Download or read book Khomeini Sade and Me written by Abnousse Shalmani and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abnousse Shalmani was born into an atheist Iranian family. As a young girl she refuses to be veiled and displays many characteristics that a woman in Iran should not have; she is frank, provocative, intelligent, and lively. Her family goes into exile, in Paris, to escape the constraints put upon them by the teachers and Islamists in Iran and Abnousse looks forward to her new life. She soon discovers, however, that Paris cannot provide the freedom she longed for.
Download or read book Khomeiny Sade et moi written by Abnousse Shalmani and published by Grasset & Fasquelle. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une petite fille de dix ans, contrainte de porter le voile à Téhéran, se révolte en se dénudant. Dans l'atmosphère absurde propre aux révolutions, elle fait l'apprentissage de la liberté, épaulée par son père. Puis, c'est la guerre et l'exil à Paris. Alors qu'elle pensait les barbus et les corbeaux cantonnés à son pays de naissance, elle les retrouve dans les rues, à l'école, dans le métro. La révolte n'est pas finie, l'indépendance n'est pas totale. C'est alors qu'elle rencontre le marquis de Sade. Enfin, la petite fille devenue femme peut brûler son foulard et affirmer, sans peur, sa liberté. Récit intime tout autant que politique, Khomeiny, Sade et moi peut se lire comme l'histoire du corps féminin aux prises avec ses contradicteurs. De la Révolution iranienne à Mohamed Merah, en passant par Les Versets Sataniques et Madonna, les grandes courtisanes et les printemps arabes, le récit - narration de faits inventés et réels - alterne les anecdotes intimes et les événements sociaux-politiques, avec humour et enthousiasme, pour offrir un autre regard d'exilé sur la France.
Download or read book Khomeini de Sade e io Una storia di amore libri proibiti e rivoluzione written by Abnousse Shalmani and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Khomeini Sade en ik written by Abnousse Shalmani and published by Singel Uitgeverijen. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abnousse Shalmani is acht jaar wanneer ze haar hijab uittrekt op het schoolplein in Iran. Korte tijd later vlucht ze met haar familie naar Parijs, waar ze verlost denkt te zijn van beperkende kledingvoorschriften. Niets blijkt echter minder waar. Salman Rushdie publiceert zijn Duivelsverzen en de hijab staat opnieuw in het centrum van de belangstelling. Abnousse vecht voor haar vrijheid, die ze uiteindelijk vindt door het werk van Marquis de Sade. In een verhaal waarin biografie en fictie door elkaar lopen, doet Abnousse Shalmani verslag van de strijd van vrouwen voor vrijheid. Khomeini, Sade en ik gaat over emotionele, seksuele en intellectuele ontwikkeling, verpakt in een sterke, luchtige stijl.
Download or read book I Killed Scheherazade written by Jumānah Sallūm Ḥaddād and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiery and candid; a provocative and courageous exploration of what it means to be an Arab woman today.
Download or read book The Imagined Land written by Eduardo Berti and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With sensuous imagery and musical cadence, Berti conjures up a star-crossed love story for a brother and sister in pre-revolutionary China. Their hearts' desires collide with their parents' strictness, superstitions, the delicate balance between modernity and tradition, and with the indelible memory of their grandmother, who visits the young girl in her dreams from the "imagined country" of her death.
Download or read book Khomeini De Sade e io written by Abnousse Shalmani and published by Rizzoli. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cosa c'è in me di così spaventoso da volerlo coprire? Che cos'ho che non va?" È il 1983, e Abnousse ha sei anni quando per la prima volta si ribella ai guardiani della Rivoluzione spogliandosi e correndo nuda per il cortile della sua scuola a Teheran. Per suo padre, un intellettuale liberale che ha scelto di crescerla incoraggiando la sua ostinazione, l'esilio è l'unica via d'uscita: "Non si può fare granché quando si è prigionieri. Bisogna liberarsi. è impossibile negoziare la propria libertà. La si sceglie e la si prende". A Parigi, però, Abnousse scopre che la libertà è profondamente diversa da come se l'era sognata, e questa volta è con la letteratura che sceglie di combattere i "signori della morale": è nei libri infatti che scopre un mondo unico, dove uomini e donne sono uguali, dove a forza di letture, dibattiti, dubbi ed esperienze, le eroine possono vivere la vita quale dev'essere, liberata da pregiudizi, paure e convenzioni. Può la semplice lettura di un romanzo diventare un atto politico? Sì, se come ha scritto Nabokov "la curiosità è insubordinazione allo stato puro". Dalle parole trasformate in carne degli scrittori libertini ai Versi Satanici, da Colette a Victor Hugo, da Simone De Beauvoir a Madonna, questo è uno straordinario libro sui libri, una storia di resistenza contro l'oppressione, un'appassionata rivendicazione del diritto alla libertà. "La prima parola che pronunciò l'angelo Gabriele di fronte a Maometto che lo ascoltava era: Leggi. In nome del Signore, leggi. Limpido. Ho fatto come mi è stato detto, ma ho intenzionalmente sbagliato libro."
