March 2002
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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of the German Archaeological Institute, where Enayat worked, we find an unwritten history of World War II and, in her unpublished second novel, we see unknown stories of German scientists fleeing Nazism to Cairo.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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October 2006Die Verschwulung der Welt
Rede gegen Rede. Beirut – Berlin
by Rashid al-Daif, Joachim Helfer, Günther Orth, Joachim Sartorius
Zwei Männer auf einem Diwan: Das Austauschprogramm »West-östlicher Diwan« bringt Schriftsteller aus Deutschland und der arabischen Welt paarweise zusammen, um durch ihr Kennenlernen dem vielbeschworenen ›Kampf der Kulturen‹ entgegenzuwirken. Joachim Helfer und Rashid al-Daif haben die Aufforderung zum Gespräch ernstgenommen. So entstand ein verblüffendes Buch: Der libanesische Autor schreibt ein Protokoll, dessen Gegenstand sein deutscher Kollege ist – und zwar als Privatperson. Er kommentiert dessen gleichgeschlechtliche Lebensweise, beschreibt Ansichten zu Sexualität, Liebe und Moral, die ihm fremd sind. Der deutsche Autor reagiert darauf mit radikaler Offenheit, schildert die Begegnung aus seiner Sicht und zeigt am Text des libanesischen Kollegen dessen eigene, zwischen Tradition und Moderne hin und her gerissenen Vorstellungen von Männer- und Frauenrollen auf. Am Ende macht der auf beiden Seiten mit dem Mut zur Selbstentblößung geführte Dialog erschreckend deutlich, wie sehr im Verhältnis zwischen Orient und Okzident das Private das Politische ist.
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September 2008Abu Musas Nachbarinnen
Roman
by Ahmed Toufiq, Imke Ahlf-Wien
Hoch über dem Meer in Salé an Marokkos Atlantikküste (neben Rabat) ist noch heute das Grabmal des Sufi-Heiligen Abu Musa zu besichtigen. Abu Musa, ein Asket, und die schöne blonde Schama, die am Hof des Sultans in Fes gelebt hat und mit einem andalusischen Kunsthandwerker verheiratet ist, wohnen in einem heruntergekommenen Handelshaus in der bedeutenden Hafenstadt Salé. Eine Reihe alleinstehender Frauen von zweifelhaftem Ruf hat dort ebenfalls Unterkunft gefunden. Wann? Im 14. Jahrhundert. Abu Musas Nachbarinnen ist ein historischer Roman, erzählt in arabischer Tradition, lebendig, farbig und kenntnisreich, mit überraschenden Wendungen unterwegs und einem Regenwunder zum Schluß, das Abu Musa, unterstützt von Schama und den Frauen, herbeiführt – wofür er bezahlen muß. Ahmed Toufiqs Roman fragt, mitten im Getümmel: Wie sollen wir leben und: was können wir tun? Seine Antwort, muslimisch und menschlich, klingt nach.
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The Poet or The Condemned Eunuch
by Humayun Azad
What does the life of a modern poet look like? What dream, imagination, emotion or malaise give him the fuel to live, give him the taste of dark death? How much is he related, or not related, to life? Is life a clichéd dirty clothing to him which can be donated to his servant easily? Is it better not to be born or to die in the very first age of life? How much is a modern poet man, or eunuch? How much is he sentenced? After passing boyhood, the main protagonist of the book, Hasan Rashid, a young poet, goes ahead to poetry. He rejects an average mediocre life and chooses the impossible life of art. Beauty, continuous stir and nectar-like poison are always here. The violent antagonistic life of art takes extreme revenge on Hasan Rashid and makes him a eunuch. At last, Hasan yields to a life which is more tragic than death and more woeful than tragedy. Himself a poet, Humayun Azad explores the inner and outer object of the life of a modern poet. The Poet or the Condemned Eunuch is at the same time a poem and novel of unparalleled anguish. Novels with the name of poet are aplenty in Bengali language, but one on a real poet was very rare before this novel of Azad.
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2017God is not Loaned
by Zainab Alwi Baharoon
The novel God Is Not Loaned describes the life of a family in Unguja that has entered many conflicts and tragedies. Everything has a source and an end; then what is the source of the differences and what was its fate? The story is about the father, Mr. Ahmed, with a fierce anger without limits, who led his family by his own will, regardless of the feelings of his wife or sons. But in his heart he kept a secret, and that secret is what made Mr. Ahmed becomes excessively harsh, prompting him to prevent the return of what happened to him in the past. But the shadow of his past history did not stop haunting him. This novel is written in a beautiful and eloquent language, with the skill of a careful artist who understands the life of Zanzibari and coastal communities in general.
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April 2013Verlorener Kontinent
Gedichte
by Natan Zach
Natan Zach wurde am 13. Dezember 1930 als Harry Seitelbach in Berlin geboren. Seine Mutter war Italienerin, der Vater ein deutscher Jude. 1936 wanderte die Familie nach Haifa im damaligen britischen Mandatsgebiet Palästina aus. Ende der 1940er Jahre nahm Harry Seitelbach den Namen Zach (hebr. rein, lauter) an. Er nahm 1948 am israelisch-arabischen Krieg teil. Zach studierte bei Martin Buber und Gershom Scholem und gehörte seit 1952 der literarisch einflussreichen Gruppe Likrat (hebr. entgegen) an. Mit seinem ersten Gedichtband (1955) wurde Zach zu einem Protagonisten der israelischen Moderne. Der nüchterne, oft ironische, immer musikalische Ton seiner Poesie verbindet die gesprochene Sprache mit dem biblischen und rabbinischen Hebräisch. In den politischen Auseinandersetzungen des Landes ist seine Stimme unüberhörbar. 1967 übersetzte er zusammen mit dem palästinensischen Dichter Rashid Hussein arabische Volkslieder. Mit dem Band »Verlorener Kontinent« erscheint sein Werk erstmals in einer Auswahl auf Deutsch.
