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Mission Invisible

Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era

By: Ross Perigoe,Mahmoud Eid

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Mission Invisible

Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era

By: Ross Perigoe,Mahmoud Eid

For many Canadians, the attacks of 9/11 produced feelings ofinsecurity, vulnerability, and suspicion of “Arabs.” Howdid these negative attitudes come about? Many point to the complicityof the news media in reproducing racist images of Muslim minorities.Mission Invisible chronicles varying racialized constructionsof Muslim communities in the news during the most significant stage ofreportage: the initial weeks when the events, issues, and primaryactors of 9/11 were all first framed by journalists. By unravelling thediscourse and rhetoric of news coverage in Canada at the dawn of the9/11 era, this book not only uncovers racist representations of Muslimcommunities but also reveals the discursive processes that renderedthis racism invisible.

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UBC Press

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0774826495

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Souad, the housekeeper

A love story

By: Mahmoud Bakr

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Souad, the housekeeper

A love story

By: Mahmoud Bakr

When the captain announced from the cockpit that the plane had entered the Egyptian aerospace, Mohsen Araaf looked through the window and saw the green delta of the Nile. With the approach to Cairo, the green color changed into yellow surrounding Cairo Airport. Three hours ago, he left Geneva engulfed by the green mountains of Savoy Alps, the city he had lived in for twenty five years and might not return back to. After going through the passport control and customs, he picked up his luggage, and took a taxi to one of the new neighborhoods that were established almost twenty years ago. He had bought an apartment five years ago in what the Egyptians call these days a compound. These compounds are usually encircled by walls and guarded by specialized security companies. His reason for buying the apartment was to spend his holidays with his wife in Cairo, especially in winter, to avoid going to hotels. His wife loved it and was keen to buy flowers and plants to give the place a lively atmosphere. Usually these flowers and plants withered after leaving as no one looked after them. She had to buy new ones when she returned the following holiday." This is the beginning of an exciting and beautiful story ...

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Ediciones Cátedra Pedagógica

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9585200694

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9789585200692

The World Through the Eyes of Angels

By: Mahmoud Saeed

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The World Through the Eyes of Angels

By: Mahmoud Saeed

Mosul, Iraq, in the 1940s is a teeming, multiethnic city where Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Aramaeans, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Syriacs mingle in the ancient souks and alleyways. In these crowded streets, among rich and poor, educated and illiterate, pious and unbelieving, a boy is growing up. Burdened with chores from an early age, and afflicted with an older brother who persecutes him with mindless sadism, the child finds happiness only in stolen moments with his beloved older sister and with friends in the streets. Closest to his heart are three girls, encountered by chance: a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew. After enriching the boy’s life immensely, all three meet tragic fates, leaving a wound in his heart that will not heal. A richly textured portrayal of Iraqi society before the upheavals of the late twentieth century, Saeed’s novel depicts a sensitive and loving child assailed by the cruelty of life. Sometimes defeated but never surrendering, he is sustained by his city and its people.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815650779

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Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic

Contextualized Input, Output, and Conversational Form-Focused Instruction of Agreement Asymmetries

By: Mahmoud Azaz

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Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic

Contextualized Input, Output, and Conversational Form-Focused Instruction of Agreement Asymmetries

By: Mahmoud Azaz

Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic examines the acquisition of agreement asymmetries in the grammatical system of Arabic as a second/foreign language through the lens of instructed second language acquisition. The book explores how to improve the processes of L2 learning of Arabic using evidence-based classroom research. Before it does this, it characterizes the variable challenges that English L2 learners of Arabic face when they acquire four structural cases in Arabic grammar that entail agreement asymmetries. Using the pretest–posttest design, it examines the effects of four classroom interventions using quantitative and qualitative measures. In these interventions, form-based and meaning-based measures were used to reveal to what degree learners have developed explicit and implicit knowledge of these aspects of asymmetry. In the concluding chapter, the book provides focused and specific implications based on the results of the four studies. It provides theoretical implications that enrich the discussions of instructed second language Acquisition in Arabic and other languages more broadly. It also provides implications for teachers, curriculum designers, and textbook writers of Arabic. This book will be informative for Arabic applied linguists, researchers of Arabic SLA, Arabic instructors (at the K–12 and the college level), and Arabic program directors and coordinators. The book will also appeal to all SLA and ISLA researchers.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000911888

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The Routledge Course on Media, Legal and Technical Translation

English-Arabic-English

By: Mahmoud Altarabin

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The Routledge Course on Media, Legal and Technical Translation

