Download or read book Breaking the Sheikh s Rules written by Abby Green and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The huge imposing castle and the barren terrain of Merkazad are a far cry from the modest farm and the emerald fields that horsewoman Iseult calls home. Or used to, until Sheikh Nadim bought her family's stud farm. As part of the deal, she must work at his royal stables...Nadim enrages Iseult...but he also inspires a more unwelcome, unfamiliar feeling: desire. Drawn into Nadim's sensual world, Iseult feels like a beautiful, confident woman for the first time...But she must remember the sheikh's cast-iron rule..."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Breaking the Sheikh s Rules written by Abby Green and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innocent Irish horse trainer discovers unbridled passion with an imperious sheikh in this sexy international romance. Iseult thought she would live out her days on the bucolic Irish countryside. But that all changes when Sheikh Nadim bought her family’s stud farm. As part of the deal, Iseult must accompany Nadim back to his desert kingdom to work at his royal stables. . . . Nadim’s arrogance enrages Iseult . . . but his irresistible appeal also inspires a more unwelcome, unfamiliar feeling: desire. Drawn into Nadim’s sensual world, Iseult feels like a beautiful, confident woman for the first time. But she must remember the sheikh’s cast-iron rule. . . .
Download or read book BREAKING THE SHEIKH S RULES written by Abby Green and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iseult’s family farm is in financial difficulties and about to be bought by Sheikh Nadim, ruler of a small Arabian country. When he comes to inspect the farm, he decides to return home with a racehorse and its trainer?Iseult! He not only took the farm away from her family but also stole her away from Ireland, leaving her struggling father behind! Will Iseult be able to tame Nadim? Will she be able to tame her own heart?
Download or read book Break all the Borders written by Ariel I. Ahram and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2011, civil wars and state failure have wracked the Arab world, underlying the misalignment between national identity and political borders. In Break all the Borders, Ariel I. Ahram examines the separatist movements that aimed to remake those borders and create new independent states. With detailed studies of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the federalists in eastern Libya, the southern resistance in Yemen, and Kurdish nationalist parties, Ahram explains how separatists captured territory and handled the tasks of rebel governance, including managing oil exports, electricity grids, and irrigation networks. Ahram emphasizes that the separatism arose not just as an opportunistic response to state collapse. Rather, separatists drew inspiration from the legacy of Woodrow Wilson and ideal of self-determination. They sought to reinstate political autonomy that had been lost during the early and mid-twentieth century. Speaking to the international community, separatist promised a more just and stable world order. In Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Libya, they served as key allies against radical Islamic groups. Yet their hopes for international recognition have gone unfulfilled. Separatism is symptomatic of the contradictions in sovereignty and statehood in the Arab world. Finding ways to integrate, instead of eliminate, separatist movements may be critical for rebuilding regional order.
Download or read book The Sheikh s Rebellious Mistress written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-11-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A royal sheikh is out for revenge against the woman who stole his heart—and his fortune—in the USA Today–bestselling author’s sexy international romance. Sheikh Salim al Taj, crown prince of Senahdar, never mixes business and pleasure—until a night of unbridled passion with employee Grace Hunter makes him rethink all the rules he lives by. Afraid that his desire for her could compromise his judgment, he conjures every ounce of self-control to keep her at arm’s length. But when Grace suddenly disappears—along with ten million dollars of Salim’s money—the sheikh’s desire turns to a lust for revenge. He resolves to bring his runaway rebellious mistress to heel—slowly, pleasurably and mercilessly. . . .
