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Author : Josias L. Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Five Years in Damascus written by Josias L. Porter and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Thubron
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446483657
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Mirror To Damascus written by Colin Thubron and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author. Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Mirror to Damascus provides a rich and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, and is also a charming and witty personal record of an extraordinary city. In explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemorial layers of culture and tradition, Colin Thubron explores the historical, artistic, social and religious inheritance of its people. Along the way, he shares unforgettable stories about the enterprising travellers of bygone days. Mirror to Damascus is a unique portrait of a city now obscured by recent upheavals, by one of the most indefatigable and popular of travel writers.
Author : Ross Burns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134488505
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Damascus written by Ross Burns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs and original plans, traces the story of this colourful, significant and complex place through its physical development and provides, for the first time in English, a compelling and unique exploration of a.
Author : miriam cooke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315532921
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Dancing in Damascus written by miriam cooke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 17, 2011, many Syrians rose up against the authoritarian Asad regime that had ruled them with an iron fist for forty years. Initial successes were quickly quashed, and the revolution seemed to devolve into a civil war pitting the government against its citizens and extremist mercenaries. As of late 2015, almost 300,000 Syrians have been killed and over half of a total population of 23 million forced out of their homes. Nine million are internally displaced and over four million are wandering the world, many on foot or in leaky boats. Countless numbers have been disappeared. These shocking statistics and the unstoppable violence notwithstanding, the revolution goes on. The story of the attempted crushing of the revolution is known. Less well covered has been the role of artists and intellectuals in representing to the world and to their people the resilience of revolutionary resistance and defiance. How is it possible that artists, filmmakers and writers have not been cowed into numbed silence but are becoming more and more creative? How can we make sense of their insistence that despite the apocalypse engulfing the country their revolution is ongoing and that their works participate in its persistence? With smartphones, pens, voices and brushes, these artists registered their determination to keep the idea of the revolution alive. Dancing in Damascus traces the first four years of the Syrian revolution and the activists’ creative responses to physical and emotional violence.
Author : Richard Blake
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848947038
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (489 download)
Download or read book The Sword of Damascus (Death of Rome Saga Book Four) written by Richard Blake and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth book of the DEATH OF ROME SAGA is a must-read for those who loved the heroism of Gladiator and Spartacus. 687 AD. Expansive and triumphant, the Caliphate has stripped Egypt and Syria from the Byzantine Empire. Farther and farther back, the formerly hegemonic Empire has been pushed - once to the very walls of its capital, Constantinople. But what is all this to old Aelric, now in his nineties, and a refugee from the Empire he's spent his life holding together? No longer the Lord Senator Alaric, Brother Aelric is writing his memoirs in the remote wastes of northern England, and waiting patiently for death. Then a band of northern barbarians turn up outside the monastery - and then another. Before he can draw another breath, Aelric is a prisoner of unknown forces, and headed straight back into the snake pit of Mediterranean hatreds. What awaits him at the end of his long and dangerous journey is a confrontation that decides the fate of all mankind.
Author : Robert Stone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684859114
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Damascus Gate written by Robert Stone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-05-04 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American journalist Christopher Lucas is investigating religious fanatics when he discovers a plot to bomb the sacred Temple Mount.
Author : Brigid Keenan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500282991
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Damascus written by Brigid Keenan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damascus, reputed to be the worldʹs oldest continually inhabited city, has enjoyed a history of immense grandeur, enormous political and mercantile power, and great cultural and artistic achievement. In addition to some of Islamʹs most magnificent architecture, such as the Umayyad Mosque, the city boasts a heritage of fairy-tale palaces and sumptuous private houses. Sadly, many of them are in urgent need of restoration. Brigid Keenan and Tim Beddow were given unprecedented access to the inner, "hidden" city, which has resulted in a book that is of immense importance to all concerned with the heritage of architecture in the Islamic world. The superb photographs include façades, courtyards, alleyways and fountains, and the breathtaking interiors that often lie behind the unassuming walls of the old town, with exquisite details in stone, wood, paint, marble, plaster, glass and mother-of-pearl. The whole, published with the generous support of Wafic Rida Said, forms a convincing and elegiac plea for the preservation of the heart of this historic ancient capital. -- Jacket.
Author : Joel C. Rosenberg
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1414319711
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Damascus Countdown written by Joel C. Rosenberg and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Israel declares war on Iran, CIA operative David Shirazi infiltrates the Iranian regime and intercepts information indicating that two Iranian nuclear warheads have been moved to a secure and undisclosed location.
