Sabra Zoo

Author : Mischa Hiller
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781846591020

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Sabra Zoo by Mischa Hiller Pdf

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book for Europe and South Asia. "A stunning, defiant debut."— Guardian "Hiller brings to his works not only a craftsman's skill but also a compassion for his characters that proves infectious."— Haaretz "A chilling rites-of-passage novel set in Beirut in 1982 during the killings in the camps."— The Economist It is the summer of 1982 and Beirut is under siege. Eighteen-year-old Ivan's parents have just been evacuated from the city with other members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Ivan stays on, interpreting for international medical volunteers in Sabra refugee camp and working undercover for the PLO. Hoping to get closer to Eli, a Norwegian physiotherapist, he helps her treat Youssef, a camp orphan disabled by a cluster bomb. An unexpected friendship develops between the three and things begin to look up. But events take a nasty turn when the president-elect is assassinated. The Israeli army enters Beirut and surrounds the camp, with Eli and Youssef trapped inside. What happens next makes international headlines and leaves Ivan scrabbling to salvage something positive from the chaos. Mischa Hiller, of English–Palestinian descent, was born in England in 1962 and grew up in London, Dar es Salaam, and Beirut. Mischa won the 2009 European Independent Film Festival script competition for his adaptation of Sabra Zoo. He lives with his family in Cambridge, England.

Author : Caroline Rooney,Rita Sakr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135136536

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The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism by Caroline Rooney,Rita Sakr Pdf

This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside journalism and other media including film and art. The book investigates and promotes an awareness of an ethics of representation on questions of extreme emotional investment, comparing representations of the siege to representations of other traumatic events, visiting responses from those of different cultural backgrounds to the same event and considering implications with respect to comparative approaches. Chapters explore how literature, journalism and art contribute to overcoming the dangers of forgetting and denial, memorial excess and fundamentalism, the radicalization of violence, and the complete breakdown of trust on international levels, asking how they challenge geopolitical, intellectual, and psychological states of siege and instead promote awareness, acknowledgement, mourning, and justice across divided communities. The book extends the use of postcolonial methodologies affiliated with history, international relations, and psychoanalysis (memory, trauma) to Middle-Eastern studies, and visits the siege’s effect on different forms of memory and memorialization: selective memory, trauma, gaps and fissures in historical accounts, recording of eyewitness reports, and artistic re-imaginings and realizations of alternative archives.

Author : Penny (ed.) Johnson
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623710415

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Seeking Palestine by Penny (ed.) Johnson Pdf

How do Palestinians live, imagine and reflect on home and exile in this period of a stateless and transitory Palestine and a sharp escalation in Israeli state violence and accompanying Palestinian oppression? How can exile and home be written? In this volume of new writing, fifteen innovative and outstanding Palestinian writers—essayists, poets, novelists, critics, artists and memoirists—respond with their reflections, experiences, memories and polemics. Their contributions—poignant, humorous, intimate, reflective, intensely political—make for an offering that is remarkable for the candor and grace with which it explores the many individual and collective experiences of waiting, living for, and seeking Palestine. Contributors include: Lila Abu-Lughod, Susan Abulhawa, Suad Amiry, Rana Barakat, Mourid Barghouti, Beshara Doumani, Sharif S. Elmusa, Rema Hammami, Mischa Hiller, Emily Jacir, Penny Johnson, Fady Joudah, Jean Said Makdisi, Karma Nabulsi, Raeda Sa’adeh, Raja Shehadeh, Adania Shibli.

Author : Mischa Hiller
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316204224

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Shake Off by Mischa Hiller Pdf

An internationally acclaimed thriller of love, espionage and subterfuge, in which Middle East meets West with dangerous consequences. Years of training have transformed Michel Khoury into a skilled intelligence operative. A refugee whose family was murdered by extremists, he has one mission: the peaceful resolution of the Middle East conflict that upended his life. An alluring enigma, he attracts the attention of Helen, a pretty English girl who lives in the adjacent apartment. As their relationship develops, Michel is unable to tell Helen about his past -- or the collection of passports and unmarked bills he's concealed in the bathroom they share. When Michel's secrets turn deadly, Helen and Michel find themselves pursued through the streets of London, Berlin and the Scottish countryside, on the run from the very people they thought they could trust. A critically celebrated novel that "recalls the cool detachment and compelling eye for ordinary detail that characterized the early thrillers of Graham Greene" (Independent on Sunday), Shake Off is that rare breed of riveting tale -- of intrigue and suspense, love and betrayal -- that announces a bold new voice for our increasingly global times.

