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A Summary of A Territory of Kurmanjs
by Saeed Asadifar
(Looking at the History, Geography, Race, Primary Domicile, and Customs of the Kurdish People in the Past) Humankind is a curious creature and an energetic seeker. He constantly endeavors to discover the mystery of the universe, and investigate the situations of the ancestors in order to find the facts. An important part of this effort relates to humans' understanding of each other, although they created in the same form and facet of body, in terms of language, expression, customs, how they live, a background of history, race, skin color, thoughts, social beliefs, religious beliefs, food, clothing, government system, and other characteristics of life are very different to each other. Understanding these differences is an essential doctrine for humans. If we have failed to know the people of distant lands for some reasons, at least, we should have the knowledge of the people in our country. In the name of Iran, we should know the different ethnicities such as Lur, Azeri, Turkmen, Kurdish, Baluchi, and Arab that living in our country's extensive geography, and their historical, ethnic, and religious background, customs, dialects, and so on, and know how they live in the past and the present. This book attempts to answer all of the above subject matter in a scholarly manner based on historical evidence and on the basis of the viewpoints of the scholars on the Kurdish people. Thence, it should not be left something vague and unfinished. In some historical and investigatory texts, footnotes are almost as same as the text itself. As a result, the reader is drawn to the margins rather than the original text of the book.
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October 2020Yara's Spring
by Jamal Saeed & Sharon E. McKay
Crafted through the focused lens of Jamal Saeed’s own experiences in Syria and brought to life with acclaimed author Sharon E. McKay, Yara’s Spring is a story of coming of age against all odds and the many kinds of love that bloom even in the face of war.
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FictionJanuary 2008Chanting 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.
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Award
by Muhammad Reza Sarshar
The book contains three stories, titled The Gold Watch, The Prize and The Friends, that are narrated for late elementary and early guidance school children. The first story of the book (The Gold Watch) is the story of two friends called Saeed and Sadegh, who are best friends besides being classmates as well. One day, Sadegh goes to Saeed’s home to study and Saeed’s gold watch goes missing. From this moment on, Saeed suspects his friend and feels that he has stolen his watch. At the end of the story, it is revealed that the crow that has made a nest on the top a tree in their yard has stolen Saeed’s watch. The second story (The Prize), also the book’s namesake, is about a teenage boy trying to get the top scores in the sixth grade final exam hoping that his father would buy him a bike; but financial troubles do not allow his father to honor his promise and buy a bicycle for his son. At the end of the story, the boy finds out about his father’s situation and writes a letter to inform his father that he has given up the bicycle idea. The last story of the book (The Friends) tells the story of a teenager named Yunes, who emigrates with his family from Shiraz to Tabriz, where he is confronted with a strange and weird atmosphere while attending the school in that city and almost cannot cope with it. Yunes does not know the language of the Tabriz students who speak Turkish and this fact makes him seek friendship with another student named Mehdi, who is incidentally a Shiraz native and speaks Yunes’s language. Mehdi is an undisciplined student and encourages Younes to skip the school for a few days, but the school children bring Yunes back to the classroom and their friendship becomes deeper, and Yunes gets interested in the school and the new friends. The author, throughout the stories of this book, depicts the mental world of adolescents and educational spaces so skillfully that the reader finds himself right in the middle of the book’s adventures and thus, gets along with the characters and events of these stories.
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Autobiography: generalOctober 2021Teheran im Bauch
Wie meines Vaters Land mich fand
by Mathias Kopetzki
Der Berliner Schauspieler Mathias Kopetzki, aufgewachsen bei deutschen Adoptiveltern, entschließt sich mit über dreißig Jahren, nach Teheran zu reisen, um seinen leiblichen Vater und dessen streng muslimische Großfamilie kennenzulernen. Durch deren leidvolle Vergangenheit auch mit der eigenen konfrontiert, erlebt er den islamischen Gottesstaat als ein faszinierendes Land voller Gegensätze und verliebt sich im Schatten iranischer Moscheen in eine Kusine, die trotz Todesgefahr ein Verhältnis mit ihm beginnt. Kopetzki zeichnet in seiner spannenden, humorvollen und berührenden Geschichte das ungewöhnliche Bild einer Metropole, in der Restriktionen Alltag sind, Familie sich stützt, Glauben Halt verspricht – aber auch das einer Gesellschaft, in der nichts so ist, wie es scheint. Und er entdeckt, dass diese Reise zu seiner Herkunft auch eine Reise zu ihm selbst bedeutet …
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Masoumeh
by Saeed Nikorazm
Masoumeh is about "waiting" and more about people who understand the existence and meaning of their lives while waiting. Yusuf, who went missing in the war after 7 years, still has no trace of him. Masoumeh Yusef's monument is in the purgatory of staying and leaving, and people who see Masoumeh as a form of Yusuf's memory mean their life in staying or leaving Masoumeh. We do not see Masoumeh, but obviously everything revolves around her, and Masoumeh, who is a manifestation of beauty and ideal perfection, gradually finds an allegorical appearance and becomes an innocence in the body of the people in the play. The lost innocence manifests itself only in the absence. Hence, the play becomes a critical work. Criticism of people who give up on the word waiting and do nothing.Waiting for Yusuf to come is a shop, for some and for others it means a life of emptiness. In the meantime, waiting becomes counter-expectation. The benefit now is that Yusuf does not come, but the wait remains. In other words, Yusuf himself does not want it. Yusuf's absence is demanded, and everyone knows that the basis for waiting is not to come: Yusuf must always be behind the door, but never enter!
