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The Land of Zeekola
by Amr Abdelhamid
Can you imagine entering a crypt to find yourself in a strange land whose people deal with intelligence units? You work and do not take your wage in cash, but rather your intelligence units increase, and if you buy something, they decrease. It is the wondrous land of Zeekola, where there is no place for lazy ones. Whoever runs out of units will be killed. A strange adventure in which the novel takes us with its hero Khaled, who suddenly finds himself there to get to know that country. We live with its people, witness his meeting with the doctor Aseel, and go with him on a path he never choose.
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Lifestyle, Sport & LeisureSeptember 2023Pre and Probiotics for Poultry Gut Health
by Helen Masey O'Neill, Emily Burton, Dawn Scholey
Poultry are the most widely used animal protein source in the world: billions of meat birds are produced globally each year, using 360 million tonnes of feed. Within Europe, over 30,000 companies involved in the production of poultry create an annual turnover of €107 billion. However, maintaining the sustainability of the industry as it moves towards antibiotic-free production is one of the key challenges. Starting with an overview of antibiotics as growth promoters and the challenges faced as the industry moves away from their use, this book then thoroughly considers the potential of pre and probiotic additives in poultry gut health. The book: - Includes thorough definitions of additives in the pre and probiotic space and examples of how they work; - Addresses how to test pre and probiotics and other similar additives, and how they interact with other products, with learning from both poultry and allied sectors; - Combines authors from both academic and industry backgrounds on all chapters, to ensure coverage is balanced, robust and commercially relevant. Based on the renowned World Poultry Science Association UK Branch Poultry Science Symposium 2022, this book provides a thorough and valuable contribution to the field for all involved with the nutrition and production of poultry.
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January 2013The Madmen of Bethlehem
by Osama Alaysa
Adopting the story-within-a-story structure of Arabian Nights, author Osama Alaysa weaves together a collection of stories portraying centuries of oppression endured by the Palestinian people. This remarkable novel eloquently brings together fictional characters alongside real-life historical figures in a complex portrayal of Bethlehem and the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank. The common thread connecting each tale is madness, in all its manifestations. Psychological madness, in the sense of clinical mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, finds expression alongside acts of social and political madness. Together, these accounts of individuals and communities provide a gateway into the histories of the city of Bethlehem and Palestine. They paint a picture of the centuries of political oppression that the Palestinian people have endured, from the days of the Ottoman Empire to the years following the Oslo Accords, and all the way to 2012 (when the novel was written). The novel is divided into three sections, each containing multiple narratives. The first section, “The Book of a Genesis,” describes the physical spaces and origins of Bethlehem and Dheisheh Refugee Camp. These stories span the 19th and 20th centuries, transitioning smoothly from one tale to another to offer an intricate interpretation of the identity of these places. The second section, “The Book of the People Without a Book”, follows parallel narratives of the lives of the patients in a psychiatric hospital in Bethlehem, the mad men and women roaming the streets of the city, and those imprisoned by the Israeli authorities. All suffer abuse, but they also reaffirm their humanity through the relationships, romantic and otherwise, that they form. The third and final section, “An Ephemeral Book,” follows individuals—Palestinian and non-Palestinian—who are afflicted by madness following the Oslo Accords in 1993. These stories give voice to the perspectives of the long-marginalized Palestinian population, narrating the loss of land and the accompanying loss of sanity in the decades of despair and violence that followed the Nakba, the 1948 eviction of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes. The novel’s mad characters—politicians, presidents, doctors, intellectuals, ordinary people and, yes, Dheisheh and Bethlehem themselves—burst out of their narrative threads, flowing from one story into the next. Alaysa’s crisp, lucid prose and deft storytelling chart a clear path through the chaos with dark humor and wit. The result is an important contribution to fiction on the Palestinian crisis that approaches the Palestinians, madness, and Palestinian spaces with compassion and depth.
