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      • moses. Verlag GmbH

        Over the years, an unusual mix of books, useful book accessories, gift items and games has remained an important characteristic of a steadily growing product range. Inventive non-fiction and activity books with a focus on playing, experimenting and learning are complemented by an extensive selection of little objects you see at your bookshop which somehow belong together with books. Our game portfolio ranges from children’s games, family games, card games to games involving patience, communication games, word games, puzzles, and games involving mental exercises. Thinking outside the box, discovering and realising new ideas - this is the concept of our publishing house. Our motto is: moses., one idea more.

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      • Zal and Roodabeh

        by Mostafa Rahmandoust

        Zal and Roodabeh Zal falls in love with the daughter of the king of Kabol. To prevent this marriage, King Manoochehr summons Sam and orders him to fight King Mehrab. But Sam cannot do that due to his love to his son. Sam writes a letter to the king begs him not to let him sacrifice his son again. When the king feels his insistence and love for his son, he agrees and permits them to get married.

      • Children's & YA
        October 2019

        Everest Adventure

        Fulfilling the Dream

        by Mostafa Salameh, Luma Azar, Illustrated: Aly AlZainy

        An exciting book about “conscious adventure” that highlights Everest – the highest summit of the world. This book – a first of its kind - provides extensive geographic, scientific, and cultural knowledge to pre-teens, in the form of real adventure story. It also aims to expose young children to diverse cultures from around the world to enhance their understanding of being part of a global and diverse environment. The story focuses on the value of encouraging young children to pursue and fulfill their dreams, in addition to other core values that contribute to the growth of a healthy and open-minded generation. The hero of the series is a first-class adventurer - Mostafa Salameh - who lived in a refugee camp and now is living in Ireland. As a refugee kid, he endured various hardships. However, he grew to believe in himself, challenged his social and economic situation, and never gave up until he fulfilled his dreams.   The book exposes youth and pre-teens to the power of dreams and invites them to challenge the limits of what is possible in their lives, pursue perseverance, embrace acceptance, and celebrate the beauty of diversity.

      • What is Political in Islam?

        by Mostafa Abdelzaher, Mohamed Tewfiq, Zeinab el Baqari and Mostafa Zahran

        Many writers and researchers tend to either look into the Islamic phenomenon as a whole or focus on one of its manifestations (Muslim Brotherhood; traditional Salafis; Jihadist Salafis) without considering other manifestations. This book seeks to look into unity and diversity within contemporary Islamic movements in Egypt. On one hand, the book examines the movement’s paths and its branching into different trends, and on the other hand, it examines the general umbrella of the whole phenomenon. This will be within a social-historical context focusing on the role of ideology in establishing political and social trends. This book is a collection of studies by several researchers edited by Mostafa Abdel Zaher. It highlights the patterns of Islamists and the factors behind the raise of political Islamic movements, from the establishment of Muslim Brotherhood to the period after July 2013 in four chapters: the first chapter is devoted to the experiment of the Muslim Brotherhood. The second chapters is for the social structures of Islamic youth in developmental work, students’ activities and simulations models, with a study on the pattern of “column Sheikh” school. The third chapter is for Salafis; their divisions and pragmatic concept of politics – with the transformations of each division after January Revolution and Rabaa events. The last chapter is for the Jihadist movements.   The book is only 152 pages. It is like a mapping of the Islamists’ divisions and a memory of the period before January 2011 to post July 2013.

