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What Happened to Governance in Kashmir?

By: Aijaz Ashraf Wani

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What Happened to Governance in Kashmir?

By: Aijaz Ashraf Wani

What Happened to Governance in Kashmir? examines the policies, strategies, and tactics followed by the Indian state and the ‘client’ governments in Srinagar to manage the conflicted state of Jammu and Kashmir during 1948–89 . It shows how the policies deployed to ‘create order in disorder’ functioned inversely and turned Kashmir into a smoldering volcano which erupted in 1989–90. The author argues that as the issue of dispute and policy framework has been constant, the clash between the status quoist state and the society was inevitable. The crisis deepened along with technological, economic, cultural, and social changes. Based on a variety of contemporary sources, this book deals with many aspects of Kashmir’s governance through different political phases. It shows how the personal proclivities and decisions of each prime minister/chief minister played a role in determining the pattern of rule and the course of history with consequences felt many miles downstream.

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295

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Oxford University Press

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0199097151

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9780199097159

NATO and the Gulf Countries

An Analysis of the Fifteen Year Strategic Partnership

By: Ashraf Mohammed Keshk

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NATO and the Gulf Countries

An Analysis of the Fifteen Year Strategic Partnership

By: Ashraf Mohammed Keshk

This book analyses the fifteen-year-long strategic partnership between NATO and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The book goes on to address several key questions raised in the year since the inception of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI): Is the initiative a framework for consultation on Gulf and regional security issues? Is it a security initiative or a defensive one? Even more importantly, how was this initiative developed? Was there a mutual eagerness, on the part of NATO or that of the four Gulf States, to develop it? Is it possible for the initiative to be redeveloped and have other dimensions and outlooks in the future? Throughout the book, the author provides a comprehensive understanding and assessment of NATO's policies and their impact on the security of the Arab Gulf region.

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150

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Springer Nature

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9811638152

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9789811638152

Khalil's Journey

By: Ashraf Kagee

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Khalil's Journey

By: Ashraf Kagee

Khalil "the Companion" is given his name by the One Above at his birth in 1903. Despite evidence of this divine interest, Khalil's 80-odd years of life remain fairly ordinary, even though many of these years are spent under the far-from-ordinary conditions of the System in South Africa. Apart from the high moments--an adolescent trip to India, the fleshly delights on his wedding night, and a memorable evening spent with the Black Pimpernel at an abortive New Unity Movement meeting--Khalil's later life is mostly taken up with trying to keep his wife and children happy and fed. Nevertheless, just as Khalil's birth was an event discussed at length by the aunties of the neighborhood, at the end of his life, Khalil realizes his life's journey contains many memorable moments.

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240

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Jacana Media

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1431403628

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9781431403622

Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf

Urban Transformation in the Middle East

By: Florian Wiedmann,Ashraf M. Salama

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Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf

Urban Transformation in the Middle East

By: Florian Wiedmann,Ashraf M. Salama

Human history has seen many settlements transformed or built entirely by expatriate work forces and foreigners arriving from various places. Recent migration patterns in the Gulf have led to emerging 'airport societies' on unprecedented scales. Most guest workers, both labourers and mid to high-income groups, perceive their stay as a temporary opportunity to earn suitable income or gain experience. This timely book analyses the essential characteristics of this unique urban phenomenon substantiated by concrete examples and empirical research. Both authors have lived and worked in the Gulf including Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates during various periods between 2006 and 2014. They explore Gulf cities from macro and interconnected perspectives rather than focusing solely on singular aspects within the built environment. As academic architects specialised in urbanism and the complex dynamics between people and places the authors build new bridges for understanding demographic and social changes impacting urban transformations in the Gulf.