English-Arabic-English

By: Mahmoud Altarabin

The Routledge Course on Media, Legal and Technical Translation: English-Arabic-English is an indispensable and engaging coursebook for university students wishing to develop their English-Arabic-English translation skills in these three text types. Taking a practical approach, the book introduces Arab translation students to common translation strategies in addition to the linguistic, syntactic, and stylistic features of media, legal, and technical texts. This book features texts carefully selected for their technical relevance. The key features include: • comprehensive four chapters covering media, legal, and technical texts, which are of immense importance to Arab translation students; • detailed and clear explanations of the lexical, syntactic, and stylistic features of English and Arabic media, legal, and technical texts; • up-to-date and practical translation examples in both directions offering students actual experiences of professional translators; • authentic texts extracted from various sources to promote students’ familiarity with language features and use; • extensive range of exercises following each section of the book to enable students to test and practice the knowledge and skills they developed from reading previous sections; • glossaries following most exercises containing the translation of difficult words; and • a list of recommended readings following each chapter. The easy, practical, and comprehensive approach adopted in the book makes it a must-have coursebook for intermediate and advanced students studying translation between English and Arabic. University instructors and professional translators working on translation between English and Arabic will find this book particularly useful.

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1000197638

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Alarabia: A Communicative Approach to Learning Arabic for Non-Native Speakers

By: Mahmoud Amer

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Alarabia: A Communicative Approach to Learning Arabic for Non-Native Speakers

By: Mahmoud Amer

This book is meant to assist students learning Arabic with the basics in communication and sentence structure. Because this book focuses on the communicative aspect of using Arabic, the first few chapters will introduce students to expressions in everyday speech in a colloquial Jordanian dialect. In later chapters, however, texts written in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) are presented and examined.

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Lulu.com

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0557576121

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A Dictionary of Idiomatic Expressions in Written Arabic

For the Reader of Classical and Modern Texts

By: Mahmoud Sami Moussa

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A Dictionary of Idiomatic Expressions in Written Arabic

For the Reader of Classical and Modern Texts

By: Mahmoud Sami Moussa

Arabic language; Idioms; dictionaries.

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Amreekiya

A Novel

By: Lena Mahmoud

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Amreekiya

A Novel

By: Lena Mahmoud

Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and cousins after the death of her mother and abandonment by her father at a young age. Ever the outcast in her amu and amtu's household, they eagerly encourage Isra to marry and leave. After rejecting a string of undesirable suitors, she marries Yusef, an old love from her past. In Amreekiya, author Lena Mahmoud deftly juggles two storylines, alternating between Isra's youth and her current life as a married twentysomething who is torn between cultures and trying to define herself. The chapters chronicle various moments in Isra's narrative, including the volatile relationship of her parents and the trials and joys of forging a partnership with Yusef. Mahmoud also examines Isra's first visit to Palestine, the effects of sexism, how language affects identity, and what it means to have a love that overcomes unbearable pain. An exploration of womanhood from an underrepresented voice in American literature, Amreekiya is simultaneously unique and relatable. Featuring an authentic array of characters, Mahmoud's first novel is a much-needed story in a divided world.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813176387

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Contributions to the Knowledge of Mt. Carmel by Dr. E Graf Von Mülinen

By: Mahmoud El Salman

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Contributions to the Knowledge of Mt. Carmel by Dr. E Graf Von Mülinen

By: Mahmoud El Salman

The book investigated the life of the people of Mt. Carmel in 1908, and it was written in German by Graf Mulinen. Mulinen studied the area and the people historically, anthropologically and culturally. He studied the people and the villages where they used to live such as: et-Tre, Ikzim, Beled esh-Shkh, Dliet el-Kirmil and many others . He talked about their religions, customs, social life, Arabic dialects, their families, their names and the way they lived in the Area at that period of time. As a result, Without Mulinen’s book it was so difficult to document the life of those people at that time, in these details. The Editor Mahmoud El salman

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Trafford Publishing

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1698701969

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Mastering Arabic 2

By: Jane Wightwick,Mahmoud Gaafar

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Mastering Arabic 2

By: Jane Wightwick,Mahmoud Gaafar

This full colour text comes with free audio and video online through an accompanying website. It is a modern, engaging, intermediate Arabic course offering lively conversations, varied texts and exercises, and fascinating cultural insights. The course is highly illustrated in full colour with photos and cartoons and includes an abundance of exercises to aid learning and encourage practice in listening, speaking, reading and writing. It is backed up by online exercises including a link to interactive flashcards, and is supported by a range of additional activity, grammar and handwriting books. The course follows on from the best-selling Mastering Arabic 1 but is suitable for any learner with some prior knowledge of Arabic. The Mastering Arabic series is widely used in universities, schools, community colleges, adult evening classes and for self-study.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1352008513

