Voices Of Jordan

Author : Rana Sweis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787381711

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Voices of Jordan by Rana Sweis Pdf

Jordan's diverse socioeconomic make-up encapsulates, like no other Middle Eastern state, both the array of pressing short-term problems facing the region, and the underlying challenges that Arab states will need to face once the current spate of civil conflicts is over: meaningful youth employment, female participation in politics, and integration of refugees into society. This book tells the story of Jordan through the lives of ordinary people, including a political cartoonist, a Syrian refugee, a Jihadist and a female parliamentarian. The raw voices and everyday struggles of these people shine a fresh light on the politics, religion, and society of a culture coming to terms with the harsh reality of modernization and urbanization at a time of regional upheaval. With her deep knowledge of Jordan's landscape, language and culture, Rana Sweis sketches an intimate portrait of the intricacies and complexities of life in the Middle East. Rather than focusing on how individuals are affected by events in the region, she reveals a cast of characters shaping their own lives and times. Voices of Jordan shares those stories in all of their rich detail, offering a living, breathing social and political history.

Author : Betty S. Anderson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292783959

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Nationalist Voices in Jordan by Betty S. Anderson Pdf

According to conventional wisdom, the national identity of the Jordanian state was defined by the ruling Hashemite family, which has governed the country since the 1920s. But this view overlooks the significant role that the "Arab street"—in this case, ordinary Jordanians and Palestinians—played and continues to play in defining national identity in Jordan and the Fertile Crescent as a whole. Indeed, as this pathfinding study makes clear, "the street" no less than the state has been a major actor in the process of nation building in the Middle East during and after the colonial era. In this book, Betty Anderson examines the activities of the Jordanian National Movement (JNM), a collection of leftist political parties that worked to promote pan-Arab unity and oppose the continuation of a separate Jordanian state from the 1920s through the 1950s. Using primary sources including memoirs, interviews, poetry, textbooks, and newspapers, as well as archival records, she shows how the expansion of education, new jobs in the public and private sectors, changes in economic relationships, the establishment of national militaries, and the explosion of media outlets all converged to offer ordinary Jordanians and Palestinians (who were under the Jordanian government at the time) an alternative sense of national identity. Anderson convincingly demonstrates that key elements of the JNM's pan-Arab vision and goals influenced and were ultimately adopted by the Hashemite elite, even though the movement itself was politically defeated in 1957.

Author : Juline Beaujouan,Amjed Rasheed
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030350161

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Syrian Crisis, Syrian Refugees by Juline Beaujouan,Amjed Rasheed Pdf

This edited volume investigates the political and socioeconomic impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on Lebanon and Jordan, and these countries’ mechanisms to cope with the rapid influx of refugees. The sudden population increase has resulted in severe pressures on infrastructures and services, as well as growing social tensions between the refugees and host communities. These chapters use a transdisciplinary approach to analyse the repercussions of the humanitarian tragedy at three different levels: 1) the changing governmental policies of the two countries towards the crisis; 2) the different perceptions of the Jordanian and Lebanese local communities on the Syrian refugees; and 3) the role played by NGOs and the civil society in both countries in dealing with protracted humanitarian emergencies.

Author : Phd Kathy L. Jordan,Kathryn L. Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0982812841

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Voices: Words from Wise Women by Phd Kathy L. Jordan,Kathryn L. Jordan Pdf

An executive coach shares her insights in a leadership book that takes the reader through the 10 critical principles for success. In addition to sharing the true stories and experiences of other successful women, she gives practical tools that help erase the doubts and frustration women face as they multi-task in today's world.

Author : Lisa Wingate
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984804204

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A Thousand Voices by Lisa Wingate Pdf

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours explores the connection between our hearts and our pasts in this emotional novel in the Tending Roses series.... Once trapped in a world of poverty and neglect, Dell Jordan knows she was one of the lucky ones. Adopted at thirteen, she was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. By twenty, her future has expanded in exciting new directions—a year abroad with a traveling symphony, teaching music to orphans in Ukraine, and applying for a scholarship to Julliard. But underneath Dell’s smoothly polished surface lurk mysteries from the past. Why did her mother abandon her? Who was her father? Are there faces somewhere that look like hers—blood relatives she’s never met? Determined to find answers, and unable to share her emotional uncertainty with her adoptive family, Dell sets off on a secret journey into Oklahoma’s Kiamichi Mountains. Drawn by the only remaining link to her origins—a father’s Native American name on her birth certificate—she travels into quiet wooded valleys, into the heart of the modern Choctaw Nation. There she will find connections to a long and proud heritage and begin to answer the questions of her heart. In the voices of her ancestors, she’ll discover the keys to a future unlike anything she could have imagined.

Author : Jordan Abel
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780771007910

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NISHGA by Jordan Abel Pdf

From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada's residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence. As a Nisga'a writer, Jordan Abel often finds himself in a position where he is asked to explain his relationship to Nisga'a language, Nisga'a community, and Nisga'a cultural knowledge. However, as an intergenerational survivor of residential school--both of his grandparents attended the same residential school--his relationship to his own Indigenous identity is complicated to say the least. NISHGA explores those complications and is invested in understanding how the colonial violence originating at the Coqualeetza Indian Residential School impacted his grandparents' generation, then his father's generation, and ultimately his own. The project is rooted in a desire to illuminate the realities of intergenerational survivors of residential school, but sheds light on Indigenous experiences that may not seem to be immediately (or inherently) Indigenous. Drawing on autobiography and a series of interconnected documents (including pieces of memoir, transcriptions of talks, and photography), NISHGA is a book about confronting difficult truths and it is about how both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples engage with a history of colonial violence that is quite often rendered invisible.

