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Dar El Fergiani
A small independent Publishing house, with branches in Tripoli, Cairo, and London. Established in 1950's in Libya.
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FictionWHY I CAN'T WRITE
How to survive in a world where you can’t pay rent, can’t afford to focus, be healthy or to remain principled. Dijana Matković tells a powerful story of searching for a room of her own in the late stages of capitalism.
by DIJANA MATKOVIĆ
It is a coming-of-age story for Generation Z. How to grow up or even live in a world where no steady jobs are available, you can’t pay your rent and can’t afford medical or living expenses. Moreover, it touches on how to be a socially engaged artist in such a world, and more so, a woman in a post-me too world? Dijana, a daughter of working-class immigrants, tells the story of her difficult childhood and adolescence, how should became a journalist and later a writer in a society full of prejudices, glass ceilings and obstacles. How she gradually became a stereotypical ‘success story’, even though she still struggles with writing, because she can’t afford a ‘room of her own’. Dijana is a daughter of working-class immigrants, who came to Slovenia in the eighties in search of a better future. The family is building a house but is made redundant from the local factory when Yugoslavia is in the midst of an economic crisis. When her parents get divorced, Dijana, her older sister and mother struggle with basic needs. She is ashamed of their poverty, her classmates bully her because of her immigrant status, but mostly because of her being ‘white trash’. In the local school she meets teachers with prejudices against immigrants, but is helped by a librarian who spots her talent. When Dijana goes to secondary school, she moves in with her older sister who lives in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Her sister is into rave culture and Dijana starts to explore experimenting with drugs, music and dance. At the secondary school, she is again considered ‘the weird kid’, as she isn’t enough of a foreigner for other immigrant kids because she is from the country, yet she isn’t Slovenian enough for other native kids. She falls even deeper into drug addiction, fails the first year of school and has to move back to live with her mother. She takes on odd jobs to make ends meet. Whilst working as a waitress she encounters sexism and sexual violence from customers and abuse from the boss. She finishes night school and graduates. She meets many ‘lost’ people of her generation along the way, who tell her their stories about precarious, minimum wage jobs, lack of opportunities, expensive rent, etc. Dijana writes for numerous newspapers but loses or quits her job, because she isn’t allowed to write the stories she wants or because of the bad working conditions or the blatant sexual harassment. Due to the high rent in the capital, Dijana has to move to the countryside to live with her mother. She feels lonely there, struggles with anxiety and cannot write a second book, because she is constantly under pressure to make a living. She realises that she must persevere regardless of the obstacles, she must follow her inner truth and by writing about it, try to create a community of like-minded people, a community of people who support each other – all literature/art is social.
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July 1988Versuch über die Geschichte der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft
by Adam Ferguson, Hans Medick, Zwi Batscha, Hans Medick
Diese Edition von Adam Fergusons An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767) macht eine zentrale Schrift aus der Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Sozialwissenschaften zugänglich. Fergusons Versuch enthält zentrale und originelle »soziologische Leitgedanken«. Das Zusammenleben der Menschen in Gruppen, ihre gesellschaftlichen Verhaltensweisen, die sozialen Normen, Verhältnisse und Prozesse werden als »Grundtatsachen« der menschlichen Geschichte begriffen. Doch die soziologischen Einsichten haben für Ferguson ihren Sinn nicht in sich selbst. Sie sind Vorstufe und Teil einer ebenso umfassenden wie differenzierten Kritik an der »verfeinerten« Kommerzgesellschaft seiner Zeit.
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January 2001Giselle
Ballett in zwei Akten. Musik von Adolphe Adam. Ein Ballettführer
by Staatsoper Unter den Linden
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2022Omega-3
The healing power of marine fatty acids
by Uwe Gröber and Prof. Dr. Klaus Kisters
This guide gives patients up-to-date information based on solid medical and scientific facts. It teaches them how they can use omega-3 oil to - improve health and successfully prevent disease, - increase physical and mental performance, - make the most of their medication and therapy, and - improve quality of life and increase vitality. Small changes can make a surprising improvement in health!