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Intellectual Party
by Saeed Nikorazm
The publisher, the critic and the writer meet by chance at a party. The war begins. Job, a well-known but poor writer, is trying to sell his last child: a novel. The bread puts the author's concern before the publisher and his social commitment to the critic. The author, critic and publisher represent the three major social discourses, and the author of the play critiques the cultural atmosphere of Iran in the form of these three discourses. It is also in the language of humor. Serious intellectual debates in the form and context of ridiculous and absurd satire that further alienate the writer, publisher, and critic. But in the end, what helps the writer is love. In the maze of intellectual controversy, the author finds his wife and hugs his child, his work, again.
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FictionSeptember 2018Rozenn
Livre 1
by Laetitia Danae
Rozenn is a djinn. For many years, her kind suffered from the domination of the dagnirs, but if slavery is abolished, freedom still has a bitter taste. What if a royal union could help to get over this painful past? The djinns have their blood, the essence of their power, taken by the dagnirs. Envy, fear? The dagnirs did all they could to maintain the djinns submissive. Rozenn, princess, had to meet the Sultan’s sons and find a husband to help their people overcome their differences. But once in the capital, she realizes that the Sultan is not ready to give up his ascendancy over the djinns. She will have to swim between plots, lies, but one thing is sure: she will do everything to free her kind.
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Friendship can be better this way
by Dr, Suzan Hilou / illustrator Hala Abu Saeed
Mimi and Nani are friends, love each other and spend a lot of time together, but they feel bored and sad. What is the reason? A story about friendship and how it can be better when we open up with other friends.
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May 2023Grounded
by Aisha Saeed, Huda Al-Marashi, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, S. K. Ali
Four kids meet at an airport for one unforgettable night in this middle-grade novel by four bestselling and award-winning authors When a thunderstorm grounds all flights following a huge Muslim convention, four unlikely kids are thrown together. Feek is stuck babysitting his younger sister, but he’d rather be writing a poem that’s good enough for his dad, a famous poet and rapper. Hanna is intent on finding a lost cat in the airport—and also on avoiding a conversation with her dad about him possibly remarrying. Sami is struggling with his anxiety and worried that he’ll miss the karate tournament that he’s trained so hard for. And Nora has to deal with the pressure of being the daughter of a prominent congresswoman, when all she really wants to do is make fun NokNok videos. These kids don’t seem to have much in common—yet. Told in alternating points of view, Grounded tells the story of one unexpected night that will change these kids forever.
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Children's & YANovember 2020 - April 2021I Will Live at Peace
by Dr. Issam Smeir, Luma Azar. Illustrator: Hanane Kai
AMAL (Hope) Series Almost 500 million children live in an area of conflict or disaster, 50 million of them were displaced. Prolonged exposure to war and uncertainty put many children in a state of ‘toxic stress’, with hugely detrimental effects. If left untreated, the long-term consequences are likely to be even greater, affecting children’s mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing for the rest of their lives. A series of nine specialized books dealing with the topic of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This Bibliotherapy series was written and designed based on PTSD therapy modality directed at children who suffer psycho-social challenges. The books are written in an adventurous style with a clinical connection that introduces the child to various symptoms, providing methods for dealing with them. It also presents coping mechanisms that help the child deal with the symptoms to have improvements throughout the stages of treatment. It also includes activities at the end of each book for caregivers to use with the child. Story 2: I Will Live at Peace Ever Since the terrible thing happened to Saleem and his family, he has been seeing nightmares which affected his ability to concentrate on his studies. And therefore, Saleem gets scared all over again and relives the incident every time he is reminded of the incident: any image, or sound, or scent, even any word. One day Saleem meets someone who has also gone through a terrible thing, and that person had felt exactly like he is feeling. From this experience, Saleem realizes that not everything that scares him is real danger and remembering the terrible incident, is by no means a re-occurrence of it. Saleem feels relieved now; he understands that he can live at peace without constant fear.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentTHE DETOX MIRACLE SOURCEBOOK
Raw Food and Herbs for Complete Cellular Regeneration
by Robert Morse N.D.
