The Pasha

Author : Saygin Ersin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628729627

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The Pasha of Cuisine by Saygin Ersin Pdf

For readers of Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series and Richard C. Morais's The Hundred-Foot Journey, a sweeping tale of love and the magic of food set during the Ottoman Empire. A Pasha of Cuisine is a rare talent in Ottoman lore. Only two, maybe three are born with such a gift every few centuries. A natural master of gastronomy, he is the sovereign genius who reigns over aromas and flavors and can use them to influence the hearts and minds, even the health, of those who taste his creations. In this fabulous novel, one such chef devises a plot bring down the Ottoman Empire—should he need to—in order to rescue the love of his life from the sultan’s harem. Himself a survivor of the bloodiest massacre ever recorded within the Imperial Palace after the passing of the last sultan, he is spirited away through the palace kitchens, where his potential was recognized. Across the empire, he is apprenticed one by one to the best chefs in all culinary disciplines and trained in related arts, such as the magic of spices, medicine, and the influence of the stars. It is during his journeys that he finds happiness with the beautiful, fiery dancing girl Kamer, and the two make plans to marry. Before they can elope, Kamer is sold into the Imperial Harem, and the young chef must find his way back into the Imperial Kitchens and transform his gift into an unbeatable weapon.

Author : Reuven Aharoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134268214

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The Pasha's Bedouin by Reuven Aharoni Pdf

Egypt’s history is interwoven with conflicts of Bedouin, governments and peasants, competing over same cultivated lands and of migrations of nomads from the deserts to the Nile Valley. Mehemet Ali’s era represented the initial ending of the traditional tribalism, and the beginning of emergence of a semi-urban community, which became an integral part of the sedentarised population. Providing a new perspective on tribal life in Egypt under Mehemet Ali Pasha's rule, The Pasha’s Bedouin examines the social and political aspects of the Bedouin during 1805-1848. By highlighting the complex relationships which developed between the government of the Pasha and the Bedouin, Reuven Aharoni sets out to expose the Bedouin as a specialised social sector of the urban economy and as integral to the economic and political life in Egypt at the time. This study aims to question of whether the elements of bureaucratic culture which characterised the central and provincial administration of the Pasha, indicate special attitudes towards this sector of the population. Subjects covered include: The 'Bedouin' policy of Mehemet Ali Territory and identity, tribal economies Tribe and state relations Tribal leadership With a long experience in fieldwork among Bedouin in the Sinai and the Negev, as well as using a range of archival documents and manuscripts both in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish, this highly researched book provides an essential read for historians, anthropologists and political scientists in the field of social and political history of the Middle East. Reuven Aharoni, Ph.D (2001) in Middle Eastern History, Tel-Aviv University, teaches history of the Middle East at the Haifa University and at the Open University of Israel.

Author : Khaled Fahmy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521560071

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All the Pasha's Men by Khaled Fahmy Pdf

While previous scholarship has viewed Mehmed Ali Pasha as the founder of modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of his role in the rise of Egyptian nationalism, locating him in the Ottoman context as an ambitious Ottoman reformer. Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali sought to develop the Egyptian economy and to build up the army, not as a means of gaining Egyptian independence from the Ottoman Empire, but to further his own ambitions for hereditary rule over the province. In its analysis of nation-building and the construction of state power, the book makes a significant contribution to the larger theoretical debates. It will therefore be essential reading for students in the field, as well as for Ottomanists, military historians and those interested in the development of the modern nation-state.

Author : Khaled Fahmy
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9774246969

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All The Pasha’s Men:Mehmed Ali,Hisarmy And The Making Of Modern Egypt by Khaled Fahmy Pdf

Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali sought to develop the Egyptian economy and armies, not as a means of gaining independence, but to further his hereditary rule over Egypt.

Author : Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson,Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Africa
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1IC4

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Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator by Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson,Henry Morton Stanley Pdf

Author : Howard Bradshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074797576

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The Pasha's Web by Howard Bradshaw Pdf

Author : J. Colborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Sennar (Kingdom)
ISBN : OXFORD:N10567370

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With Hicks Pasha in the Soudan by J. Colborne Pdf

Author : Quentin Russell,Eugenia Russell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473877221

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Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina by Quentin Russell,Eugenia Russell Pdf

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Yanina and the Balkan Napoleon, into the consciousness of Western rulers and the general public? This book charts the rise of Ali Pasha from brigand leader to a player in world affairs and, ultimately, to a gruesome end.Ali exploited the internal weakness of the Ottoman Empire to carve out his own de facto empire in Albania and Western Greece. Although a ruthless tyrant guilty of cruel atrocities, his lavish court became an attraction to Western travelers, most famously Lord Byron, and his military prowess led Britain, Russia and France to seek his alliance during the Napoleonic Wars. His activities undermined the Sultans authority and ultimately led to the Greek War of Independence.Quentin and Eugenia Russell describe his remarkable life and military career as well as the legacy he bequeathed in his homeland as a nationalist hero and further afield as inspiration for writers and artists of the Romantic movement.