Download or read book The President s Room written by Ricardo Romero and published by Charco Press. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A taut, appealing, and often quite funny exploration of existential angst."—Kirkus Reviews In a nameless suburb in an equally nameless country, every house has a room reserved for the president. No one knows when or why this came to be. It’s simply how things are, and no one seems to question it except for one young boy.The room is kept clean and tidy, nobody talks about it and nobody is allowed to use it. It is for the president and no one else. But what if he doesn’t come? And what if he does? As events unfold, the reader is kept in the dark about what’s really going on. So much so, in fact, that we begin to wonder if even the narrator can be trusted...Ricardo Romero has been compared to Franz Kafka and Italo Calvino, and we see why in this eerie, meditative novel narrated by a shy young boy who seems to be very good at lying about the truth. Following in the footsteps of Julio Cortázar and a certain literary tradition of sinister rooms (such as Dr Jekyll’s laboratory), The President’s Room is a mysterious tale based on the suspicion that a house is never just one single home.
Download or read book The Whirlwind War written by Frank N. Schubert and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1995 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMH Publication 70-30. Edited by Frank N. Schubert and TheresaL. Kraus. Discusses the United States Army's role in the Persian Gulf War from August 1990 to February 1991. Shows the various strands that came together to produce the army of the 1990s and how that army in turn performed under fire and in the glare of world attention. Retains a sense of immediacy in its approach. Contains maps which were carefully researched and compiled as original documents in their own right. Includes an index.
Download or read book Fish Soup written by Margarita García Robayo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, "Waiting for a hurricane," follows a girl obsessed with escaping both her life and her country. Emotionally detached from her family and disillustioned with what the future holds, the takes drastic steps, seemingly oblivious to the damage she causes to herself and those around her. "Sexual education" examines the attempts of a student to tally the strict doctrine oabstinencece taught at her school with the very different social norms of her social circles. The short stories offer snapshots of lives in turmoil, frayed by relationships, dreams of escape, family taboos and rejection of, and by, society.
Download or read book Imperial Hubris written by Michael Scheuer and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-06-30 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though U.S. leaders try to convince the world of their success in fighting al Qaeda, one anonymous member of the U.S. intelligence community would like to inform the public that we are, in fact, losing the war on terror. Further, until U.S. leaders recognize the errant path they have irresponsibly chosen, he says, our enemies will only grow stronger. According to the author, the greatest danger for Americans confronting the Islamist threat is to believe-at the urging of U.S. leaders-that Muslims attack us for what we are and what we think rather than for what we do. Blustering political rhetor.
Download or read book Foucault and the Iranian Revolution written by Janet Afary and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for Corriere della Sera and le Nouvel Observateur. During his little-known stint as a journalist, Foucault traveled to Iran, met with leaders like Ayatollah Khomeini, and wrote a series of articles on the revolution. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution is the first book-length analysis of these essays on Iran, the majority of which have never before appeared in English. Accompanying the analysis are annotated translations of the Iran writings in their entirety and the at times blistering responses from such contemporaneous critics as Middle East scholar Maxime Rodinson as well as comments on the revolution by feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. In this important and controversial account, Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson illuminate Foucault's support of the Islamist movement. They also show how Foucault's experiences in Iran contributed to a turning point in his thought, influencing his ideas on the Enlightenment, homosexuality, and his search for political spirituality. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution informs current discussion on the divisions that have reemerged among Western intellectuals over the response to radical Islamism after September 11. Foucault's provocative writings are thus essential for understanding the history and the future of the West's relationship with Iran and, more generally, to political Islam. In their examination of these journalistic pieces, Afary and Anderson offer a surprising glimpse into the mind of a celebrated thinker.