Download or read book Halabi Sheikhs written by Leslie North and published by Relay Publishing. This book was released on with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three sexy sheikhs make the pages of this trilogy smolder as they fall hard for the women they were meant to be with forever. The Haliba brothers are as different as night and day, but they do have a couple things in common: they’re all gorgeous and they all just can’t stop themselves from falling in love. In The Sheikh King's Ward, Bashar Halabi is shocked to find out the “little girl” he’s named guardian to is actually twenty-seven-year-old beauty, Fiona Nadide. If only he can marry her off before he falls in love with her himself! Chadil thinks a fake courtship will keep his family clear of scandal in The Sheikh’s Fake Courtship, only to realize there’s nothing fake about what he feels for Raina Mousa. Danyal Halabi relishes his role as the family’s black sheep in The Sheikh's Mail-Order Bride—until his antics leave him unwittingly engaged to beautiful American and single mother Jayne Barnes. USA Today Bestselling Author Leslie North pens a page-turning trilogy where fake fiancées, surprise babies, and opposites attract make the road to forever a real challenge for three heart-stealing brothers.
Download or read book Armenian Organization and Ideology Under Ottoman Rule written by Dikran Kaligian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive picture of Armeno-Turkish relations for the brief period of Ottoman Constitutional rule between 1908 and 1914. Kaligian integrates internal documents of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, and existing research on the last years of the empire, as well as the archives of the British, American, and German diplomatic corps. By reducing the overemphasis on central government policies and by describing unofficial contacts, political relations, and provincial administration and conditions, Kaligian provides a unified account of this key period in Ottoman history. Kaligian sets out to resolve many of the conflicting conclusions in the current historiography-including the most central issue, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation relations with the Turkish Committee of Union and Progress. It is impossible to obtain a true picture of Armeno-Turkish relations without an accurate analysis of their two leading parties. This study finds that the ARF was torn between maintaining relations with a CUP that had failed to implement promised reforms and was doing little to prevent increasing attacks on the Armenian population, or break off relations thus ending any realistic chance for the constitutional system to succeed. The party continued to stake its reputation and resources on the success of constitutional government even after the trauma of the 1909 Adana massacres. The decisive issue was the failure of land reform. This book sets the record straight in terms of understanding Armeno-Turkish relations during this short but pivotal period. Kaligian's study, the first of its kind, shows that the party's internal deliberations support the conclusion that it did remain loyal and contradicts the view that the party's only aim was to incite a rebellion against Ottoman rule. The author has done an excellent job of leading the reader through this rich history, using primary source information to bridge the gaps from theory, to analysis, to evidence.
Download or read book Sheikhs of Hamari written by Leslie North and published by Relay Publishing. This book was released on with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three driven, successful, and sexy sheikhs all find their softer side and their hearts in this stirring trilogy by USA Today Bestselling Author Leslie North. These sheikhs of the Hamari royal family are serious and know what they want—and none of them are looking to settle down and have a family. But circumstances and three beautiful, strong women are about to change their lives forever. In The Sheikh’s American Lover, Sheikh Chakir is all about duty and strictly following his kingdom’s rules, so he’s completely unprepared when American Hannah Fisher and her son come into his life ready to break every rule in the book—including his rule of not falling in love. Sheikh Kishon needs to get married fast, and artist Chloe Sanderson is willing to have a temporary fake marriage in exchange for seeing the world in The Sheikh’s Fake Marriage. But an unexpected pregnancy changes both their plans. And to warrior Sheikh Matek, love is weakness, so falling in love is out of the question—until Nina Frank shows him that love is what he’s been looking for all along in The Sheikh’s Pregnant Nanny. Opposites attract in this heart-stopping trilogy where babies, fake marriages, and instant families show the softer side of three alpha male sheikhs!
Download or read book An Imperialist Love Story written by Amira Jarmakani and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western popular culture. Combining close readings of novels, discursive analysis of blogs and forums, and interviews with authors, Jarmakani explores popular investments in the war on terror by examining the collisions between fantasy and reality in desert romances. Focusing on issues of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, she foregrounds the role that desire plays in contemporary formations of U.S. imperialism. Drawing on transnational feminist theory and cultural studies, An Imperialist Love Story offers a radical reinterpretation of the war on terror, demonstrating romance to be a powerful framework for understanding how it works, and how it perseveres.