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April 2013Verlorener Kontinent
Gedichte
by Natan Zach, Ehud Alexander Avner
Natan Zach wurde am 13. Dezember 1930 als Harry Seitelbach in Berlin geboren. Seine Mutter war Italienerin, der Vater ein deutscher Jude. 1936 wanderte die Familie nach Haifa im damaligen britischen Mandatsgebiet Palästina aus. Ende der 1940er Jahre nahm Harry Seitelbach den Namen Zach (hebr. rein, lauter) an. Er nahm 1948 am israelisch-arabischen Krieg teil. Zach studierte bei Martin Buber und Gershom Scholem und gehörte seit 1952 der literarisch einflussreichen Gruppe Likrat (hebr. entgegen) an. Mit seinem ersten Gedichtband (1955) wurde Zach zu einem Protagonisten der israelischen Moderne. Der nüchterne, oft ironische, immer musikalische Ton seiner Poesie verbindet die gesprochene Sprache mit dem biblischen und rabbinischen Hebräisch. In den politischen Auseinandersetzungen des Landes ist seine Stimme unüberhörbar. 1967 übersetzte er zusammen mit dem palästinensischen Dichter Rashid Hussein arabische Volkslieder. Mit dem Band »Verlorener Kontinent« erscheint sein Werk erstmals in einer Auswahl auf Deutsch.
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November 1957Die Industrialisierung der wirtschaftlich unterentwickelten afrikanischen Länder und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Weltwirtschaft.
Ein Beitrag zur Lösung des Problems der wirtschaftlichen Unterentwicklung im Rahmen einer horizontalen internationalen Arbeitsteilung.
by Muddathir, Ahmed
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1988Questions Grammaticales de A à Z
Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur la grammaire sans jamais oser le demander. (Sprachbücher)
by Haddedou, Ahmed
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2017The Sons of Hafsa
by Ahmed Madi
This gripping novel takes you on a historical journey along the Forty Days Road, sharing in the characters' quest for freedom, dignity, and love. Are you ready to join them?
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The Mud and Stars
by Ahmed Lotfy
Below the earth and above the sky. The two arcs between which a human lives his life and rotates through them. Who is more truthful than history if we look at human life as a whole? How does love attract him, how does authority blind him, how does inattention obliterate him, so he thinks of himself as the highest, and the law of time falls into the mud with him. Who is truer than history? With these tales, I only wrote about human.
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July 2009In der Wüste findet nur der Kluge den Weg
Gedichte. Edition Lyrik Kabinett
by Al Maktoum, Mohamed bin Rashid
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Strengths-Based Resilience
by Tayyab Rashid, Jane Gillham, Afroze Anjum
Informed by rigorous research from positive psychology, cognitive behavior therapy and mindfulness, the Strengths-Based Resilience (SBR) program helps participants cultivate resilience in the face of different adverse life phases, whether it is challenges in higher education, work, relationships, or more. The 14-module SBR program helps clients to build resilience through a series of evidence-based skills. Core modules focus on:• Integrating mindfulness, relaxation, and gratitude intodailyselfcare routines• Developing a personal story of resilience• Learning a more flexible thinking style• Identifying and using strengths to solve problems• Incorporating slowness and savoring• Practicing positive communication for healthierrelationships• Contributing to community by learning to act altruistically• Pursuing a sense of meaning by exploring past and futureselves This color-illustrated manual is clearly structured, providing step-by step instructions, and listing the practice elements and goals of each module. It is an essential resource for all mental health practitioners wanting to help their clients build resilience. For:• psychotherapists• clinical psychologists
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Children's & YAJune 2021Batalha das Velas
A Rota dos Espiões
by Manu & Deepak
This book is the first volume in a series of comic books about the spice trade and the spirit of navigation with all its vivid humor. The dominance of the Arabs in the spice trade and the envy of the Portuguese and Spaniards define the script and plot of the story, covering the maritime trade from 1440 to 1500. The story is inspired by the adventures and navigation techniques of Ahmed bin Majid, the great Arab navigator. Medieval history, mythology and archetypes are adapted to the modern world to facilitate the narration of the story and generate interest. He uses anachronisms and discourses of contemporary media to create comedy. In this volume, Prince Henry hires Chung Chung, the Chinese traveler to steal Majid's map, but Majid's cunning prevails. Majid also gives a lesson to the 41 pirates and their captain, Black Fin.
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Humanities & Social SciencesStrengths-Based Resilience Workbook
by Tayyab Rashid, Jane Gillham, Ruth Louden, Afroze Anjum
Learn how to develop and to use your strengths to build resilience: • A tried and tested 14-module positive psychology program• Learn skills you can integrate into daily life• Clearly structured• Full of resources and activities Do you want to learn skills that focus on strengths that will help you become more resilient? And be able to integrate these skills into your daily life? Then this 14 module strengthsbased resilience program will help you do just that with an approach that has been proven to work. You will learn how to: • Integrate mindfulness, relaxation, and gratitude intoyour daily self-care routine• Explore your own story of resilience• Learn to be more flexible in your thinking• Identify and use strengths to solve problems• Incorporate slowness and savoring• Practice positive communication for healthier relationships• Contribute to community by learning to do the good you can• Find a sense of meaning by exploring your past andfuture self Each module is clearly structured with step-by-step instructions, listing the practice elements and goals for each session. The book is full of tips so you can start developing the skills now and make changes that will help you flourish in life. For:• psychotherapists• clinical psychologists
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