The Curse Of Zohreh

Author : Sophie Masson
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781742747859

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The Curse Of Zohreh by Sophie Masson Pdf

Revenge, magic, love and hatred - and a curse so powerful it has lasted for centuries. In the desert kingdom of Ameerat, the al-Farouk family lives in luxury in a beautiful palace. But their great wealth comes at a terrible price - the curse of Zohreh, laid on the family 100 years earlier by another merchant who was cheated of her riches, and manifesting itself in a horrible death by fire that strikes certain members of the family. Khaled al-Farouk, the eldest son of the family, is desperate to make amends for the wrong done by his ancestor, but Zohreh's descendants are nowhere to be found. Or so they think. For far away in Parsari, Soheila, one of the younger members of Zohreh's clan, has vowed to revenge her ancestor. She leaves her home early one morning, dressed as a boy, and makes the long journey across land and sea to Ameerat, where she manages to inflitrate the al-Farouk household to await her moment of retribution. And so begins an amazing, exciting, moving, scary, and humorous adventure that will take Khaled and Soheila right into the heart of the Arabian Nights, into the strange world of the jinns as well as dangerous human intrigues, to great danger, suspense, and a stunning climax.

Author : Harry DeMaio
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780927718

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The Curse of the Mummy's Case by Harry DeMaio Pdf

After a two volume absence, the mad duck, Imperius Drake, and his dumb heavy subordinate, Bigg Baboon return with a vengeance (literally.) Set on conquest of the cosmos, the duck has hatched (sorry) a plot to revivify a savage ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, Tsk VI and his ghost armies of crocodiles and lions. He plans to clone them and use them to overcome his enemies, real and imagined. Many new characters appear but most important are Octavius' and Belinda's twin cubs, Arabella and McTavish. (Yes, a Polar and Kodiak can have offspring.) You may remember that the “on again-off again” lovers were married offstage in Book Two. The kids start to receive signals over their Egyptian internet video game from a Uraeus, a cobra sacred to the gods and charged with protecting the tombs and mummies of the great kings of Egypt. She tells them of Imperius' plan and enlists the Great Bear's assistance. Octavius, Belinda, Maury Meerkat, the cubs, plus the usual and some new team members are called into action once again against the infamous Imperius. Chita still wants an opportunity to kill off the duck after his attempts to do her in. Who knows?

Author : Sophie Masson
Publisher : Children's
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1741660599

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The Tyrant's Nephew by Sophie Masson Pdf

Omar didn't choose to be the tyrant's heir - but if he has courage, he can choose his fate... Omar didn't ask to be the nephew of the ruthless dictator of Mesomia - and he certainly doesn't want to inherit a country whose people are in fear for their lives. He hasn't a choice, though - until the day he is saved from a deadly ambush by Latifa, a beggar girl. When his uncle places Latifa under a Spell of Darkness, Omar can't stand by and watch his rescuer die. Neither can Ketta, Latifa's white cat and a jinn in disguise. Together, the two embark on an extraordinary adventure to find the spell's antidote - through the eerie, hostile marshlands, then flying on an enchanted carpet to the perilous mountain stronghold of a rebel werewolf clan. But they must face their greatest danger when they return to the palace. Balancing on a knife-edge - at the mercy of the tyrant's terrifying mood swings and cruel punishments, the evil Secretary's machinations, and the rebels' own plans for the fate of the country - Omar will learn the true meaning of courage before his journey is over.

Author : Hassan Bashir,Phillip W. Gray,Eyad Masad
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739181218

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Co-Existing in a Globalized World by Hassan Bashir,Phillip W. Gray,Eyad Masad Pdf

Co-Existing in a Globalized World: Key Themes in Inter-Professional Ethics brings together, and engages with, the scholarly work accomplished individually under the banner of professional ethics in various fields. The overarching theme of the volume is that globalization inevitably pairs professionals from distinct fields as co-workers. This necessitates serious reflection on how diverse fields can co-exist and achieve superior results through combining best practices from each. The authors are leading scholars and practitioners who have diverse national and distinguished professional backgrounds. These authors particularly focus on ethical concerns emerging from the inherent symbiotic relationship between cultural boundaries, professions and globalization. Furthermore, they put focused emphasis on ethical compliance with regard to globalization of professional practices into various cultural settings. The fields represented in the volume include international law, comparative education, East-West relations, engineering and bio-medical ethics, research ethics, and international professionalism in a cross-cultural context.

