Download or read book Souk written by Nadia Zerouali and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The souk, or marketplace, is the beating heart of Arabic cuisine and culture—this book celebrates the generosity of this rich food culture. The word mezze stems from the Arabic term tamazzaza—a single word that broadly embraces the idea of enjoying small portions of food and taking the time to indulge one’s taste buds, eyes, and nose by exposing them to a wide range of aromas and flavors. A complete mezze table is formed when many of these warm and cold dishes are presented together, as a meal in itself. The mezze culture originated in the Ottoman Empire and can be found in the whole of the Levantine Mediterranean: from Greece and Cyprus to Turkey, Palestine, Jordan, and Syria. But it is Lebanon, the cultural home of the authors, which has really developed and is famed for the richest, most extensive, and most sophisticated mezze culture. In addition to the 100 classic and contemporary mezze recipes, Souk also delves into the personal stories and reminiscences about this food tradition and the families and friends the authors meet along the way. Eating mezze is a social event, wrapped in warmth and coziness, and spiced with waves of laughter and noisy chatter.
Download or read book Voices of Resistance written by Alison Baker and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing new information on women's participation in the Moroccan independence movement, Voices of Resistance offers a rare opportunity to hear Moroccan women speak freely about their personal lives. Each woman is introduced in terms of her family background and personal style, and the interviews are given texture and context by references to Moroccan history and popular culture, including contemporary songs and poems. These women are storytellers, and they lived through stirring times. Their active struggle against French colonialism also challenged and redefined traditional Moroccan ideas about women's roles in society. The narratives reconstruct the little-known history of Moroccan feminism and nationalism, and probe the lives of a remarkable group of Islamic women whose voices have never been heard until now.
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 The Women of the Souk written by Michael Pearce and published by Severn House Large Print. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cairo, 1913. When schoolgirl Marie Kewfik is kidnapped, snatched away as she strolled through the bustling bazaars of the Souk, the Khedive insists that the Mamur Zapt takes charge of the negotiations for her safe return. But, as the Mamur is to discover, there is more to this kidnapping than meets the eye.
Download or read book Hope for a Womans Soul written by Inspirio Staff and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hope for a Woman's Soul, " the newest in a line of gift books from Women of Faith, pours God's love into women's hearts. Encouraging Scripture verses from the NIV are combined with devotional thoughts from such bestselling authors as Barbara Johnson, Patsy Clairmont, Sheila Walsh, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll and Thelma Wells. This lovely book with colorful photos throughout is packaged in a padded cover with gilded pages and a ribbon marker.
Download or read book Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet written by Mineke Schipper and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study the author analyses similarities, differences and contradictions in the cultural norms about gender expressed in proverbs she has found in oral and written sources from over 150 countries. Grouping the proverbs into categories as the female body, love, sex, childbirth and the female power, the author examines shared patterns in ideas about women and how men see them.
Download or read book Even the Dead Are Coming written by Michael Robbins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-08-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987 Mike Robbins, a 30-year-old London journalist, decided on a change of lifestyle and signed up for two years as an overseas volunteer. Some weeks later he found himself standing with his luggage in the middle of a featureless baked-earth plain in Eastern Sudan. It was over 100 deg F in the shade. And there was no shade. This is Robbins's account of the two years that followed, working with the Sudan Government in the last months of a failed democratic experiment, as the country coped with hundreds of thousands of refugees in the aftermath of the 1980s famine. But it is also a personal account of life as a development volunteer in a surprising, sometimes inspiring, country.
Download or read book The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader written by Gregory Marinic and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader expands our understanding of urbanism, interiority, and publicness from a global perspective across time and cultures. From ancient origins to speculative futures, this book explores the rich complexities of interior urbanism as an interstitial socio-spatial condition. Employing an interdisciplinary lens, it examines the intersectional characteristics that define interior urbanism. Fifty chapters investigate the topic in relation to architecture, planning, urban design, interior architecture, interior design, archaeology, engineering, sociology, psychology, and geography. Individual essays reveal the historical, typological, and morphological origins of interior urbanism, as well as its diverse scales, occupancies, and atmospheres. The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader will appeal to scholars, practitioners, students, and enthusiasts of urbanism, architecture, planning, interiors, and the social sciences.
Download or read book The Nine Horizons written by Mike Robbins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987 Mike Robbins, a young journalist in London, felt restless and decided to travel. He never really stopped. In the quarter century that followed he lived and worked in countries as diverse as the world itself. The pieces in this book take the reader from rural Sudan to the headwaters of the Amazon, from Semana Santa in Quito to Buddhist temples in the Himalayas, across Bhutan on a motorbike, into the ancient souk of Aleppo, to the steppes of Central Asia and finally to New York. Along the way there is Ethiopian gin, a sex tourist in Moscow, Kyrgyz women in cycling pants, a surreal toilet in Brussels, echoes of slavery in Brazil, and an encounter with Helen of Troy in Third Avenue. The Nine Horizons is an anarchic snapshot of a troubled but beautiful world in transition.
Download or read book The Samaritan s Secret written by Matt Rees and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A member of the tiny but ancient Samaritan community has been murdered. The dead man had controlled millions of dollars of government money. If the World Bank cannot locate it, all aid money to the Palestinians will be cut off. Omar Yussef must solve the murder and find the money, or all Palestinians will suffer.
