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Yalda’s Night
by Ghada Al-Absi
The life of poet Hafez Al-Shirazi forms the background from which this novel draws its great ideas about life, love and poetry. And although this book is based on the visions of this great poet, it is not a heterosexual biography of his life but rather an imagined novel inspired by his poetry. The events of the novel take place in one night when Hafez dies, only to be born again. Throughout the long night, the author reviews stories, conflicts and milestone events in history, and Hafez has the chance to meet the poles of Sufi love in multiple chronological paths within the novel. He contemplates the black death and is defeated by the Farsi language with his early failures in poetry, but he finds salvation in the Arabic language by memorising the entire Qur’an. As a result, Shams Al-Din chooses another name inspired by him: Hafez, who the world will embrace until the Shiraz baker becomes a minister, on a human journey in which the Shirazi tests and loses everything successively.
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May 2017Schattenkämpfer
Thriller
by Walter Lucius, Andreas Ecke
Eine toughe Journalistin im Kampf gegen ein mächtiges kriminelles Netzwerk Kaum der Geiselhaft entkommen, ist die Journalistin und Kampfsportlerin Farah Hafez weiter dem russischen Oligarchen Valentin Lavrov auf der Spur - dem Kopf hinter einem internationalen Netz aus Korruption, Wirtschaftskriminalität und Menschenhandel. Als Farah in Indonesien auf neue Beweise stößt, begibt sie sich auf eine lebensgefährliche Mission. Nachdem sie in Moskau spektakulär aus den Fängen tschetschenischer Rebellen befreit wurde, ist die Journalistin Farah Hafez in Indonesien untergetaucht. Lange kann sie sich dort allerdings nicht erholen. Schon bald erfährt sie von einem großen Kernenergieprojekt der indonesischen Regierung mit dem russischen Oligarchen Valentin Lavrov. Er ist der Mann, der Farahs Entführung in Auftrag gegeben hatte. Sie beginnt, Lavrovs Machenschaften zu recherchieren. Während Lavrov seinerseits mehr als interessiert an einem Wiedersehen mit Farah ist – einem Wiedersehen, das tödlich ausgehen könnte.
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January 2002Die syrische Außenpolitik unter Präsident Hafez Assad
Balanceakte im globalen Umbruch
by Stäheli, Martin
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2024The rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror
by Naved Bakali, Farid Hafez
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionJune 2016Peacebuilding in Libya
Cross-Border Transactions and the Civil Society Landscape
by Sherine N. El Taraboulsi
Sherine N. El Taraboulsi is a research fellow for the Humanitar- ian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute and a doctoral candidate in international development at Oxford Univer- sity. This brief is based on desk research and fieldwork conducted in Tunisia in April 2015 to examine the role of cross-border transac- tions in peacebuilding in Libya.
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2017Washington's Long War on Syria
by Stephen Gowans
When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The United States had waged a long war against Syria from the very moment the country’s fiercely independent Arab nationalist movement came to power in 1963. Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad were committed to that movement. Gowans examines the decades-long struggle for control of Syria.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2Y9dws0
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January 2020The Communist Labor Party in Syria (1979-1992). A Chapter from the History of the Syrian Left.
by Rateb Shabo
It is interesting how the author succeeded, in a political book some would necessarily see as a dry text, in making the reader involved and not neutral. But the emotional influx that penetrates the narration never lessens the power of a text whose author could connect the daily details of a revolutionary communist organization to the developments of the regional and international situation; beginning with the Palestinian case, to the extending Lebanese crisis and ending with the fluctuations of the unpitiable Soviet communism – all overshadowed by the tyrant authority of Hafez Al-Assad and his men. Rateb Shabo’s book is a special text in the wide-perspective political analysis from a point of view that is biased to the interests of the oppressed. Though it seems from the story of the book that it tells a marginal story about a small communist organization whose time passed more than twenty-five years ago, Rateb Shabo, the communist author and struggler, drew (while telling the story of the “League”) a live intense painting of the struggling and political history of Syria in the period after the defeat in June 1967 to the collapse of the Eastern Bloc led by the Soviet Union. The story of giving birth to “a new Marxism” in the 1970s, and quite into 1980s – but not a new story. It is not just an Egyptian, Syrian or Arab story; but it is an extending international phenomenon that began with the upheavals of 1968 in all the world, especially in France. This international phenomenon of the raise of new left took different forms from a country to another according to its conditions of conflict and the level of its capacities.