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Children's & YAJanuary 2015Hatless
by Lateefa Buti / Illustrated by Doha Al Khteeb
Kuwaiti children’s book author Lateefa Buti’s well-crafted and beautifully illustrated children’s book, Hatless, encourages children (ages 6-9) to think independently and challenge rigid traditions and fixed rituals with innovation and creativity. The main character is a young girl named Hatless who lives in the City of Hats. Here, all of the people are born with hats that cover their heads and faces. The world inside of their hats is dark, silent, and odorless. Hatless feels trapped underneath her own hat. She wants to take off her hat, but she is afraid, until she realizes that whatever frightening things exist in the world around her are there whether or not she takes off her hat to see them. So Hatless removes her hat. As Hatless takes in the beauty of her surroundings, she cannot help but talk about what she sees, hears, and smells. The other inhabitants of the city ostracize her because she has become different from them. It is not long before they ask her to leave the City of Hats. Rather than giving up or getting angry, Hatless feels sad for her friends and neighbors who are afraid to experience the world outside of their hats. She comes up with an ingenious solution: if given another chance, she will wear a hat as long it is one she makes herself. The people of the City of Hats agree, so Hatless weaves a hat that covers her head and face but does not prevent her from seeing the outside world. She offers to loan the hat to the other inhabitants of the city. One by one, they try it on and are enchanted by the beautiful world around them. Since then, no child has been born wearing a hat. The people celebrate by tossing their old hats in the air. By bravely embracing these values, Hatless improves her own life and the lives of her fellow citizens. Buti’s language is eloquent and clear. She strikes a skilled narrative balance between revealing Hatless’s inner thoughts and letting the story unfold through her interactions with other characters. Careful descriptions are accompanied by beautiful illustrations that reward multiple readings of the book.
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In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat
by Iman Mersal
‘In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat’ is a book that traces the life of an unknown Egyptian writer who died in 1963, four years before the release of her only novel. The book does not follow a traditional style to present the biography of Al-Zayyat, or to restore consideration for a writer who was denied her rights. Mersal refuses to present a single story as if it is the truth and refuses to speak on behalf of the heroine or deal with her as a victim, but rather takes us on a journey to search for the individuality that is often marginalised in Arab societies. The book searches for a young woman whose family burned all her personal documents, including the draft of her second novel, and was completely absent in the collective archives. The narration derives its uniqueness from its ability to combine different literary genres such as fictional narration, academic research, investigation, readings, interviews, fiction, and fragments of the autobiography of the author of the novel. The book deals with the differences between the individuality of Enayat, who was born into an aristocratic family, graduated from a German school and wrote her narration during the domination of the speeches of the Nasserism period, and that of Mersal, a middle-class woman who formed her consciousness in the 1990s and achieved some of what Enayat dreamed of achieving but remained haunted by her tragedy. The book deals with important political, social and cultural issues, as we read the history of psychiatry in modern Egypt through the pills that Enayat swallowed to end her life on 3 January 1963, while her divorce summarises the continuing suffering of women with the Personal Status Law. We also see how the disappearance of a small square from her neighbourhood reveals the relationship between modernity and bureaucracy, and how the geography of Cairo changes, obliterated as the result of changes in political regimes. In the library of the German Archaeological Institute, where Enayat worked, we find an unwritten history of World War II and, in her unpublished second novel, we see unknown stories of German scientists fleeing Nazism to Cairo. We also see how Enayat’s neglected tomb reveals the life story of her great-grandfather, Ahmed Rashid Pasha, and the disasters buried in the genealogy tree.
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Children's & YAJanuary 2011The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air
by Abdo Wazen
In his first YA novel, cultural journalist and author Abdo Wazen writes about a blind teenager in Lebanon who finds strength and friendship among an unlikely group. Growing up in a small Lebanese village, Bassim’s blindness limits his engagement with the materials taught in his schools. Despite his family’s love and support, his opportunities seem limited. So at thirteen years old, Bassim leaves his village to join the Institute for the Blind in a Beirut suburb. There, he comes alive. He learns Braille and discovers talents he didn’t know he had. Bassim is empowered by his newfound abilities to read and write. Thanks to his newly developed self-confidence, Bassim decides to take a risk and submit a short story to a competition sponsored by the Ministry of Education. After winning the competition, he is hired to work at the Institute for the Blind. At the Institute, Bassim, a Sunni Muslim, forms a strong friendship with George, a Christian. Cooperation and collective support are central to the success of each student at the Institute, a principle that overcomes religious differences. In the book, the Institute comes to symbolize the positive changes that tolerance can bring to the country and society at large. The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air is also a book about Lebanon and its treatment of people with disabilities. It offers insight into the vital role of strong family support in individual success, the internal functioning of institutions like the Institute, as well as the unique religious and cultural environment of Beirut. Wazen’s lucid language and the linear structure he employs result in a coherent and easy-to-read narrative. The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air is an important contribution to a literature in which people with disabilities are underrepresented. In addition to offering a story of empowerment and friendship, this book also aims to educate readers about people with disabilities and shed light on the indispensable roles played by institutions like the Institute.
