Download or read book The Life of Nazih Zuhdi written by Brooks Barr and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of "the originator, creator, and inventor of the concept of hemodilution and the non-blood prime of the pump oxygenator for open heart surgery ..."--Back cover.

Download or read book A Battle for the Soul of Islam written by M. Zuhdi Jasser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the unsettling social shifts in the wake of 9/11 was the global attention paid to Islam. Here in the United States, we became divided, often sadly along partisan lines, between those who believed every Muslim was a potential threat and those who believed no Muslim could do wrong. For conservative Wisconsin native and former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, these radical times meant facing a new reality as a devout Muslim and a patriot—a certain betrayal within his faith, and a need to answer a question that crossed the minds of even the most sensitive and politically correct: “Can a good Muslim be a good American as well?” Jasser founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) to instill in young American Muslims an appreciation for the distinctively positive impact that this nation’s ideals of liberty have had upon the world. As a nationally recognized expert on Muslim radicalization, he offers non-Muslims a definitive comprehension of the difference between Islam and the spiritual cancer known as Islamism, or political Islam, and how violence and extremism run counter to Islam’s true teachings. As he persuasively argues, until we acknowledge the threat of Islamism in all its forms, the majority of Americans will be gulled into recognizing only the most obvious: terrorism. In A Battle for the Soul of Islam, Jasser embraces both his faith and his country while asking hard questions: * Are American Muslim children learning entitlement as victims, or are they being taught individual responsibility and critical thinking? * Are poisonous conspiracy theories dividing their American identity, or are they gaining exposure to reason, nationalism, and patriotism? * Are Muslims publicly critical of the Islamist movements of the Middle East, or do they remain silent on aspects of religious doctrine that conflict with modernity and universal equality? * Is the American press downplaying the seditious threat of homegrown Islamist radicalism and the influence of Islamists’ propaganda arm on our governmental policies? * Is our culture of political correctness a major obstacle toward long-overdue Muslim reform against Islamism? All these years after 9/11, it’s time for us to understand the true threat of Islamism. It is a Muslim problem that needs a Muslim solution, and A Battle for the Soul of Islam builds a solid, balanced, and imperative must-read foundation for the fight.

Download or read book Egyptscape written by Omar Zuhdi and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egyptscape is a free-wheeling adventure story involving time travel, an out of work Egyptologist, and a government sponsored experiment that opened the door to a long-dead ancient civilization, and the inevitable contamination due to the crossing of time.

Download or read book Ambivalence Adventures in Israel and Palestine written by Jonathan Garfinkel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-08-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With lofty ideals, spectacular ambivalence, and endearing naiveté, Jonathan Garfinkel explores Israel and Palestine by talking to ordinary people. Jonathan Garfinkel can’t make up his mind—not about his girlfriend, or Judaism, or Israel. After hearing about a house in Jerusalem where Jews and Arabs coexist in peace, he decides it’s time to venture there. In Israel, nothing is as he imagined it, and nothing is as he was taught. Garfinkel gives us the people behind the headlines: from secret assignations with Palestinian activists and an uninvited visit at an Arab refugee camp to Passover with Orthodox Jewish friends and finding the truth about the mythic coexistence house, Ambivalence is the provocative, surreal, and often hilarious chronicle of his travels. In this part memoir and part quest, Garfinkel struggles with the growing divisions in a troubled region and with the divide in his soul. “Marvelous. Garfinkel deftly mines what it means to simultaneously belong, disavow, love, and loathe an identity, a culture, and a history.... A must-read.”—David Rakoff

Download or read book 12 31 Las Vegas written by Maelyn Bjork and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dexter MacCandlass, and a team of FBI agents from the Southern California office investigate a suspected terrorist safe house. Mac's specialty: computer technology, Though the hostiles escape, Mac goes in to gather as much information from their computer as possible. The hostiles are then traced to Las Vegas. In that city another raid on their hideout is a disaster. Mac is kidnapped and taken to their safe house, and tortured for information he knows about the terrorists. He is dumped in St. George, Utah, (two hours from Las Vegas) left for dead. Claire Talbot owns a veterinary clinic in St. George. She and a friend Suzanne Freeman, an ME. (She is married to a cop in Las Vegas) rescue Mac and help him to recover. The terrorists plan on mass destruction in Las Vegas. Sometime during the last week in December. It's up to these four plus other law enforcement, to find the terrorists, their targets and stop them.