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Mechanics of Machinery

By: Mahmoud A. Mostafa

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Mechanics of Machinery

By: Mahmoud A. Mostafa

Mechanics of Machinery describes the analysis of machines, covering both the graphical and analytical methods for examining the kinematics and dynamics of mechanisms with low and high pairs. This text, developed and updated from a version published in 1973, includes analytical analysis for all topics discussed, allowing for the use of math software

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CRC Press

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1466559470

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Judges and Generals in the Making of Modern Egypt

How Institutions Sustain and Undermine Authoritarian Regimes

By: Mahmoud Hamad

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Judges and Generals in the Making of Modern Egypt

How Institutions Sustain and Undermine Authoritarian Regimes

By: Mahmoud Hamad

Why do authoritarian regimes survive? How do dictators fail? What role do political institutions play in these two processes? Many of the answers to these questions can be traced to the same source: the interaction between institutions and preferences. Using Egypt as a case study, Professor Mahmoud Hamad describes how the synergy between judges and generals created the environment for the present government and a delicate balance for its survival. The history of modern Egypt is one of the struggle between authoritarian governments, and forces that advocate for more democratic rights. While the military has provided dictatorial leaders, the judiciary provides judges who have the power to either support or stymie authoritarian power. Judges and Generals in the Making of Modern Egypt provides a historically grounded explanation for the rise and demise of authoritarianism, and is one of the first studies of Egypt's judicial institutions within a single analytical framework.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108644562

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The Holy Sail

By: Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud

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The Holy Sail

By: Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud

Oblivious to the invasions, massacres and religious fanaticism that characterise the 15th century, a young girl falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader. But all eyes are on the Portuguese fleets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on securing the profitable spice trade. Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous historical events with stories of love, honour and nobility, while guiding us around the medieval world of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah and Istanbul. The Holy Sail brings to life a neglected episode of history that impacted not only the region but the world for centuries to come.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9927101686

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Migration Practice as Creative Practice

An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Migration

By: Dieu Hack-Polay,Ali B. Mahmoud,Agnieszka Rydzik,Mahfuzur Rahman,Paul Agu Igwe,Gary Bosworth

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Migration Practice as Creative Practice

An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Migration

By: Dieu Hack-Polay,Ali B. Mahmoud,Agnieszka Rydzik,Mahfuzur Rahman,Paul Agu Igwe,Gary Bosworth

Migration Practice as Creative Practice presents an in-depth evaluation of the contributions made by migrants to modern socio-economic structures. The book also discusses the creative energies that migrant inject in the economic structures in both private and public spheres.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1838677674

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Heads Ripe for Plucking

By: Mahmoud Al-Wardani

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Heads Ripe for Plucking

By: Mahmoud Al-Wardani

An Arab tyrant once infamously declared, "I see heads that are ripe for plucking." In Mahmoud Al-Wardani's novel of tyranny and oppression, an impaled head seeks solace in narrating similar woes it sustained in previous incarnations. Beheadings, both literal and metaphorical torture, murder, decapitation, brainwashing, losing one's head are the subject of the six stories that unfold. The narrative takes us from the most archetypal beheading in Arabo-Islamic history, that of al-Husayn, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, via a crime passionel, the torture of Communists in Nasser's prisons, the meanderings of a Cairene teenager unwittingly caught in the bread riots of 1977, a body dismembered in the 1991 Gulf War, and a bloodless beheading on the eve of the new millennium, into a dystopic future where heads are periodically severed to undergo maintenance and downloading of programs.

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American University in Cairo Press

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1617971529

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Teen Voices from the Holy Land

Who Am I to You?

By: Mahmoud Watad

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Teen Voices from the Holy Land

Who Am I to You?