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Picture booksThe Lilac Girl
by Ibtisam Barakat (author), Sinan Hallak (illustrator)
Inspired by the life story of Palestinian artist, Tamam Al-Akhal, The Lilac Girl is the sixth book for younger readers by award-winning author, Ibtisam Barakat. The Lilac Girl is a beautifully illustrated short story relating the departure of Palestinian artist and educator, Tamam Al-Akhal, from her homeland, Jaffa. It portrays Tamam as a young girl who dreams about returning to her home, which she has been away from for 70 years, since the Palestinian exodus. Tamam discovers that she is talented in drawing, so she uses her imagination to draw her house in her mind. She decides one night to visit it, only to find another girl there, who won’t allow her inside and shuts the door in her face. Engulfed in sadness, Tamam sits outside and starts drawing her house on a piece of paper. As she does so, she notices that the colors of her house have escaped and followed her; the girl attempts to return the colors but in vain. Soon the house becomes pale and dull, like the nondescript hues of bare trees in the winter. Upon Tamam’s departure, she leaves the entire place drenched in the color of lilac. As a children’s story, The Lilac Girl works on multiple levels, educating with its heart-rending narrative but without preaching, accurately expressing the way Palestinians must have felt by not being allowed to return to their homeland. As the story’s central character, Tamam succeeds on certain levels in defeating the occupying forces and intruders through her yearning, which is made manifest through the power of imaginary artistic expression. In her mind she draws and paints a picture of hope, with colors escaping the physical realm of her former family abode, showing that they belong, not to the invaders, but the rightful occupiers of that dwelling. Far from being the only person to have lost their home and endured tremendous suffering, Tamam’s plight is representative of millions of people both then and now, emphasizing the notion that memories of our homeland live with us for eternity, no matter how far we are from them in a physical sense. The yearning to return home never subsides, never lessens with the passing of time but, with artistic expression, it is possible to find freedom and create beauty out of pain.
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Children's & YAThe Dinoraf
by Hessa Al Muhairi
An egg has hatched, and what comes out of it? A chicken? No. A turtle? No. It’s a dinosaur. But where is his family? The little dinosaur searches the animal kingdom for someone who looks like him and settles on the giraffe. In this picture book by educator and author Hessa Al Muhairi, with illustrations by Sura Ghazwan, a dinosaur sets out in search of animals like him. He finds plenty of animals, but none that look the same...until he meets the giraffe. This story explores identity and belonging and teaches children about accepting differences in carefully crafted language.
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Fiction2022The End of the Desert
by Said Khatibi
On a nice fall day of 1988, Zakiya Zaghwani was found lying dead at the edge of the desert, giving way to a quest to discover the circumstances surrounding her death. While looking for whoever was involved in the death of the young singer, nearby residents discover bit by bit their involvement in many things other than the crime itself. ///The story takes place in a town near the desert. And as with Khatibi’s previous novels, this one is also marked by a tight plot, revolving around the murder of a singer who works in a hotel. This sets off a series of complex investigations that defy easy conclusions and invite doubt about the involvement of more than one character. /// Through the narrators of the novel, who also happen to be its protagonists, the author delves into the history of colonialism and the Algerian War of Independence and its successors, describing the circumstances of the story whose events unfold throughout the month. As such, the characters suspected of killing the singer are not only accused of a criminal offense, but are also concerned, as it appears, with the great legacy that the War of Independence left, from different aspects.///The novel looks back at a critical period in the modern history of Algeria that witnessed the largest socio-political crisis following its independence in 1988. While the story avoids the immediate circumstances of the war, it rather invokes the events leading up to it and tracks its impact on the social life, while capturing the daily life of vulnerable and marginalized groups. /// Nonetheless, those residents’ vulnerability does not necessarily mean they are innocent. As it appears, they are all involved in a crime that is laden with symbolism and hints at the status of women in a society shackled by a heavy legacy of a violent, wounded masculinity. This approach to addressing social issues reflects a longing to break loose from the stereotypical discourse that sets heroism in a pre-defined mold and reduces the truth to only one of its dimensions.
