Download or read book The Hijab Hunter written by Teejay LeCapois and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omar Gordon Jr. is the name. I came to the City of Ottawa, Ontario, from the island of Jamaica, as an international student. I enrolled at Carleton University. After my documents expired, I went on the lam, forged new ones and stayed on the move. Citizenship & Immigration Canada caught up with me and told me I had to go legit or exit Canada. While cleaning up my act, I met a tall, lovely Mauritanian Muslim lady named Fatouma Boulkheir. I've always had a thing for those pretty Hijab ladies but this one is different. She's friendly, open-minded and sweet on me. I feel for Fatouma, and as sparks fly between us in spite of religious and cultural differences, I find myself wanting more. I simply hope the Canadian immigration authorities won't send me away before I can tell Fatouma how I feel. Wish me luck...
Download or read book The Psychology of Gender written by Vicki S. Helgeson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the nature of gender and the development of gender roles. It focuses on women's and men's communication and interaction styles, and provides an overview of sex differences in health and theories as to their origins .
Download or read book Parched written by Georgia Clark and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sixteen-year-old Tessendra Rockwood's world, natural resources are at an all-time low. Most of the remaining supplies are funneled into Eden, known as the "powerful city of shining abundance," while citizens of the Badlands eat gelatinous gray porridge and drink reddish iron water. Tess was born an Edenite, but after the death of her scientist mother she decides to combat this inequality by joining a rebel group called Kudzu. Together they uncover a shocking government plot to carry out genocide in the Badlands using artifical intelligence. Unofrtunately, Tess has some complicated ties to the project that test her loyalty. Robots, renewable resources, and romance get tangled together as Tess risks her life to bring justice to Eden.
Download or read book Pursuit of Legal Harmony in a Turbulent Europe written by Catherine Barnard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful work brings together the crème de la crème of EU law academics and practitioners in celebration of Eleanor Sharpston, KC. As one of the foremost Advocates General serving the Court of Justice, her opinions shaped various aspects of EU procedural and substantive law. Many of them have quickly become classics (Zambrano, Sturgeon, Miles, Bougnaoui, and Farell II) and they do and will continue to shape EU law now and for decades to come. Her contribution and legacy is expertly assessed over 6 parts spanning: her career; EU constitutional law; fundamental rights and citizenship; litigation; internal market; and external relations. This is a worthy commentary on a truly remarkable legal legacy.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender written by Justine Howe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the intense political scrutiny of Islam and Muslims, which often centres on gendered concerns, The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender is an outstanding reference source to key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into seven parts: Foundational texts in historical and contemporary contexts Sex, sexuality, and gender difference Gendered piety and authority Political and religious displacements Negotiating law, ethics, and normativity Vulnerability, care, and violence in Muslim families Representation, commodification, and popular culture These sections examine key debates and problems, including: feminist and queer approaches to the Qur’an, hadith, Islamic law, and ethics, Sufism, devotional practice, pilgrimage, charity, female religious authority, global politics of feminism, material and consumer culture, masculinity, fertility and the family, sexuality, sexual rights, domestic violence, marriage practices, and gendered representations of Muslims in film and media. The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, Islamic studies, and gender studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, area studies, sociology, anthropology, and history.
Download or read book Enslaved written by Rahila Gupta and published by Portobello Books. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery in Britain did not end with William Wilberforce at the beginning of the nineteenth century. They may be largely invisible to us, but living in our midst are thousands of slaves. Rahila Gupta seeks out five escapees and persuades them to tell us their stories in this compelling book. We meet a pregnant child from Sierra Leone who was locked up in a London house as a domestic slave; a Russian teenager trafficked into prostitution; a Chinese man who lives in fear of the Triads; a religious Somali woman who had to exchange sex for food; and a young Punjabi woman forced into marriage and repeatedly abused by her husband. These are the stories of those who have escaped, through a combination of courage, timing, luck and the humanity of those who helped them. Their testimonies are harrowing but they need to be heard.
