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Author : Joe R. Lansdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892284402
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Veil's Visit written by Joe R. Lansdale and published by . This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nahid Rachlin
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872862678
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (626 download)
Download or read book Veils written by Nahid Rachlin and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten stories in Veils take place in present-day Iran or in the United States where Iranian immigrants face alien ways. Teheran's ancient Ghanat Abad Avenue, with its labyrinth of narrow streets and alleys, loosely links the stories into a single narrative: some residents leave as soon as they can, others can live nowhere else. The men and women in these spare and sensuous narratives who are caught in the confusing whirl of changing cultures sometimes meet with failure but more often transcend difficult circumstances to gain deeper self-knowledge.
Author : Aneeka Ayanna Henderson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469651777
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Veil and Vow written by Aneeka Ayanna Henderson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation with a rich cultural archive that includes fiction by Terry McMillan and Sister Souljah, music by Anita Baker, and films such as The Best Man. Seeking to move beyond simple assessments of marriage as "good" or "bad" for African Americans, Henderson critically examines popular and influential late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century texts alongside legislation such as the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and the Welfare Reform Act, which masked true sources of inequality with crisis-laden myths about African American family formation. Using an interdisciplinary approach to highlight the influence of law, politics, and culture on marriage representations and practices, Henderson reveals how their kinship veils and unveils the fiction in political policy as well as the complicated political stakes of fictional and cultural texts. Providing a new opportunity to grapple with old questions, including who can be a citizen, a "wife," and "marriageable," Veil and Vow makes clear just how deeply marriage still matters in African American culture.
Author : Lori Wheeler
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480845027
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Seeing Through Veils written by Lori Wheeler and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lori Wheeler has the ability to see those who have crossed over to the other side. She has no idea how or why she was chosen to have this ability, but after several years, she has helped many people deal with and get through suicide, murder, illness, and grief. Lori is aware that, with her ability, comes a great bit of responsibility, and she doesnt take it for granted. Seeing through Veils has been in the works for the past seven years. It is intended to help you understand the step-by-step process of pain and heal the agony of losing a loved one. In this book, Lori enumerates the difference in the five veils and why they are important in the healing process. She believes in signs, and the signs you think you see you often do. What happens when someone crosses to the other side? The ability to communicate with loved ones who have passed on has given Lori a great insight into other planes, dimensions, or veils of life. She will lovingly guide you through each veil and explain what they mean. Grief can make us feel stuck, bored, sad, and hopeless. The pain doesnt always end with the comfort of knowing what happens to your loved one after death, but it can eventually blossom into love and peace.
Author : Pat McGreal
Publisher : Vertigo
ISBN 13 : 9781563895616
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (956 download)
Download or read book Veils written by Pat McGreal and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During a visit to the Sultan's palace, Vivian Pearse-Packard, newly married to the embittered son of a British ambassador, is invited to enter the harem, a cloistered realm of concubines and watchful eunuchs where the seductions of passion and power are played out against a backdrop of luxurious decadence. There, she must peel away the veils of secrecy to embark on a perilous journey of self-discovery. But is the lure of a forbidden world worth the ultimate price?" --cover blurb.
Author : Meredith Zelman Narissi
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504379500
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)
Download or read book 7 Veils written by Meredith Zelman Narissi and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7 Veils: Mystical Secrets of a Feminine Path to Enlightenment Do you wish to be spellbound? Then contemplate the Seven Veils. Mystical secrets hide within them. You are enveloped in ethereal layers of protection and insight. Which one wraps around you now? Once you unveil, wisdom enters. It comes in enigmatic ways. This inspirational memoir, including engaging tales from other women, reveals how the ancient art of belly dancing evokes feminine transformation. This metaphoric unveiling opens your hidden gifts. Each portal of insight brings you toward enlightenment. Please enter...you are invited. 7 VEILS uncovers: the sacred secret found in denial sensation as a guide how to see yourself "unveiled" the mysterious gift hidden in love promise as spiritual alignment integration to enable healing stillness as a path to bliss "This is a wonderful book. It is beautifully woven with vivid stories, genuine reflection and compelling insight. It is grounded and lofty-- a veritable treasure of wisdom. I recommend it wholeheartedly." James O'Dea is a former President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and award winning author. www.jamesodea.com " 7 Veils: Mystical Secrets of a Feminine Path to Enlightenment" is Meredith Zelman Narissi's beautiful offering for women seeking self-realization and personal transcendence through the full expression of the Feminine." Abigail Brenner, M.D., author of Transitions: How Women Embrace Change and Celebrate Life and SHIFT: How to Deal When Life Changes
Author : Hansi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Collier's written by Hansi and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. C. Carleson
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
ISBN 13 : 9781612183572
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (835 download)
Download or read book Cloaks and Veils written by J. C. Carleson and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star CIA officer Dara McIntyre has just endured a humiliating demotion. Punished for her affair with a Jordanian spy, she is stuck in a dreary desk job at CIA headquarters when orders come down for her to assess whether recently widowed officer Caitlin Wolff is still fit to serve in the field. Dara soon discovers that Caitlin and her late husband were running a lurid shadow operation. Convinced that the couple's unsanctioned acts led to the husband's death, Dara sets out to find the killers and salvage her career. But when her investigation takes a jarring turn, she can no longer be sure whom -- if anyone -- she can trust.