      • Fiction
        January 2008

        Chanting of A Swan

        Arabic Booker Shortlist & State Incentive Award

        by Mekawi Saeed

        The best description of “Taghreeda El-Bagaa (Chanting of A Swan)” novel for the writer Mekawi Saeed is that it is an award-winning novel; as the it won the State Incentive Award and reached the short list of the “Arab Booker” 2008.The novel addresses the political and social circumstances and developments witnessed by Egypt in the recent years prior to 2011 revolution. This is tackled through “Mostafa”, an editor and poet living in downtown, close to different social categories such as downtown intellectuals, foreigners, street children who suffer from their dislodgment and allure to provide their means of subsistence in any way; accordingly, they return the society insults with extreme violence, rebellion and cruelty. The novel includes many personalities which have intersecting life circumstances. Essam, the fine artist, Mostafa’s friend, loses his “Singaporean” beloved, Samantha, and he tries to fall on his feet by following the Sufi groups; accordingly, the novelist likens him to a swan, saying (I was seeing him like a swan in its last days when it was waiting death and heads to the ocean beach, dancing its last dance and enchants its only sad chanting and then dies). As for the “hero” “Mostafa”, he is always haunted by the memory of the death of his beloved “Hend”, who died after her injury with a gun “shell” kept in a museum as a memory of 1973 war. The novelist, in his presentation of the interference of the Wahabi thought in the Egyptian life, introduces the character of Ahmed El-Helw, who was in his youth a leader of the leftist movement during university, then he traveled to Saudi Arabia, and became extremist. Through joining opposition demonstrations in downtown, Mostafa tries to rise his voice against striking children with bombs in Lebanon and against burning intellectuals in Beni Suef. His American friend “Marcha” shared his company. She wanders in downtime holding her camera to shoot a documentary film on street children phenomena, taking her innocent project as a camouflage of her real objective, which is tarnishing Egypt reputation, according to the novelist’s statement! The novel is eventful and presents many cases. Therefore, it was greatly hailed by critics.

      • Fiction

        You Will Return to Isfahan

        by Mostafa Ensafi

        If you think that Iran is merely a land of war and revolution, you’ll be surprised to be taken into its romances to realize that Iran is a land of love rather than anything else.   Shamim Shamseh, a well-established and successful literature professor, has lost the love of his life, Audrey, many years ago, never knowing why. Now with the appearing of Elisa -a polish girl who has apparently come to Iran to seek her grandma who was forced to migrate to a camp near Isfahan during the second world war- he walks down the memory lane and relives what he knows of Audrey or at least his assumptions about her. Elisa is aware that Shamim was once her mother’s lover. However, Shamim still yearns to unfold Audrey’s secret as much as Elisa wishes to know about her mother’s unknown side through his eyes. Despite his wife and child’s insistence to leave turbulent Iran after the 2009 Iranian presidential election, Shamim stays in the country and tries to find Audrey, or perhaps himself, with Elisa’s help. In this quest, he comes to know about some aspects of himself and of people around him, which were formerly unknown. Is Audrey the same as before? Why did beautiful Audrey disappear all of a sudden? Why did she leave everything behind including her passionate love?

      • Second World War fiction

        You Will Return to Isfahan

        by Mostafa Ensafi

        The book with its fluent narration provides insights into a forbidden love, and this is why it has been a success in Iran. It is a story that depicts Iran both in the context of the Second World War which is one of the most important historical events, and in its most contemporary political and cultural manifestations over the past few years. You Will Return to Isfahan was hugely noticed by the critiques. It is soon to be published in Italy too. Shamim, a well-established and successful literature professor, has lost the love of his life, Audrey, many years ago, never knowing why. Now with the appearing of Elisa -a polish girl who has apparently come to Iran to seek her grandma who was forced to migrate to a camp near Isfahan during the second world war- he walks down the memory lane and relives what he knows of Audrey or at least his assumptions about her. Elisa is aware that Shamim was once her mother's lover. However, Shamim still yearns to unfold Audrey's secret as much as Elisa wishes to know about her mother's unknown side through his eyes. Despite his wife and child's insistence to leave the turbulent Iran after the 2009 Iranian presidential election, Shamim stays in the country and tries to find Audrey, or perhaps himself, with Elisa's help. In this quest, he comes to know about some aspects of himself and of people around him, which were formerly unknown. Is Audrey the same as before? Why did beautiful Audrey disappear all of a sudden? Why did she leave everything behind including her passionate love?

      • Teaching, Language & Reference
        March 2019

        Advanced Learner`s Persian Dictionary

        A New Teaching and Learning Aid

        by Sayyed Mostafa Assi, PhD

        This corpus-based dictionary is designed as an aid for the advanced learners of Persian to master the meaning and usage of the most common words of contemporary Persian. The entries contain different types of information such as the formal and colloquial pronunciation of the headwords, their grammatical category, related derivations, collocations and idiomatic expressions. They are defined with simple and clear definitions using only 2800 words of basic Persian vocabulary, familiar to the advanced learners. Real examples extracted from a huge corpus (Persian Linguistic Database: PLDB) support the definitions and show how they are used in everyday language. Special graphical symbols readily show relative frequencies of the headwords which are often illustrated by pictures next to them and are occasionally referred to color illustrations in the appendix section. Several subject lists such as the limited defining vocabulary, common verbs with their infinitive, present and past stems, numbers, most frequent personal names for girls and boys, historical and geographical names are also included in the back matter as appendices.   The dictionary is published in printed and electronic format.