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MedicineSeptember 2018Animal Welfare in a Changing World
by Edited by Andrew Butterworth
Contemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range from the welfare of hunted animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability, and the effects of climate and environmental change. The book explores the effects of fences on wild animals and human impacts on carrion animals; the impacts of tourism on animal welfare; philosophical questions about speciesism; and the quality and quantity of animal lives. The welfare impacts of human-animal interactions are explored, including human impacts on marine mammals, fish, wildlife, and companion and farm animals. Animal Welfare in a Changing World provides: Concise, opinion-based views on important issues in animal welfare by world experts and key opinion leaders. Pieces based on experience, which balance evidence-based approaches and the welfare impacts of direct engagement through training, campaigning and education. A wide-ranging collection of examples and descriptions of animal welfare topics which outline dilemmas in the real world, that are sometimes challenging, and not always comfortable reading. This is a 'must-read' book for animal and veterinary scientists, ethologists, policy and opinion leaders, NGOs, conservation biologists and anyone who feels passionately about the welfare of animals
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Crescent of Sovereignty
Islam and Ordering of the World
by Amr AbdulAziz
This book aims at articulating and discussing the basics and essentials of the Islamic Theory of International Relations (ITIR) and its principals, and elucidating its grandeur by detecting how it administrates the global political sphere in Islam, and unveiling its explanatory motives behind the political actions, which are religious and promotive. ITIR is a masterpiece paradigm, and has an unrivaled logic that no other foreign independent theory has ever assembled. Although it may show some common similarities with one aspect in specific contemporary theory, however, it swiftly shows a distinct dissent in many others. Further, the magnitude of disagreement is usually much higher than any concordance. In conclusion, this is a research in the richness of Islam, as an explanatory and constructor of international political system, and its uniqueness as a pilot and interpreter theory.
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January Revolution: Critic Vision
by Amr Abdelrahman, Amr Adly, Mahmoud Hadhood and Aly El-Raggal
This book looks through the question of “the historical horizon of January Revolution”; namely it follows the roots and the characteristics of the main and active powers in the revolution; studying their histories before 2011 to find out the limits of their potentials and historical horizon. The book supposes that the revolution did not happen by coincidence. It has not evoluted and progressed, then retreated and defeated at random. This is understood and self-evident. But in addition to, and based on, this axiom; the four authors present what can be described as the DNA profiling of the main actors in January, the DNA profiling that reveals the genetic trait, namely defines the nature and limits of options. For example, the new capitalism that emerged in the late 1970s and participated in the governance one way or another under the umbrella of the project of power inheritance to Gamal Mubarak, whose spearhead was the Committee of Policies in the National Democratic Party – this capitalism rushed to put forth its demands and try to impose them. So, it merged in this context, due to the nature of the Egyptian political sphere, in a project of power inheritance with an authoritarian nature. This exactly what played a critical role in defining its situations and options after January. Another example is the Muslim Brothers, who waged the turbulence of the revolution carrying a long history of “liability to otherness”, namely to isolation and marginalization as “others” that can be depicted -as said in a song- “they are people and we are people”. Those isolated Brothers, as opposite to the pressing powers to isolate them, entered in a mutual trajectory of exclusion and disengagement that ended with the catastrophic results we have witnessed. That was also the case with the civil powers that introspected practices and crystalized a discourse of “wholly national” nature that included in its combination what allowed later the explosion of “statehood” that defined the period after June 2013. At all these levels and fields, the book reveals the roots of January’s victories and defeats in the history previous to 2011, not with the logic of “historical determinism” but with the logic of potentials whose limits can be understood only through the deconstruction of the context and the history.
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Paediatric medicineNovember 2016Investing in Young Children Globally for Peaceful Societies
Proceedings of a Joint Workshop
by Jocelyn Widmer, Rapporteur; Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally; Board on Global Health; Board on Children, Youth, and Families; Health and Medicine Division; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
With the worst human refugee crisis since World War II as the backdrop, from March 16 through March 18, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in partnership with UNICEF and the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Center for Inter-religious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID), held a workshop in Amman, Jordan, to explore topics related to investing in young children for peaceful societies. Over the course of the workshop, researchers, policy makers, program practitioners, funders, youth, and other experts came together to understand the effects of conflict and violence on children, women, and youth across areas of health, education, nutrition, social protection, and other domains. The goal of the workshop was to continue to fill in gaps in knowledge and explore opportunities for discourse through a process of highlighting the science and practice. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
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Humanities & Social SciencesWords of Wisdom and Lessons
by Hassan Abdullah Al Noman
