Searching For An Enemy

Author : Bette Dam
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789354892868

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Looking for the Enemy by Bette Dam Pdf

For twenty years, the Taliban was the number one enemy of Western forces in Afghanistan. But it was an enemy that they knew little about, and about whose founder and leader, Mullah Omar, they knew even less. Armed with only a fuzzy black-and-white photo of the man, investigative journalist Bette Dam decided to track down the reclusive Taliban chief a decade back. But in the course of what had seemed an almost impossible job, she got to know the Taliban inside out, realized how dangerously misinformed the global forces fighting it were, and made a startling discovery about the elusive Omar's whereabouts. The outcome of a five-year-long pursuit, Looking for the Enemy is a woman journalist's epic story that takes the reader deep into the dangerous mountains and war-ravaged valleys of Afghanistan as it throws up several unknowns about an organization that is now once again at the helm in one of the world's most fragile states.

Author : Jo Glanville
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781324020660

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Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism by Jo Glanville Pdf

Great Jewish thinkers offer salient historical commentary on the roots of antisemitism and its contemporary resurgence. From medieval accusations that Jews murder Christians for their blood to the far-right conspiracy theories animating present-day political discourse, it’s clear that the belief that Jews are plotting against society never dies—it just adapts to suit the times. In eight illuminating essays from brilliant Jewish writers and thinkers, Looking for an Enemy offers an urgent, profound take on the experience of antisemitism and its historical context. In order to present a nuanced, global understanding of antisemitism, editor Jo Glanville solicited essays from writers across a wide spectrum of ages, political ideologies, and nationalities. American rabbi Jill Jacobs and respected Israeli historian Tom Segev explore the thorny question of antisemitism in politics. British journalist Daniel Trilling investigates how antisemitism drives far-right extremism, while author Philip Spencer rethinks the forms that antisemitism takes on the left. Polish writer Mikolaj Grynberg reflects on a childhood shadowed by the trauma of the Holocaust; journalist Natasha Lehrer and novelist Olga Grjasnowa explore the culture of antisemitism, and the forces behind it, in France and Germany. In her own contribution, Glanville searches for the historical roots of this dangerous hatred. In moving memoir, rich history, and incisive political commentary, these essays navigate the complex differences in each country’s relationship to its Jewish citizens and reveal the contemporary face of antisemitism. Eye-opening and evocative, Looking for an Enemy explores how an irrational belief can still flourish in a supposedly rational age.

Author : Mary Soderstrom
Publisher : [Ottawa] Oberon Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019387518

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Finding the Enemy by Mary Soderstrom Pdf

Author : Sana Ashraf
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781760464554

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Finding the Enemy Within by Sana Ashraf Pdf

In the past decade, Pakistan has witnessed incidents such as the public lynching of a student on a university campus, a Christian couple being torched alive, attacks on entire neighbourhoods by angry mobs and the assassination of a provincial governor by his own security guard over allegations of blasphemy. Finding the Enemy Within unpacks the meanings and motivations behind accusations of blasphemy and subsequent violence in Pakistan. This is the first ethnographic study of its kind analysing the perspectives of a range of different actors including accusers, religious scholars and lawyers involved in blasphemy-related incidents in Pakistan. Bringing together anthropological perspectives on religion, violence and law, this book reworks prevalent analytical dichotomies of reason/emotion, culture/religion, traditional/Western, state/nonstate and legal/extralegal to extend our understanding of the upsurge of blasphemy-related violence in Pakistan. Through the case study of blasphemy accusations in Pakistan, this book addresses broader questions of difference, individual and collective identities, social and symbolic boundaries, and conflict and violence in modern nation-states.

Author : Charlie Thornely
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781471651960

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Searching for the Enemy by Charlie Thornely Pdf

Author : Jerry Garc’a
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816530250

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Looking Like the Enemy by Jerry Garc’a Pdf

Looking Like the Enemy is the first English-language book to report on the Japanese experience in Mexico. It is an important examination of the tumultuous half-century before World War II, offering illuminating insights into the wartime experiences of the Japanese on both sides of the US/Mexico border.

Author : Dan Smith
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545665438

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My Friend the Enemy by Dan Smith Pdf

Peter feels compelled to help a wounded German pilot, but he doesn't want to be a traitor--especially not to his father, who is off fighting the Nazis. A moving story about the moral dilemmas of war. Summer 1941: For Peter, the war is a long way away, being fought by his father and thousands of other British soldiers against the faceless threat of Nazism. But war comes frighteningly close to home one night when a German jet is shot down over the neighboring woods. With his feisty new friend Kim, Peter rushes to the crash site to see if there's anything he can salvage. What he finds instead is a German airman. The enemy. Seriously wounded and in need of aid...Continuing in the tradition of thought-provoking literature about the Second World War, Dan Smith's MY FRIEND THE ENEMY is a thrilling adventure that also personalizes the moral dilemmas faced by the children left behind on the home front.

Author : Mary Matusda Gruenewald
Publisher : Newsage Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0939165589

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Looking Like the Enemy by Mary Matusda Gruenewald Pdf

Mary Matsuda is a typical 16-year-old girl living on Vashon Island, Washington with her family. On December 7, 1942, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and Mary's life changes forever. Mary and her brother, Yoneichi, are U.S. citizens, but they are imprisoned, along with their parents, in a Japanese-American internment camp. Mary endures an indefinite sentence behind barbed wire in crowded, primitive camps, struggling for survival and dignity. Mary wonders if they will be killed, or if they will one day return to their beloved home and berry farm. The author tells her story with the passion and spirit of a girl trying to make sense of this terrible injustice to her and her family. Mary captures the emotional and psychological essence of what it was like to grow up in the midst of this profound dislocation, questioning her Japanese and her American heritage. Few other books on this subject come close to the emotional power, raw honesty, and moral significance of this memoir. This personal story provides a touchstone for the young student learning about World War II and this difficult chapter in U.S. history.