Download or read book Hezbollah written by Assistant Professor Aurélie Daher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on first-hand interviews with rank and file members of Hezbollah, the author illuminates the inner workings of this Islamist terrorist group.
Download or read book The World Between Two Covers Reading the Globe written by Ann Morgan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author’s year-long journey through a book from every country. Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than twenty years of reading, and found a host of English and North American greats starting down at me…I had barely touched a work by a foreign language author in years…The awful truth dawned. I was a literary xenophobe." Prompted to read a book translated into English from each of the world's 195 UN-recognized countries (plus Taiwan and one extra), Ann sought out classics, folktales, current favorites and commercial triumphs, novels, short stories, memoirs, and countless mixtures of all these things. The world between two covers, the world to which Ann introduces us with affection and no small measure of wit, is a world rich in the kind of narratives that engage us passionately: we meet an irreverent junk food–obsessed heroine in Kuwait, an explorer from Togo who spent years among the Inuit in Greenland, and a former child circus performer of Roma background seeking sanctuary in Switzerland. Ann's quest explores issues that affect us all: personal, political, national, and global. What is cultural heritage? How do we define national identity? Is it possible to overcome censorship and propaganda? And, above all, why and how should we read from other cultures, languages, and traditions? Illuminating and inspiring, The World Between Two Covers welcomes us into the global community of stories.
Download or read book Political Journeys written by Fred Halliday and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great contrarians of international relations scholarship, Fred Halliday was able to combine his understanding of the broad sweep of modern history with a profound knowledge of modern revolutions, the Middle East, and national movements. This collection of Halliday's political essays written for the online journal "openDemocracy" between 2004 and 2009 is proof of a subtle worldview that continues to generate questions: What is the relation between religion, nationalism, and progress? Is a new international order possible? When is intervention a force for progress?From the big headline topics such as the Iraq War to the unexpected comparisons of Tibet and Palestine, or Afghanistan and the Falklands, Halliday's writings provide a perennially surprising and enlightened guide to the major issues of international politics.
Download or read book Johnny Depp Anatomy of an Actor written by Corinne Vuillaume and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of Johnny Depp's work through the lens of ten of his most iconic roles American film star Johnny Depp (b.1963) has led an incredibly diverse career, playing eccentric characters in what are now considered classics including Edward Scissorhands (1990), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and Pirates of the Caribbean (2003). A new title in the fascinating series from world-renowned cinema magazine Cahiers du cinéma, which focuses on ten key performances from a single actor. Once a teen idol, Johnny Depp (b. 1963) has led an incredibly diverse career, playing eccentric characters in now-classics like Edward Scissorhands, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pirates of the Caribbean and Alice in Wonderland. An accessible text combines both a narrative and analytical dimension and is illustrated by 300 film stills, set photographs and film sequences.
Download or read book The Death Penalty Volume I written by Jacques Derrida and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newest installment in Chicago’s series of Jacques Derrida’s seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. While much has been written against the death penalty, Derrida contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always overtly, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has the right to take a life. Haunted by this notion, he turns to the key places where such logic has been established—and to the place it has been most effectively challenged: literature. With his signature genius and patient yet dazzling readings of an impressive breadth of texts, Derrida examines everything from the Bible to Plato to Camus to Jean Genet, with special attention to Kant and post–World War II juridical texts, to draw the landscape of death penalty discourses. Keeping clearly in view the death rows and execution chambers of the United States, he shows how arguments surrounding cruel and unusual punishment depend on what he calls an “anesthesial logic,” which has also driven the development of death penalty technology from the French guillotine to lethal injection. Confronting a demand for philosophical rigor, he pursues provocative analyses of the shortcomings of abolitionist discourse. Above all, he argues that the death penalty and its attendant technologies are products of a desire to put an end to one of the most fundamental qualities of our finite existence: the radical uncertainty of when we will die. Arriving at a critical juncture in history—especially in the United States, one of the last Christian-inspired democracies to resist abolition—The Death Penalty is both a timely response to an important ethical debate and a timeless addition to Derrida’s esteemed body of work.