Author : Mohammad Babantaj
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781664150874

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Outlook by Mohammad Babantaj Pdf

A Novel - Nader Manesh The story of Mr. Nader Manesh who immigrated to Canada from Iran with his family, are suffering from Iranian people in Canada who are on side of Islamic Government of Iran in Canada. The Iranian people in Canada who bring their Islamic - Iran cultures from Iran to Canad and trying to force other Iranian in Canada to follow their old and Islamic roles and cultures in Canada. Nader Manesh who actually escaped from that kind of Iran-Islamic cultures and Islamic Government from Iran to Canada, still is suffering from those kinds of Iranian in Canada who the Iran Government is behind them. Nader Manesh working hard in two to three different companies in several shifts a day/night to support his family in Canada. Nader studying in university beside working and get his doctorate of Sociology and becomes the university professor and make his own business in having several colleges across Canada.

Author : Zohreh Bayatrizi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442692381

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Life Sentences by Zohreh Bayatrizi Pdf

Death has popularly had the reputation of being the last of life's great mysteries, a subject of speculation, and as a foreboding event both inevitable, and feared. In Life Sentences, Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, and to order, manage, and transform it from an individualized and fatalistic event to a social phenomenon that allows intervention. She examines the process that has caused death to be understood in five quasi-biblical commandments: "thou shalt not die violently; thou shalt not die prematurely; thou shalt not kill thyself; and thou shalt not die an undignified death, so that thou shalt die an orderly death." Beginning with John Graunt's Natural and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality (1662) - considered the first book of statistics - and philosopher Thomas Hobbes's declaration that society must minimize the "greatest evil" of unsanctioned violent deaths, Bayatrizi traces the pivotal moments that have changed our understanding of death. While illuminating the history of our increasingly rationalized understanding of death, she also examines some of our most contradictory reactions to controversial topics such as suicide, euthanasia, suicide bombing, "collateral damage," and how our moral values have been shaped by an understanding of the proper place of a well-ordered death in modern society. Both historically rigorous and vigorously engaged in contemporary debates, Life Sentences will be of interest to anyone interested in how we deal with death before we die.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822037943230

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The Writers Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Benita Parry,Michael Sprinker
Publisher : Verso
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1859841287

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Delusions and Discoveries by Benita Parry,Michael Sprinker Pdf

No cultural phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s in Britain was more curious than the Raj revival, with its slew of films and fictions, its rage for memorabilia of imperial rule in India, and its strange nostalgia for a time and a world long since past. Today, with the arrival of so-called postcolonial studies, that revival lives on in a strange afterlife of critical study. Writing some years before Raj nostalgia became all the rage, and out of the rather different political and intellectual climate of 1960s national liberation struggles, Benita Parry produced what remains one of the landmark studies of British attitudes towards India. Available for the first time in Paper, Delusions and Discoveries authoritatively surveys the mix of racist and jingoistic prejudices that dominated the writings of Anglo-Indians from Flora Annie Steele and Maud Diver to Kipling and beyond. The book also includes treatments of more liberal thinkers like Edmund Candler, Edward James Thompson and E. M. Forster, as well as a new preface by the author situating her work in relation to recent studies of the culture of colony and empire.

Author : Elizabeth A. Bohls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521474580

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Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 by Elizabeth A. Bohls Pdf

This study re-examines the genre of Romantic travel writing through the perspective of women writers.

Author : B. J. Moore-Gilbert
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Anglo-Indian literature
ISBN : 0719042666

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Writing India, 1757-1990 by B. J. Moore-Gilbert Pdf

This volume provides an analytic survey of the literature produced as a consequence of the long history of Britain's rule in India. It stretches from the establishment of British hegemony in the 1750's to the achievement of Indian independence in the postcolonial era almost two centuries later. Writing India concludes with a chapter on Salman Rushdie in order to suggest the complex relation of continuity as well as conflict between colonial and postcolonial constructions of India.

Author : Supriya Goswami
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415886369

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Colonial India in Children's Literature by Supriya Goswami Pdf

