Download or read book Habiba My Habiba written by Bob Danierla and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habiba My Habiba is set against the horror of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. This is a personalized account of a young man who set out to earn money in a distant city in order to get married. But in due course he is distracted from his efforts to earn money and takes up with several loose women. He falls in love with one of them, who has a heart-rending story of her own to tell. These star-crossed lovers, finally having found each other, come face to face with a bleak future exasperated by their lack of money or resources. Even as they struggle with the practical problems of trying to earn a decent living, and traveling to another country for work, they are faced with the ultimate problem, AIDS, which they called simply "the syndrome." It is a tragic Romeo and Juliet story with a modern twist that focuses on this modern scourge.
Download or read book BlackInSchool written by Habiba Cooper Diallo and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand account of systemic anti-Black racism in Canadian schools The prevalence of anti-Black racism and its many faces, from racial profiling to police brutality, in North America is indisputable. How do we stop racist ideas and violence if the very foundation of our society is built upon white supremacy? How do we end systemic racism if the majority do not experience it or question its existence? Do our schools instill children with the ideals of equality and tolerance, or do they reinforce differences and teach children of colour that they don't belong? #BlackInSchool is Habiba Cooper Diallo's high school journal, in which she documents, processes, and resists the systemic racism, microaggressions, stereotypes, and outright racism she experienced in Canada's education system. Powerful and eye-opening, Cooper Diallo illustrates how our schools reinforce rather than erode racism: the handcuffing and frisking of students of colour by police at school, one-dimensional, tokenistic curricula of Black people, and the constant barrage of overt racism from students and staff alike. She shows how systemic racism works, how it alienates and seeks to destroys a child's sense of self. She shows how our institutions work to erase the lived experiences of Black youth and tries to erase Black youth themselves. Cooper Diallo's words will resonate with some, but should shock, appall, and animate a great many more into action towards a society that is truly equitable for all.
Download or read book Marks Behind the Stones written by Habiba N. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original and Inspiring A beautifully written, true-life adventure of a girl who learned English so she could marry Robert Redford. Yet, as a young woman, she sacrificed her heritage, along with the comfort and security of her homeland to achieve the American Dream for herself and her daughter. But can this woman from Bangladesh survive when fate lands her in the Deep South? When tragedy strikes, can she abandon her culture, trade her sari for a pantsuit, and meet the challenges of a job in so-called racist Alabama? When a handsome, blue-eyed doctor shows up in her life 19 years after she gave up on Robert Redford, would her family accept a man from a different religion and culture? Marks Behind the Stones will endear you to the people of the story, make you laugh and cry, capture your heart and break it; but leave you cheering for this one-of-a-kind woman of true grit.
Download or read book You ve Got This Mama A Mother s Guide To Embracing The Chaos And Living An Empowered Life written by Sabrina Greer and published by Golden Brick Road Publishing House Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ve Got This, Mama: A Mother’s Guide To Embracing The Chaos And Living An Empowered Life is a beautiful collection of heartwarming and inspiring stories told by the real mamas who experienced them. Let’s face it, motherhood is the hardest job you’ll ever love, and it is not meant to be braved alone. It takes a village, right? There is no greater comfort than knowing you’re not alone. One, if not many, of these gorgeous souls will provide you with that. We can be your village, and lucky for you, we fit in your diaper bag. This book, much like motherhood, is full of emotion, joy, sadness, excitement, hardships, love, and beautiful chaos. Our authors share their most intimate journeys and reflections with you in hopes to empower and provide you the judgment-free support we all deserve. We will help you up when you’ve fallen, shine a light during those dark times, and fan out your cape for you, Supermom. The mama tribe is here to help you take motherhood by the horns and if nothing else, prove to you, yes indeed, you’ve got this!
Download or read book Black Age written by Habiba Ibrahim and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Black Age argues that age tracks the struggle between the abuses of black exclusion from western humanism, and the reclamation of non-normative black life"--
Download or read book Beautifully Bare Undeniably You written by Shalon Irving and published by Austin MacAuley. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully Bare, Undeniably You is a book about the journey of discovering one's truest self. Following a therapeutic process, the reader is guided along a path to gain a more comprehensive understanding of who they are and the factors that have contributed to their current state of being. Interwoven with powerful song lyrics, each section represents a different, yet interconnected stage along this process. Each section and/or chapter includes the following: a therapeutic or theoretical explanation of the given stage in the process, one or more techniques identified to help reader successfully navigate the process, and at least one vignette that represents a time in the lived experiences of one or both authors, which exemplifies either our struggle or successes during our journey. The vignettes are a raw, exposed, and vulnerable window into the human condition.
