari

Author : Zuzanna Olszewska
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253017637
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Pearl of Dari written by Zuzanna Olszewska and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic study of poetry and its place among young Afghan refugees living in urban regions of Iran. The Pearl of Dari takes us into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle of poets and intellectuals who make up the “Pearl of Dari” cultural organization. Dari is the name by which the Persian language is known in Afghanistan. Afghan immigrants in Iran, refugees from the Soviet war in Afghanistan, are marginalized and restricted to menial jobs and lower-income neighborhoods. Ambitious and creative refugee youth have taken to writing poetry to tell their story as a group and to improve their prospects for a better life. At the same time, they are altering the ancient tradition of Persian love poetry by promoting greater individualism in realms such as gender and marriage. Zuzanna Olszewska offers compelling insights into the social life of poetry in an urban, Middle Eastern setting largely unknown in the West. Praise for The Pearl of Dari “The Pearl of Dari offers the reader the precious pearl of a genuine reading and learning experience. Zuzanna Olszewska combines solid scholarship with uplifting sensitivity to create a lively narrative replete with joyful discoveries of genuine personhood, agency, and humanity in the midst of multiple marginalities, an account of growing up amid layer upon layer of tension, bravely defying overwhelming odds.” —Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland “Olszewska’s virtuoso study explores how young progressive Afghan intellectuals use the writing and performance of poetry as a prestigious discourse, to sustain community and claim dignity in exile. Her work makes an essential new contribution in Persian literary studies, ethnolinguistics, and refugee cultural studies worldwide.” —Margaret A. Mills, Professor Emerita of Persian and Folklore, Ohio State University

Guilty Party: the International Community in Afghanistan

Author : Graciana del Castillo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493185705
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Guilty Party: the International Community in Afghanistan written by Graciana del Castillo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recalling an unforgettable trip throughout Afghanistan in Nowroz 1978, only three weeks before the bloody communist coup d'tat, the author uses places along the way to describe how foreign conquerors, nationalist policies, a variety of ethnicities and religions, and the Silk Route combined to mold present-day Afghanistan. Such places provided the stage for the famous battles of ancient and modern times, as they provided the different livelihoods of the afghan population that still lives mostly from agriculture and livestock production. Gripping accounts on the political and security transitions since 9/11 have not been matched by similar ones on the economic and social ones, which is the purpose of this book. Based on what she saw in a more recent visit in 2011, the author explains to a general audience how misguided economic policies, misplaced priorities, and wasteful aid have led Afghanistan to an infamous record: the country not only relapsed into conflict but became the most aid-dependent country in the world. Muddling through, as in the past, is no longer an option as NATO troops withdraw and aid falls sharply. The author makes a proposal to help the country to move away from the vicious circle of insecurity, aid, drug and food dependency to a virtuous one of genuine investment, rural development, employment opportunities and improved livelihoods. The cost of the Afghan war-in terms of human lives and taxpayers' money-has been outrageous, and taxpayers should demand a debate among all stakeholders on how to move forward.

After the Tampa

Author : Abbas Nazari
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1761062328
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book After the Tampa written by Abbas Nazari and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart-rending story of a child 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere. When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere. The family's desperate search for safety took them on a harrowing journey from the mountains of Afghanistan to a small fishing boat in the Indian Ocean, crammed with more than 400 other asylum seekers. When their boat started to sink, they were mercifully saved by a cargo ship, the Tampa. However, one of the largest maritime rescues in modern history quickly turned into an international stand-off, as Australia closed its doors to these asylum seekers. The Tampa had waded into the middle of Australia's national election, sparking their hardline policy of offshore detention. While many of those rescued by the Tampa were the first inmates sent to the island of Nauru, Abbas and his family were some of the lucky few to be resettled in New Zealand. Twenty years after the Tampa affair, Abbas tells his amazing story, from living under Taliban rule, to spending a terrifying month at sea, to building a new life at the bottom of the world. A powerful and inspiring story for our times, After the Tampa celebrates the importance of never letting go of what drives the human spirit: hope.