Colonial India in Children’s Literatureis the first book-length study to explore the intersections of children’s literature and defining historical moments in colonial India. Engaging with important theoretical and critical literature that deals with colonialism, hegemony, and marginalization in children's literature, Goswami proposes that British, Anglo-Indian, and Bengali children’s literature respond to five key historical events: the missionary debates preceding the Charter Act of 1813, the defeat of Tipu Sultan, the Mutiny of 1857, the birth of Indian nationalism, and the Swadeshi movement resulting from the Partition of Bengal in 1905. Through a study of works by Mary Sherwood (1775-1851), Barbara Hofland (1770-1844), Sara Jeanette Duncan (1861-1922), Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Upendrakishore Ray (1863-1915), and Sukumar Ray (1887-1923), Goswami examines how children’s literature negotiates and represents these momentous historical forces that unsettled Britain’s imperial ambitions in India. Goswami argues that nineteenth-century British and Anglo-Indian children’s texts reflect two distinct moods in Britain’s colonial enterprise in India. Sherwood and Hofland (writing before 1857) use the tropes of conversion and captivity as a means of awakening children to the dangers of India, whereas Duncan and Kipling shift the emphasis to martial prowess, adaptability, and empirical knowledge as defining qualities in British and Anglo-Indian children. Furthermore, Goswami’s analysis of early nineteenth-century children’s texts written by women authors redresses the preoccupation with male authors and boys’ adventure stories that have largely informed discussions of juvenility in the context of colonial India. This groundbreaking book also seeks to open up the canon by examining early twentieth-century Bengali children’s texts that not only draw literary inspiration from nineteenth-century British children’s literature, but whose themes are equally shaped by empire.

Author : Manlio Graziano
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231543910

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Holy Wars and Holy Alliance by Manlio Graziano Pdf

Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres previously occupied and dominated by secular institutions and ideologies. In the wake of crises exposing the limits of secular modernity, religions have again become significant players in domestic and international politics. At the same time, the Catholic Church has sought a "holy alliance" among the world's faiths to recentralize devout influence, an important, albeit little-noticed, evolution in international relations. Holy Wars and Holy Alliance explores the nation-state's current crisis in order to better understand the religious resurgence's implications for geopolitics. Manlio Graziano looks at how the Catholic Church promotes dialogue and action linking world religions, and examines how it has used its material, financial, and institutional strength to gain power and increase its profile in present-day international politics. Challenging the idea that modernity is tied to progress and secularization, Graziano documents the "return" or the "revenge" of God in all facets of life. He shows that tolerance, pluralism, democracy, and science have not triumphed as once predicted. To fully grasp the destabilizing dynamics at work today, he argues, we must appreciate the nature of religious struggles and political holy wars now unfolding across the international stage.

Author : Michelle Kazensky
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 1286 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 155862600X

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The Writers Directory 2008 by Michelle Kazensky Pdf

Features bibliographical, biographical and contact information for living authors worldwide who have at least one English publication. Entries include name, pseudonyms, addresses, citizenship, birth date, specialization, career information and a bibliography.

Author : Nimah Mazaheri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 9780197636725

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Hydrocarbon Citizens by Nimah Mazaheri Pdf

"Hydrocarbon Citizens tells the story of how the discovery of oil has transformed politics and societies in the Middle East. It argues that the creation of oil-dependent economies gave birth to a new type of citizen in the region: the "hydrocarbon citizen." These citizens hold attitudes, values, and beliefs about their governments and national politics that are very different from what is observed among citizens in the countries that do not produce oil. Hydrocarbon citizens are more likely to view their governments as highly effective, generous, helpful, and responsive to the needs of society. They also tend to be more sceptical about the merits of democracy and more likely to believe that democratic governments are ineffective, unstable, and full of problems. These arguments and findings are explored through rich histories of Middle Eastern countries, in-depth analysis of public opinion data, and original surveys from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Hydrocarbon Citizens challenges our understanding of the puzzling "resource curse" observation that paradoxically links oil wealth to negative outcomes for nations. It provides a new way of thinking about contemporary politics and society in the Middle East, a region currently defined by upheaval and reinvigorated authoritarianism"--

Author : Lila Abu-Lughod,Rema Hammami,Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478024545

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The Cunning of Gender Violence by Lila Abu-Lughod,Rema Hammami,Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Pdf

The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violence against women and gender-based violence constitutes a highly visible and powerful agenda enshrined in international governance and law and embedded in state violence and global securitization. Case studies on Palestine, Bangladesh, Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel, and Turkey as well as on UN and US policies trace the silences and omissions, along with the experiences of those subjected to violence, to question the rhetoric that claims the agenda as a “feminist success story.” Because religion and racialized ethnicity, particularly “the Muslim question,” run so deeply through the institutional structures of the agenda, the contributions explore ways it may be affirming or enabling rationales and systems of power, including civilizational hierarchies, that harm the very people it seeks to protect. Contributors. Lila Abu-Lughod, Nina Berman, Inderpal Grewal, Rema Hammami, Janet R. Jakobsen, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Vasuki Nesiah, Samira Shackle, Sima Shakhsari, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Dina M Siddiqi, Shahla Talebi, Leti Volpp, Rafia Zakaria