Author : Deborah Campbell
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250147891
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Disappearance in Damascus written by Deborah Campbell and published by Picador. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Freedom to Read Award Winner of the Hubert Evans Prize In the midst of an unfolding international crisis, renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide and friend. Campbell’s frank, personal account of a journey through fear and the triumph of friendship and courage is as riveting as it is illuminating. The story begins in 2007, when Deborah Campbell travels undercover to Damascus to report on the exodus of Iraqis into Syria, following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. There she meets and hires Ahlam, a refugee working as a “fixer”—providing Western media with trustworthy information and contacts to help get the news out. Ahlam has fled her home in Iraq after being kidnapped while running a humanitarian center. She supports her husband and two children while working to set up a makeshift school for displaced girls. Strong and charismatic, she has become an unofficial leader of the refugee community. Campbell is inspired by Ahlam’s determination to create something good amid so much suffering, and the two women become close friends. But one morning, Ahlam is seized from her home in front of Campbell’s eyes. Haunted by the prospect that their work together has led to her friend’s arrest, Campbell spends the months that follow desperately trying to find Ahlam—all the while fearing she could be next. The compelling story of two women caught up in the shadowy politics behind today’s most searing conflict, A Disappearance in Damascus reminds us of the courage of those who risk their lives to bring us the world’s news.
Author : Diana Darke
Publisher : Haus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1908323655
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)
Download or read book My House in Damascus written by Diana Darke and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ongoing conflict in Syria has made clear just how limited the general knowledge of Syrian society and history is in the West. For those watching the headlines and wondering what led the nation to this point, and what might come next, this book is a perfect place to start developing a deeper understanding. Based on decades of living and working in Syria, My House in Damascus offers an inside view of Syria’s cultural and complex religious and ethnic communities. Diana Darke, a fluent Arabic speaker who moved to Damascus in 2004 after decades of regular visits, details the ways that the Assad regime, and its relationship to the people, differs from the regimes in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya—and why it was thus always less likely to collapse quickly, even in the face of widespread unrest and violence. Through the author’s firsthand experiences of buying and restoring a house in the old city of Damascus, which she later offered as a sanctuary to friends, Darke presents a clear picture of the realities of life on the ground and what hope there is for Syria’s future.
Author : Emil Schürer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ written by Emil Schürer and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carsten Wieland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614570028
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Syria--a Decade of Lost Chances written by Carsten Wieland and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syria's President Bashar al-Asad was an outspoken opponent of the US and Israel. In March 2001 when Arab Spring came to Syria, Bashar reasoned that his support among Syrians was deep and wide because, as he told the Wall Street Journal a few weeks earlier, he was "closely linked to the beliefs of the people." He was dead wrong.In Syria - A Decade of Lost Chances, author Carsten Wieland lays bare the web of influence, alliance, power, and ethnic presence that the new president promised to turn into a functioning democracy. He failed, clearly. And now the question is asked, Was he sincere in the first instance? Or, was he - from the beginning - a happy face for a regime that never had any intention of conceding power?
Author : Rafik Schami
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 : 9781566568319
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Damascus Nights written by Rafik Schami and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafik Schami's award-winning novel. In the classical Arab tradition of tale-telling, here is a magical book that celebrates the power of storytelling, delightfully transformed for modern sensibilities by an award-winning author. The time is present-day Damascus, and Salim the coachman, the city's most famous storyteller, is mysteriously struck dumb. To break the spell, seven friends gather for seven nights to present Salim with seven wondrous "gifts"—seven stories of their own design. Upon this enchanting frame of tales told in the fragrant Arabian night, the words of the past grow fainter, as ancient customs are yielding to modern turmoil. While the hairdresser, the teacher, the wife of the locksmith sip their tea and pass the water pipe, they swap stories about the magical and the mundane: about djinnis and princesses, about contemporary politics and the difficulties of bargaining in a New York department store. And as one tale leads to another... and another... all of Damascus appears before your eyes, along with a vision of storytelling—and talk—as the essence of friendship, of community, of life. A sly and graceful work, a delight to readers young and old, Damascus Nights is, according to Publishers Weekly, "a highly atmospheric, pungent narrative."
Author : Emil Schürer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ: Political history of Palestine from B.C. 175 to A.D. 135 written by Emil Schürer and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elaine Rippey Imady
Publisher : Msi Press
ISBN 13 : 9781933455136
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Road to Damascus written by Elaine Rippey Imady and published by Msi Press. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Elaine Imady's "... journey from life as a college student in New York to that of a respected matriarch in today's Syria".--p. [4] cover.
Author : Isaac Leeser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Occident, and American Jewish advocate, ed. by I. Leeser written by Isaac Leeser and published by . This book was released on with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church written by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
