Download or read book Am I pretty asked Maryam written by Rahima Armstrong and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Am I pretty, Mummy?" When Maryam asks her Mum if she’s pretty, Sairah sees it as a chance to talk to her daughter about beauty standards, gender roles, and the importance of being true to ourselves.
Download or read book The Saffron Kitchen written by Yasmin Crowther and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a powerful debut novel that moves between the crowded streets of London and the desolate mountains of Iran, Yasmin Crowther paints a stirring portrait of a family shaken by events from decades ago and worlds away. On a rainy day in London the dark secrets and troubled past of Maryam Mazar surface violently, with tragic consequences for her daughter, Sara, and her newly orphaned nephew. Maryam leaves her English husband and family and returns to the remote Iranian village where her story began. In a quest to piece their life back together, Sara follows her mother and finally learns the terrible price Maryam once had to pay for her freedom, and of the love she left behind. Set against the breathtaking beauty of two very different places, this stunning family drama transcends culture and is, at its core, a rich and haunting narrative about mothers and daughters.
Download or read book Marrakesh by Design written by Maryam Montague and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moroccan design, from the tiled floors to the colored walls, sculpted ceilings, embroidered fabrics, Berber tents, fountains, gardens, and more In a world filled with beige interiors, Morocco is the perfect antidote: a refuge for addicts of saturated color, a haven for devotees of intricate pattern, a destination for admirers of striking architecture. For anyone who wants to add Morocco's spicy design mix into their own home, Maryam Montague, the personality behind the award-winning blog My Marrakesh, explains how to do so with the building blocks of Moroccan design—from the colors, patterns, and textiles to the archways, fountains, gardens, and so much more. With illustrative text and gorgeous photographs, Maryam shows how Moroccan design comes to life in real villas and riads and in her own magnificent home and guesthouse. Eager DIYers will love the ideas presented in sidebars and in how-to projects that can be applied to homes anywhere. Filled with all the richness of Morocco,Marrakesh by Design will transport readers straight to the souks and salons of this exotic city while showing them the multitude of ways to live with the enticing elements of Moroccan design.
Download or read book The Betrayal written by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early fourth-century biblical scholar Brother Barnabas flees for his life while protecting ancient holy texts that reveal Christ's more radical and heretical side, texts that have been denounced and ordered for destruction by the Ecumenical Council of Bishops.
Download or read book Shadow Play written by Barbara Ismail and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shadow Play" is the first in the series of “Kain Songket Mysteries” set in the northern state of Kelantan, Malaysia during the 1970s. Mak Cik Maryam, a smart and take-charge kain songket (silk) trader in Kota Bharu Central Market, discovers a murder in her own backyard, shattering the bucolic village world she thought surrounded her. While the new Chief of Police, a pleasant young man from Ipoh whose mother’s admonitions about the wiles of Kelantanese girls still ring in his ears, wrestles with the bewildering local dialect, Maryam steps up to solve the mystery herself. Her investigation brings her into the closed world of the wayang kulit Shadow Play theater and the lives of its performers—a world riven by rivalries and black magic. Trapped in a tangle of jealousy, Maryam struggles to make sense of the crime in spite of the spells sent to keep her from secrets long buried and lies woven to shield the guilty.
Download or read book If You Could Be Mine written by Sara Farizan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult One of Rolling Stone’s 40 Best YA Novels A 2014 ALA Rainbow List Top 10 Title A Booklist Top 10 First Novels for Youth 2013 A Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best” 2013 This Forbidden Romance Could Cost Them Their Lives Seventeen-year-old Sahar has been in love with her best friend, Nasrin, since they were six. They’ve shared stolen kisses and romantic promises. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in love--Sahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed. So they carry on in secret until Nasrin’s parents suddenly announce that they’ve arranged for her marriage. Then Sahar discovers what seems like the perfect solution: homosexuality may be a crime, but to be a man trapped in a woman’s body is seen as nature’s mistake, and sex reassignment is legal and accessible. Sahar will never be able to love Nasrin in the body she wants to be loved in without risking their lives, but is saving their love worth sacrificing her true self?
Download or read book Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur an written by Abla Hasan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume challenges a long history of normalizing patriarchal approaches to the Qur’an and calls for a questioning of the interpretive credibility of many inherited Qur’anic commentaries. The author presents a fresh reading of the sacred text and Islamic teaching traditions as the rediscovery of a lost humanitarian and gender-egalitarian textual richness that has been poorly and loosely handled for centuries. The book stresses the importance of reviewing the interpretive linguistic choices that jurists and exegetes over the last fourteen centuries have adopted to semantically reshape the Qur’anic text. The vigilant reading the author provides of carefully chosen texts and commentaries suggests that many interpretive approaches to the Qur’an are dominated by sociopolitical factors alien to the intrinsic values of the text itself. More importantly, inconsistencies across putatively sound books of tafsīr indicate that the Qur’anic text often suffers from historical and systematic drainage of its humanitarianism, gender-egalitarianism, and religious pluralism.