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March 2023Leichte Gedichte
by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Jan Peter Tripp
»Leichte Gedichte« in einer Zeit schwerer globaler Krisen – kann das gutgehen? Und was wollen sie uns sagen? Doch kurzweilig wird es allemal, wenn ein Dichter und ein Bildkünstler vom Range Enzensbergers und Tripps uns den Schein des Lebens vor Augen führen. Mit Lust und Laune wirbeln beide ihn auf, den Staub unserer irdischen Verhältnisse in Gestalt von Menschen, Tieren und Dingen. Da wird noch auf einer Beisetzung die Nacht durch getanzt, als sich herausstellt: Der Tote ist gar nicht endgültig tot. Makaber? Nicht, solange alles in ein paar Binnenreime, ein Liedchen à la Heine, eine Villanelle oder eine Bildsequenz passt. Und was danach? Ohne Eintrittskarte auf eine unheilige Auferstehung zu warten kann Nerven kosten. Hauptsache also, es ist schnell vorbei und alle Beteiligten befinden erleichtert: »Schwamm drüber!«
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September 2004Nico. Sphinx aus Eis
Monolog
by Werner Fritsch
Sie war Sängerin der legendären Musikgruppe Velvet Underground, modelte bei Coco Chanel, spielte in Fellinis La dolce vita und Filmen von Andy Warhol oder stand mit dem Saxophonisten von Sun Ra, mit Tangerine Dream, Kevin Ayers und Brian Eno auf der Bühne. Sie suchte die Nähe schöpferischer Rockmusiker, die auch große Lyriker waren: Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix und vor allem Jim Morrison, der sie ermutigte, selber Lieder zu komponieren. Als Christa Päffgen im Nazi- und Nachkriegsdeutschland aufgewachsen, begann sie ein neues, kreativ-selbstzerstörerisches Leben in Paris, New York und Ibiza. Sie war Muse und Göttin, mütterlich warm und teutonisch kühl, produktiv und todesnah – eine große Projektionsfläche, eine Sphinx aus Eis. Gegen Ende ihres Lebens hatte sie vor, mehr zu schreiben: Gedichte und ihre Autobiographie. Nun setzt der Dramatiker Werner Fritsch der unergründlichen Popikone Nico in seinem furiosen Monolog ein Denkmal, legt ihre Wurzeln und Abgründe offen und verleiht ihr eine neue, seine Sprache.
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December 2018Tropical Doubts
by David Myles Robinson
Some Honolulu lawyers called Pancho McMartin the best criminal defense attorney in the islands. He'd admit to being pretty damn good. But he was on a losing streak now―three guilty verdicts in a row―and his confidence was sinking fast. When one of his oldest friends, Giselle, was left comatose after surgery and her husband, Manny, pleaded with him to sue the doctors involved, Pancho couldn't find a way to avoid a new specialty: medical malpractice.But it wasn't long before the sudden death of one of the defendants―and a murder charge accusing Manny of being the killer―had Pancho back in the old familiar arena of fighting for his client's life, while at the same time seeking justice for the O.R. errors that had left Giselle in a permanent vegetative state.In Tropical Doubts, the third legal thriller from David Myles Robinson featuring colorful, fast-thinking Pancho McMartin, medical hijinks merge with murder as surprise twists build in this unpredictable courtroom drama.
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June 2008Präimplantationsdiagnostik.
Rechtsvergleichung und bioethische Fragestellungen. Eine Diskussion angesichts der neuen Fortpflanzungsmedizin.
by Latsiou, Charikleia Z.
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January 1987Humanismus, Narrenherrschaft und die Riten der Gewalt
Gesellschaft und Kultur im frühneuzeitlichen Frankreich
by Davis, Natalie Z
