Download or read book Syrian Episodes written by John W. Borneman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand intimate interactions of religious, political, and familial authority in this secular republic, Borneman spent much time among different men, observing and becoming part of their everyday lives. Syrian Episodes is the striking result. Recounting his experience of living and lecturing in Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city, John Borneman offers deft, first-person stories of the longings and discontents expressed by Syrian sons and fathers, as well as a prescient analysis of the precarious power held by the regime, its relation to domestic authority, and the conditions of its demise. Combining literary imagination and anthropological insight, the book's discrete narratives converge in an unforgettable portrait of contemporary culture in Aleppo. We read of romantic seductions, rumors of spying, the play of light in rooms, the bargaining of tourists in bazaars, and an attack of wild dogs. With unflinching honesty and frequent humor, Borneman describes his encounters with students and teachers, customers and merchants, and women and families, many of whom are as intrigued with the anthropologist as he is with them. Refusing to patronize those he meets or to minimize his differences with them, Borneman provokes his interlocutors, teasing out unexpected confidences, comic responses, and mutual misunderstandings. He engages the curiosity and desire of encounter and the possibility of ethical conduct that is willing to expose cultural differences. Combining literary imagination and anthropological insight, Syrian Episodes offers an unforgettable portrait of contemporary culture in Aleppo.
Download or read book Two Sisters written by Åsne Seierstad and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting true story of two sisters’ journey to the Islamic State and the father who tries to bring them home Two Sisters, by the international bestselling author Åsne Seierstad, tells the unforgettable story of a family divided by faith. Sadiq and Sara, Somali immigrants raising a family in Norway, one day discover that their teenage daughters, Leila and Ayan, have vanished—and are en route to Syria to aid the Islamic State. Seierstad’s riveting account traces the sisters’ journey from secular, social democratic Norway to the front lines of the war in Syria, and follows Sadiq’s harrowing attempt to find them. Employing the same mastery of narrative suspense she brought to The Bookseller of Kabul and One of Us, Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family’s crisis from the inside. Eventually, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom—even after they marry ISIS fighters. Two Sisters is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief, extremism, and the meaning of devotion.
Download or read book Syrian Episodes written by John Borneman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Stories My Father Told Me written by Helen Zughaib and published by Cune Press Classics. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Syrian Father written by Elias Sassoon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection follows an extraordinary individual, my father. A complex man who exhibited brilliance within a dark cosmos of bitterness and cynicism. His family came to America from Aleppo, Syria in the early 20th century seeking economic freedom. In Syria, they were poor. A chaotic political environment caused by a world war, the defeat of the ruling Turks and the occupation by the French drove them.. Within the upheaval, my father was born. He was every bit the Arab wrapped in a package of a Jew. A lover of Arab culture, music, language, and foods, he was still a Jew bound to defend the Jewish world against the Arab nations lined up against it. His life was made harder by the poverty and lack of education he experienced. His parents only knew Arabic, were illiterate and dependent on government relief; they lived in a tenement walkup above a grocery store Brooklyn. The six children left school in their pre-teens to support the family. This doomed my father and created resentment. 'Dumb Syrians' he would call his parents. This lead to menial jobs in factories doing work for which he was unsuited (a thin-frame man who suffered curvature of the back from an old injury). Bitter, yes. The bitterness pill was inherited from his mother. The daughter of Elias Sassoon, a wealthy merchant and doctor from Isfahan, Iran who immigrated to Syria with his wife and three girls, she felt cheated when her father, Elias would take a second wife (polygamy was legal) and have male children who would inherit the family fortune and carry it to America. My father's mother would marry a poor, illiterate Syrian. That was never forgotten. The resentment passed to my father. Mother and son could be heard ranting about what their fate and what was done to them. Allah had played a trick and was laughing down on them, an evil Allah. The poetry collections attempts to clarify a life that remains a puzzle to the son of a bitter and perplexing father. Whether that effort succeeds or not is up to the reader to determine.
