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Book Synopsis Warda Means Rose by : Halima Hagi-Mohamed
Download or read book Warda Means Rose written by Halima Hagi-Mohamed and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warda, a young Somali woman living in Minneapolis must deal with the pressures of helping her family's restaurant, friendships, family dynamics and coping with her early twenties. When a handsome regular develops an obsession with her, life as she knows it drastically changes. A suspenseful thriller based on a short story developed in 2015.
Download or read book Warda written by Sonallah Ibrahim and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonallah Ibrahim's 2000 masterpiece offers readers a view of twentieth-century world events through the diary pages of his titular character 1950s Cairo: the intersection of conflicting dreams and political destinies. In this classic novel translated for the first time into English, idealistic reporter Rushdy encounters the enchanting Warda at a clandestine leftist meeting. Their fates would be forever linked. After Warda goes missing, Rushdy immerses himself in her diaries in a quest to uncover her whereabouts. The quest takes him to the hills of Dhofar, Oman, where he discovers Warda's guerrilla role in a regional uprising and secret involvement in revolutions with echoes around the globe. Piece by revelatory piece, Rushdy uncovers the truth about Warda--and the fiery commitment that drove her to choose the life she lived. Widely acknowledged as a masterpiece by one of Egypt's most important novelists, this is an unforgettable story of intrigue, passion, and revolution.
Book Synopsis A Critical Introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry by : M. M. Badawi
Download or read book A Critical Introduction to Modern Arabic Poetry written by M. M. Badawi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical survey of the development and achievements of Arabic poetry over the last 150 years.
Book Synopsis Opening the Gates, Second Edition by : Margot Badran
Download or read book Opening the Gates, Second Edition written by Margot Badran and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: "An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces--essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches--by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism is a foreign concept." --Booklist "Anyone interested in good writing should read Opening the Gates]. Here are first-class stories with the energy and freshness we expect from a beginning." --Doris Lessing, The Independent "This collection of stories, speeches, essays, poems and memoirs bears fierce testimony to a tradition of brave Arab feminist writing in the face of subjugation by a Muslim patriarchy."--Publishers Weekly "This impressive collection of writings by Arab women... represent s] a powerful series of vignettes by women who were both insightful and gifted, into the lives of women who have lived 'behind the veil' over the last 100 years."--Arab Book World "An expression of indigenous, intrepid feminism in the Arab world."--Ms. "Opening the Gates succeeds not because of its methodology, but because of the stories the women tell."--Voice Literary Supplement
Book Synopsis Things We Left Unsaid by : Zoya Pirzad
Download or read book Things We Left Unsaid written by Zoya Pirzad and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in an Iranian suburb, made rich by the booming oil industry, Clarice Ayvazian lives a comfortable life surrounded by the gentle bickering of her children and her gossiping friends and relatives. Happy being at the heart of her family, she devotes herself to their every need. But when an enigmatic Armenian family move in across the street, something begins to gnaw at Clarice's contentment: a feeling that there may be more to life – and to her – than this. Dizzy with the sweltering heat and simmering emotions, Clarice begins to feel herself come alive to possibilities previously unimaginable. Set in Iran prior to the Islamic revolution, Zoya Pirzad's award-winning novel crafts an intimate portrait of family life – its joys and its compromises – and how we find a happiness that endures. For fans of Anne Tyler, Things We Left Unsaid is a humourous and pointed insight into the hopes and aspirations of Iranians in the years that led to the Islamic Revolution.
Book Synopsis The Locust and the Bird by : Hanan Al-Shaykh
Download or read book The Locust and the Bird written by Hanan Al-Shaykh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly woven and breathtaking memoir from the perspective of the author's own mother: a Radio 4 Book of the Week 'It is an extraordinarily brave act for a writer to undertake to inhabit, fully and sympathetically, the life her mother lived before she was born, particularly when her mother was no jewel of wifely virtue' J.M. Coetzee 'This is a book that wears its heart firmly on its sleeve, offering an insight into an unfamiliar culture and a cinematic love story' The Times Kamila is nine years old when she is taken from the poverty of her childhood village in southern Lebanon to Beirut. She has never learned to read or write, though she longs to go to school. Stories, poetry and film are her passion - and a beautiful boy called Muhammad. They fall in love before Kamila is forced into an arranged marriage, despite her tears and screams. She is only fourteen years old. On her wedding night her first daughter is conceived; four years later, Hanan is born. Kamila and Muhammad continue to see each other in secret, risking their lives. It is eight years before Kamila can bring herself to divorce her husband, as to do so means leaving her daughters behind. Beautifully evoking the dusty streets of Beirut and life in Lebanon, this is a heartbreaking memoir of an extraordinary woman.
