Mastering Modern Standard Arabic Idioms
An invaluable guide to more than one hundred of the most commonly used Modern Standard Arabic idioms Idioms are deeply rooted in their cultural context and as such are both are uniquely tricky and key to competency in a language. With more than 140 of frequently used Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) idioms, this book is a key learning tool for intermediate to advanced learners of the language. Organized by theme into eight chapters, each idiom includes an English translation or equivalent expression and a short bilingual dialogue to show the idiom used in context. Each unit ends with a set of exercises to practice usage and aid in language acquisition. Mastering Modern Standard Arabic Idioms is designed to be a flexible resource, and as such could be adopted in a classroom setting or employed in self-study, and will be of interest to students of language, literature, and culture, as well as to translators and linguists.
European Muslims Transforming the Public Sphere
Anti-Muslim voices have become louder in many places in the midst of ongoing atrocities undertaken in the name of Islam. As a result, much of the creative participation of Western Muslims in the public sphere has become overshadowed. This tendency is not only visible in political discussions and the media landscape, but it is also often reflected in academia where research about Muslims in the West is predominantly shaped by the post 9/11 narrative. In contrast, European Muslims Transforming the Public Sphere offers a paradigm shift. It puts forward a new approach to understanding minority public engagement, suggesting that we need to go beyond conceptualisations that look at Muslims in the West mainly through the minority lens. By bringing into dialogue minority-specific and non-minority specific concepts, the book offers a relevant complement. Using young German Muslims engaged in media, the arts and culture and civil society as ten case studies, this book utilises the concepts of
Tro Inte På Mig När Jag Talar Om Kriget
Asmaa Azaizeh är född 1985 i Daburieh utanför Nasaret. Sedan debuten 2011 har hon kommit att bli en av det senaste decenniets mest framträdande palestinska poeter, både i hemlandet och internationellt där hon bland annat har översatts till engelska, tyska, nederländska, italienska, persiska och hebreiska.Hennes poesi fångar såväl den mänskliga erfarenheten och utsattheten som hemlandets historia och dagspolitiska läge i en anda av Mahmoud Darwishs diktning. Azaizeh vågar dock ifrågasätta sitt eget bildspråk och sina metaforer över lidandet, samtidigt som hon vill skriva sig bort från den roll som offer vilken inte sällan tillskrivs palestinska kvinnor. Azaizeh arbetar också som journalist för palestinska tidningar, radio och tv. Hon utsågs 2012 till föreståndare för Mahmoud Darwish museet i Ramallah och driver ett palestinskt kulturcenter i hemstaden Haifa. Tro inte på mig när jag talar om kriget är Azaizehs tredje diktsamling och första i svensk översättning, gjord av Jasim Mohamed. Hanna Nordenhök har skrivit bokens efterord.
A Rebel in Gaza
Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, and in the face of prison, death threats, abuse, misogyny, violence, and repression, Asmaa Alghoul has continued to speak her truth. She has continued to live and to love, to laugh and to protest. In this moving memoir of growing up Gaza with a hunger for freedom and a passionate attachment to the places she calls home, journalist, writer, and activist, Alghoul recounts her lifelong resistance to religious fanaticism, state sponsored violence, and all forms of repression and subjugation. Alghoul has been called “too strong minded,” criticized for not covering her hair, derided for ignoring warnings and speaking out against injustice. Her pure, clarion voice is raised wholly in support of dialogue, peace, love, and honesty. Nothing, it seems, can stop her. Offering an intimate look into life, politics, and survival in Gaza in recent years, Alghoul’s A Rebel in Gaza offers readers a nuanced and
In Defense of Public Debt
A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Their...
Book of Gaza
Under the Israeli occupation of the '70s and '80s, writers in Gaza had to go to considerable lengths to ever have a chance of seeing their work in print. Manuscripts were written out longhand, invariably under pseudonyms, and smuggled out of the Strip to Jerusalem, Cairo or Beirut, where they then had to be typed up. Consequently, fiction grew shorter, novels became novellas, and short stories flourished as the city's form of choice. Indeed, to Palestinians elsewhere, Gaza became known as 'the exporter of oranges and short stories'. This anthology brings together some of the pioneers of the Gazan short story from that era, as well as younger exponents of the form, with ten stories that offer glimpses of life in the Strip that go beyond the global media headlines; stories of anxiety, oppression, and violence, but also of resilience and hope, of what it means to be a Palestinian, and how that identity is continually being reforged; stories of ordinary characters struggling to live with
Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam
Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period. Focusing on women's engagement with had?th, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's had?...
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads
This book will trace the cultural history of natural history museums from their origins in the 18th century through the present day, by tracing the changing attitudes and philosophies that influence the public displays of major natural history mus...
Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam
Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period. Focusing on women's engagement with had?th, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's had?...
Cambridge O Level Urdu as a Second Language Skills Builder: Reading and Writing
Cambridge O Level Urdu as a Second Language Skills Builder: Reading and Writing
Concepts and Techniques in OMICS and System Biology
Concepts and Techniques in OMICS and Systems Biology provides a concise and lucid account on the technical aspects of omics, system biology and their application in fields of different life science. With a strong focus on the fundamental principles understanding of metabolomics, ionomics and system biology, the book also gives an updated account on technical aspects of omics and system biology. Since both omics and systems biology fields are fast advancing filed of biological sciences, its significance and applications need to be understood from the baseline. In 10 chapters Concepts and Techniques in OMICS and Systems Biology introduces the reader to both Proteomics, Metabolomics and Ionomics, and System Biology, the technical applications, describes both the software in for proteomics as metabolomic enumeration and preludes Omics technologies and their applications. The chapters are designed in a well-defined chronology such that readers will understand the concepts and techniques
Why We Need Religion
How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious...
Striving in the Path of God
In popular and academic literature, jihad is predominantly assumed to refer exclusively to armed combat, and martyrdom in the Islamic context is understood to be invariably of the military kind. This perspective, derived mainly from legal texts, has led to discussions of jihad and martyrdom as concepts with fixed, universal meanings divorced from the socio-political circumstances in which they have been deployed through the centuries. Asma Afsaruddin studies in a more holistic manner the range of significations that can be ascribed to the term jihad from the earliest period to the present and historically contextualizes the competing discourses that developed over time. Many assumptions about the military jihad and martyrdom in Islam are thereby challenged and deconstructed. A comprehensive interrogation of varied sources reveals early and multiple competing definitions of a word that in combination with the phrase fi sabil Allah translates literally to 'striving in the path of God.'
Asma's Indian Kitchen
Darjeeling¿Express¿began life as a dinner for 12 guests at home - Indian food, lovingly cooked from family recipes going back generations. The recipes are homage to Asma's royal Mughlai ancestry and the busy streets of Calcutta and are split betwe...