Extreme Wine

Author : Mike Veseth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442219246
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Extreme Wine written by Mike Veseth and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Extreme Wine, wine economist and best-selling author Mike Veseth circles the globe searching for the best, worst, cheapest, most expensive, and most over-priced wines. Mike seeks out the most outrageous wine people and places and probes the biggest wine booms and busts. Along the way he applauds celebrity wines, tries to find wine at the movies, and discovers wines that are so scarce that they are almost invisible. Why go to such extremes? Because, Mike argues, the world of wine is growing and changing, and if you want to find out what’s really happening you can’t be afraid to step over the edge. Written with verve and appreciation for all things wine, Extreme Wine will surprise and delight readers.

Conservative Islam

Author : Erich Kolig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 073917424X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Conservative Islam written by Erich Kolig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservative Islam: A Cultural Anthropology by Erich Kolig analyzes the salient characteristics of Islam and contemporary Muslim society from the perspective of traditional cultural anthropology. By highlighting socio-cultural configurations, the universals they represent, the...

Imaging Identity

Author : Melinda Hinkson
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760460419
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Imaging Identity written by Melinda Hinkson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaging Identity presents potent reflections on the human condition through the prism of portraiture. Taking digital imaging technologies and the dynamic and precarious dimensions of contemporary identity as critical reference points, these essays consider why portraits continue to have such galvanising appeal and perform fundamental work across so many social settings. This multidisciplinary enquiry brings together artists, art historians, art theorists and anthropologists working with a variety of media. Authors look beyond conventional ideas of the portrait to the wider cultural contexts, governmental practices and intimate experiences that shape relationships between persons and pictures. Their shared purpose centres on a commitment to understanding the power of images to draw people into their worlds. Imaging Identity tracks a fundamental symbiosis — to grapple with the workings of images is to understand something vital of what it is to be human.

Refugees and the Media

Author : Nasir Uddin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031465148
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Refugees and the Media written by Nasir Uddin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art and philosophy of peace Fronteversismo ®️ By Giuseppe Siniscalchi

Author : Giuseppe Siniscalchi
Publisher : Clever Fox Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and philosophy of peace Fronteversismo ®️ By Giuseppe Siniscalchi written by Giuseppe Siniscalchi and published by Clever Fox Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and philosophy of peace Fronteversismo new art philosophy movement , co- authors : preface : Annamaria Mauro director of the National Museum of Matera , Texts by Charles Alphonse OFM Cap , serving in Rome as General Secretary for formation at the Capuchin Generalate , Margherita Cosentino art historian professor , Gemma Maria Gualdi Deputy Attorney General of the Republic at the Court of Appeals of Milan , Gabriele Guglielmino art professor and critic , Luciano Mazzocchi missionary and writer , Mimmo Muolo Vaticanist and deputy head of the Roman editorial staff of the newspaper Avvenire and writer , Giuseppe Siniscalchi lawyer and painter founder of Fronteversismo art and philosophy movement , Tiziana Viggiano doctor in philosophy member of councillor in the Municipality of Bernalda responsible for Cultural promoting Magna Graecia , Francesco Zecca OFM , he served the Order of Friars Minors as Guardian formator Provincial Secretary for Formation and Studies and Provincial definitor . Director of the S. Egidio Museum inside the church and convent S. Pasquale Baylon in Taranto . Member of Gpic ( center justice peace and integrity of creation) . The book expain the deep meanings of Fronteversismo paintings and philosophy in English and translation in Italian language

I Love My Selfie

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373173
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book I Love My Selfie written by Ilan Stavans and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek mythology and Shakespeare to Andy Warhol, James Franco, and Pope Francis. He sees selfies as tools people use to disguise or present themselves as spontaneous and casual. This collaboration includes a portfolio of fifty autoportraits by the artist ADÁL; he and Stavans use them as a way to question the notion of the self and to engage with artists, celebrities, technology, identity, and politics. Provocative and engaging, I Love My Selfie will change the way readers think about this unavoidable phenomenon of twenty-first-century life.