Author : Anna-Mari Almila
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317041143
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling written by Anna-Mari Almila and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veils and veiling are controversial topics in social and political life, generating debates across the world. The veil is enmeshed within a complex web of relations encompassing politics, religion and gender, and conflicts over the nature of power, legitimacy, belief, freedom, agency and emancipation. In recent years, the veil has become both a potent and unsettling symbol and a rallying-point for discourse and rhetoric concerning women, Islam and the nature of politics. Early studies in gender, doctrine and politics of veiling appeared in the 1970s following the Islamic revival and ’re-veiling’ trends that were dramatically expressed by 1979’s Iranian Islamic revolution. In the 1990s, research focussed on the development of both an ’Islamic culture industry’ and greater urban middle class consumption of ’Islamic’ garments and dress styles across the Islamic world. In the last decade academics have studied Islamic fashion and marketing, the political role of the headscarf, the veiling of other religious groups such as Jews and Christians, and secular forms of modest dress. Using work from contributors across a range of disciplinary backgrounds and locations, this book brings together these research strands to form the most comprehensive book ever conceived on this topic. As such, this handbook will be of interest to scholars and students of fashion, gender studies, religious studies, politics and sociology.
Author : John Ellis Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Random Sketches and Notes of European Travel in 1856 written by John Ellis Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Betty Duncan-Goetz
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 149072141X
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Veils of Time written by Betty Duncan-Goetz and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a Memoir of one family's journey through the turbulent years of the 60's, 70's, and 80's. It is filled with wit and charm and the "nitty gritty" of family life. It includes travel to exotic places, and is a story of the enduring love of family.
Author : Elisha P. Renne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253036585
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria written by Elisha P. Renne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria tells the story of Islamic reform from the perspective of dress, textile production, trade, and pilgrimage over the past 200 years. As Islamic reformers have sought to address societal problems such as poverty, inequality, ignorance, unemployment, extravagance, and corruption, they have used textiles as a means to express their religious positions on these concerns. Home first to the early indigo trade and later to a thriving textile industry, northern Nigeria has been a center for Islamic practice as well as a place where everything from women's hijabs to turbans, buttons, zippers, short pants, and military uniforms offers a statement on Islam. Elisha P. Renne argues that awareness of material distinctions, religious ideology, and the political and economic contexts from which successive Islamic reform groups have emerged is important for understanding how people in northern Nigeria continue to seek a proper Islamic way of being in the world and how they imagine their futures—spiritually, economically, politically, and environmentally.
Author : Manucher Farmanfarmaian
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307430715
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Blood & Oil written by Manucher Farmanfarmaian and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN/West Award Finalist " Told with energy, perception and great charm. . . . For anyone who wants to . . . gain insight into the great cultural and political richness of Iran, past, present and future, this book is a marvelous introduction." --Fred Halliday, Los Angeles Times Iran was the first country in the Middle East to develop an oil industry, and oil has been central to its tumultuous twentieth-century history. A finalist for the PEN/West Award, Blood and Oil tells the epic inside story of the battle for Iranian oil. A prominent member of one of Iran's most powerful aristocratic families--so feared by Khomeini that the entire clan was blacklisted--Prince Manucher Farmanfarmaian was raised in a harem at the heart of Iran's imperial court. With wit and provocative detail, he describes the days when he served as the Shah's oil adviser and pioneered the partnership that resulted in OPEC. Beautifully written and epic in its scope, this scintillating memoir provides a fascinating history of modern Iran. " Distinguished by its political acumen, historical sense, and vividness of description and anecdote. It is also notable for a wry sense of humour. . . . Amid the euphoria about the development of the oilfields of Central Asia and the Transcaucasus, [its] lesson should be kept in mind." --Anatol Lieven, Financial Times "A book of stunning beauty . . . One of the best accounts of the cultural and political life of modern Iran, it is exquisite and intimate, rendered with art-istry and detail." --Fouad Ajami
Author : Susanne Koelbl
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642503452
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Behind the Kingdom's Veil written by Susanne Koelbl and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating account of the significant changes underway in Saudi Arabia based on years of excellent reporting on the ground.” —Bruce Riedel, director of the Brookings Institution Intelligence Project, author of Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States Since FDR Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most secretive countries. Now, Susanne Koelbl, award-winning journalist for the German news magazine Der Spiegel, unveils many secrets of this mysterious kingdom. For years she traveled the Middle East, and recently lived in Riyadh during the most dramatic changes since the country’s founding. She has cultivated relationships on every level of Saudi society and is equally at ease with ultra-conservative Wahhabi preachers, oppositionists, and women from all walks of life. In this “piercingly powerful book” (Ahmed Rahid, New York Times-bestselling author of Taliban), you can have breakfast with Royal Highnesses; meet Osama bin Laden’s bomb-making trainer; enter palaces of secret service chiefs; listen to intimate conversations with women about their newly offered freedoms; learn about journalist Jamal Khashoggi; and view an in-depth portrait of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), as you learn about the not-so-obvious facts of the kingdom’s history, politics, customs, and hidden power relations.
