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Royal Heritage

The Story of Jordan's Arab Horses

By: Peter Upton Hrh Princess Alia Bint Al Hussein,Peter Upton,Roger Upton

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Royal Heritage

The Story of Jordan's Arab Horses

By: Peter Upton Hrh Princess Alia Bint Al Hussein,Peter Upton,Roger Upton

Co-authored by HRH Princess Alia, the eldest daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan, and the artist and author Peter Upton,ERoyal HeritageEtells the story of the Arab horse in Jordan, from the early days of the Bedouin tribes to the 21st century, a story closely associated with the Hashemite family of Jordan, direct descendants of the Prophet. The account also tells of the Arab Revolt of 1916, in which the Emirs Ali, Abdullah, Feisal and Zeid, withET E Lawrence, drove the Ottomans out of the region, and how some of the Hashemite mares became the foundation stock of the Royal Stud in Jordan.ERoyal HeritageEcovers many other adventures including the traumatic events which nearly led to the loss of the StudOs precious mares and describes how, despite these setbacks, the Royal Stud has flourished. In 1987 Princess Alia, Director of the Royal Stud, organised the first Arab horse show to be held in Arabia entitled OThe Arab Horse at Home.O It was an event which inspired other Arab countries to organise horse shows of their own. Princess Alia includes many fascinating personal reminiscences: about the horses she holds so dear, the people involved in the Stud through the years, the famous and infamous, family and friends, heads of state and handlers. The work is richly illustrated with paintings, drawings and rare photographs from old archives and private collections, as well as up-to-date portraits of the Stud and its horses. Peter Upton gives an in-depth account of the horses themselves; the breeding, lineage and preservation of the hugely important Jordanian bloodlines. A story of legend, romance and war,ERoyal HeritageEtells with passion for the first time the remarkable saga of the Arab horse in Jordan.

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0956417043

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9780956417046

The Home That Was Our Country

A Memoir of Syria

By: Alia Malek

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The Home That Was Our Country

A Memoir of Syria

By: Alia Malek

At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building, past and present, Alia portrays the Syrians-the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Armenians, and Kurds-who worked, loved, and suffered in close quarters, mirroring the political shifts in their country. Restoring her family's home as the country comes apart, she learns how to speak the coded language of oppression that exists in a dictatorship, while privately confronting her own fears about Syria's future. The Home That Was Our Country is a deeply researched, personal journey that shines a delicate but piercing light on Syrian history, society, and politics. Teeming with insights, the narrative weaves acute political analysis with a century of intimate family history, ultimately delivering an unforgettable portrait of the Syria that is being erased.

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427

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Bold Type Books

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1568585330

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9781568585338

Ahlul Bayt

The Holy Family of Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh&F)

By: Alia Bazzi

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Ahlul Bayt

The Holy Family of Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh&F)

By: Alia Bazzi

This book sheds the light on Ahl Al-kisa (People of the Cloak); Prophet Muhammad, Imam Ali, Syeda Fatima, Imam Al-Hassan and Imam Al-Hussein, who are the foundation of Ahlul Bayt (Members of the house of the Prophet). The Book is an exciting combination of colorful illustrations, Arabic calligraphy and imagery, which will captivate the readers eye as they read along.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499006586

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9781499006582

A Country Called Amreeka

Arab Roots, American Stories

By: Alia Malek

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A Country Called Amreeka

Arab Roots, American Stories

By: Alia Malek

Among the surfeit of narratives about Arabs that have been published in recent years, surprisingly little has been reported on Arabs in America -- an increasingly relevant issue. This book is the most powerful approach imaginable: it is the story of the last forty-plus years of American history, told through the eyes of Arab Americans. It begins in 1963, before major federal legislative changes seismically transformed the course of American immigration forever. Each chapter describes an event in U.S. history -- which may already be familiar to us -- and invites us to live that moment in time in the skin of one Arab American. The chapters follow a timeline from 1963 to the present, and the characters live in every corner of this country. These are dramatic narratives, describing the very human experiences of love, friendship, family, courage, hate, and success. There are the timeless tales of an immigrant community becoming American, the nostalgia for home, the alienation from a society sometimes as intolerant as its laws are generous. A Country Called Amreeka's snapshots allow us the complexity of its characters' lives with an impassioned narrative normally found in fiction. Read separately, the chapters are entertaining and harrowing vignettes; read together, they add a new tile to the mosaic of our history. We meet fellow Americans of all creeds and colors, among them the Alabama football player who navigates the stringent racial mores of segregated Birmingham, where a church bombing wakes a nation to the need to make America a truly more equal place; the young wife from Ramallah -- now living in Baltimore -- who had to abandon her beautiful home and is now asked by a well-meaning American, "How do you like living in an apartment after living in a tent?"; the Detroit toughs and the potsmoking suburban teenagers, who in different decades become politicized and serious about their heritage despite their own wills; the homosexual man afraid to be gay in the Arab world and afraid to be Arab in America; the two formidable women who wind up working for opposing campaigns in the 2000 presidential election; the Marine fighting in Iraq who meets villagers who ask him, "What are you, an Arab, doing here?" We glimpse how America sees Arabs as much as how Arabs see America. We revisit the 1973 oil embargo that initiated the American perception of all Arabs as oil-rich sheikhs; the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis that heralded the arrival of Middle Eastern Islam in the American consciousness; bombings across three decades in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, and New York City that bring terrorism to American soil; and both wars in Iraq that have posed Arabs as the enemies of America. In a post-9/11 world, Arabic names are everywhere in America, but our eyes glaze over them; we sometimes don't know how to pronounce them or understand whence they come. A Country Called Amreeka gives us the faces behind those names and tells the story of a community it has become essential for us to understand. We can't afford to be oblivious.