Download or read book Gulf States written by and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the Arabian Gulf lie hot, hazy lands of modern myth and ancient legend, where skyscrapers sparkle on the edge of the desert, where mud-brick fortresses crumble into the sand. Beyond the hasty, square-cut cities of glass and concrete, labyrinthine villages, palm-shaded oases and lazy beaches await discovery. This Way the Gulf States brushes aside the veil to reveal the culture, the history and mysteries of these intriguing countries.
Download or read book No Way Home written by M S James and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kate Thomas travels to Saudi Arabia with her young son and daughter to join her architect husband who is already working there, she lands a teaching post in a dysfunctional private school for Muslim expatriates. Daily life in Saudi proves to be a steep learning curve where dangers appear from unforeseen quarters...
Download or read book The Hidden Light of Objects written by Mai Al-Nakib and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore. A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a barometer of her country's growing hostility towards the West. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife. The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived – adolescent love, the fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib's luminous stories unveil the lives of ordinary people – and the power of objects to hold extraordinary memories.
Download or read book Mediterraneans written by Julia A. Clancy-Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mediterraneans' offers an account of migration from Southern Europe to North Africa during the 19th century, especially to what became Tunisia.
Download or read book The Scent Trail written by Celia Lyttelton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyttelton?s passion for fragrance inspired her to have a signature perfume created just for her?and then to embark on the ultimate olfactory odyssey. Armed with a list of ingredients, she tracked down each component of her scent, tracing its origins, history, and culture. From the iris fields of Tuscany to the vetivert distilleries of India, from the nutmeg plantations of Sri Lanka to the shores of the Arabian Sea, Celia gives readers a glimpse into the world of scent that few people have ever experienced, providing delicious details on its place in history?for example, how Casanova added small amounts of ambergris to chocolate mousses to aid his amorous adventures, and how Charles Dickens carried a monogrammed pocket nutmeg grater in his waist coat at a time when nutmeg was used to ward off evil and to spice rum.
Download or read book Fes and the Middle Atlas Rough Guides Snapshot Morocco includes Meknes Volubilis Midelt the Cascades d Ouzoud Sefrou and Azrou written by Rough Guides and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide Snapshot to Fes and the Middle Atlas is the ultimate travel guide to this alluring part of Morocco. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from the souks of Meknes to the tanneries of Fes and the Cirque du Jaffer to the Cascades d'Ouzoud. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Morocco, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around Morocco, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, accommodation and shopping. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to Morocco. Full coverage: Meknes, Volubilis, Moulay Idriss, Fes, The Middle Atlas, Sefrou, Imouzzer du Kandar, Ifrane, Azrou, Aïn Leuh, Oum er Rbia sources, Aguelmane Azigza, Midelt, the Cirque Jaffar, Khenifra, El Ksiba, Arhbala, Kasba Tadla, Beni Mellal, the Cascades d'Ouzoud, Demnate. (Equivalent printed page extent 141 pages).
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Morocco Travel Guide eBook written by Rough Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Morocco guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed practical information on preparing for a trip and what to do on the ground. This Morocco guidebook covers: Tangier, Tetouan and the northwest, The Mediterranean coast and the Rif, Fez, Meknes and the Middle Atlas, The Atlantic coast: Rabat to Essaouira, Marrakesh, The High Atlas, The southern oases routes, Agadir, the Souss and Anti-Atlas, The Tarfaya Strip and Western Sahara. Inside this Morocco travel book, you’ll find: A wide range of sights – Rough Guides experts have hand-picked places for travellers with different needs and desires: off-the-beaten-track adventures, family activities or chilled-out breaks Itinerary examples – created for different time frames or types of trip Practical information – how to get to Morocco, all about public transport, food and drink, shopping, travelling with children, sports and outdoor activities, tips for travellers with disabilities and more Author picks and things not to miss in Morocco – Camel trekking, Chefchaouen 'Blue City', trekking in the Atlas Mountains, Koutoubia Mosque, Marrakesh, Cascades d'Ouzoud, Rabat, Tin mal Mosque, Bab Oudaya, Todra Gorge, Telouet, Sidi Ifni, Tangier, Essaouira, Fez, Volubilis & Moulay Idriss, Casablanca Insider recommendations – tips on how to beat the crowds, save time and money, and find the best local spots When to go to Morocco – high season, low season, climate information and festivals Where to go – a clear introduction to Morocco with key places and a handy overview Extensive coverage of regions, places and experiences – regional highlights, sights and places for different types of travellers, with experiences matching different needs Places to eat, drink and stay – hand-picked restaurants, cafes, bars and hotels Practical info at each site – hours of operation, websites, transit tips, charges Colour-coded mapping – with keys and legends listing sites categorised as highlights, eating, accommodation, shopping, drinking and nightlife Background information for connoisseurs – history, culture, art, architecture, film, books, religion, diversity Fully updated post-COVID-19 The guide provides a comprehensive and rich selection of places to see and things to do in Morocco, as well as great planning tools. It’s the perfect companion, both ahead of your trip and on the ground.