Author : Don Bradley
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781589580404
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories written by Don Bradley and published by Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a summer day in 1828, Book of Mormon scribe and witness Martin Harris was emptying drawers, upending furniture, and ripping apart mattresses as he desperately looked for a stack of papers he had sworn to God to protect. Those pages containing the only copy of the first three months of the Joseph Smith's translation of the golden plates were forever lost, and the detailed stories they held forgotten over the ensuing years--until now. In this highly anticipated work, author Don Bradley presents over a decade of historical and scriptural research to not only tell the story of the lost pages but to reconstruct many of the detailed stories written on them. Questions explored and answered include: Was the lost manuscript actually 116 pages? How did Mormon's abridgment of this period differ from the accounts in Nephi's small plates? Where did the brass plates and Laban's sword come from? How did Lehi's family and their descendants live the Law of Moses without the temple and Aaronic priesthood? How did the Liahona operate? Why is Joseph of Egypt emphasized so much in the Book of Mormon? How were the first Nephites similar to the very last? What message did God write on the temple wall for Aminadi to translate? How did the Jaredite interpreters come into the hands of the Nephite kings? Why was King Benjamin so beloved by his people? Despite the likely demise of those pages to the sands of time, the answers to these questions and many more are now available for the first time in nearly two centuries in The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stories.
Author : Lila Azam Zanganeh
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807004630
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes written by Lila Azam Zanganeh and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first anthology of its kind, Lila Azam Zanganeh argues that although Iran looms large in the American imagination, it is grossly misunderstood-seen either as the third pillar of Bush's infamous "axis of evil" or as a nation teeming with youths clamoring for revolution. This collection showcases the real scope and complexity of Iran through the work of a stellar group of contributors-including Azar Nafisi and with original art by Marjane Satrapi. Their collective goal is to counter the many existing cultural and political clichés about Iran. Some of the pieces concern feminism, sexuality, or eroticism under the Islamic Republic; others are unorthodox political testimonies or about race and religion. Almost all these contributors have broken artistic and cultural taboos in their work. Journalist Reza Aslan, author of No God But God, explains why Iran is not a theocracy but, rather, a "mullahcracy." Mehrangiz Kar, a lawyer and human rights activist who was jailed in Iran and is currently a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, argues that the Iranian Revolution actually engendered the birth of feminism in Iran. Journalist Azadeh Moaveni reveals the underground parties and sex culture in Tehran, while Gelareh Asayesh, author of Saffron Sky, writes poignantly on why Iranians are not considered white in America, even though they think they are. Poet and writer Naghmeh Zarbafian expounds on the surreal experience of reading censored books in Iran, while Roya Hakakian, author of Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran, recalls the happy days of Iranian Jews. With a sharp, incisive introduction by Lila Azam Zanganeh, this diverse collection will alter what you thought you knew about Iran. "My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes aims to corrode fixed ideas and turns cultural and political clichés on their heads . . . Iranians themselves live in a complex and schizophrenic reality, at a surreal crossroads between political Islam and satellite television, massive national oil revenues, and searing social inequalities."--From the Introduction by Lila Azam Zanganeh Contributors include: Azar Nafisi, author of the best-selling Reading Lolita in Tehran, Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, Shirin Neshat, internationally acclaimed visual artist, Abbas Kiarostami, award-winning filmmaker of Taste of Cherry, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Oscar nominee for House of Sand and Fog, Azadeh Moaveni, author of Lipstick Jihad
Author : Zoë Ferraris
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316089281
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book City of Veils written by Zoë Ferraris and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Nouf's Katya Hijazi and Nayir Sharqi return for another thrilling, fast-paced mystery that provides a rare and intimate look into women's lives in the Middle East. Women in Saudi Arabia are expected to lead quiet lives circumscribed by Islamic law and tradition. But Katya, one of the few women in the medical examiner's office, is determined to make her work mean something. When the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on the beach in Jeddah, the city's detectives are ready to dismiss the case as another unsolvable murder-chillingly common in a city where the veils of conservative Islam keep women as anonymous in life as this victim is in death. If this is another housemaid killed by her employer, finding the culprit will be all but impossible. Only Katya is convinced that the victim can be identified and her killer found. She calls upon her friend Nayir for help, and soon discovers that the dead girl was a young filmmaker named Leila, whose controversial documentaries earned her many enemies. With only the woman's clandestine footage as a guide, Katya and Nayir must confront the dark side of Jeddah that Leila struggled to expose: an underworld of prostitution, violence, exploitation, and jealously guarded secrets. Along the way, they form an unlikely alliance with an American woman whose husband has disappeared. Their growing search takes them from the city's car-clogged streets to the deadly vastness of the desert beyond.!--EndFragment--