Download or read book History of the Syrian Nation and the Old Evangelical Apostolic Church of the East written by George David Malech and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Church of Islam written by Shaun O'Neill and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final decades of the last millennium, a Jesuit from Italy came across the ruins of an abandoned monastery in the Syrian Desert. It was to be the start of a forward-thinking Catholic religious community called Al-Khalil that would celebrate hospitality and friendship as its guiding pillars, bringing together Christians and Muslims from across the region during troubled times. Father Paolo Dall’Oglio and the interfaith dialogue he promoted in the monastic outpost of Deir Mar Musa near Damascus would attract people from all walks of life. The outbreak of war in 2011, powerful governmental and religious opposition, and the mysterious disappearance of the politically outspoken Father Paolo may have curtailed his work, but the progressive community he left behind continues to touch the lives of people across religious divides—within and outside Syria. In this pioneering work in English, part ethnographic study, part creative nonfiction narrative, Shaun O’Neill traces the life and legacy of the irrepressible Italian. He explores the importance of cross-religious understanding and moral leadership in an increasingly polarized world driven by religious and political fanaticism. It is a celebration of religious diversity against the odds and a fascinating glimpse into the character of Al-Khalil’s bombastic, larger-than-life leader—Father Paolo Dall’Oglio.
Download or read book An Arab Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades written by Usāmah ibn Munqidh and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Us?mah ibn-Munqidh epitomizes the height of Arab civilization during the early Crusading period. These memoirs--which represent a rare first-hand account of medieval European manners, morals, politics, and medicine written by a non-European--offers new perspective and insight into an important point of military and cultural contact between the East and West. In his introduction, translator Philip Hitti writes, "Ancient Arabic literature has preserved for us other biographies, memoirs, and reminiscences by great men, but there is hardly anything superior to this one in its simplicity of narrative, dignity, and wealth of contents and general human interest.
Download or read book Refugee Encounters at the Turkish Syrian Border written by Şule Can and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Turkish-Syrian borderlands host almost half of the Syrian refugees, with an estimated 1.5 million people arriving in the area following the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. This book investigates the ongoing negotiations of ethnicity, religion and state at the border, as refugees struggle to settle and to navigate their encounters with the Turkish state and with different sectarian groups. In particular, the book explores the situation in Antakya, the site of the ancient city of Antioch, the "cradle of civilizations", and now populated by diverse populations of Arab Alawites, Christians and Sunni-Turks. The book demonstrates that urban refugee encounters at the margins of the state reveal larger concerns that encompass state practices and regional politics. Overall, the book shows how and why displacement in the Middle East is intertwined with negotiations of identity, politics and state. Faced with an environment of everyday oppression, refugees negotiate their own urban space and "refugee" status, challenging, resisting and sometimes confirming sectarian boundaries. This book’s detailed analysis will be of interest to anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, historians, and Middle Eastern studies scholars who are working on questions of displacement, cultural boundaries and the politics of civil war in border regions.
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Download or read book Readings in Syrian Prison Literature written by R. Shareah Taleghani and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The simple act of inscription, both minute and epic, can be a powerful tool to bear witness and give voice to those who are oppressed, silenced, and forgotten. In the eras of Hafiz al-Asad and his son Bashar, Syrian political dissidents have written extensively about their experiences of detention, both while in prison and afterwards. This body of writing, largely untranslated into English, is essential to understanding the oppositional political culture among dissidents since the 1970s—a culture that laid the foundation for the 2011 Syrian Revolution. The emergence of prison literature as a specific genre helped articulate opposition to authoritarian states, including the Asad regime. However, the significance of Syrian prison literature goes beyond a form of witnessing, expressing creative opposition, and illuminating the larger cultural and historical backstory of the Syrian uprising. Prison literature, in all its diversity, challenges the narrative structures and conventional language of human rights. In doing so, prison literature has played an essential role in generating the "experimental shift" in Arabic literature since the 1960s. Taleghani’s groundbreaking work explores prison writing’s critical role in resistance movements in Syria, the evolution of Arabic literature, and the development of a global human rights.