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Download or read book The Kh j of Tanzania written by Iqbal Akhtar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity attempts to reconstruct the development of Khōjā religious identity from their arrival to the Swahili coast in the late 18th century until the turn of the 21st century. This multidisciplinary study incorporates Gujarati, Kacchī, Swahili, and Arabic sources to examine the formation of an Afro-Asian Islamic identity (jamatī) from their initial Indic caste identity (jñāti) towards an emergent Near Eastern imaged Islamic nation (ummatī) through four disciplinary approaches: historiography, politics, linguistics, and ethnology. Over the past two centuries, rapid transitions and discontinuities have produced the profound tensions which have resulted from the willful amnesia of their pre-Islamic Indic civilizational past for an ideological and politicized ‘Islamic’ present. This study aims to document, theorize, and engage this theological transformation of modern Khōjā religious identities as expressed through dimensions of power, language, space, and the body.
Download or read book Charade A Scifi Adventure of Discovery written by Alice Sabo and published by Alice Sabo. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Elaan learns about who and what her species can do, the galactic government pressures her for more information on the enemy that they are hiding from. In the chaos of the brand new Iguacan embassy, Elaan must decide which secrets are too dangerous to share. Her people have abilities far beyond what they show to the galaxy. Somewhere beyond the Four Rings lies the territory of the Surentur. Hunter and Trash want to investigate, but they have to find it first. To protect the Iguacans, they need a better understanding of the military might of their age-old enemy. Hunter’s past endangers them all when a woman he’s never met makes revelations about his origins. Old ghosts rise up to distract him at a time when he most needs to focus.
Download or read book Transmutation Box Set written by Alice Sabo and published by Alice Sabo. This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FACADE Aliens, telepathy and political intrigue. A human spy and his horned, alien partner encounter a new species that's been incognito for centuries. They discover a level of psi-skills that borders on magic and endangers the people they love. CHARADE As Elaan learns about who she is and what her species can do, the galactic government pressures her for more information on their enemy. Hunter and Trash want to reconnoiter the enemy’s territory, but they have to find it first. Hunter’s past endangers them all when a woman he’s never met makes revelations about his origins. DILEMMA Tensions rise as Elaan begins a delicate dance between the UCFS’s demands and her people’s needs. An unexpected gift of knowledge leaves her reeling. Hunter has to deal with the new revelations about his origins, the trial and the resulting repercussions, all the while working to keep his family safe. Trash gets a chance to rescue a brother in need and add him to the Embassy’s staff. More Iguacans flood into the Embassy seeking sanctuary. More unusual gifts are discovered. And with every secret learned, Elaan uncovers facts she’d rather stay buried.
Download or read book Negotiating Religion written by François Guesnet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating religious diversity, as well as negotiating different forms and degrees of commitment to religious belief and identity, constitutes a major challenge for all societies. Recent developments such as the ‘de-secularisation’ of the world, the transformation and globalisation of religion and the attacks of September 11 have made religious claims and religious actors much more visible in the public sphere. This volume provides multiple perspectives on the processes through which religious communities create or defend their place in a given society, both in history and in our world today. Offering a critical, cross-disciplinary investigation into processes of negotiating religion and religious diversity, the contributors present new insights on the meaning and substance of negotiation itself. This volume draws on diverse historical, sociological, geographic, legal and political theoretical approaches to take a close look at the religious and political agents involved in such processes as well as the political, social and cultural context in which they take place. Its focus on the European experiences that have shaped not only the history of ‘negotiating religion’ in this region but also around the world, provides new perspectives for critical inquiries into the way in which contemporary societies engage with religion. This study will be of interest to academics, lawyers and scholars in law and religion, sociology, politics and religious history.
Download or read book Muslims and American Popular Culture written by Anne R. Richards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering readers an engaging, accessible, and balanced account of the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States, this important book serves to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam. Unfortunately, American mass media representations of Muslims—whether in news or entertainment—are typically negative and one-dimensional. As a result, Muslims are frequently viewed negatively by those with minimal knowledge of Islam in America. This accessible two-volume work will help readers to construct an accurate framework for understanding the presence and depictions of Muslims in American society. These volumes discuss a uniquely broad array of key topics in American popular culture, including jihad and jihadis; the hejab, veil, and burka; Islamophobia; Oriental despots; Arabs; Muslims in the media; and mosque burnings. Muslims and American Popular Culture offers more than 40 chapters that serve to debunk the overwhelmingly negative associations of Islam in American popular culture and illustrate the tremendous contributions of Muslims to the United States across an extended historical period.