Download or read book Politicizing Islam written by Z. Fareen Parvez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home to the largest Muslim minorities in Western Europe and Asia, France and India are both grappling with crises of secularism. In Politicizing Islam, Fareen Parvez offers an in-depth look at how Muslims have responded to these crises, focusing on Islamic revival movements in the French city of Lyon and the Indian city of Hyderabad. Presenting a novel comparative view of middle-class and poor Muslims in both cities, Parvez illuminates how Muslims from every social class are denigrated but struggle in different ways to improve their lives and make claims on the state. In Hyderabad's slums, Muslims have created vibrant political communities, while in Lyon's banlieues they have retreated into the private sphere. Politicizing Islam elegantly explains how these divergent reactions originated in India's flexible secularism and France's militant secularism and in specific patterns of Muslim class relations in both cities. This fine-grained ethnography pushes beyond stereotypes and has consequences for burning public debates over Islam, feminism, and secular democracy.
Download or read book Dreaming in English written by Laura Fitzgerald and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating sequel to the national bestselling novel Veil of Roses. Knowing she could never be happy in Iran, Tamila Soroush took her mother's advice to "Go and wake up your luck" and joined her sister in the United States. Now, after a spur-of-the-moment exchange of "I do"s with her true love, Ike Hanson, Tami is eager to start her new life. But not everyone is pleased with their marriage, and Tami's happily- ever-after is no sure thing. With an interview with Immigration looming, Tami wonders if she's got the right stuff when it comes to love, American-style. Maybe her luck is running out. Or maybe she'll stand up for herself and claim her American dream.
Download or read book Western Chant written by Barbara Ismail and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a dikir barat singer is invited to perform at a circumcision ceremony in a remote coastal village in Kelantan, Malaysia, things take an unexpected turn in the normally quiet fish market. Mak Cik Maryam is called to investigate a baffling double murder, and the motives must be untangled and the guilty identified. Maryam‘s own life is in grave danger when she and Mak Cik Rubiah delve deeper into this world of secrets. Join Mak Cik Maryam in her sixth adventure assisting the Kota Bharu Police Department, or vice versa, in Western Chant, the latest in the award-winning Kain Songket Mysteries series. Western Chant is the sixth in Barbara Ismail’s series of Kain Songket Mysteries based in Kelantan.
Download or read book Singing Through the Night written by Anneke Companjen and published by Revell. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stirring book sheds light on the lives of eleven women suffering persecution in nine different countries around the world.
Download or read book The Reporter Series Books 1 5 written by Thomas Fincham and published by Thomas Fincham. This book was released on with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This omnibus edition includes the first FIVE books in the best-selling Hyder Ali series, plus the introductory novella, and is over 1000 pages of murder, mystery, crime, and suspense. THE SILENT REPORTER (Book 1) A reporter investigates the suicide of his professor, only to stumble upon a conspiracy that is bigger than he had imagined. Hyder Ali, a Muslim-American, is working as a reporter when his university professor and mentor is found hanging inside his home. What looks like an apparent suicide soon turns into something more sinister when Hyder begins searching for the truth. THE ROGUE REPORTER (Book 2) Hyder Ali returns to cover a perplexing and dangerous case that quickly becomes more personal than he ever thought. Hyder Ali, a Muslim-American, is working on a story about the brutal death of a scientist. When the story is hijacked by a rogue reporter, Hyder must confront his own beliefs and ethics. What seems like a senseless murder at first soon turns into something entirely different when someone from Hyder's family becomes tangled in the investigation. THE RUNAWAY REPORTER (Book 3) Hyder Ali is charged for attempted murder and the victim is his best friend. Hyder Ali, a Muslim-American, is dispatched to cover the death of three young people. It is the month of Ramadan and Hyder is fasting, which makes his task all that much difficult in the summer heat. Soon everything turns upside down when one act forces Hyder to run for his life, while his best friend is sent to the hospital to fight for his. THE SERIAL REPORTER (Book 4) A serial killer is targeting Muslims in the city of Franklin and Hyder Ali could be his next victim. Hyder Ali, a Muslim-American, loses a story to a rival newspaper which makes him question his position at the Daily Times. When a young man's body is found in the dumpster, things suddenly begin to spiral out of control, leaving Hyder more alone than ever. THE STREET REPORTER (Book 5) A killer is beheading journalists and he wants the residents of Franklin to see his gruesome acts. Hyder Ali, a Muslim-American, is suddenly under pressure when a legendary investigative journalist shows up in Franklin to make a mark for himself. Meanwhile, a killer is beheading his victims and hiding their heads for the police to find. Hyder begins to question his decision to be a reporter when someone close to him becomes the next target. THE STUDENT REPORTER (Book 0) Before there was the Daily Times, there was the Franklin University Student Enquirer. Hyder Ali, a Muslim-American, is a freshman at the Franklin University. He is on a business scholarship with the aim of becoming an accountant someday. He never imagined a horrific event ten years before would change his life forever. KEYWORDS: Hyder Ali, reporter mystery, murder mystery series, police procedural mysteries, mystery series, police procedural series, detective thriller series, crime fiction, suspense fiction, thriller fiction, detective fiction, collection, box set, anthology
