Design Politics of the Passport
The Design Politics of the Passport presents an innovative study of the passport and its associated social, political and material practices as a means of uncovering the workings of 'design politics'. It traces the histories, technologies, power r...
Arabic-English/English-Arabic Compact Dictionary
Concise, convenient and teeming with useful vocabulary words in the target language, this handy dictionary makes effective communication a snap.
Men Jerusalem står kvar
Mahmoud Shukair är född 1941 och har studerat filosofi och sociologi vid universitetet i Damaskus. Efter Israels ockupation av östra Jerusalem 1967 fängslades han i perioder och deporterades till Libanon 1975. Sedan levde han i exil i många år i o...
River Dies of Thirst
'A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by occupation and oppression into a nightmare. Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming...
Human Rights Between Universality and Islamic Legitimacy
Human Rights Between Universality and Islamic Legitimacy
My Friend the Fisherman
Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step. Level 10 books include characters that express emotions and stories with more events. Non-fiction titles introduce terms that might be new to many children. Level 10 books continue to use single spacing and more high-frequency words appear without vowel markings to help the students get used to the traditional norms of printed Arabic. Salih helps keep his uncle’s fishing nets clean. One day he gets help from a rather surprising friend! In return for help cleaning the nets Salih shows his new friend around Dubai.
JDBC Recipes
JDBC Recipes provides easy-to-implement, usable solutions to problems in relational databases that use JDBC. You will be able to integrate these solutions into your web-based applications, such as Java servlets, JavaServer Pages, and Java server-s...
Mellan Rummen
Under ett år skriver fotografen Alexander Mahmoud dagbok om återkomsten till den småländska hembyn, om brorsan och morsan och rasismen. Samtidigt: den växande kärleken till Shirin, som lever som papperslös i Stockholm. Hon är möjligheten till ett annat liv, men också en påminnelse om den egna maktlösheten och skörheten. Ur det mest privata gror en berättelse om Sverige fram.
Memory for Forgetfulness
One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As...
In the Presence of Absence
One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to create a luminous work that defies categorization. In stunning language, Darwish's self-elegy inhabits a rare space where opposites bleed and blend into each other. Prose and poetry, life and death, home and exile are all sung by the poet and his other. On the threshold of im/mortality, the poet looks back at his own existence, intertwined with that of his people. Through these lyrical meditations on love, longing, Palestine, history, friendship, family, and the ongoing conversation between life and death, the poet bids himself and his readers a poignant farewell.
Colonel
It's a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assassinated or executed. Memorie...
Design Politics of the Passport
The Design Politics of the Passport presents an innovative study of the passport and its associated social, political and material practices as a means of uncovering the workings of 'design politics'. It traces the histories, technologies, power r...
El-Mumtaaz
A research-based approach to learning beginner-level contemporary Egyptian Arabic that puts culture up front El Mumtaaz provides learners new to Egyptian Arabic (EA) with the keys to understanding and speaking the language while also developing their facility to understand EA as written online. With relevant themes, humorous dialogues about contemporary life, thematic vocabulary, and lots of Egyptian culture and pragmatics, Mahmoud Azaz and Ayman Mohamed have built each chapter around ACTFL's world readiness standards, ensuring mastery of one of the most widely spoken varieties of Arabic. Partner and group activities and easy-to-follow grammar explanations give learners every tool for mastery. Robust culture sections, using memes and jokes to teach pragmatics, round out each chapter. Covering topics that include introductions and greetings, family, the daily and weekly routine, friends and colleagues, education, food, weather, errands, vacations and going out, clothes and shopping,
Where am I?
Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step. Level 3 books introduce the concept of the ‘story’, and include simple phonic sounds and very high-frequency words with simple spellings. A little Arab boy looks towards the sky and can see lots of interesting things – a plane, a hawk, a crescent moon – but where exactly is he? Can you guess where he is from the pictures?
Thirst
During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, an Iraqi journalist is given a tour of a military prison. He is informed by the major in charge about what is expected of him: he is to write a fabricated report about a murder that has occurred in the camp, ...