Hassan Abdullah Al Noman joined elementary education in Quran schools, and studied reading, writing, math, chapters from the Quran, some prophetic traditions (Hadith), and texts from literature, at Al Eslah School, then at Al Qasimiyah School. He worked in the English Trucial Oman Scouts in 1952 and gained promotion up to the rank of Sergeant Major, then Registrar. In 1954, he was chosen to study at the Police Academy in Jordan, until he obtained a military certificate from Jordan. In 1961, he worked as a merchant, traveling with his goods, selling them to travelers onboard ships between Dubai, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, and India. In 1965, he worked as a commercial manager at the Eastern Bank of Standard Chartered for five years. In 1972, he established the Amiri Guard with Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Qasimi until mid-1976, when the Guard was disbanded. In 1980, he was appointed as the First Deputy of Sharjah Chamber of Commerce. In 1990, he headed the Chamber of Commerce and remained in this position for seven years. During that period, he was the President of the Federation of UAE Chambers of Commerce and Industry for five years, and President of the Federation of GCC Chambers for two years
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The Egyptian Economy in the 21st Century
by Wael Gamal, Sameh Naguib, Mohamed Gad, Mohamed Moslem, Ashraf Hussein, Salma Hussein, Heba Khalil, Amr Adly, Mohamed Sultan and Dina Makram Ebeid
The dominant discourse in economy has a double danger. In addition to its expression, as all dominant discourses, of the interests of prevailing social powers, excluding intentionally the other insights and alternatives; it presents itself, in this case specifically, as an unquestionable technique scientific discourse; because it is based on disciplined accounts and undoubtable mathematical equations. This exactly what this book aspires to expose. For the dominant economic discourse here and everywhere is an ideological discourse saturated with social prejudices, though its coverage with supposed sacristy of numbers and mathematical equations. Along ten chapters, the book presents an analytical panorama of the Egyptian economy; from the income distribution to the international compactivity, from the investment and formation of new capitalists of favouritism to the distribution of income and wealth, from trade to debts, and from conditions of clerks to the monetary policy. All that comes out of a premise that sees the economic process not as a technical subject only for experts, but as a subject of social conflict where property patterns are linked to the patterns of distributing profits and wealth, where policies are laid out of interests, and where alternatives are offered as an expression of ambitions to change not only policies, but the structures of property and the patterns of administration.
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Aquaculture & fish-farming: practice & techniquesJune 2021Innovations in Fishing and Fish Processing Technologies
by Ravishankar C.N., Mohanthy, Kumar Amulya,Sajeev M.V. & Murugadas V.
The present book Innovations in Fisheries and Fish Processing Technologies covers the entire gamut of topics in the field of fishing technology. The book starts with, history, genetic resources m information on mariculture, ornamentals fishes, sustainable fishing, designing of new fishing gears and trawlers, storage and value addition, Packaging, nutraceuticals, utilization of waste material from fishes, fish products etc.
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Religion & beliefsAl-Kafi Ossoul vol 2
by Mohammad Ibn-e Yaghoub Al-Kulayni
Al-Kafi Ossoul is the title of the first of the three sections of the book Al-Kafi Hadith. In this section, hadiths related to Shiite beliefs and the lives of Shiite Imams and some hadiths that speak about the behavior of a Muslim are collected. Al-Kafi Ossoul is the most important source for understanding the beliefs of the Shiites, which has been published many times separately from the original Al-Kafi Book, and numerous translations and commentaries have been written and published on it. The author of the book Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Ya'qub ibn Ishaq Kolini Razi is known as the Trustee of Islam Kolini. He is one of the scholars and narrators of the period of minor absence. Al-Kafi Ossoul is the title of the first of the three sections of the book Al-Kafi Hadith. In this section, hadiths related to Shiite beliefs and the lives of Shiite Imams and some hadiths that speak about the behaviors of a Muslim are collected (3785 Hadith). In the other two parts of the book, the author deals with jurisprudential narrations and moral sermons. Al-Kafi Ossoul is the most important source for understanding the beliefs of the Shiites, which has been published many times separately from the original Al-Kafi Book, and numerous translations and commentaries have been written and published on it.
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Agriculture & farmingJuly 2019Rainfed Agriculture and Watershed Management
by R.K.Nanwal
The book will cater the need of the students about rainfed agriculture. The chapters of this book have been selected and arranged in such a manner as to lead the students through the entire gamut of rainfed agriculture both theory and practical. It is supported by suitable examples and diagrams. The materials on subject matter is set forth in such a manner and order as to enable them to better understand and follow to a reasonable degree of uniformity and their approach to the problems of rainfed agriculture.
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Agriculture & farmingJune 2017Rainfed Agriculture
by R.K. Nanwal & G.A. Rajanna
The chapters of the book have been selected and arranged in such a manner as to lead the students through the entire gamut of rainfed agriculture supported by suitable examples and diagrams. The topics covered are most relevant in view of growing interests in rainfed agriculture technologies. The focus is on new concept and approaches in dryland and rainfed lands; rainfed farming-introduction, characteristics, distribution and problems; efficient management of rainfed crops; water harvesting and moisture conservation; study of mulches and antitranspirants; principles of intercropping; concept of watershed resource management; drought and its management; soil erosion-definition, nature and extent of erosion; stress physiology; scope of agro-horticultural, agro-forestry and silvi-pasture in dryland agriculture etc.