Download or read book Reconstructing the Middle East written by Abdulwahab Alkebsi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is clear by now that the label ‘Arab Spring’ has proven too simplistic to describe the uprisings that upended the political order of the Arab world in late 2010. Brutal crackdowns and civil conflict in Syria, Libya, and Yemen dashed the hopes that peaceful democratic revolutions would sweep the region. In other countries, the departure of authoritarian leaders led to many false starts without producing democratic conclusions. Societies that had appeared united in opposition suddenly seemed fractious. Youth were once again banished to the political margins. ‘Reconstructing the Middle East’ examines the changes that happened within the region from 2010 and the long-term challenges and opportunities they present. Featuring the work of authors with a diversity of perspectives, most of whom hail from the region, it addresses key issues of political, economic and societal changes, the role of young people and of the international community. In addition, the book deals with the questions of both political and economic reform, and the intertwined nature of the two. Political reform that allows greater participation will fail to quell frustration if Arabs continue to feel that their job prospects are bleak. Similarly, Arabs will not accept economic reform that restores growth but continues to fence off the political sphere. This book offers a unique perspective on the uprisings by focusing on specific issue areas where change is needed, and offering a roadmap for the long road towards state building and new social contracts based on political inclusion, respect for pluralism, and sustained economic growth. As such, it will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Middle East Politics, as well as those with an interest in the Arab Spring.
Download or read book Castles in the Sand written by Michael Cameron Dempsey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abu Dhabi--an obscure Middle Eastern principality that happens to be the richest city in the world. This book tells the story of Abu Dhabi's ambitions to transform itself from a sleepy sheikhdom into a thriving international metropolis and a hub of business and leisure. It traces Abu Dhabi's boom years from 2009 to 2011 from the perspective of a Westerner working for the Urban Planning Council, the government agency that planned and coordinated all of the massive development activity. Castles in the Sand explores the drastic changes in Abu Dhabi's built environment, where entire islands are forested with skyscrapers and billions of dollars in infrastructure are spent on a whim--while recounting the disorienting experience of an outsider encountering a society in which foreigners outnumber locals nine to one and modernity clashes head-on with centuries of embedded tradition. General readers will find a broad introduction to Abu Dhabi, and architects and planners will gain a firsthand glimpse inside an unprecedented experiment in city-building.
Download or read book The Blooming Desert Series written by Leslie North and published by Relay Publishing. This book was released on with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three sheikhs from the same kingdom, all wealthy, sexy and incredibly powerful, unexpectedly find love as they struggle with the responsibilities of ancient laws and the women they cannot deny in this heart-pounding trilogy from USA Today bestseller Leslie North. Sheikh Hamid Al-Qasha finds himself in the awkward position of accepting a merchant’s daughter, Tali, as collateral for a debt, and then being forced to arrange a fake engagement to avoid scandal in The Sheikh’s Fake Engagement. But there’s nothing fake about their attraction! In The Sheikh’s Pregnant Wife, billionaire Crown Prince Skandar Al-Basran will do anything to appease the tribes, including temporarily marry Gina, a woman he hardly knows but who is now carrying his child. Will he realize the importance of love before it’s too late? After a whirlwind affair, Raed Al-Qasha returns home, only to find out two years later that he’s a father—and just might be falling in love with Lise, a woman who is the opposite of what he thought he needed in The Sheik’s Unexpected Son. The desert heats up with these three couples who face fake engagements, secret babies, and pretend marriages, only to ultimately discover that love is more powerful than anything in their life. Leslie North’s thrilling trilogy is sure to please lovers of alpha men and the women who tame them!
