Download or read book Scheherazade and the Amber Necklace written by Gordon Thompson and published by Clouds of Magellan. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'While her younger sister was gifted in telling tales, Scheherazade couldn't tell a story to save her life...' Scheherazade and the Amber Necklace is a bold reimagining of the classic Tales of the Arabian Nights, with flying carpets, despotic rulers, secret assassins, and powerful djinns. When her sister is forced to marry the king, and her father imprisoned, Scheherazade must make a desperate journey to the Zagros Mountains to find a story that might save all their lives.
Download or read book Scheherazade Goes West written by Fatema Mernissi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-09-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. "When a woman decides to use her wings, she takes big risks," she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't use them, it hurt.... So recalls Fatema Mernissi at the outset of her mesmerizing new book. Of all the lessons she learned from her grandmother -- whose home was, after all, a type of prison -- the most central was that the opportunity to cross boundaries was a sacred privilege. Indeed, in journeys both physical and mental, Mernissi has spent virtually all of her life traveling -- determined to "use her wings" and to renounce her gender's alleged legacy of powerlessness. Bursting with the vitality of Mernissi's personality and of her rich heritage, Scheherazade Goes West reveals the author's unique experiences as a liberated, independent Moroccan woman faced with the peculiarities and unexpected encroachments of Western culture. Her often surprising discoveries about the conditions of and attitudes toward women around the world -- and the exquisitely embroidered amalgam of clear-eyed autobiography and dazzling meta-fiction by which she relates those assorted discoveries -- add up to a deliciously wry, engagingly cosmopolitan, and deeply penetrating narrative. In her previous bestselling works, Mernissi -- widely recognized as the world's greatest living Koranic scholar and Islamic sociologist -- has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East. Now, as a writer and scholarly veteran of the high-wire act of straddling disparate societies, she trains her eyes on the female culture of the West. For her book's inspired central metaphor, Mernissi turns to the ancient Islamic tradition of oral storytelling, illuminating her grandmother's feminized, subversive, and highly erotic take on Scheherazade's wife-preserving tales from The Arabian Nights -- and then ingeniously applying them to her own lyrically embellished personal narrative. Interwoven with vivid ruminations on her childhood, her education, and her various international travels are the author's piquant musings on a range of deeply embedded societal conditions that add up, Mernissi argues, to a veritable "Western harem." A provocative and lively challenge to the common assumption that women have it so much better in the West than anywhere else in the world, Mernissi's book is an entrancing and timely look at the way we live here and now. By inspiring us to reconsider even the most commonplace aspects of our culture with fresh eyes and a healthy dose of suspicion, Scheherazade Goes West offers an invigorating, candid, and entertaining new perspective on the themes and ideas to which Betty Friedan first turned us on nearly forty years ago.
Download or read book The Amber Necklace written by Akira and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stories of Scheherazade written by and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secrets of Scheherazade written by The Scheherazade Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of dazzling delight, The Secrets of Scheherazade transports the reader on a journey through a realm inspired by A Thousand and One Nights. Assembled as a collection to be auctioned along with certain objects, the stories contained within have magical powers... At The Scheherazade Foundation, we believe that folklore and storytelling hold an unrivalled value within society. A repository compiled over millennia, folktales reflect every facet of the human experience, making us who we are. An ultimate bridge between cultures, stories have the ability to divert the mind, so that an essence of real value can be passed on. This collection includes an array of fabulous tales, such as 'The Wondrous Seed', 'The Happiest Man in the World', 'The Berber Queen and the Necklace of Fortune', and 'Only the Painting Knows the Whole Story'. The more we tell and retell folktales, the more they seep into our subconscious, becoming part of us. With each telling, their magic is passed on - enabling us to tap into an ancient matrix of ideas, solutions, and information.
Download or read book The Amber Necklace written by Judy Chatham and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amber Necklace is a story based on the final Christmas of a woman who had mastered the French language; attended symphonies and operas; stitched her own draperies; sculpted and fired figurines of foxes and raccoons; made an elaborate German-themed doll; sewed her own traveling wardrobe; painted flowers on her bedroom wall; sketched and wrote verses for her own Christmas cards; cooked for dinner parties; and loved to dig in the dirt in the early spring. Totally alive and infectiously passing on that enthusiasm to everyone she met, Claire was truly a remarkable woman whose recipes for Russian tea and Cheese Strata are used even today-not to mention her tips for enjoying an opera or properly pouring tea. In The Amber Necklace Claire exquisitely describes the natural process by which amber is formed, and, unknown to her, she paints a far greater picture of the golden amber in a person's live as that life becomes a finished product.
Download or read book Flies in Amber written by Julia S. H. Pardoe and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flies in Amber written by Miss Pardoe (Julia) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scheherazade written by Anthony O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arabian Nights written by Laurence Housman and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juvenile literature.
Download or read book Twist of Fate written by Scheherazade Aslam and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scheherazade The One Thousand and One Nights RPG written by Umberto Pignatelli and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arabian Nights written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty of the traditional tales told by Scheherazade in an attempt to save her life, including The Merchant and the Genie, The Forty Thieves, The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, and Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.
Download or read book The Park Bench written by Henry von Doussa and published by Clouds of Magellan Pub.. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reflective novel about cruising public toilets in Melbourne.
Download or read book Enough of Your Nonsense written by Guy James Whitworth and published by Clouds of Magellan Pub.. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artwork and stories about queerness, the Sydney art scene, and England in the 80s and 90s
Download or read book The Wrath the Dawn written by Renée Ahdieh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times Bestseller! “A riveting Game of Thrones meets Arabian Nights love story.” - US Weekly Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi’s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend. She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.
Download or read book Fear and Faith in Paradise written by Phil Karber and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From life along the Tigris River in the 1970s to the ongoing Arab Spring uprisings, Phil Karber has witnessed decades of change throughout the Middle East. Fear and Faith in Paradise draws on his wealth of experience to sketch a timely and compelling portrait of the region throughout history. Going beyond the endless images of terrorism and war, he challenges pervasive stereotypes of Muslims and delves into the living history and cultures of Arabs, Turks, Kurds, Persians, Jews, Tunisians, Moroccans, Armenians, and others. Seamlessly moving between past and present, Karber skillfully develops two overarching themes: How America's footprint can be shifted from a military to a humanitarian emphasis and how fear is used as a cudgel by today’s monotheistic leaders to sacrifice the faithful. Whether Christian, Muslim, or Jewish, they all invoke their own vision of paradise, often as incentive, in hopeless conflicts that seem doomed to be repeated. Karber’s down-to-earth writing vividly conveys the region’s charm and beauty against a backdrop of power struggles among competing faiths, nationalisms, and outside forces.