Author : Deborah Ellis
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780888999078

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Children of War by Deborah Ellis Pdf

Provides interviews with twenty-three young Iraqi children who have moved away from their homeland and tells of their fears, challenges, and struggles to rebuild their lives in foreign lands as refugees of war.

Author : Shirley Ann Jordan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3039103156

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Contemporary French Women's Writing by Shirley Ann Jordan Pdf

In the 1990s the French literary arena was enlivened by the emergence of a new generation of women writers. This book selects six of its most distinctive voices and addresses important questions about the very new in French women's writing. What are young women choosing to write about? What do they tell us about changing perceptions of feminine identities? What does it mean to write (and to read) as women at the start of the new millennium? An introductory chapter explores key issues such as the woman writer in the public imagination and continuity and change within French women's writing since the 1970s. It also highlights thematic threads which recur across the work of the authors studied: history and time, wandering and exile, self and other, the body and sexuality and writing and telling. The remaining chapters propose productive approaches to the fictional worlds of Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes, Marie Ndiaye, Agnès Desarthe, Lorette Nobécourt and Amélie Nothomb through close readings of their most challenging, popular or telling texts. They focus on perennial preoccupations in women's writing which are given new treatment by these writers and discuss important developments such as uses of the pornographic, myth and fairy tale and parody and irony in new women's writing.

Author : Chris Barton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781481465625

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What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? by Chris Barton Pdf

“When Barbara Jordan talked, we listened.” —Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton Congresswoman Barbara Jordan had a big, bold, confident voice—and she knew how to use it! Learn all about her amazing career in this illuminating and inspiring picture book biography of the lawyer, educator, politician, and civil rights leader. Even as a child growing up in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas, Barbara Jordan stood out for her big, bold, booming, crisp, clear, confident voice. It was a voice that made people sit up, stand up, and take notice. So what do you do with a voice like that? Barbara took her voice to places few African American women had been in the 1960s: first law school, then the Texas state senate, then up to the United States congress. Throughout her career, she persevered through adversity to give voice to the voiceless and to fight for civil rights, equality, and justice. New York Times bestselling author Chris Barton and Caldecott Honoree Ekua Holmes deliver a remarkable picture book biography about a woman whose struggles and mission continue to inspire today.

Author : Jenna Harris,Anila Pant,Ronit Rubinstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
ISBN : 0991762908

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City Voices by Jenna Harris,Anila Pant,Ronit Rubinstein Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264895713

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OECD Public Governance Reviews Citizens’ Voice in Jordan The Role of Public Communication and Media for a More Open Government by OECD Pdf

Public communication is an essential part of government policy and an important contributor to transparency, integrity, accountability and stakeholder participation. This Citizens’ Voice in Jordan Report provides an analysis of internal and external communications processes, examining progress achieved to date and remaining challenges.

Author : Michelle MacArthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0369102967

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Voices of a Generation by Michelle MacArthur Pdf

This collection of three Canadian plays--zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan, The Millennial Malcontent by Erin Shields, and Smoke by Elena Eli Belyea--speaks to millennials' complex and varied experiences and the challenges and stereotypes they often face.

Author : A. Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1614289786

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Vital Voices by A. Nelson Pdf

Vital Voices: 100 Women Using Their Power to Empower celebrates 100 global female leaders who are redefining power. Candid and compelling, each leader shares personal stories, insights and ideas, showing us that women lead differently and that this difference is sorely needed in our world today. While each woman is path-breaking in her own right, it's together that these 100 voices illustrate the transformative power of women's leadership across cultures, industries and generations. A celebration of women's suffrage and gender equality through the use of visual and anecdotal story-telling as told through the eyes of 100 global women leaders who are redefining power, and using their power to strengthen female relationships across the globe. Some of the women featured in the book include Serena Williams, Hillary Clinton, Christine Legarde, Greta Thunberg, and Samar Minall Ah Khan.

Author : Jordan Sher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1097766756

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Our Neighbors, Their Voices by Jordan Sher Pdf

Why do people leave their countries of origin? An economic opportunity, a better education for themselves or children, a result of war, crime, government repression, political strife, or a myriad of other reasons that require a drastic move? Seen as a beacon of hope, often that move is to the United States. The author has interviewed fourteen people who have come from various countries whose departure culminated as a result of one of the pressures that immigrants confront. The exodus from their countries of origin will bring you deeply into their harrowing journeys that eventually lead to America. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to an organization that supports refugees.

Author : Jacky Sawalha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Women
ISBN : 9957557025

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Voices by Jacky Sawalha Pdf

This book is a representation of the determination and resilience of many women in Jordan who not only defied the odds within their chosen professions, but also, the stereotypical image about Arab women; hence the importance of listening to their voices.