Occupied Voices

Author : Wendy Pearlman
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1560255307

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Occupied Voices by Wendy Pearlman Pdf

As the Middle East peace process disintegrates and the second Palestinian Intifada begins, Wendy Pearlman, a young Jewish woman from the American Midwest travels to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in a quest to talk to ordinary Palestinians. A remarkable narrative emerges from her conversations with doctors, artists, school kids, and families who have lost loved ones or watched their homes destroyed. Their stories, ranging from the humorous to the tragic, paint a profile of the Palestinians that is as honest as it is uncommon in the Western media: that of ordinary people who simply want to live ordinary lives. As Pearlman writes, "the personal stories and heartfelt reflections that I encountered did not expose a hatred of Jews or a yearning to push Israelis into the sea. Rather, they painted a portrait of a people who longed for precisely that which had inspired the first Israelis: the chance to be citizens in a country of their own."

Author : Cate Malek
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781940450704

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Palestine Speaks by Cate Malek Pdf

The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises for over four decades. In this oral history collection, men and women from Palestine—including a fisherman, a settlement administrator, and a marathon runner—describe in their own words how their lives have been shaped by the historic crisis. Other narrators include: ABEER, a young journalist from Gaza City who launched her career by covering bombing raids on the Gaza Strip. IBTISAM, the director of a multi-faith children’s center in the West Bank whose dream of starting a similar center in Gaza has so far been hindered by border closures. GHASSAN, an Arab-Christian physics professor and activist from Bethlehem who co-founded the International Solidarity Movement.

Author : L. Ali Khan
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004152076

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A theory of international terrorism [electronic resource] by L. Ali Khan Pdf

Presents a study of Islamic militancy in the geopolitical contexts of Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine, and the September 11 attacks on the United States. This book argues that the policy of no negotiations with Muslim militants is contrary to the UN Charter, and that terrorism cannot be eradicated unless the nation-state evolves into the Free State.

Author : Jo-Anne Elder,Colin O’Connell,Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780889202863

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Voices and Echoes by Jo-Anne Elder,Colin O’Connell,Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion Pdf

“Every time we raise our voices, we hear echoes.” Jo-Anne Elder, from the Foreword Through short stories, journal entries and poetry, the women in Voices and Echoes explore the changing landscape of their spiritual lives. Experienced writers such as Lorna Crozier, Di Brandt and Ann Copeland, as well as strong new voices, appear to speak to each other as they draw from a wealth of personal resources to find a way to face life’s questions and discover meaning in their lives. There is something familiar about these stories and poems — they echo those we’ve heard before and those we’ve half forgotten. Whether they search for a voice in a world where men monopolize or journey into painful memories to free the self from the past, they do not despair, they do not end. Individual entries become the whole story — an unending story of rebirth and reaffirmation. The book begins with an illuminating foreword that introduces readers to the cultural and philosophical background of many of the stories, and concludes with the reflections of scholars, writers and artists that are intended to provoke further discussion.

Author : Rhoda Broughton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101067630838

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Nancy by Rhoda Broughton Pdf

Author : Wendy Pearlman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139503051

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Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement by Wendy Pearlman Pdf

Why do some national movements use violent protest and others nonviolent protest? Wendy Pearlman shows that much of the answer lies inside movements themselves. Nonviolent protest requires coordination and restraint, which only a cohesive movement can provide. When, by contrast, a movement is fragmented, factional competition generates new incentives for violence and authority structures are too weak to constrain escalation. Pearlman reveals these patterns across one hundred years in the Palestinian national movement, with comparisons to South Africa and Northern Ireland. To those who ask why there is no Palestinian Gandhi, Pearlman demonstrates that nonviolence is not simply a matter of leadership. Nor is violence attributable only to religion, emotions or stark instrumentality. Instead, a movement's organizational structure mediates the strategies that it employs. By taking readers on a journey from civil disobedience to suicide bombings, this book offers fresh insight into the dynamics of conflict and mobilization.

Author : Pierre W. Orelus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460912436

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The Occupier and the ""New"" Occupied by Pierre W. Orelus Pdf

In this book, the author critically analyzes the wide-ranging effects of western neo-colonial and neo-liberal economic and political policies on Haiti and other oppressed nations. The author’s overarching argument is that western colonization of these countries has taken a different form with a disguised mask.