Download or read book I Left My Heart Behind written by Johnny Leandros and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have written this book, actually, to, once again, remind everyone what love, romance and even some action and battles people face to survive any obstacles on their way to success and of our two young people in love. There will also be Martial Arts and plenty of action and strive to win in this complicated everyday life, thus, whoever reads this story will never get bored or uninterested while reading the whole story TO THE END. The Music is also written and composed by the author as he is a Music teacher and a Martial Arts teacher. This book is based upon Love, Romance, Action and Suspense as it takes us into Love Triangles, Drugs, Drug lords and Martial Arts scenes. The suspense escalates as it unites also two of the World's most important cultural nations of its historical time. There will also be an attempt on the life of our Martial Arts Hero. It even has some Terrorists trying to capture a whole ship cruiser for their cause and, thus, more action unfolds as our heroes try to regain the cruiser and free it from the Terrorists. The most important fact is the Love, Romance and Strife these two people have to face in order to survive it all.
Download or read book Our Journey to El Dorado written by M.F. Renée and published by The Cultural Story-Weaver. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unexpected encounter changes the lives of two women—both immigrants searching for purpose and a better life. Through their interwoven journey, both will question and embrace their faith. When one is asked to be the Arabic translator for a Moroccan woman newly arrived at a Spanish safe house, she has no idea of the journey upon which she is embarking. Born into privilege, she will come face to face with the ugly, dark side of the world, the suffering so many endure. She will also discover the joy and heartbreak of loving broken women, joining forces with them, fighting back to survive and thrive. Faith will guide their way, faltering at times, returning stronger. Journey along with them in this sometimes heart-wrenching, sometimes soaring memoir of discovery, disappointment, and redemption. Partial proceeds of the book will go to Habiba and the safe house work in Spain. “M.F. Renée is a poet, and this is a beautiful, powerful story. Her passion for the subject and her friend drips off every page. I’m never going to look at strawberries the same way again.” —Lorraine Thomas "A haunting story to remind us of the horrors some live through in this life . . . but also a beautiful story to remind us there is hope and redemption." —Kat Caldwell "While the subject matter is difficult, the story is not. It is a lovely tale of friendship, faith, and the difference even one person can make in the world. Read it, and share it." —Madison Michael
Download or read book A Pot of Soup written by Mairo Muhammad Mudi and published by Exceller Books. This book was released on with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating narrative spanning across pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial eras, we delve into the lives of two remarkable women from different backgrounds and generations. Their story is a tapestry of love and pain, tradition and civilization. We witness the plight of a woman deeply devoted to her husband and family but entangled in conflicts with her in-laws, eventually reaching a breaking point. She embarks on a journey abroad, seeking solace and a fresh start. Fate intervenes when she encounters a mysterious woman, perhaps bound for the same destination, driven by a quest to reunite with her son in England. Their intertwined paths ignite a saga of hope and helplessness, revealing the indomitable spirit of these resilient women.
Download or read book A Tale of Two Slaves written by Abul Anwaar and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-05-28 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fanatics claims that their System, which was revealed centuries ago, suits our modern life. They forget, or ignore, the fact that the system failed to call for freedom for all. This fictional work is based on the author's imagination that the System was infallible, but another force defeated its infallibility. The teacher was faithful in delivering the message, but the other force was so powerful; it handcuffed him."
Download or read book Strands written by Mary Szczepanski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maya is born in the year 2000, at the end of the Piscean Age, a time when the triumphs of technology provide comfort and convenience for the privileged, though many people are still impoverished and oppressed. As an Indigo child, Maya personifies the potential of the human race to move toward physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and social evolution. With an enhanced DNA, she's destined to bring a new energy into the world. As Maya grows, she learns to harness the power of intuition for healing. She can see into a person's soul and find the cause of distress. Using her presence and channeling healing energy, she reconnects people to themselves and their purpose. Even so, she often forgets her connection to the source of all energy and her commitment to help humanity evolve. Maya struggles in a profound paradox: her own fate is intertwined inextricably with the fates of everyone else. She's not alone. Others with new DNA strands have their own gifts and visions of hope. They know intuitively the vast wealth to be discovered in spiritual connections among people. Although they cannot stop the drama of climate change and natural disasters, they establish new political systems based on respect and inclusiveness. One thing is certain: a new human consciousness is slowly evolving.
Download or read book Community based Media Pedagogies written by Bronwen Low and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participatory media is a tool for individual and community education and development, allowing students to express and share their ideas and opinions, and to contribute to the production of the commons. Vital to the storytelling in these community spaces is listening—the listening of project facilitators to participants, of participants to each other, and of the public to the stories that emerge through these projects. Community-based Media Pedagogies examines the role of listening across community media sites to explore its relational qualities and to identify the kinds of teaching and learning that happen in these spaces. Drawing on community media projects and pedagogies across New York, Toronto, and Montreal, this volume documents the stories of racialized and marginalized minority youth and immigrants, and explores which relations and spaces facilitate listening.