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231

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1788316266

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9781788316262

Prince Undercover

By: Ashraf Habbak

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Prince Undercover

By: Ashraf Habbak

Crown Prince Sultan Qurayshi has just expressed his support for the king’s new political reforms despite the wishes of many of the royal family who want the king stripped of his power. After submitting an emergency clause to the legislature, the crown prince ensures the king retains all his newly-founded powers of legislature and presidency, officially suspending democracy. Two months later amid chaos in the kingdom, Faisal Qurayshi, a member of the Royal Strategic Committee, receives an urgent call from his cousin to escape the country with his son, Mansour. A short time later after the king dies and Mansour’s great uncle ascends the throne, the family is reunited and seemingly all is well—until Mansour agrees to go undercover as a spy. After he eventually becomes a civil engineer whose mission is to help the royal family learn ways to transform the country and make it better for everyone, he uncovers corruption in the kingdom and Arlandica and soon realizes that good always defeats evil wherever it hides. In this novel inspired by true events, a prince goes undercover in the Kingdom of Terra Qurayshia where he must keep his identity secret to help the royal family create a better monarchy.

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Archway Publishing

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1665712414

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9781665712415

A Sufi Study of Hadith

A Translation of At-Tasharruf and Haqiqat at-Tariqa

By: Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi

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A Sufi Study of Hadith

A Translation of At-Tasharruf and Haqiqat at-Tariqa

By: Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi

A Sufi Study of Hadith (Originally titled Haqiqa al-Tariqa min as-Sunna al-Aniqa) is a unique work of commentary on a selection of over three hundred authentic hadith. Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi, one of the subcontinent's greatest spiritual leaders and an author of unequalled prolificacy, translates, interprets, and then comments on each hadith from the perspective of tasawwuf, whether to explain a fine point of theology, or to discourse on morality, etiquette, behaviour, or the customary practices of Sufis. In the pages of this volume, one encounters a side of Islam that is little known and less understood. For all seekers of the truth, and especially those keen to further their understanding of the teachings of the Prophet, upon him be peace on tasawwuf-related subjects, Maulana Thanawi's work is truly invaluable.

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318

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Turath Publishing

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1915265029

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9781915265029

The House of the Coptic Woman

A Novel

By: Ashraf El-Ashmawi

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The House of the Coptic Woman

A Novel

By: Ashraf El-Ashmawi

Tightly plotted and taboo-breaking, this explosive story takes readers to the roots of religious strife where the smallest of sparks can start a bonfire Nader, an idealistic public prosecutor at the outset of his career, leaves Cairo to start a new posting in rural upper Egypt. On his first night, a mysterious woman named Hoda shows up at his lodgings. She is on the run from an abusive husband and, harboring a dark secret, seeks a new start in this small village and hopes to escape her harrowing past. Nothing is to be easy for Hoda or Nader, and the dramatic circumstances of their first meeting signal the disquiet to come. It is not long before tensions between Copts and Muslims, already on a knife-edge, spiral into a spate of unexplained killings and arson attacks. The locals blame the trouble on the supernatural, and Nader is thrown into a quagmire of sectarian conflict and superstition that no amount of formal training could have prepared him for. His investigations are thwarted at every turn, by uncooperative witnesses and an obstructive police force. As Nader and Hoda each pursue happiness and justice, their parallel journeys struggle against the forces of ignorance, poverty, hatred, and greed. With its echoes of Tawfiq al-Hakim’s Diary of a Country Prosecutor, this is a powerful and personal tale of conflict, crime, and upheaval in rural Egypt.

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American University in Cairo Press

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1649032552

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9781649032553

The Lady of Zamalek

A Novel

By: Ashraf El-Ashmawi

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The Lady of Zamalek

A Novel

By: Ashraf El-Ashmawi

Spanning twentieth-century Egyptian history and opening with the true story of a prominent Cairo businessman’s murder, this rags-to-riches story wondrously combines real-life events with fiction, told by a “magical storyteller” It was in the spring of 1927 that Cairo's attention was captured by the shocking murder of prominent businessman Solomon Cicurel in his Nile-side villa in the upscale Zamalek district. It was a burglary that went wrong, and four culprits were soon arrested. Their trial was concluded swiftly, their punishments were decisive, and society breathed a sigh of relief. In Ashraf El-Ashmawi's telling, there was a fifth accomplice, Abbas, who fled to his home in the countryside to lay low until the murder trial blew over. However, he did not escape empty-handed and kept stolen documents from Cicurel's villa, ones that he imagined would lead him to a hidden safe. Abbas hatched a plan to return to the capital, find the safe, and make his fortune. The first step was to place his sister Zeinab with Cicurel's widow, Paula. Abbas’s rags-to-riches story unfolds as a tale of modern Egypt, taking in the Second World War, the 1952 revolution and rise of Nasser, the 1967 war, and the Sadat and Mubarak eras. Spanning the 1920s to the 1990s, El-Ashmawi deftly weaves together history with fiction in this intriguing English-language debut.