Mona Lisa

Author : Ric Haynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa written by Ric Haynes and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Losing

Author : Alice Zeniter
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374718725
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Losing written by Alice Zeniter and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Dublin Literary Award A Best Historical Novel of the Year at The New York Times Book Review "[An] extraordinary achievement." —Liesl Schillinger, The Wall Street Journal Across three generations, three wars, two continents, and the mythic waters of the Mediterranean, one family’s history leads to an inevitable question: What price do our descendants pay for the choices that we make? Naïma knows Algeria only by the artifacts she encounters in her grandparents’ tiny apartment in Normandy: the language her grandmother speaks but Naïma can’t understand, the food her grandmother cooks, and the precious things her grandmother carried when they fled. Naïma’s father claims to remember nothing; he has made himself French. Her grandfather died before he could tell her his side of the story. But now Naïma will travel to Algeria to see for herself what was left behind—including their secrets. The Algerian War for Independence sent Naïma’s grandfather on a journey of his own, from wealthy olive grove owner and respected veteran of the First World War, to refugee spurned as a harki by his fellow Algerians in the transit camps of southern France, to immigrant barely scratching out a living in the north. The long battle against colonial rule broke apart communities, opened deep rifts within families, and saw the whims of those in even temporary power instantly overturn the lives of ordinary people. Where does Naïma’s family fit into this history? How do they fit into France’s future? Alice Zeniter’s The Art of Losing is a powerful, moving family novel that spans three generations across seventy years and two shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a resonant people’s history of Algeria and its diaspora. It is a story of how we carry on in the face of loss: loss of country, identity, language, connection. Most of all, it is an immersive, riveting excavation of the inescapable legacies of colonialism, immigration, family, and war.

The Mona Lisa

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mona Lisa written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs

Author : Steve McCurry
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714864624
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs written by Steve McCurry and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve McCurry's iconic images have made him one of the world's most popular photographers working today. Now, for the first time, he shares the stories behind stunning images taken from around the world throughout his extensive career. In the finest documentary tradition, Untold: The Stories Behind the Photographs delves into McCurry's personal archive to reveal never-before-seen ephemera, including journals, portraits, maps, and beautifully reproduced snapshots from various assignments. The book is organized into 14 photo stories, each brought to life by narrative text and over 100 lavish, full-color photo plates. Together, these fascinating documents create a living biography of one of photography's greatest legends.

Guardians of the Louvre

Author : Jirô Taniguchi
Publisher : NBM
ISBN 13 : 1681120364
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Guardians of the Louvre written by Jirô Taniguchi and published by NBM. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed manga artist Jiro Taniguchi provides the latest entry in the Louvre collection of graphic novels. After a group trip to Europe, a Japanese artist stops in Paris alone, intent on visiting the museums of the capital. But, bedridden in his hotel room with fever, he faces the absolute solitude of one suffering in a foreign land, deprived of any immediate or familiar recourse. When the fever breaks somewhat, he sets out on his visit and promptly gets lost in the crowded halls of the Louvre. Very soon, he discovers many unsuspected facets to this world in a museum in a journey oscillating between feverish hallucination and reality, actually able to speak with famous painters from various periods of history, led to crossroads between human and personal history by... the Guardians of the Louvre.This is book a manga presented in the original direction of reading, meaning the book is meant to be read right to left. Flip pages to the left while reading.

Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism

Author : Anjana Raghavan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783487968
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism written by Anjana Raghavan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which existing narratives of cosmopolitanism are often organized around European and American discourses of human rights and universalism, which allow little room for the articulation of an affective, embodied and subaltern politics

Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups

Author : Mark S. Hamm
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437929591
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups written by Mark S. Hamm and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Examines terrorists¿ involvement in a variety of crimes ranging from motor vehicle violations, immigration fraud, and mfg. illegal firearms to counterfeiting, armed bank robbery, and smuggling weapons of mass destruction. There are 3 parts: (1) Compares the criminality of internat. jihad groups with domestic right-wing groups. (2) Six case studies of crimes includes trial transcripts, official reports, previous scholarship, and interviews with law enforce. officials and former terrorists are used to explore skills that made crimes possible; or events and lack of skill that the prevented crimes. Includes brief bio. of the terrorists along with descriptions of their org., strategies, and plots. (3) Analysis of the themes in closing arguments of the transcripts in Part 2. Illus.