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Praying to the West
The Story of Muslims in the Americas, in Thirteen Mosques
by Omar Mouallem
Muslims have lived in the New World for over 500 years, before Protestantism even existed, but their contributions were erased by revisionists and ignorance. In this colorful alternative history o f the Americas, we meet the enslaved and indentured Muslims who changed the course of history, the immigrants who advanced the Space Race and automotive revolution, the visionaries who spearheaded civil rights movements, and the 21st-century Americans shifting the political landscape while struggling for acceptance both within and outside their mosques. In search of these forgotten stories, Mouallem traveled 7,000 miles, from the northwest tip of Brazil to the southeast edge of the Arctic, to visit thirteen pivotal mosques. What he discovers is a population as diverse and conflicted as you’d find in any other house of worship, and deeply misunderstood. Parallel to the author’s geographical journey is a personal one. A child of immigrants, Mouallem discovers that, just as the greater legacy of Western Islam was lost on him, so were the stories of prior generations in his family. An atheist since the 9/11 attacks, Mouallem reconsiders Islam and his place within it. Meanwhile, as the rise of hate groups threaten the liberties of Muslims in the West, ideologues from the East try to suppress their liberalism. With pressures to assimilate coming from all sides, will Muslims of the Americas ever be free to worship on their own terms?
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceJanuary 2018Mathematical Discourse: Let the Kids Talk!
by Barbara Blanke
This invaluable resource provides teachers with the tools they need to facilitate mathematical discourse and create opportunities for students to think constructively, communicate effectively, and increase mathematics proficiency. This book will help teachers develop a new set of pedagogical skills and strategies to assess, plan, and organize their classrooms in a manner that is conducive to mathematical discourse. With helpful tips and strategies that are easy to implement, this standards-based book supports an equitable learning environment by encouraging active listening, clear communication, justification of perspective, and acknowledgement of students' experiences. Each chapter includes Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning strategies to address cultural norms for diverse populations, and support the needs of English language learners. With tips for implementing Math Talks and Number Talks, this resource will get students thinking like mathematicians in no time.
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GardeningOctober 2017Basics of Horticulture
3rd Revised and Enlarged Edition
by K.V. Peter
The present revised edition has 16 chapters including 10 appendices. 42 scientists from seven Institutes, States Agricultural Universities and 2 organizations have contributed to the 3rd revised edition. A village market has now all kinds of vegetables, fruits, tubers and ornamentals which vouch for progress in the science and art of horticulture. Many educated youth are taking up Horticulture as a profession. Basic sciences like physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology and biotechnology, bioinformatics and economics are adding to the understanding of horticultural crops. New To 3rd Edition: 1. 5 chapters of floriculture and landscaping 2. Information on newly released varieties of all horticulture crops 3. Colour photographs 4. Updated data and references
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RelationshipsOctober 2018The Dance of Life
by Lutfiya Boboyorova
Mahin is born in a small village in the Soviet republic of Tajikistan. As a beautiful and stubborn young girl, she marries against the will of her father. Destiny strikes hard when she gives birth for the first time. The forces of nature are violent. Her baby dies, and Mahin recedes into a world of grief and loneliness. After her husband abandons her, Mahin finds a new life in the city, with many more challenges. The Dance of Life is the story of a vulnerable, but strong-willed woman, and her struggle to gain control of her own life.