The Detox Miracle system is based on the power of specific raw foods, herbs and juices to cleanse and purify individual systems of the body which allows cellular regeneration! The premise of raw food detoxification is that having an acid system will kill you, while gradually reaching an alkaline system will allow healing and unexpected levels of health! This book includes a textbook primer on each system of the body, what symptoms mean, and, most importantly, how to detoxify and regenerate using only raw foods and herbs. The Detox Miracle Sourcebook shows you how to cleanse your body of the poisons that are destroying your health, and start the process of complete cellular regeneration that leads to true healing. Based on 30 years of clinical experience, treating thousands of people with conditions ranging from overweight to cancer, Dr. Robert Morse reveals his ultimate healing system – the Detox Miracle! • Covers the A-Z of Detoxification, including: Why do it? When to do it? What to expect? How it works, and how long it takes. • Explains the uses of specific raw foods and herbs for cleansing and healing every organ, system, and unbalanced condition in the body. • Details the interface of body, mind and soul in the achievement of lifelong health. • Presents the Detox Miracle Diet, and how to adapt it for life. • Includes dozens of easy-to-use References: lists of herbs, herbal formulas, properties of foods, minerals, phytochemicals, and cell salts, etc.; along with raw food recipes; a detailed Index; broad-based Resource Guide; and extensive Glossary and Bibliography.
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Business, Economics & LawCONFIDENT UNDER PRESSURE
Discover the Hidden Advantages of Stress
by Rick Lewis
The vast majority of “stress less” books are concerned with the modern problem of too much stress and how to reduce it. Not this one Confident Under Pressure is about the advantages of stress, clarifying the critical role that intentionally engaged stress plays in personal and professional development. Author Rick Lewis makes his living by putting leaders, executives and organizational teams into challenging situations to help them see the habitual ways they respond to stress. He then offers unique guidance in the practice of “stress production,” rather than stress reduction – revealing how to make a dynamic turnaround, an attitude of YES to stress. Confident Under Pressure weaves colorful personal stories, recent neuroscience, the research of human performance experts, and the inspiration of leading business executives into a compelling and lucid argument for moving toward stress, conflict and change in order to become more creative, effective and happy in life, on the way to making our highest contribution in the world. The result is an eminently readable and practical book that anyone can use, at home, on the job, and in one-on-one relationships.The author has been a corporate consultant for over twenty years, with contracts with over 500 corporations, associations and government agencies. He has presented to audiences that have included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, the Prime Minister of Canada, and worked with CEOs, dignitaries, and government organizations from The Federal Reserve Bank to the International Board of Mastercard. The result of this lifetime of experience - both successes and failures - is distilled within this book.
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The Arts: General IssuesSeptember 2017The Artist, The Censor, and The Nude
A Tale of Morality and Appropriation
by Glenn Harcourt, Pamela Joseph, Francis M. Naumann
Thoughtful and rigorous, the book provides an excellent survey of contemporary censorship. – Publishers Weekly This hybrid book examines the art and politics of “The Nude” in various cultural contexts, featuring books of canonical western art censored in Iran. Featuring American artist Pamela Joseph’s feminist appropriation of these images as well as Iranian and other Middle Eastern contemporary artists Aydin Aghdashloo (Iran), Boushra Almutawakel (Yemen), Ana Lily Amirpour (Great Britain/USA), Gohar Dashti (Iran), Daryoush Gharahzad (Iran), Shadi Ghadirian (Iran), Bahman Ghobadi (Iranian Kurdistan), Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan), Katayoun Karami (Iran), Hoda Katebi (USA), Simin Keramati (Iran/Canada), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran/ Great Britain), Shohreh Mehran (Iran), Houman Mortazavi (Iran), Manijeh Sehhi (Iran), and Newsha Tavakolian (Iran/USA).
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Zoology & animal sciencesDecember 2021Nanotechnology in Plant Pathology
by N.G. Ravichandra
The book Nanotechnology in Plant Pathology is to provide its readers latest developments and updated comprehensive information on various aspects of nanomaterials, nanomolecules and nanosensors in relation to plant diseases. This book fulfils the need for a comprehensive book on the significance of nanotechnology in plant pathology, which furnishes the latest information on this fast developing topic.The book Nanotechnology in Plant Pathology explicates essential aspects and is conveniently divided into nine unique chapters, covering the latest information and developments in nanotechnology with respect to plant diseases. The chapters include Introduction to nanotechnology, Categories and characterization of nanoparticles, Nanotechnology in plant disease diagnosis, Nanoparticles in plant disease management, Nanotechnology and pesticides, Nanotechnology in pesticides delivery, Regulations and risks in nanotechnology, Nanotoxicity and Nanosafety. Quality diagrams at appropriate places, convincing tables and suitable graphs / illustrations have been furnished for an impressive reading. Under each chapter, a bibliography providing the list of references cited has also been included for additional reading. The contents of this book, reflecting an extensive literature search, will be useful particularly for teachers, researchers and students in Plant Pathology, the State Departments of Horticulture & Agriculture, Commercial protection centers, Administrators, Policy planners and all those who are interested and concerned with the use and application of nanoparticles in plant pathology.