Download or read book The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature written by Yona Sheffer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature explores and analyses political conflicts between individuals and authority figures, as those conflicts are depicted in thirteen Egyptian novels written from 1957 to the last years of Mubarak's presidency. The book discusses the various reasons that lead an individual or a group of people from all strata of society (common people, intellectuals, and public figures) to confront policemen, senior security officials, and even the heads of the state. It further examines how the conflicts develop and what their outcomes are in the short term as well as in the long term, for both the individuals and the authority figures. In this context, the volume also examines the possibility of standing against an oppressive regime and even overcoming it. This text argues that while the authority figure initially subdues individuals who confront them, their victory is short term. In the long term, their cruelties bring about sown deaths, either by the individuals themselves or by their relatives. Furthermore, large assemblies of people can confront the regime with success. These discoveries, along with other findings presented in the book, remain relevant to the reality in the Middle East and the events leading to the Arab Spring.

Download or read book Wild Thorns written by Salar Khalifeh and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tense modern literary classic, acclaimed Palestinian author Sahar Khalifeh depicts the humiliation, bitter resignation and determined resistance of Palestinians under Israeli military occupation. First published in 1976, Wild Thorns was the first Arab novel to offer a glimpse of everyday life under Israeli occupation. With uncompromising honesty, Khalifeh pleads elegantly for survival in the face of oppression.

Download or read book This Land Is Herland written by Sarah Eppler Janda and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since well before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 secured their right to vote, women in Oklahoma have sought to change and uplift their communities through political activism. This Land Is Herland brings together the stories of thirteen women activists and explores their varied experiences from the territorial period to the present. Organized chronologically, the essays discuss Progressive reformer Kate Barnard, educator and civil rights leader Clara Luper, and Comanche leader and activist LaDonna Harris, as well as lesser-known individuals such as Cherokee historian and educator Rachel Caroline Eaton, entrepreneur and NAACP organizer California M. Taylor, and Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) champion Wanda Jo Peltier Stapleton. Edited by Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin, the collection connects Oklahoma women’s individual and collective endeavors to the larger themes of intersectionality, suffrage, politics, motherhood, and civil rights in the American West and the United States. The historians explore how race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and political power shaped—and were shaped by—these women’s efforts to improve their local, state, and national communities. Underscoring the diversity of women’s experiences, the editors and contributors provide fresh and engaging perspectives on the western roots of gendered activism in Oklahoma. This volume expands and enhances our understanding of the complexities of western women’s history.

Download or read book The Prophet s Pulpit written by Patrick D. Gaffney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-12-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslim preaching has been central in forming public opinion, building grassroots organizations, and developing leadership cadres for the wider Islamist agenda. Based on in-depth field research in Egypt, Patrick Gaffney focuses on the preacher and the sermon as the single most important medium for propounding the message of Islam. He draws on social history, political commentary, and theological sources to reveal the subtle connections between religious rhetoric and political dissent. Many of the sermons discussed were given during the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, and Gaffney attempts to describe this militant movement and to compare it with official Islam. Finally, Gaffney presents examples of the sermons, so readers can better understand the full range of contemporary Islamic expression.

Download or read book Fundamentalism and Intellectuals in Egypt 1973 1993 written by David Sagiv and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the attitude of Egyptian intellectuals towards Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt. They believe that to establish an Islamic state would mean a return to the Middle Ages and that Western values do not necessarily contradict Islam. How far can they influence Egypt's future?

Download or read book Christiaan Barnard written by David Cooper and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scripts of Terror written by Benedict Wilkinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores terrorism as a strategic choice-- one made carefully and deliberately by rational actors. Through an analysis of the terrorist groups of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, this book charts a series of different strategic 'scripts' at play in terrorist behavior, from survival, to efforts in mobilizing a supporter base, through to the grinding attrition of a long terrorist campaign. The theme that runs through all the organizations is the unbridgeable gap between their strategic vision, and what actually unfolds. Regardless of which script terrorists follow, they often fall short of achieving their political ambitions. And yet, despite its frequent failure, the terrorist strategy is returned to time and again-- people continue to join such groups, and to commit mindless acts of violence. Scripts of Terror explores the reasons behind this. It asks why, if terrorism is so rarely successful and so hard to pull off, its approach remains an appealing one. And it examines how terrorists formulate their strategies, and how they envisage achieving their ambitions through violence. Most importantly, it explores why they so often fail.

