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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2017Turkey facing east
Islam, modernity and foreign policy
by Ayla Gol
Turkey facing east is about the importance of Turkey's relations with its Eastern neighbours - Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Soviet Union - during the emergence of the modern Turkish nation-state from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. The principal strength of this book is that it not only combines historical and theoretical arguments in order to provide a better understanding of the foreign relations of a predominantly Muslim country from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, but it also applies the new approach to the analysis of Turkish foreign policy towards the South Caucasus between 1918 and 1921. Hence, it stands out with its original interdisciplinary approach to the Turkish transition and foreign policy-making that offers perspectives on the extant possibilities for the particular transitional states resulting from the Arab spring uprisings.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentThe Wisdom Book
Guidance from the Ancients: 52 Timeless Truths to Help Navigate Today’s World
by Halla Ayla
Wisdom is needed more than ever today! The Wisdom Book is a powerful transformational tool that offers the reader greater insight and understanding as to life’s true meaning and purpose. It provides tools and techniques to help navigate the challenges of today’s world with its 52 profound teachings for every week of the year. Each teaching offers guidance on how to connect with your Soul’s infinite wisdom, which can lead you to living a happier, healthier and more meaningful life. The Truths are a Roadmap Home to greater wholeness and wellbeing, reminding us that life is meant to be a lot more
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Health & Personal DevelopmentThe Wisdom Journal
A Companion Volume to the Wisdom Book
by Halla Ayla
The Wisdom Journal is a safe container for your innermost thoughts and feelings. It is your own private and personal space to express your deepest fears and doubts, as well as your dearest hopes, desires and dreams. It is a transformational tool that offers 52 Timeless Wisdom Teachings accompanied by questions that allow you to examine, evaluate and gain greater insight and understanding about your life and how to best live it. The process of journal writing is a powerful one that will help you discover and recover a greater sense of happiness, wisdom and wellbeing.
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August 2021Mission Kolomoro oder: Opa in der Plastiktüte
by Julia Blesken, Stefan Kaminski, Benjamin Ritter, Barbara Jung, Sabine Stiepani
Vor einem Supermarkt, am Anfang der Herbstferien, treffen sechs Kinder zufällig aufeinander: Katja, die sich mit ihren Vätern gestritten hat. Polina, die nur eben Backpulver kaufen wollte, Fridi, Mustafa und Zeck sowie Jennifer mit Rehpinscher Püppi und der Asche ihres Opas in einer Plastiktüte. Als Mustafa einen Rocker auf dem Parkplatz reinlegt, müssen die Kinder schnellstens abhauen. Ohne Handys und fast ohne Geld. Aber mit einer wichtigen Mission: Jennifers Opa soll seine letzte Ruhe in Kolomoro finden. Nur: Wie geht das, wenn man keine Ahnung hat, wo Kolomoro liegt?
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August 2021Mission Kolomoro oder: Opa in der Plastiktüte
by Julia Blesken, Barbara Jung
Vor einem Supermarkt, am Anfang der Herbstferien, treffen sechs Kinder zufällig aufeinander: Katja, die sich mit ihren Vätern gestritten hat. Polina, die nur eben Backpulver kaufen wollte, Fridi, Mustafa und Zeck sowie Jennifer mit Rehpinscher Püppi und der Asche ihres Opas in einer Plastiktüte. Als Mustafa einen Rocker auf dem Parkplatz reinlegt, müssen die Kinder schnellstens abhauen. Ohne Handys und fast ohne Geld. Aber mit einer wichtigen Mission: Jennifers Opa soll seine letzte Ruhe in Kolomoro finden. Nur: Wie geht das, wenn man keine Ahnung hat, wo Kolomoro liegt? Julia Blesken gewann mit "Mission Kolomoro" den ersten Kirsten-Boie-Preis der Hamburger Literaturstiftung. Eine warmherzig und liebevoll erzählte Geschichte für Kinder ab 9 Jahren - voller Diversität im urbanen Umfeld Berlins. In der Tradition der großen Erzähler der deutschen Kinderliteratur, Kirsten Boie und Erich Kästner. Gelistet bei Antolin.