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308

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Simon and Schuster

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1416592687

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9781416592686

Crises Confronting Afghan Women

Under the Shadow of Terror

By: Alia Rawi Akbar

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Crises Confronting Afghan Women

Under the Shadow of Terror

By: Alia Rawi Akbar

ONE WOMAN'S JOURNEY OUT OF WARTOURN AFGHANISTAN Amidst the turmoil and destruction of Afghanistan there is a special class of Victim, marginalized and suppressed even more than the average citizen women. Stripped of their rights, their dignity and, in many cases, their families, the Female victims of Afghanistan's endless conflicts face unbearable lives of loss and struggle. Now, Alia Rawi Akbar's story provides a voice for these women. This incredible tale of Akbar's journey from Afghanistan to the United States Encompasses not only her personal challenges but unbelievable struggles Endured by her countrywomen as they fight for equal footing in a country where The law is stacked against them. Akbar's story doesn't end in Afghanistan. Her struggles continued in the United States, where her family fell victim to racist attacks and unfathomable tragedy. Yet, she has made it through those times to tell her incredible story. "A stunning story of survival and toughness. Akbar's journey is a wake-up call for those who believe that liberation means equality." Marie B Leonarde, author of A women worth: My life, My struggle "Never before has an author better explained the Universal struggles women face in today's world. Akbar is a master story teller and her personal journey is an inspiration to all women." Pam Diaz author of Pamiel

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266

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1608445151

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9781608445158

Naphtalene

A Novel of Baghdad

By: Alia Mamdouh

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Naphtalene

A Novel of Baghdad

By: Alia Mamdouh

Seen through the eyes of a strong-willed and perceptive young girl, Naphtalene beautifully captures the atmosphere of Baghdad in the 1940s and 1950s. Through her rich and lyrical descriptions, Alia Mamdouh vividly recreates a city of public steam baths, roadside butchers, and childhood games played in the same streets where political demonstrations against British colonialism are beginning to take place. At the heart of the novel is nine-year-old Huda, a girl whose fiery, defiant nature contrasts sharply with her own inherent powerlessness. Through Mamdouh's strikingly inventive use of language, Huda's stream-of-consciousness narrative expands to take in the life not only of a young girl and her family, but of her street, her neighborhood, and her country. Alia Mamdouh, winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Award in Arabic Literature, is a journalist, essayist and novelist living in exile in Paris. Long banned from publishing in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, she is the author of essays, short stories, and four novels, of which Naphtalene is the most widely acclaimed and translated.

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150

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The Feminist Press at CUNY

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1558617124

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9781558617124

Contemporary English Plays

Eden’s Empire; Alaska; Shades; A Day at the Racists; The Westbridge

By: James Graham,DC Moore,Anders Lustgarten,Alia Bano,Rachel De-lahay

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Contemporary English Plays

Eden’s Empire; Alaska; Shades; A Day at the Racists; The Westbridge

By: James Graham,DC Moore,Anders Lustgarten,Alia Bano,Rachel De-lahay

Edited and introduced by leading cultural and theatre critic Aleks Sierz, this bold and urgent collection of contemporary plays by England's newest and most relevant young writers explores the various cultures and identities of a nation that is at once traditional, nationalistic and multicultural. Eden's Empire, by James Graham is an uncompromising political thriller exploring the events of the Suez Crisis, and the tragic story of its flawed hero – Churchill's golden boy and heir apparent, Anthony Eden. Alaska, by D. C. Moore features Frank, an ordinary bloke who likes smoking, history and playing House of the Dead 3. He can put up with his job on a cinema kiosk until a new supervisor arrives who is younger than him. And Asian. A Day at the Racists, by Anders Lustgarten is a timely examination of the rise of the BNP which attempts to understand why people might be drawn to the BNP and diagnoses the deeper cause of that attraction. Shades, by Alia Bano shows Sabrina, a single girl-about-town, who is seeking Mr Right in a world where traditional and liberal values sit side-by-side, but rarely see eye-to-eye. The Westbridge, by Rachel De-lahay begins with the accusation of a black teenager which sparks riots on South London streets. Among it all, a couple from very different backgrounds navigate the minefield between them and their disparate but coexisting neighbourhood.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472588002

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9781472588005

Accidental Sisters

Refugee Women Struggling Together for a New American Dream

By: Kimberly Meyer,Alia Altikrity

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Accidental Sisters

Refugee Women Struggling Together for a New American Dream

By: Kimberly Meyer,Alia Altikrity

Accidental Sisters follows the lives of five refugee women in Houston, Texas, an epicenter of refugee resettlement, as they make their way through a yearlong program for struggling single mother refugees overseen by Alia Altikrity, herself a former refugee from Iraq. Entirely grounded in the words of each of these women--Mina, also from Iraq; Mendy from Sudan; Sara and Zara from Syria; and Elikya from the Democratic Republic of Congo--this book recounts, with deep insight, the lives they lived in their mother countries and the way they were forced to flee with their children into the uncertainty of displacement in neighboring lands. And although it documents the safety and refuge the women eventually find in the new city to which they have been permanently resettled, it critiques the insistence of the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program on rapid self-sufficiency and offers an alternative vision of the American Dream, one grounded in a sisterhood of mutual care for one another"--

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Univ of California Press

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0520384679

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9780520384675

Book's by Alia Al Hussein

Royal Heritage

Royal Heritage

The Home That Was Our Country

The Home That Was Our Country

Ahlul Bayt

Ahlul Bayt

A Country Called Amreeka

A Country Called Amreeka

Crises Confronting Afghan Women

Crises Confronting Afghan Women

Naphtalene

Naphtalene

Contemporary English Plays

Contemporary English Plays

Accidental Sisters

Accidental Sisters

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