Author : Adam Roberts,Michael J. Willis,Rory McCarthy,Timothy Garton Ash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191065866

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Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring by Adam Roberts,Michael J. Willis,Rory McCarthy,Timothy Garton Ash Pdf

Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010. It won some notable victories: popular movements helped to bring about the fall of authoritarian governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Yet these apparent triumphs of non-violent action were followed by disasters—wars in Syria, anarchy in Libya and Yemen, reversion to authoritarian rule in Egypt, and counter-revolution backed by external intervention in Bahrain. Looming over these events was the enduring divide between the Sunni and Shi'a branches of Islam. Why did so much go wrong? Was the problem the methods, leadership and aims of the popular movements, or the conditions of their societies? In this book, experts on these countries, and on the techniques of civil resistance, set the events in their historical, social and political contexts. They describe how governments and outside powers—including the US and EU—responded, how Arab monarchies in Jordan and Morocco undertook to introduce reforms to avert revolution, and why the Arab Spring failed to spark a Palestinian one. They indicate how and why Tunisia remained, precariously, the country that experienced the most political change for the lowest cost in bloodshed. This book provides a vivid illustrated account and rigorous scholarly analysis of the course and fate, the strengths and the weaknesses, of the Arab Spring. The authors draw clear and challenging conclusions from these tumultuous events. Above all, they show how civil resistance aiming at regime change is not enough: building the institutions and the trust necessary for reforms to be implemented and democracy to develop is a more difficult but equally crucial task.

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Russian fiction
ISBN : MINN:31951002009677T

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The Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi by graf Leo Tolstoy Pdf

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCD:31175006982899

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War and peace, II : Tilsit by graf Leo Tolstoy Pdf

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
ISBN : HARVARD:HNDPSY

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War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy Pdf

Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183011988350

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Complete Works by graf Leo Tolstoy Pdf

Author : graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112062965089

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The Works of Lyof N. Tolsto.̐: The kingdom of God is within you. What is art? by graf Leo Tolstoy Pdf

Author : John N. Sheveland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317080923

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Piety and Responsibility by John N. Sheveland Pdf

This book analyzes the writings of Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika to disclose how each construes "piety" and "responsibility" as integral to each other. Each theologian expresses a fundamental unity of love of God and love of neighbour. Sheveland explores this unity in ecumenical and interreligious frameworks, showing how these authors privilege theology as practice, enactment, or simply as ethical. He uses the Renaissance genre of musical polyphony as a methodological tool by which to explore the aesthetic quality and the similarity-in-difference of the theological voices being compared. Polyphony's application to comparative theology includes the avoidance of caricature, domestication, and antagonism. In place of these is offered a fundamentally aesthetic paradigm by which to hear theological voices in terms of their unity-in-distinction.

Author : Dwight O. Craver Jr.,Peter L. Colman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524506421

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Urbanus the Kingdom Chronicles by Dwight O. Craver Jr.,Peter L. Colman Pdf

In the times before time, a great and glorious kingdom named Urbanus once existed. Urbanus: The Kingdom Chronicles is an epic parable recounting the historical conflict between invisible and universal forces that perpetually contend for the hearts and minds of men. The people of Urbanus were compelled to choose between liberty and tyranny and ultimately life and death. The uniqueness of the characters in the story testifies to the reality that those who cannot rule themselves will be ruled by tyrants. The larger-than-life cast of characters in this multidimensional epic include Abner the Seer, messenger of King Salem; Wain of Lair, captain of the Northern Rangers; his brother, Lothair, lieutenant of the rangers; their ranger cohorts: the Brothers Fairn, the Men of Invar, and Lon of Mark; Macoot, the elusive chieftain of the Toon; Jurius Hanner, guardian of the Jasper Stone and grandfather of Daylin Hanner, a young daydreamer who is the chosen instrument of King Salem; Souteneur, the notorious godfather of crime and corruption of the underworld of Urbanus. They represent the forces of light. Sanballat, the evil emir of the Southern Kingdom along with a complex host of supporting personalities and creatures represent the forces of darkness.