Download or read book The Republic Secularism and Security written by Raphael Cohen-Almagor and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses French cultural policies in the face of what the French government perceives as a challenge to its Republican secular raison d'être. It makes general arguments about France’s changing identity and specific arguments about the burqa and niqab ban. The book further explains how French history shaped the ideology of secularism and of public civil religion, and how colonial legacy, immigration, fear of terrorism, and security needs have led France to adopt the trinity of indivisibilité, sécurité, laïcité while paying homage to the traditional trinity of liberté, égalité, fraternité. The book argues that while this motto of the French Revolution is still symbolically and politically important, its practical significance as it has been translated to policy implementation has been eroded. It shows how the emergence of the new trinity at the expense of the old one is evident when analyzing the debates concerning cultural policies in France in the face of the Islamic garb, the burqa, and the niqab, which are perceived as a challenge to France’s national secular raison d'être. Subsequently, the book raises various important questions, such as: Is the burqa and niqab ban socially just? Does it reasonably balance the preservation of societal values and freedom of conscience? What are the true motives behind the ban? Has the discourse changed in the age of COVID-19, when all people are required to wear a mask in the public space? Therefore, this book is a must-read for students, scholars, and researchers of political science, as well as a general audience interested in a better understanding of French politics, elections, cultural policy, secularism, and identity.
Download or read book Euroconstitutionalism and Its Discontents written by Oliver Gerstenberg and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2018 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the question of social constitutionalism, especially with regard to its role in the contemporary European project. For reasons of history and democracy, Europeans share a deep commitment to social constitutionalism. But in the contemporary European constitutional debate, constitutionalism and social democracy have become antagonists, with the survival of the one seeming to require sacrifice of the other. This book challenges the common view that constitutionalization means de-politicization. It argues that courts can exert a more indirect, creative, and agenda-setting role in the process of an ongoing clarification of the meaning of a right. The CJEU and the ECtHR - as courts beyond the nation state - are able to constructively re-open and re-politicize controversies that may appear settled at the national level in their constitutionalizing jurisprudence. And, crucially, our understanding of shared European constitutional principles is itself subject to revision and reconsideration as we accumulate experiences of dealing with diverse national contexts. By examining the jurisprudence of the CJEU and the ECtHR, the book demonstrates that in domain after domain, ranging from the protection of the vulnerable in the European social market to the guarantee of freedom of conscience, which in Europe emerged after many centuries of religious persecution, both courts can enhance and deepen democracy and thereby encourage the liberal project of constitutionalism beyond the state. Over time, once interpretive answers have become established in practice, courts can then move towards stronger forms of judicial intervention that consolidate best practice. It is this democratic and experimental process which lies at the heart of the distinctive model of contemporary Euroconstitutionalism.
Download or read book His New Jam A New Adult Steamy Musician Romance written by Shannyn Schroeder and published by Shannyn Schroeder. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will their music hit all the right notes? Sydney Peters can’t wait for marching band season to end so she can put away the hated cymbals and focus on drums. She spends as little time on the field as possible. When charming Hunter Reed starts serenading her with his saxophone, she ignores him. She understands the repercussions of falling for a player. Hunter is known for flirting with every woman within the fifty-yard line, but there’s something about Sydney that intrigues him. When her icy exterior defrosts enough to give him a reaction, he’s willing to break his no dating band members rule. Hunter offers Sydney a paying gig with his band in trade for drum lessons, and ignoring his flirtation becomes near impossible, even as she is reminded of past mistakes. Hunter and Sydney begin to make beautiful music together—in more ways than one— but their pasts threaten to destroy their future together. Can Sydney let go of her mistakes and believe Hunter has left behind his old reputation? Novella length - originally published 2015
Download or read book The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories written by Neil Gaiman and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behind the Veil written by Neville Cox and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 2010s, an increasing number of European countries have passed laws that prohibit the wearing of various kinds of Islamic veil in particular circumstances. This insightful book considers the arguments used to justify such laws and analyses the legitimacy of these arguments both generally and in regards to whether such laws can be seen as justified interferences with the rights of women who wish to wear such garments.