      • What is Power?

        by Byung-Chul Han, Badr Mostafa (Prof.)

        Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key feature of social and political life. Power is commonly defined as a causal relation: an individual’s power is the cause that produces a change of behaviour in someone else against the latter’s will. Han rejects this view, arguing that power is better understood as a mediation between ego and alter which creates a complex array of reciprocal interdependencies. Power can also be exercised not only against the other but also within and through the other, and this involves a much higher degree of mediation. This perspective enables us to see that power and freedom are not opposed to one another but are manifestations of the same power, differing only in the degree of mediation. This highly original account of power will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy and of social, political and cultural theory, as well as to anyone seeking to understand the many ways in which power shapes our lives today.

      • Islam and the Politics of Secularism

        The Caliphate and Middle Eastern Modernization in the Early 20th Century

        by Nurullah Ardıç (Prof.), Abdullah Islam, Fatema Kortoma, Badr Mostafa (Prof.)

        This book examines the process of secularization in the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th century through an analysis of the transformation and abolition of Islamic Caliphate. Through detailed analysis of both official documents and the writings of the intellectuals who contributed to reforms in the Empire, the author first examines the general secularization process in the Ottoman Empire from the late 18th century up to the end of the 1920s. He then presents an in-depth analysis of a crucial case of secularization: the demise of Islamic Caliphate. Drawing upon a wide range of secondary sources on the Caliphate and the wider process of political modernization, he employs discourse analysis and comparative-historical methods to examine how the Caliphate was first transformed into a "spiritual" institution and then abolished in 1924 by Turkish secularists.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        AN ISLAMIC APPROACH TO LIFESTYLE: SELF-CONTROL

        by Abbas Shafiee , Abutalib khidmati

        At the group level, the author has generally stated that the study of organizational behavior at the group level according to the Islamic approach has been done in four general sections: In the group behavior section, studies including scientific and Islamic views on group formation and its functions, types of groups, group dynamics and analysis of its components, group decision making and how it is in the time of the Prophet (PBUH) and variables It is structural. In the field of organizational communication, the patterns of human communication in Islam and its communication methods have been discussed and the types of communication in Islamic propositions and organizational communication have been studied, and the Islamic model related to it has been developed. In the discussion of power, generalities about the concept of power and its two main types; That is, organizational and personal power has been proposed and moral power has been introduced as the superior power and emphasized by the Infallibles (AS). The important components of this power are piety and piety, kindness and tolerance, love and kindness, repelling evil with goodness and generosity. In the conflict section, analyzes of disagreement, behavioral conflict, conflict and competition have been performed and Islamic approaches to each have been studied

      • Dissecting Defeat

        by Khaled Mansour, Belal Alaa, Khaled Fahmy, Sameh Naguib, Mohamed Elagati and Mostafa Abdel Zaher

        In the memory of 1967 defeat, Khaled Mansour put forward along with a group of most brilliant researchers these questions in the book “Dissecting Defeat of June 1967”. Questions that explain how and why was Egypt defeated in the war of six days. Did the USA urge Israel to fight Egypt? Aligning the Arabs against Israel, but how and why? The war that began and ended in 48 hours: how did Israel took control of Sinai? Who defeated Egypt? The book rereads a critical event in the history of contemporary Egypt: the defeat of June 1967. Fifty years separate us from this defeat, but its marks are still present in all aspects of our life. Not only because it was a horrible military defeat, but also as it revealed, with its cruelty and the tremendous shock it left, the decline of a social-economic-political project launched by the authority of July 1952 more than ten years before.  Along the six chapters of the book, the authors offer critical insights to the roots and results of the war, as well as its relation to the structure and formation of July state, and the way the latter administrated the modernization experiment in Egypt in the years of mid twentieth century. Perhaps the implicit assumption shared by the authors of this book, different in views as they are; is that the defeat even if it was a surprise to those who lived then, was not an event without introductions. The factors that made it were eroding the body of July project along the years previous to the war. And when the war exposed the facts, the orientations changed and the project turned against itself, but the deep structures of the Nasser state did not change. They were reused for contrary purposes, so we reached the state of complete decomposition that can be seen in every site and field today. So, June 1967 still makes our present, and this present unless we practice a radical criticism; relentless towards the ghosts and nightmares of the past.

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