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 Possessed By The Sheikh written by Penny Jordan and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Held captive in the desert! After being left stranded in the sand, Katrina was rescued and taken back to a luxury desert camp. Despite the attraction that sparked between them, the Sheikh thought Katrina was nothing more than a whore. Then he discovered that she was a virgin. And that changed everything! For he was a desert sheikh, who lived by a strict code of honour: Katrina would have to become his wife for real!

Download or read book The Arabian Nights Entertainments written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Arabian Nights Entertainments Translated by Edward William Lane With Six Hundred Woodcuts by William Harvey New Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights Or The Arabian Nights Entertainments written by Edward William Lane and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sheikh s Virgin Bride Arabian Nights Book 1 written by Penny Jordan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petra is betrothed–to rich, eligible Sheikh Rashid. But she plans to ruin her reputation so Rashid won't want her. Blaize, a fellow guest at her hotel, agrees to be Petra's pretend lover–though soon he's taken her virginity!

Download or read book Captured by the Sheikh written by Kate Hewitt and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I took your bride. I'll take your throne. Because both are mine by right." Banishment and shame has turned Sheikh Khalil al Bakir into a man determined to reclaim the crown of Kadar from his rival. Khalil's campaign begins by kidnapping his enemy's bride-to-be. She's a means to an end, so why is he so inflamed at the thought of her in anyone's bed but his own? Queen Elena Karras of Thallia was prepared for a cold, mutually convenient marriage. Instead she is carried off into the sands, where the virgin queen soon discovers an unexpected desire for her sinfully sexy captor that leaves her craving more....

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Download or read book ONE NIGHT WITH THE SHEIKH written by Penny Jordan and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Mariella is asked by her sister to care for her young niece, Fleur, she ends up visiting the desert country of Zuran. The man who abandoned Fleur and her mother lives there. Mariella has reason to believe that man is Sheikh Xavier, so she angrily goes to visit him at his desert oasis. Xavier, meanwhile, mistakes Mariella for the evil woman who deceived his cousin!

Download or read book My Thousand and One Nights written by Raja Alem and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of changing from medieval to modern. In this vanished Mecca, vividly brought to life again in My Thousand and One Nights, women hold center stage—especially Jummo, the wildly passionate daughter of the Water Carriers’ Sheik. This faraway time and setting become compellingly real as we follow the intimate drama of Jummo’s life, the tragic arc of her affair with her childhood sweetheart and her lifelong love for the mysterious Sidi Wadhana, a more-than-human emissary from the Netherworld. Jummo’s world, veiled and invisible to outsiders until this telling of her story, has the feel of the true center of an Arabia that has come to us in many exotic and threatening disguises. Jummo’s Mecca is a different world, with different narrative strategies, but the dramatic problems are universal: how lethal is love, how dangerous are woman? And how sensual is the yearning for immortality?

Download or read book The Desert Sheikh s Captive Wife written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sheikh blackmails the working-class woman who broke his heart in this royal romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. Tilda was living to regret that once she’d had a short-lived romance with Rashad, the Crown Prince of Bakhar. Now, not only had he gained possession of her impoverished family’s home, Rashad was also blackmailing her for the huge debt they owed him—and insisting she pay the price . . . as his concubine! Tilda was appalled—but in no position to refuse. Soon she was the arrogant sheikh’s captive, ready to be ravished in his faraway desert kingdom. But Rashad slipped up by publicly naming Tilda as his woman . . . and under the law of Bakhar this meant she and he were bound together forever . . . as husband and wife!

Download or read book Taken by the Sheikh written by Penny Jordan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince al Drac''ar al Karim, Sheikh of Dhurahn,must find a bride for his brother—and whobetter than Englishwoman Sadie Murray, whois stranded and jobless in the desert. But Drax must make sure that Sadie is asvirginal as she seems. While he has her in hispower she''s his to command, and he''ll test herwife-worthiness at every opportunity.

Download or read book The Prophet s Hair written by Salman Rushdie and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasures, Hashim lives a life of gentle honor until he discovers, washed up to his private quay, a great relic: a silver pendant bearing a strand of the Prophet’s hair. From one of the most controversial novelists of the last century, world-renowned master of invention and allusion Salman Rushdie, “The Prophet’s Hair” vibrates with fantastical promise, smashing together cultures and worlds, fantasy with reality, into breathless and lush allegorical fable. Selected from Rushdie’s collection of nine enchanting short stories, East West. An ebook short.

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Download or read book Shadow of the Swords written by Kamran Pasha and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic saga of love and war, Shadow of the Swords tells the story of the Crusades—from the Muslim perspective. Saladin, a Muslim sultan, finds himself pitted against King Richard the Lionheart as Islam and Christianity clash against each other, launching a conflict that still echoes today. In the midst of a brutal and unforgiving war, Saladin finds forbidden love in the arms of Miriam, a beautiful Jewish girl with a tragic past. But when King Richard captures Miriam, the two most powerful men on Earth must face each other in a personal battle that will determine the future of the woman they both love—and of all civilization. Richly imagined, deftly plotted, and highly entertaining, Shadow of the Swords is a remarkable story that will stay with readers long after the final page has been turned.

Download or read book I Dared to Call Him Father written by Bilquis Sheikh and published by Kingsway Communications. This book was released on 1979-01-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reissue of this bestseller by Bilquis Sheikh. It tells of the journey of discovery which began when a Muslim woman turned from the Qur'an and started reading the Bible. It is an enthralling story of faith and courage in the face of danger and difficul