Author : Anastasia Valassopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317981053

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Arab Cultural Studies by Anastasia Valassopoulos Pdf

This book seeks to both showcase and further develop innovative research and debates on contemporary Arab cultural production. Popular culture in the form of cinema, popular music, literature, visual media and cyber-cultures, both local and imported, enjoy a central role in Arab cultural life, and the contributors to this innovative collection showcase the tremendous cultural output emerging from the Arab world. They present sensitive, conceptual readings whilst remaining mindful of the place of this work within a wider framework that seeks to prevent isolationist readings of cultural phenomena. Making sense of the place of culture in the Arab world, and agreeing upon a broadly recognisable and commonly accepted set of terms within which to discuss this output, is a new and urgent challenge. Arab Cultural Studies aspires to understand, communicate and theorise these forms. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

Author : Asher D. Biemann,Richard I. Cohen,Sarah E. Wobick-Segev
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110637564

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Spiritual Homelands by Asher D. Biemann,Richard I. Cohen,Sarah E. Wobick-Segev Pdf

Homeland, Exile, Imagined Homelands are features of the modern experience and relate to the cultural and historical dilemmas of loss, nostalgia, utopia, travel, longing, and are central for Jews and others. This book is an exploration into a world of boundary crossings and of desired places and alternate identities, into a world of adopted kin and invented allegiances.

Author : Christian P. Potholm
Publisher : UPA
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761867746

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Understanding War by Christian P. Potholm Pdf

The third book in Professor Christian Potholm’s war trilogy (which includes Winning at War and War Wisdom), Understanding War provides a most workable bibliography dealing with the vast literature on war and warfare. As such, it provides insights into over 3000 works on this overwhelmingly extensive material. Understanding War is thus the most comprehensive annotated bibliography available today. Moreover, by dividing war material into eighteen overarching themes of analysis and fifty seminal topics, and focusing on these, Understanding War enables the reader to access and understand the broadest possible array of materials across both time and space, beginning with the earliest forms of warfare and concluding with the contemporary situation. Stimulating and thought-provoking, this volume is essential for an understanding of the breadth and depth of the vast scholarship dealing with war and warfare through human history and across cultures.

Author : Syrine Hout
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748669172

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Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction by Syrine Hout Pdf

This book examines the phenomenon of the post-civil war Anglophone Lebanese fictional narrative.

Author : Azriel Louis Eisenberg
Publisher : Jonathan David Company, Incorporated
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0824601025

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Sabra Children by Azriel Louis Eisenberg Pdf

This volume contains 25 short stories about various aspects of life in Israel.

Author : David Yallop
Publisher : Constable
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781472116550

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To the Ends of the Earth by David Yallop Pdf

ON Friday 27th June 1975 a young Venezuelan burst from a Paris apartment straight into the world's headlines. He left for dead four men. He had previously blithely lobbed a grenade into a crowded cafe, attempted to assassinate the president of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain, seized the French Embassy in Holland and launched two rocket attacks on planes at Orly airport. His crimes were apparently endless. He went on the kidnap the OPEC ministers in Vienna. He is known to the world as Carlos. The press dubbed him the Jackal. Security forces consider him The World's Most Wanted Man. Favid Yallop tracked Carlos down to a small village in the Bekaa Valley outside war-torn Beirut. Through two long nights he listened to part of Carlos's story. Then, under tragic circumstances, the trail went dead. For the next seven years, Yallop tried t rediscover Carlos the Jackal, but what began as a manhunt became a journey into a frightening world of terrorism, espionage and Middle Eastern politics. Drawing on the investigative skills that made In God's Name an international bestseller, written with clarity, passion and humanity, To the Ends of the Earth is a monumental and riveting book, a pursuit of truth that is destined to become a classic.

Author : Robert Lopshire
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375812156

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Put Me In the Zoo by Robert Lopshire Pdf

They say a leopard can’t change his spots–but Spot sure can! Babies and toddlers will love pointing out the colors of his changing spots in this delightful, rhyming adaptation of Robert Lopshire’s classic Bright and Early Book.