Book Synopsis Do You Hear in the Mountains... and Other Stories by : Maïssa Bey
Download or read book Do You Hear in the Mountains... and Other Stories written by Maïssa Bey and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new translation brings together two of Algerian author Maïssa Bey’s important works for the first time in English. "Do You Hear in the Mountains..." is a compelling piece of autofiction in which three destinies meet dramatically on a train moving through France. We meet an Algerian refugee, whom we recognize as Bey herself. She has escaped the civil war and cannot forget her father’s commitment to independence nor his death under the torture of the French soldiers. Sitting near her is a retired doctor whose military service in Algeria coincidentally took him to the same area at the time of that tragedy. Their neighbor is a girl who would like to understand this past that is so painful to discuss. The eleven diverse tales that follow, presented under the title "Under the Jasmin, at Night," exemplify some of Bey’s recurring themes—the Franco-Algerian colonial legacy and the feminine condition. Together, these works provide an unforgettable picture of a turbulent history that reaches across generations and continents. CARAF: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
Book Synopsis Sonallah Ibrahim by : Sonallah Ibrahim
Download or read book Sonallah Ibrahim written by Sonallah Ibrahim and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der ägyptische Schriftsteller Sonallah Ibrahim gewährt in seinem Notizbuch einen Einblick in zwei seiner Romane, die in einem eher dokumentarischen Stil geschrieben sind, eine persönliche Geschichte mit dem politischen Umfeld verweben und Exzerpte von Zeitschriften und Ansprachen zitieren. Eine der Hauptfiguren, Dhat, muss in ihrem Leben Leid und Unglück ertragen, verursacht durch die politische Situation in ihrem Heimatland. Die andere, Warda, widmet ihr Leben der Befreiung der Menschheit. Ibrahim, der bekannt ist für seine radikalen Sichtweisen und seine offene Kritik, für die er während der 1960er Jahre in Ägypten im Gefängnis war, fragt sich, wie er mithilfe seiner konstruierten Charaktere aus dem heutigen politischen und sozialen Alltag Ägyptens entkommen kann. Ausgangspunkt des Notizbuchs ist die Betrachtung der ägyptischen Gesellschaft der späten 1970er und 1980er Jahre mit den Umbrüchen im Bereich der sozialen Gerechtigkeit sowie der Abwertung von Bildung und Kultur. Anhand der selbstreflexiven Auswertung seiner Arbeit untersucht Ibrahim Geschlechterrollen in der arabischen Gesellschaft und deutet an, wie die Zukunftshoffnungen der arabischen Länder durch das aktive Handeln von Frauen erfüllt werden könnten. Sonallah Ibrahim (*1937) ist Schriftsteller und lebt in Kairo. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch
Download or read book Arabic Made Easy written by Kokab Rahman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabic Made Easy is a simple and uncomplicated Arabic language course for beginner and intermediate Arabic students. The material is presented in a manner that makes learning the language easy. The beginner student can study the book on their own without the need of a tutor. Repetition of difficult grammar items makes learning difficult grammar less daunting.
Book Synopsis I Still Have Hope by : Fadwa Carradin
Download or read book I Still Have Hope written by Fadwa Carradin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Still Have Hope follows author Fadwa Carradins journey from childhood in war-torn Jordan, through a painful arranged marriage and the loss of her children, to hope of renewal. When Fadwa was nineteen years old, her parents decided that she would marry a doctor they believed would provide well for her but who proved to be so controlling that he would not allow her to leave home or have any unsupervised contact with friends. Fadwa could not divorce her husband out of fear she would be shunned by her family, so she followed him to the United States and later, to Saudi Arabia, focusing on being a good mother. Seventeen years into their marriage, her husband took a second wife and left Fadwa without sufficient means to support their five children. The only way Fadwa could ensure her children would get an education and have any chance of success was to allow their father and stepmother to raise them in Saudi Arabia and Palestine, not knowing when she would see them again. She returned to the United States in search of new opportunities, even removing the hijab head covering she had worn from the age of ten, so she could serve in the U.S. Army. I Still Have Hope tells the story of Fadwas loss but also of her persistent efforts to rebuild her life and have contact with her children again.
