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"One of CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017" "Shortlisted for the 2018 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society" Banu Turnaoğlu is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Turkish republicanism is commonly thought to have originated with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the founding of modern Turkey in 1923, and understood exclusively in terms of Kemalist ideals,...
1622) Malala Speaks Out
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Malala Yousafzai was denied education when the Taliban took control of her town in Pakistan. She decided to speak up, despite the danger it put her in. Her story is the story of many girls.
When Malala was fifteen years old, she was attacked by the Taliban for defending girls' rights to education. She survived and recovered to become a world leader in education rights. In 2014, at the age of seventeen, she was the youngest person to be awarded the...
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The first fundamental truth about the "Arab Spring" is that there never was one. The salient fact of the Middle East, the only one, is Islam. The Islam that shapes the Middle East inculcates in Muslims the self-perception that they are members of a civilization implacably hostile to the West. The United States is a competitor to be overcome, not the herald of a culture to be embraced. Is this self-perception based on objective truth? Does it reflect...
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Anyone who has ever spent time in a Christian church knows that the gospels are never, read as a series of ordered events forming a narrative whole. Instead, they are, read with dogged incoherence, focusing on tiny snippets taken out of context. The birth stories of Matthew and Luke are, emphasized at Christmas; the stone rolls away from the tomb at Easter. The gospels are, used in churches only as occasional readings, lections, chapters and verses,...
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Are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel to be found in Native American tribes of North and South America?
In 1828, Unitarian minister Israel Worsley sought to answer this question in the affirmative by publishing the book:
"A View of the American Indians...Shewing Them to be the Descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel."
The purpose of Worsley's 1828 book was to give a concise but conspicuous view of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, extracting from the...
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The Life After Death (Barzakh) In Islam Based from The Holy Quran Bilingual Edition In English & Germany Language Lite Version. Barzakh is an Arabic word meaning "obstacle", "hindrance", "separation", or "barrier" designates a place separating the living from the hereafter; a veil between the dead and their return to world of the living, but also to a phase happening between death and resurrection.
Barzakh may, according to Ghazali, also be the place...
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Fawaz A. Gerges is professor of international relations and Emirates Chair in Contemporary Middle East Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including ISIS: A History (Princeton), The New Middle East, and The Far Enemy.
How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle East
In 2013, just two years after...
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A rebel dreamer of a girl daydreams about her role in making the world a better place-and since dreams bleed into reality, maybe she really does.
A KirkusReviews Best Beginning Reader of 2022!
Shahrzad and the Angry King is a contemporary reimagining of the Scheherazade tale, starring scooter-riding, story-loving Shahrzad. Shahrzad loves stories and looks for them everywhere. When she meets a boy and asks him to tell her his story, he recounts...
1629) The Servant
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Faten's happy life in her village comes to an abrupt end when her father arranges for her to work as a servant for a wealthy Beirut family with two spoiled daughters. What does a bright, ambitious seventeen-year-old do when she is suddenly deprived of her friends, family, education and freedom? Could the mysterious, wealthy young man who lives in the next apartment building help? When Faten finally manages to make contact with Marwan, a musician and...
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The Revolution in Rojava captured the imagination of the Left sparking a worldwide interest in the Kurdish Freedom Movement. The Art of Freedom demonstrates that this explosive movement is firmly rooted in several decades of organized struggle.
In 2018, one of the most important spokespersons for the struggle of Kurdish Freedom, Havin Guneser, held three groundbreaking seminars on the historical background and guiding ideology of the movement. Much...
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xxvi, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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"Previously uncollected lectures and writings that trace the evolution of the Goddess, from Neolithic Old Europe to the Renaissance, and interpret classical motifs. Offers insight into self-actualization for women. Edited and introduced by the executive director of the Opus Archives and Research Center"--Provided by publisher.
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"At 21, Belén Fernández left the U.S. and didn't look back. Alone, far off the beaten path, she reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world. In just a few years of publishing observations on world politics from places as varied as Lebanon, Italy, Uzbekistan, Syria, Mexico, Turkey, Honduras, and Iran, Fernández has established herself as one of the most trenchant observers of America's interventions around...
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From Israel's leading historian, a sweeping history of 1967-the war, what led up to it, what came after, and how it changed everything
Tom Segev's acclaimed works One Palestine, Complete and The Seventh Million overturned accepted views of the history of Israel. Now, in 1967-a number-one bestseller in Hebrew-he brings his masterful skills to the watershed year when six days of war reshaped the country and the entire region.
Going far beyond a military...
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"A Palestinian family celebrates the stories of their homeland in this moving autobiographical picture book debut by Hannah Moushabeck. With heartfelt illustrations by Reem Madooh, Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine is a love letter to home, to family, and to the persisting hope of people, which transcends borders"--
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xi, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Drawing on confidential sources in Mossad, Israel's equivalent to our CIA, Bob and Evyatar, reporters for The Jerusalem Post, tell the remarkable story behind the most stunning development in the Middle East in recent years: the Abraham Accords that normalized relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. They show how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar -- and diplomacy -- to forge a new Middle East, uniting Israel...
1636) Nour's secret library
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"Forced to take shelter when their Syrian city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library."--Provided by publisher.
1637) Naaman's Maid
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86 pages written in easy-to-read large 16-point font for the early reader. Stories can be understood by four-year-olds and up.
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At the end of each chapter is "Think & Do" to help the child apply the story to their own life.
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This series ~ "A Child's Bible Kids" ~ comprises a simple survey of the Old Testament for children.
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Popular among grandparents and excellent for homeschoolers.
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Nara was 12 years old and so happy when she...
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A Westerner's travels among the persecuted and displaced Christian remnant in Iraq and Syria teach him much about faith under fire. Inside Syria and Iraq, and even along the refugee trail, they're a religious minority persecuted for their Christian faith. Outside the Middle East, they're suspect because of their nationality. A small remnant of Christians is on the run from the Islamic State. If they are wiped out, or scattered to the corners of the...
1639) Your Passport to Iran
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What would it be like to live in Iran? How is Iran's culture unique? Explore the sights, traditions, and daily lives of Iranians!
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After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid. Peace efforts have failed because of one, inconvenient truth: the Israeli maximum on offer does not meet the Palestinian minimum, or the standards of international law.
But while the situation on the ground is bleak, Ben White argues that there are widening cracks in Israel's traditional pillars...
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