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398

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American University in Cairo Press

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1649030770

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9781649030771

Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature

Worldly Teaching

By: Masood Ashraf Raja,Hillary Stringer,Zach VandeZande

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Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature

Worldly Teaching

By: Masood Ashraf Raja,Hillary Stringer,Zach VandeZande

In one volume, this edited collection provides both a theoretical and praxis-driven engagement with teaching world literature, focusing on various aspects of critical pedagogy. Included are nine praxis-driven essays by instructors who have taught world literature courses at the university level.

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Springer

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1137319763

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9781137319760

Demystifying Doha

On Architecture and Urbanism in an Emerging City

By: Dr Florian Wiedmann,Professor Ashraf M Salama

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Demystifying Doha

On Architecture and Urbanism in an Emerging City

By: Dr Florian Wiedmann,Professor Ashraf M Salama

Over the past decade or so, the wealth produced by Qatar's oil and gas exports has generated a construction development boom in its capital city of Doha and the surrounding vicinity. Since the late 1990s, the number of inhabitants has grown from less than 400,000 to more than 1.7 million today. In many respects, Doha is portrayed as an important emerging global capital in the Gulf region, which has been positioning and re-inventing itself on the map of international architecture and urbanism, with a global image of building clusters of glass office towers, as well as cultural and educational facilities. While focusing on the architectural and planning aspects of Doha's intensive urbanization, this first comprehensive examination of the city sets this within the socio-political and economic context of the wider Arabian Peninsula. 'Demystifying Doha - On Architecture and Urbanism in an Emerging City' features a comprehensive discussion on contemporary architecture and urbanism of Doha as an emerging regional metropolis. It provides a critical analysis of the evolution of architecture and urbanism as products of the contemporary global condition. Issues that pertain to emerging service hubs, decentralised urban governance, integrated urban development strategies, image-making practices, urban identity, the dialectic relations between the city and its society and sustainable urbanism are all examined to elucidate the urban evolution and the contemporary condition of Doha. 'Demystifying Doha - On Architecture and Urbanism in an Emerging City' concludes by suggesting a framework for future studies of the city as well as for investigating the future of similar cities, setting out an agenda for sustainable urban growth, while invigorating the multiple roles urban planners and architects can play in shaping this future.

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492

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409466361

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9781409466369

The Dark Side of News Fixing

By: Syed Irfan Ashraf

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The Dark Side of News Fixing

By: Syed Irfan Ashraf

This book provides a local journalist’s perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. It shows how the fixers’ risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing unprecedented deaths of the local reporters in the context of the U.S-led war on terror. The book analyzes the fixer as a role in its relationship with militarization. It is not a coincidence that fixers become valuable to commercial media only during the height of violence or crises. Emerging under conditions of scarcity or war, the value of this role, in turn, is intrinsically tied to the fear of extinction. It is this vulnerability or perceived expendability— imposed by the need to find work—that binds fixers in a symbiotic relationship with global market and global war. This book, then, serves as a vantage point from which one can clearly see the connection between the regional wars and commercial media, as well as local journalists’ transformation into daily wage earners in a global media shift toward neoliberalism.

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242

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Anthem Press

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1839981385

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9781839981388

Book's by Ashraf Sheikh

What Happened to Governance in Kashmir?

What Happened to Governance in Kashmir?

NATO and the Gulf Countries

NATO and the Gulf Countries

Khalil's Journey

Khalil's Journey

Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf

Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf

Prince Undercover

Prince Undercover

A Sufi Study of Hadith

A Sufi Study of Hadith

The House of the Coptic Woman

The House of the Coptic Woman

The Lady of Zamalek

The Lady of Zamalek

Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature

Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature

Demystifying Doha

Demystifying Doha

The Dark Side of News Fixing

The Dark Side of News Fixing

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