Download or read book The Zaza Kurds of Turkey written by Mehmed S. Kaya and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turkey, at the very intersection of Europe and the Middle East, comprises a plethora of ethnicities and minority groups. There is however very little official data about many of its chief minorities. The Zazas are one such group: a Kurdish people speaking the Zaza dialect, and living as a distinct people in the eastern Anatolian provinces. Originally followers of Zoroastrianism from c.700 BC, over the centuries the Zazas converted, often by force, to Sunni Islam or Alevism, which remain the key faiths of the Zazas today. While many Zazas have migrated to Turkey's major cities and beyond, the majority of the population remain in rural eastern Anatolia and have retained a society and culture largely untouched by the influences of the modern world. Mehmet S. Kaya here provides a thorough investigation of all aspects of Zaza life, including kinship, economy, culture, identity, gender relations, patriarchy and religion. His fieldwork among local communities in the Zaza area, together with insights drawn from the Kurdish and Turkish media, sheds light upon the ways in which this Middle Eastern minority has maintained its way of life and cultural identity. He observes the ways in which the Zazas govern their problems and conflicts outside of official legal administration and courts; the factors which make Zaza society adhere in the absence of formal authority; and the role of religion in daily Zaza life. Kaya also examines the concept of the Zazas as a 'stateless' people, and looks at the issue of the oppression of minority ethnic identities in the context of Turkish nationalism. The Zaza Kurds of Turkey provides access to the world of a little-known people who have so far been largely neglected in the academic literature. This important study will be of interest to the fields of Middle East Studies, Islamic Studies, Anthropology, and Minority and Diaspora Studies.
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Download or read book Hasan Sheikhs written by Leslie North and published by Relay Publishing. This book was released on with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: None of the Hasan brothers are looking for love or marriage, but all three find themselves tying the knot with virtual strangers in Leslie North’s latest smoldering sheikh trilogy. In The Sheikh’s Marriage Bargain, as the eldest son, Zayid Hasan must marry first and since his younger brother needs to wed, he’s willing to enter a marriage of convenience to solve that problem. He’s lucky he meets Laila Tindall, who’s just desperate enough to marry him, but will their temporary marriage turn into something more lasting? One night of passion between middle brother Yaseen and American Kara Shaw leads to a pregnancy, and under his kingdom’s laws the two must marry. It’s a marriage of convenience and nothing more…at least that’s what they keep telling themselves, in The Sheikh’s Pregnant Wife. In The Sheikh’s Rescued Baby, youngest Hasan brother, Nadim, wants to change his playboy image, but marriage wasn’t part of the plan, even to Aisha Shadari, the gorgeous sultana of a neighboring kingdom. When disaster strikes, they both discover there’s more to him than meets the eye.
Download or read book Surrender to the Playboy Sheikh written by Kate Hardy and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-06-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s something to be said for sultry desert nights . . . Passion takes over in this blazing hot To Tame a Playboy romance from the bestselling author. Karim al-Hassan can have any woman he wants, and sexy little waitress Lily Finch has caught his eye. One glance leads to a searing kiss—and a hunger that Karim plans to satisfy with a temporary fling. But Lily is actually more than just a waitress. Successful and career-focused, she is determined never to mix business with pleasure—until playboy Karim’s slow seduction breaks down her resistance! Soon Karim is breaking his own rules: he wants Lily in his bed—forever!
Download or read book From Sheikhs to Sultanism written by Christopher M. Davidson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muhammad bin Salman Al-Saud and Muhammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the respective princely strongmen of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have torn up the old rules. They have spurred game-changing economic master plans, presided over vast anti-corruption crackdowns, tackled entrenched religious forces, and overseen the mass arrest of critics. In parallel, they also appear to have replaced the old 'sheikhly' consensus systems of their predecessors with something more autocratic, more personalistic, and perhaps even analytically distinct. These are the two wealthiest and most populous Gulf monarchies, and increasingly important global powers--Saudi Arabia is a G20 member, and the UAE will be the host of the World Expo in 2021-2022. Such sweeping changes to their statecraft and authority structures could well end up having a direct impact, for better or worse, on policies, economies and individual lives all around the world. Christopher M. Davidson tests the hypothesis that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are now effectively contemporary or even 'advanced' sultanates, and situates these influential states within an international model of autocratic authoritarianism. Drawing on a range of primary sources, including new interviews and surveys, From Sheikhs to Sultanism puts forward an original, empirically grounded interpretation of the rise of both MBS and MBZ.