Author : Pasha Malla
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735273504

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Kill the Mall by Pasha Malla Pdf

"Pasha Malla writes like a reincarnated Kafka." —Ian Williams, winner of the Giller Prize for Reproduction Douglas Adams meets David Lynch in this ingenious, witty fable about one of North America's most surreal inventions—the local mall. After writing a letter in praise of malls, our eccentric narrator is offered a residency at a shabby suburban shopping centre. His mission: to occupy the mall for several weeks, splitting his time between "making work" and "engaging the public," all while chronicling his adventures in weekly progress reports. Before long, a series of strange after-hour events rattles our hero, and he sets forth on a nightly quest to untangle the mysterious forces at play in the mall's unmapped recesses. Things quickly get hairy, and our narrator's optimism about his mall residency descends into doubt, and then into a full-blown phantasmagoria of horror and (possibly) murder. With the aid of a weird and wonderful cast of mall-dwelling misfits--including a pony named Gary--our narrator is forced to conclude that his new residence may not be the temple of consumer bliss he initially imagined, but something far more sinister. And who, or what, is benefitting from its existence? Much like the shopping centres it praises and parodies, Pasha Malla’s wildly adventurous novel follows its own internal logic, channeling its narrator’s unshakeable innocence to explore the darker edges of human (and other) nature.

Author : William Ainsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027134285

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All Round the World ... Edited by W. F. Ainsworth ... First (Second) Series by William Ainsworth Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Geography
ISBN : UIUC:30112078027528

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The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pasha Malla
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593765392

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People Park by Pasha Malla Pdf

It's the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New Fraternal League of Men. To celebrate, the insular island city has engaged the illustrator Raven, who promises to deliver the most astonishing spectacle its residents have ever seen. As the entire island comes together for the event, we meet an unforgettable cross-section of its inhabitants, from activists to nihilists, art stars to athletes, families to inveterate loners. Soon, however, what has promised to be a triumph of civic harmony begins to reveal its shadow side. And when Raven's illustration exceeds even the most extreme of expectations, the island is plunged into a series of unnatural disasters that force people to confront what they are really made of. People Park is a tour de force of eerily prescient, grotesque, and hilarious observation and a narrative of gripping, unrelenting suspense. Malla writes as if the twin demons of Stephen King and Flannery O'Connor were resting on his shoulders. You've never read anything quite like People Park.

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Middle East
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119382286

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In the Levant by Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015076043978

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Locomotive by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pasha Malla
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345811356

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Fugue States by Pasha Malla Pdf

One of The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2017: A perfect mix of entertaining and edgy, Fugue States is a thought-provoking exploration of the first-generation Canadian experience from one of the more irreverent, inventive and daring minds writing fiction today Fugue States begins as Ash Dhar, a thirty-something writer, opens his mouth to deliver a eulogy at a funeral—the funeral for his own father, a Kashmir-born doctor. But in that moment between thought and speech, something mysterious occurs: a terrible wordless gap into which Ash falls helplessly, recovering only as the concerned faces of friends and family shock him into focus. Later, still unsettled as he sorts through his father’s belongings, Ash discovers a partially completed and baffling work of fiction set in what seems to be Kashmir. Reading his father’s words, Ash feels compelled to know more about this ancestral land—and yet he resists the impulse to visit, loathe to be a cliché, chasing self-discovery in a war-torn homeland. But Ash’s childhood friend Matt—pothead, massage therapy student and self-described “maker of memories”—has no such hesitations and goes in Ash’s place . . . with unexpected and excruciating results. Soon, Ash is forced to rescue Matt by following him to India—where he experiences a second alarming gap, one that echoes and amplifies the mysterious “fugue state” with which the novel began. Fugue States is at once a parody of clueless tourism; a knowing, uneasy look at contemporary masculinity; and a surprisingly poignant tale about the deep inchoate melancholy that abides in people who, like Ash and his father, and even Matt-the-fool, have never felt completely at home in the world.