Cairo Circles
One of BuzzFeed's New Books You'll Love "Cairo Circles is a novel that proves literature needn't choose between pleasure and substance. You will tear through the pages of this delicious book, and you will be changed in the process. Doma Mahmo...
Mural
Mural is the testimony of one of the most important and powerful poets of our age. Mahmoud Darwish was the unofficial laureate of Palestine. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession and exile. Here, his close friends John Berger and Rema Hammami present a beautiful new translation of two of Darwish's later works: his long masterpiece Mural, a contemplation of his life and work written following life-threatening surgery, and his last poem, The Dice Player, which Darwish read in Ramallah a month before his death. Illustrated with original drawings by John Berger.
Kredittriangeln : pengar & ekonomi genom en triangel
Upptäck hemligheterna bakom vår moderna ekonomi och dess komplicerade koppling till pengar i den fängslande boken "Kredittriangeln". Skriven av en författare driven av en personlig besatthet att förstå pengarnas värld, tar denna bo...
Adam of Two Edens
A collection of poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The poems range from dreamy reflections to bitter longings for the Palestine that was lost when Israel was created in 1948.
Neighbors
Ahmad Mahmoud sets The Neighbors against the backdrop of the oil nationalization crisis that gripped Iran in the early 1950s. His protagonist, Khaled, a young man from a rundown neighborhood in Ahvaz, a city in southern Iran, becomes involved in t...
Hamsayeha (the Neighbors)
Hamsayeha (the Neighbors)
JDBC Metadata, MySQL, and Oracle Recipes
JDBC Metadata, MySQL, and Oracle Recipes is the only book that focuses on metadata or annotation-based code recipes for JDBC API for use with Oracle and MySQL. It continues where the authors other book, JDBC Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, l...
Understanding the Qur'an Today
The prevailing belief among Muslims is that, because the Qur'an is the Word of God and God is eternal, it follows that His Word is also eternal. The belief is based on the postulate that the Word of God must be of the same nature as God Himself. M...
Jerusalem Stands Alone
By turns bleak, nostalgic, and lighthearted, Jerusalem Stands Alone explores the interconnected lives of its mostly Palestinian cast. This series of quick moving vignettes tells the story of occupied Jerusalem-tales of the daily tribulations and p...
If I Were Another: Poems
Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Translation Mahmoud Darwish was that rare literary phenomenon: a poet both acclaimed by critics as one of the most important poets in the Arab world and beloved by his readers. His language--lyrical and tender--helped to transform modern Arabic poetry into a living metaphor for the universal experiences of exile, loss, and identity. The poems in this collection, constructed from the cadence and imagery of the Palestinian struggle, shift between the most intimate individual experience and the burdens of history and collective memory. Brilliantly translated by Fady Joudah, If I Were Another--which collects the greatest epic works of Darwish's mature years--is a powerful yet elegant work by a master poet that demonstrates why Darwish was one of the most celebrated poets of his time and was hailed as the voice and conscience of an entire people.
State of Siege
Darwish (1942-2008), recipient of France s Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres medal, the Lotus Prize, and the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom, is widely considered Palestine s most eminent poet. State of Siege was written while the poe...
Polya Urn Models
Incorporating a collection of recent results, Pólya Urn Models deals with discrete probability through the modern and evolving urn theory and its numerous applications. The book first substantiates the realization of distributions with urn argumen...
Total Gut Balance
Most people understand the importance of a healthy gut microbiome for digestive health and overall wellbeing. Here, Mahmoud Ghannoum introduces an important component of the microbiome: the mycobiome-the fungi that live inside our bodies-and expla...
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone
At once an intimate autobiography and a collective memory of the Palestinian people, Mahmoud Darwish's interlinked poems are collective cries, songs, and glimpses of the human condition. The collection-widely considered his 'chef-d'oeuvre-is a poetry of myth and history, of exile and suspended time, of an identity bound to the Arabic language and his displaced people. Darwish's poems-specific and symbolic, simple and profound-are historical glimpses, existential queries, chants of pain and injustice of a people separated from their land.
Arabic-English/English-Arabic Dictionary & Phrasebook ..
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