Download or read book The Miracles of Prophet Jesus PBUH written by Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Shams and published by Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Shams. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Miracles of Prophet Jesus is an insightful book written to help people seeking a divergent view of an iconic personality crucial to the Christian and Islamic faith. It presents the miracles in both holy books to help believers discover the outstanding miracles God wreaked through this great prophet. It is a must-read for anyone who desires a cross-faith book written about the exceptional miracles of Jesus.
Download or read book Adventure Divas written by Holly Morris and published by Villard. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of working behind a desk, Holly Morris had finally had enough. So she quit her job and set out to prove that adventure is not just a vacation style but a philosophy of living and to find like-minded, risk-taking women around the globe. With modest backing, a small television crew, her spirited producer-mother, Jeannie, and a whole lot of chutzpah, Morris tracked down artists, activists, and politicos–women of action who are changing the rules and sometimes the world around them. In these pages, Morris brings to life the remarkable people and places she’s encountered on the road while filming her PBS series Adventure Divas and other programs. We meet Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhi’s chief of police, who revolutionized India’s infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the government’s strict stance on art. Along the way, Morris herself becomes a certified Adventure Diva, as she hunts for wild boar with Penan tribesmen in the jungles of Borneo, climbs the Matterhorn short-roped to a salty fourth-generation Swiss guide, and memorably becomes the first woman ever to enter the traditional camel race of the Saharan oasis town of Timia. Intelligent, phenomenally funny, and chock-full of rich and telling details of place, Adventure Divas is a pro-woman chronicle for the twenty-first century. In a pilgrimage fueled by curiosity, ideology, and full-on estrogen power, Holly Morris has paved the way for all of us to discover our own diva within and set out on our own adventures.
Download or read book Night and Day written by Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night and Day (1934), an unfinished dilogy by Uzbek author Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon, gives readers a glimpse into the everyday struggles of men and women in Russian imperial Turkestan. More than just historical prose, Cho’lpon’s magnum opus reads as poetic elegy and turns on dramatic irony. Though Night, the first and only extant book of the dilogy, depicts the terrible fate of a young girl condemned to marry a sexual glutton, nothing is what it seems. Readers find themselves questioning the nature of Russian colonialism, resistance to it, and even the intentions of the author, whose life and the second book of his dilogy, Day, were lost to Stalinist terror.
Download or read book Workplace Emotions written by Suhaila AlHashemi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Wilkinson accepts an invitation to help one of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s most successful companies, he does not expect a lesson from the Gulf Region’s leading expert in “emotional intelligence.” As his team works to upgrade the aluminum plant’s inspection process, John learns the value of emotional intelligence as he witnesses the first signs of cultural change in a corporation steeped in traditional management practices. This entertaining story introduces the reader to Dr Suhaila AlHashemi’s groundbreaking research correlating emotional intelligence and leadership styles in Bahrain. Question-and-answer dialog in the Socratic Method clearly explains concepts and conclusions applicable to business management around the globe. Together, our hero and readers learn the personal and social competencies that define emotional intelligence, the tools used to collect and analyze an individual’s EI quotient and management styles, and how EI can be channeled to improve personal and organizational performance. Workplace Emotions is the second in a series of business novels providing valuable insight into the Gulf business culture. A Cup of Coffee, by Dr Salem Al Ismaily with Richard Tzudiker, describes John Wilkinson’s entrepreneurial inroad into the Sultanate of Oman, and teaches how Arab culture and tradition influence management styles and business practices.