Download or read book Forbidden Love written by Jenny Lees and published by Barzipan Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume in the Seven Bands of Gold quartet sees our heroine Sally struggling to reconcile her love for the charismatic only son of the ruler of Al Khaleej and her affection for ardent suitor Matthew, the handsome naval officer. To complicate matters further, who should turn up but Doug, the fiancé who jilted her some years before. But solid, reliable Matthew turns out to be not all he seemed and once again Sally's trust is betrayed. Meanwhile, Doug watches unhappily from the sidelines as the love between Sally and Sheikh Abdullah deepens. He is still in love with Sally and would do anything to win her back, but has to accept that Sally has changed, matured and moved on, and is unlikely to forgive him for breaking her heart. When Sally is badly injured in a riding accident, Abdullah realises that he has to make a painful and far-reaching decision. Affairs of state and his heart's desire are irreconcilable, but is he capable of letting her go? Sally knows the cost of staying: as much as she loves Abdullah, the gilded cage holds no attraction. With an aching heart, she makes the decision to return to England to start a new life for herself, leaving no forwarding address for Abdullah or Doug. But, on the day of her departure fate deals Sally an unexpected blow...
Book Synopsis Exhausted on the Cross by : Najwan Darwish
Download or read book Exhausted on the Cross written by Najwan Darwish and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A much-anticipated follow-up to Nothing More to Lose, this is only the second poetry collection translated into English from a vital voice of Arabic literature. “We drag histories behind us,” the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes in Exhausted on the Cross, “here / where there’s neither land / nor sky.” In pared-down lines, brilliantly translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, Darwish records what Raúl Zurita describes as “something immemorial, almost unspeakable”—a poetry driven by a “moral imperative” to be a “colossal record of violence and, at the same time, the no less colossal record of compassion.” Darwish’s poems cross histories, cultures, and geographies, taking us from the grime of modern-day Shatila and the opulence of medieval Baghdad to the gardens of Samarkand and the open-air prison of present-day Gaza. We join the Persian poet Hafez in the conquered city of Shiraz and converse with the Prophet Mohammad in Medina. Poem after poem evokes the humor in the face of despair, the hope in the face of nightmare.
Book Synopsis The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'ān by : Arthur Jeffery
Download or read book The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'ān written by Arthur Jeffery and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Republication of Arthur Jeffery’s important study, The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur’ān, offers a new generation of scholars and students access to this foundational text. Arranged in Arabic alphabetical order, Jeffery’s compendium of philological scholarship remains an indispensable tool for any serious study of Qur’ānic semantics. Drawing upon etymological examination of languages such as Greek, Persian, Syriac, Ethiopic, Coptic and Nabataean, Jeffery’s work illuminates the rich linguistic texture of Islam’s holy book. His lengthy introductory essay explores the exegetical analysis offered by medieval Muslim commentators as well as the insights provided by more recent research.
Download or read book Ramsa written by A. Sylvester Pudichery and published by [Bangalore] : Dharmaram College. This book was released on 1972 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Event of Style in Literature by : M. Aquilina
Download or read book The Event of Style in Literature written by M. Aquilina and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by schematising the principal issues relating to the topic through a critical overview of the canon of style studies. It reads the work of Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, and Hans-Georg Gadamer as groundbreaking and 'eventful' interventions.
Book Synopsis Opening the Gates by : Margot Badran
Download or read book Opening the Gates written by Margot Badran and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening the Gates includes more than sixty selections, drawn from almost the entire Arab world. Arranged around the themes of awareness, rejection, and activism, the selections give strong voice universally held yearnings often in conflict with deep-seated traditions.
Book Synopsis Occupational Hazard by : James Wrethman
Download or read book Occupational Hazard written by James Wrethman and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ventura Casino - a glittering arena where the super-rich go to pit their wealth against chance, and admire the beautiful Chicas who deal at the tables. But behind the scenes lurks a corrupt world of credit-fixing, prostitution and rape - a world that only a few brave employees dare to challenge. As the sleaze escalates and the challenge begins to look like a threat, how far will the powers-that-be go to protect their interests...? www.wrethman.co.uk