Author : Alex Strick van Linschoten,Felix Kuehn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199927319

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An Enemy We Created by Alex Strick van Linschoten,Felix Kuehn Pdf

Originally published: [London]: C. Hurst & Co., 2011.

Author : Monique Ferrell,Julian Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : 1465252975

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Looking for the Enemy by Monique Ferrell,Julian Williams Pdf

Looking for the Enemy: The Eternal Internal Gender Wars of Our Sisters

Author : Charlie Higson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141931845

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The Enemy by Charlie Higson Pdf

The first unputdownable adventure story in this phenomenal series, from the author of the bestselling Young Bond series and award-winning comedy writer and performer (The Fast Show, Down the Line), Charlie Higson. They'll chase you. They'll rip you open. They'll feed on you . . . When the sickness came, every parent, policeman, politician - every adult - fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive. Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city - down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground - the grown-ups lie in wait. But can they make it there - alive?

Author : Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781439106723

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Among the Enemy by Margaret Peterson Haddix Pdf

HIDE OR FIGHT? Matthias, an illegal third child, is caught in the cross fire between rebels and the Population Police. When he unwittingly saves a Population Police officer, Matthias is brought to Population Police headquarters to train as an officer himself. There he meets Nina, another third-born who enlists his help in a plot to undermine the Population Police. But Matthias is under constant scrutiny, and he has no idea whom he can trust. What can one boy do against a wicked bureaucracy?

Author : Carol Matas
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443124577

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In My Enemy's House by Carol Matas Pdf

I survived. Protected by the Nazis that killed my family. Could I ever forgive myself? Award-winning novelist Carol Matas brings readers into the heart of Nazi Germany with the harrowing story of Marisa, a Polish Jew whose blond hair and blue eyes make it easy for her to pass as a Christian. With the Nazis ready to herd the remaining Jews of her town into a ghetto, and with her family either scattered or dead, Marisa takes the papers of a Polish girl and goes to Germany in a desperate attempt to survive as a Polish worker. Marisa finds work as a servant for the Reymanns, a German family that treats her with respect. But she must never forget that Herr Reymann is a high-ranking Nazi. Marisa is hiding in plain sight in her enemy's house. This unflinching account of Marisa's dilemma as a Jew living a lie in order to survive will give readers a new perspective on the nature of good and evil, even as it touches their hearts.

Author : Kassandra Luciuk
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781771134736

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Enemy Alien by Kassandra Luciuk Pdf

This graphic history tells the story of Canada’s first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, an internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. The story is based on Boychuk’s actual memoir, which is the only comprehensive internee testimony in existence. The novel follows Boychuk from his arrest in Toronto to Kapuskasing, where he spends just over three years. It details the everyday struggle of the internees in the camp, including forced labour and exploitation, abuse from guards, malnutrition, and homesickness. It also documents moments of internee agency and resistance, such as work slowdowns and stoppages, hunger strikes, escape attempts, and riots. Little is known about the lives of the incarcerated once the paper trail stops, but Enemy Alien subsequently traces Boychuk’s parole, his search for work, his attempts to organize a union, and his ultimate settlement in Winnipeg. Boychuk’s reflections emphasize the much broader context in which internment takes place. This was not an isolated incident, but rather part and parcel of Canadian nation building and the directives of Canada’s settler colonial project.

Author : Rachel Shabi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015080862090

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Not the Enemy by Rachel Shabi Pdf

'Shabi's important book is a wake-up call to modern Israeli society' Jewish Chronicle Mention Israel and internal conflict, and most people immediately think of the seemingly insoluble Palestinian problem. However, as Rachel Shabi explains in this acclaimed book, there is another crucial division within Israeli society: between Ashkenazi Jews, whose families come from Europe, and Sephardic or Mizrahi Jews, who come from the Arab countries of the Middle East. Herself from an Iraqi Jewish family, Shabi explores the history of this relationship, tracing it back to the first days of the new state of Israel. In a society desperate to identify itself with Europe, immigrants who spoke Arabic and followed Middle Eastern customs were seen as inferior. Sixty years later, such prejudices are still in force. As Shabi demonstrates, Mizrahis are strikingly less successful than Ashkenazis, condemned, often, to substandard education, low-quality housing and mockery for their accents, tastes and lifestyles. Not only does this damage Mizrahi lives and hopes; it also reflects a wider Israeli rejection of the Middle East and its culture that makes it impossible for Israel ever to become integrated within its own region. 'an eye-opening book ... 'Not the Enemy' is a disturbing and important document, which should be read by everyone worried about what its author calls the 'corrosive, entrenched polarity' of the Middle East.' Gerald Jacobs, Daily Telegraph 'Shabi's account of the Mizrahis' vibrant culture is fascinating. So too is her investigation of the discrimination Mizrahis have suffered.' Financial Times Winner of the Sephardic Culture Mimi S. Frank Award, US National Jewish Book Awards Rachel Shabi was born in Israel to Iraqi parents and grew up in England. A journalist, she has written for a variety of national and international newspapers, including the Guardian, the Sunday Times, and the Independent.