Download or read book Locusts of Power written by Samuel Dolbee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New environmental history of borders and empire in the Middle East that centers locusts and people in motion from c1858–1939.

Download or read book The Forces written by Zuhdi Sardar and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a time of tremendous upheaval among the planets and the colonies, where death and destruction are the norm. At the center of the storm is A. J. Stoxher, the leader of Arcamia, a man who has turned more aggressive in his old age. He is an experienced commander who has lost his moral values. Stoxher will not allow anyone to stand in the way of his destroying the colonies. Even his relatives are not safe from his carnage. Many of the colonies are under attack and believe they must find a new planet where they can be safe. Their quest for a new home takes millions of light years of travel through space which leads to encounters with negative and unpredictable forces of nature, forces that play havoc on their physical and emotional well being.. The Forces is a science fiction novel written by Zuhdi Sardar.This book outlines the problems and subsequent solutions created by the Intelligent Forces. These same problems the world faces today. The Forces communicates that in order for the world to survive and thrive we must create and act upon positive visions. It is only through the power of loving kindness and compassion that the world will survive.

Download or read book The Challenge of Modernizing Islam written by Christine Douglass-Williams and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire foreign policy and much of the domestic policy of the United States and other Western governments is based on the proposition that the vast majority of Muslims are moderate and peaceful, including those who are emigrating in large numbers to Europe and North America. But as Islamist groups and many mosques radicalize peaceful Muslims and appeal to the teachings of the Koran, Hadith, and Sunnah, it is imperative for moderates and reformists to articulate a vision of Islam and an exegesis of Islamic texts that can withstand the challenge of Islamists and the ulema who have declared the sanctity and immutability of the text. Instead, they must reestablish a firm foundation of Islam that is modernized, genuinely peaceful, tolerant, pluralistic, and compatible with secular governance, the freedom of speech, human rights, and equality. The Challenge of Modernizing Islam is the first major effort to provide that foundation. Veteran journalist Christine Douglass-Williams interviews foremost moderate and reformist Muslims in the Western world. She asks them tough questions about how they deal with problematic Koran passages, how they intend to get their message across to the Muslim world, and more. Their answers are revelatory, even in the ways in which they disagree with one another. Douglass-Williams has captured the Islamic Reformist movement in its full intellectual ferment, laying bare the tensions and triumphs of the Reformers. In the book's second half, she adds a crucial series of searingly honest and illuminating reflections on the challenges the reformers face, the chances they have of succeeding, and the implications of their struggle for the future of the Western world and of all free people. Illuminating, engaging, and thought-provoking, The Challenge of Modernizing Islam is an essential text for understanding the future of the United States and the West, and the implications of Muslim moderates' struggle for the free world.

Download or read book Cross Addressing written by John Charles Hawley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a "cultural studies" approach to the question of what constitutes literary study at the end of the twentieth century, the contributors address identity politics in specific cultural instances.

Download or read book Islamic Movements in Egypt written by Abdelmonem Moneep and published by beido. This book was released on with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of authors who write about the Islamic movement was reluctant to work harder to collect sufficient and accurate information. In fact, most of them do not use any information at all except a few-it was derived from the intelligence agencies, where they have certain motives and often contrary to truth and objectivity. Then, they concocted a bit of information with their overactive imaginations that keep their knowledge from the facts of the Islamic movement. Islamic Movements in Egypt contains a significance information about the origin, ideas and methods of the Islamic movements in Egypt. The book also describes the structures and networks of the Islamic organizations and Islamic movements, both those who use violence actions and those who simply spread their ideas. Based on the author's encounters with the officials and members of the Islamic movement in Egypt for more than 20 years, especially during in the prison, the book provides comprehensive information about the Islamic movement in Egypt directly from the sources of the first hands.