Author : John ''Ish'' Ishmael
Publisher : John Ish Ishmael
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425774028

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Poetry of Love and Protest by John ''Ish'' Ishmael Pdf

My four books at this site are:- CHOSEN WORLD - OUR WAR ON ISLAM AND OUR OWN FREEDOMS; US INVASION OF CANADA AND ITS ABSORPTION; THE BLACK BUG - THE GENETIC BOMB & MORE BLACK HOLOCAUSTS; POETRY OF LOVE AND PROTEST. I grew up in a British Colony, British Guiana, and lived through its fight for independence, led by Cheddi Jagan with his wife Janet Rosenberg and Forbes Burnham. I also lived through the dark times of CIA and MI6 interventions. I left Guyana for Canada in 1971, while that county endured 40 years of darkness. After President Jimmy Carter eventually brokered fair elections Guyana is healing itself of its ethnic strife. Canada became my home in the 1970´s and I used my experience as a journalist for the "Guiana Graphic" and the "Chronicle" to research my books. My research for "CHOSEN WORLD - Our war on Islam and our own freedoms" led me to step beyond my own Christian faith and to investigate that of Judaism and Islam, primarily. My self education about Buddism, Hinduism, Zorastrianism and Bahiism was short and requires my followup. CHOSEN WORLD views contemporary events with as a ladder to future sequences and the lover rungs as leading to the origins of the events. This book then takes the reader into various futures that can arise from the events first discussed. One of the most challenging ´Chosen Worlds´ I examined forced me to enter the mind of a future Pope who is being blackmailed to cast the Church´s vote as directed by the world blight that American has become as it has become fully parasatized by foreign influences. My poetry of youth in Guyana and of my adult life in Canada, is also heavily influenced by my deep appreciation of women in my life and my love of nature. It speaks of my teen years when I was fortunate to have been romantically involved with ladies twice my age. Today, these older women would be called predators. Like all of my country people of those years, I grew up very close to nature and travelling in the tropical rain forests and on the mighty rivers of Guyana also influenced my POETRY OF LOVE AND PROTEST. The "protest" in the title of my poetry and in my novels stems my period of journalism in Guyana, writing about about the Amerindian, Chinese, Black and East Indian condition and of our overall poverty and despair. That protest reaches to my mid and later years. I experienced the same emotions of protest as I visited Canadian Reservations of slow genocide and experienced the fierce hatred that my Arab-Islamic name evoked among a small but active group in Winnipeg Manitoba. This group was weaned on the biblical stories of Ishmael and Isaac and carry with them their interpretation that they were short changed by God, in favour of the descendants of the biblical Ishmael. Millions of these nutcases are determined to contol the oil and water resources of the Islamic Middle East that they claim is their inheritance. CHOSEN WORLD addresses some of this. My Canadian experience is also shaped by experiences such as that with a former employer, who, when I gave him notice, played a Ben Franklin tape for me that said that to be successful I must not be like "Arabs who are dirty, lazy and failures."My name evoked passion simply by my speaking it, in Manitoba. Over the past decades, after Pierre Elliot Trudeau, I have been aghast at Canada´s steady morphing into an armed appendage of the Empire next door and at General Rick Hillier sending our lads and lasses to "kill the scum" in Afghanistan and to be sent back as dead "heroes.´ I flinch at the horror told by Palestinian survivors and Israeli journalists of the Sharon engineered genocides at Sabra and Chatilla. I am inured to the actions of those who react with outrage at criticism especially of the Occupation of Palestine. These antagonists were formed with their own prejudices and I came by min

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410342829

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A Study Guide for Edna Ferber's "Cimarron" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Edna Ferber's "Cimarron," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1726 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498231

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114317402

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Sabra and Shatila by Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout Pdf

The book covers the history of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which took place over three bloody days in the Lebanese capital Beirut. It was committed against Palestinian refugees by Lebanese militias, aided and supervised by the Israeli Army, which had encircled the district.Now available for the first time in English, this classic book is the most comprehensive, authoritative account of what happened and who was responsible. The author, Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout, was a Professor at the Lebanese University at the time. Driven by the horror of what occurred, she interviewed survivors and set up an oral history project immediately after the massacre to preserve testimonies. This book is the result. Following a general introduction, the first part contains interviews mainly with victims' families. The second part analyses statistical data and attempts to determine the number of victims. The conclusion, 'Who Was Responsible?', sheds light on the various parties responsible. Over five-hundred pages long, illustrated with photographs and maps, unrivalled in detail and scope, this book is a courageous attempt to make sense of what happened and an important political document in its own right.