Download or read book Ethnographic Fieldwork written by Jan Blommaert and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnographic fieldwork is something which is often presented as mysterious and inexplicable. How do we know certain things after having done fieldwork? Are we sure we know? And what exactly do we know? This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don’t know much about. We start from ignorance and gradually move towards knowledge, on the basis of practices for which we have theoretical and methodological motivations. Jan Blommaert and Dong Jie draw on their own experiences as fieldworkers in explaining the complexities of ethnographic fieldwork as a knowledge trajectory. They do so in an easily accessible way that makes these complexities easier to understand and to handle before, during and after fieldwork.
Download or read book The Urban Shepherd Chasing the American Dream written by Ben Amor and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has come a long way both literally and figuratively from his days as a poor shepherd boy in Tunisia, North Africa, but Ben Amor is a symbol of what can happen when you don't give up and chase the American Dream until it comes true. The successful career man reinvented himself again after a dream in 1983 of children crying because they were dying of starvation. Unable to forget the sound of children crying, he founded Terra-Genesis Inc., a nonprofit agency that began as a way to try to end world hunger through technology. The book tells how a young man's vision and passion lead him to chase the American Dream in spite of many challenges and people calling him "crazy". Ben has his own experience with overcoming the odds, a journey he intimately describes in The Urban Shepherd. He shares his joys-and his sorrows-from humble beginnings working hard to survive in Tunisia, serving in the Tunisian Air Force, and moving to the United States to live. Through sharing his personal journey adjusting to a new culture, toxic relationships, professional and personal setbacks, and balancing school, work, and family life, Ben aims to empower readers to chase and reach the American Dream. Chasing the American Dream...the Story of a Shepherd Boy The Urban Shepherd is a biographical self-help book that shows how a young poor shepherd boy followed his desire to find the American Dream. Staying perseverant in pursuit of a dream can be challenging, especially when one starts out with meager resources, lack of experience, and a continuous barrage of personal and professional setbacks. The Urban Shepherd takes you on an engaging journey through the souks of Tunisia, North Africa, to the bustle of the San Antonio, Texas, with its Alamo and Riverwalk. While the book reads like a mosaic pieced by countless aspects of life, relationships, and professional growth, its purpose is clear-to empower readers to chase and actualize their dreams and find self-fulfillment. The book shows that what is important is not where you start but where you end up. The author was born in Tunisia as a boy of humble stature, raised on farmland. As a Tunisian Muslim, he decided to join the air force and then moved to the United Sates to pursue the American Dream. The dream did not come easily, but eventually, it did come. The author cites bits of advice from notable authors such as T. Harv Eker, Elizabeth Steger, and Don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements. Ben's approach is both instructional and personal as he mentions works that he gained inspiration from.
Download or read book Sunrise with Noor written by Halima Adam and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunrise with Noor is a story about Ahmed who is on a journey to discover himself. Growing up in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, Ahmed had a hard time accepting his sister's role as the breadwinner. Feeling incompetent and unable to be the "man of his family", Ahmed leaves Afghanistan abandoning his family and making his travels to Kashmir to join the army. Ahmed believes that the soldiers are good men. Ahmed's experience takes a toll, making it hard for him to believe he is becoming a good person. Sunrise with Noor is a sequel to Sunset Through Grey Eyes. Read to discover Ahmed's journey to Kashmir.
Download or read book Streetwise written by Mohamed Choukri and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his early twenties Choukri takes the momentous decision to learn to read and write, and joins a children's class at the local state school in Tangier. When not at school he hangs out in cafés, drinking and smoking kif. Some nights he sleeps in a doss-house, but mostly he sleeps in mosques or on the street. He befriends many 'lowlife' characters, while the café habitués help him with his Arabic and the local prostitutes take him home, providing some human solace. Choukri's determination to educate himself, and his compassion for those with whom he shares his life on the streets is heartfelt and inspirational. 'As a writer, he is in an enviable position, though he paid a high price for it in suffering.' -- Paul Bowles 'Choukri's irrepressible, ultimately indomitable spirit is most touching and human.' -- The Independent 'Choukri is a powerful teller of stories. His telling of oppression is vivid and remarkable.' -- Morning Star
Download or read book Where Dreams Coincide written by Diann Carroll and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the courtyard of her fathers harem, Amira forebodingly awaits the arrival of her betrothed, Abu Aneza, an old sheikh of a desert tribe pivotal to the safe passage of her fathers caravans through the desert. On this fateful day, Amira is saved from the dreaded marriage by the surreptitious arrival of a man from the Divan of the Sun, as predicted by her recently deceased mother in a dream. Richard, the stranger who is no stranger, echoes up from her dream, unleashing the dormant supernatural powers passed down to her through the centuries via her grandfather, Farudd-Din Attar, and the mystical Simurgh of Persian lore. Amira travels with Richard on the Ship of Souls from the Persian Gulf to the Land of Hind seeking liberation and reunion. Through her clairvoyant powers, she flies on the wings of the Simurghthat timeless being from beyond the world sea that flaps its wings and manifests many from the One. Sailing on the Sea of all Being she travelsnonlinearlyin multiple dimensions shifting her point of view as she seamlessly transforms from one facet of Being to the next, beyond time Where Dreams Coincide.