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March 2013Scherben
Roman
by Ismet Prcic, Conny Lösch
Ein junger Mann namens Ismet Prcić verlässt seine vom Krieg zerrissene Heimat. Er landet in Kalifornien, unter einem ewig blauen Himmel. Zurückgelassen hat er seine Eltern, seine erste Liebe, einen Teil von sich. Und die Gewissheit, dass die Wirklichkeit solide ist, ein fester Boden. Er schreibt Briefe an seine Mutter, doch die Wahrheit steht in seinem Tagebuch: dass er in Deckung geht, wenn ein Auto eine Fehlzündung hat, dass er eine Pistole besitzt, dass die Leute ihn meiden: ein durchgeknallter Bosnier, der nicht klarkommt und zu viel trinkt. Jemand rät ihm, alles aufzuschreiben, die Vergangenheit zu ordnen. Die Bilder der Kindheit kommen, süß und schmerzvoll. Tuzla, die belagerte Stadt. Das Sommerhaus. Doch wer ist Mustafa, dessen Geschichte sich in seine drängt wie ein nagender Widerspruch? Mustafa, der dem Krieg nicht entkommen ist und der ihn jetzt heimsucht wie ein Schatten, eine zweite Existenz. Die Erinnerungen, sie zerfallen vor seinen Augen, nichts lässt sich ordnen. Ismet hat Angst, den Verstand zu verlieren. Und Melissa, seine große Liebe. »Scherben« ist ein kraftvoller, ergreifender, zärtlicher Roman über das, was der Krieg im Menschen zerstört. Seine Klarheit und Kraft bringen eine dunkle Geschichte zum Leuchten.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2017Half a century of resistance
Crimean Tatars from exile to return (1941-1991 years)
by Bekirova Hulnara
The book is devoted to the most tragic period of the history of the Crimean Tatar people - the deportation of 1944. It describes the lives of the expelled people in foreign lands as well as tells us a story of long and self-sacrificing struggle of the Crimean Tatars for the right to return to their homeland. It is a detailed research of the history of the Crimean Tatar national movement and contains a lot of quotes from the Crimean Tatars’ self-publishing press as well as citations from the traditionally friendly to the Crimean Tatars Moscow editions of that times. An author also reinforced her research by analysis of many documents that were found in the Crimean, Kyiv and Moscow archives as well as by the interview with the most famous and respected member of the movement, leader of Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Djemilev, who was a prisoner of conscience many times during Soviet era. Mustafa Djemilev also wrote an introduction to the book. According to the author, resistance of Crimean Tatars to the criminal policy of the Moscow authorities and the refusal of Russian authorities to fulfil the just demands of the Crimean Tatar people are two different fronts of the national struggle of Crimean Tatar people. Despite the victory of the Crimean Tatars and their return to their homeland a quarter century ago, the struggle at the both fronts continues.
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What I left Behind
by Shatha Mustafa
A memory drags another. An idea drags another. A moment drags another in a self-exploratory journey of a girl who is lost between her four addresses: between a mother imprisoned by her children and a father still stuck in a prison even after he was released. Between a lover who gave her all her hopes, only to come back and steal them from her, and friends who provided refuge that she rejected. Confused between divorce and the cause, between mother and father, between friendship, love and independence, trying to answer a simple question: Why can’t I bear the taste of milk?
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January 2011The Administration of Criminal Justice in Palestine.
Development, Reform and Challenges.
by Abdelbaqi, Mustafa
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August 2021Mission Kolomoro oder: Opa in der Plastiktüte
by Julia Blesken, Benjamin Ritter, , Stefan Kaminski, Sabine Stiepani, Barbara Jung
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Leipziger Lesekompass 2022 (Kinderbuch 6 - 10 Jahre) und dem Deutschen Hörbuchpreis für Stefan Kaminski Auf dem Weg zu einem Ort, der in keinem Navi verzeichnet ist, Kolomoro. Die Mission: Jennifer Klar muss die Asche von ihrem toten Opa in seinem Schrebergarten verstreuen, schließlich hat Jennifer es versprochen. Also sind alle dabei, Katja Pfeiffer, die sich mit ihren Vätern gestritten hat, Fridi, der sich schon vor dem Mittagessen fürchtet, Zeck mit der ganzen Zeit der Welt und drei Euro fünfzig in der Tasche, Mustafa, der gerade aus Versehen seinen Wellensittich erdrückt hat, und die brave Polina. Nur, wo ist Kolomoro?
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August 2013Der Allgemeine Teil des Betäubungsmittelstrafrechts.
Zugleich eine Analyse der höchstrichterlichen Rechtsprechung zum Betäubungsmittelstrafrecht seit 1982.
by Oğlakcıoğlu, Mustafa Temmuz
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KETUM DARI PERSPEKTIF PSIKOSOSIAL: MANFAAT ATAU MUDARAT
by Noor Azniza Ishak, Jamaludin Mustafa, Kamal Ab Hamid, Siti Rozaina Kamsani, Grafik UUM (Illustrator)
Kratom from a Psychosocial Perspective: An Advantage or A Detriment Kratom leaves have long been used as a traditional vitality drink ingredient for women who have recently given birth. The leaves are boiled, and the resulting water is consumed to restore vitality, as well as to treat gas congestion in the body and relieve back pain. However, the decoction of kratom leaves has been misappropriated and is being sold to the public. This book is intended as a guide for policymakers, particularly the Ministry of Home Affairs and the National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK), in the formulation of appropriate policies or action plans, as well as the necessary enhancements to the extant prevention programmes. This book also suggests an effective information delivery strategy for addressing the issue of kratom water abuse. In addition, this book was written as a resource for the community to learn about the actual phenomenon of kratom water misappropriation in the community today.
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Animal husbandryNovember 2012Camel Meat and Meat Products
by A E Bekhit, Msafiri Mbaga, Mohammed Tageldin. Edited by Isam T Kadim, Osman Mahgoub, Bernard Faye, David Favis-Mortlock, Mustafa Farouk.
Camel meat has many benefits as a meat product. It has low fat content and is highly nutritious, and has potential to be used to combat hyperacidity, hypertension, pneumonia and respiratory disease. This book reviews up-to-date literature on camel meat and meat products, carcass and meat quality characteristics, muscle structure, post-mortem analysis and the nutritive value to humans. A comparatively small component of global meat consumption, camel meat has the potential to undergo an explosion of production worldwide, and currently farming for camel meat in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Australia is undergoing significant expansion. The potential of camel meat in helping to meet projected world food shortages, and being sustainably farmed, is also explored by the editors.
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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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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.