By: Mahmoud Watad

This is a book about hope. We really can have peace in the Middle East one day. Daniel says it best: 'If children had been in charge of their countries, things would not have happened the way they did. Children know how to get along with one another despite everything.' As we pass our world along to the next generation, I know they will do better than we have in the peacemakng process.-HOWARD DEAN, Former Governor of VermontCongratulations to Professors Watad and Grob for compiling the articulate Teen Voices from the Holy Land. May the decision-makers hear them! We are inspired by the honesty and the promise of youth. These Israeli and Palestinian teenagers share with us a collective dream of human beings resolving our differences, no matter how difficult, in a civilized manner consistent with the meaning of Holy Land.-LINCOLN CHAFEE, Former US Senator from Rhode IslandA peaceful, long-lasting resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict may never be found until both sides learn to see each other, not as the enemy, but as fellow human beings. Teen Voices from the Holy Land takes a creative approach toward reaching greater understanding between two peoples who have known little but mutual hostility and suspicion for over fifty years.Based on interviews of thirty-four Palestinian and Israeli teenagers, this uplifting book presents candid, first-person narratives of their day-to-day lives. These young people describe their ordinary lives, including their interests, facts about their families, friendships, and neighborhoods, as well as their spiritual concerns and dreams for the future. Photographs of the youngsters accompany the narratives, and together both picture and story offer a revealing glimpse into the common humanity that Palestinians and Israelis share.A striking aspect of these stories is the depth of understanding and the brutal honesty exhibited. One teen exclaims, If children had been in charge of managing their countries, things would not have happened the way they did. Children know how to get along with one another, despite everything. Another says, A person should be loyal to his principles, but there's something more important which he has to do: He must be ready to criticize his own views. Everyone interviewed expresses the hope that they will someday live in peace with others in the region.The voices that speak movingly from these pages offer many insights into the perceptions and feelings of young people in this strife-torn area of the world. They hold out the hope that the shared dream of peace may eventually overcome the differences that now divide the two sides.Mahmoud Watad, Ph.D. (Salisbury Mills, NY), is associate professor of management at the College of Business Administration of William Paterson University.Leonard Grob, Ph.D. (Stony Point, NY), is professor of philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

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Prometheus Books

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1615926518

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Secularization of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran

By: Mahmoud Pargoo

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Secularization of Islam in Post-Revolutionary Iran

By: Mahmoud Pargoo

Examining the trajectory of the secularization of Islam in Iran, this book explains how efforts to Islamize society led, self-destructively, to its secularization. The research engages a range of debates across different fields, emphasizing the political and epistemological instability of the basic categories such as Islam, Sharia, and secularism. The volume is an interdisciplinary study of both the history of Islamic revival and Khomeini’s very specific merger of Islamic law and mysticism. It traces back the process of secularization to the early encounter of Iranian intellectuals with Europeans and adoption of their fundamental framework in an Islamic guise. The process continued until the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979, when Khomeini tried to substantively de-secularize Iranian social imaginaries. His attempts were not followed up by his followers, who vigorously reinstated the previous trend, after his death, resulting in a polity that is mostly secular but with Islamic ornaments. Bringing together area studies (Iran), religious studies (Islam), and political theory (secularism), this interdisciplinary volume places findings in a broader narrative that is both specific to Iran and broad enough to engage a global readership.

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Routledge

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1000390675

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Praise for the Women of the Family

A novel

By: Mahmoud Shukair

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Praise for the Women of the Family

A novel

By: Mahmoud Shukair

Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016. In the wake of resettlement from the desert to the hills overlooking Jerusalem, aging Bedouin patriarch Mannan wants his son Muhammad al-Asghar (the Youngest) to take on leadership and hold the clan together. But the youngest of eighteen sons is unable to follow in his father’s footsteps. Like others in the al-Abd al-Lat clan, he is torn between old customs and new choices. Muhammad al-Asghar is married—with affection and loyalty—to open-minded Sanaa, a childless divorcee. He works as a clerk in a sharia court, recording marriage contracts and divorce papers. But he wants to become a writer and gets drawn into stories: of his mate, of unhappy co-wives in the sharia court, of his storytelling mother Wadha (his father’s sixth wife), of his brothers and relatives. Listening to them, he becomes aware of the impossibility of equality for women in a clan culture caught in the grip of a suffocating foreign occupation, following the Palestinian exodus of 1948. And while he fails to bring the clan together, as his father had hoped, he manages to honor Mannan’s legacy request and record the life of the clan. A family album imbued with disaster, warmth and humor, Praise for the Women of the Family captures vivid snapshots of shifting intimate bonds, taken in the shadow of the patriarch by a youngest son, in search of his people’s story. The Al-Abd al-Lat clan has left the desert and is preparing to leave its Bedouin customs behind. Some of the women of the clan are drawn to the allure of modern life, while others scorn it and fear the loss of their traditional lifestyle and values. When Rasmia accompanies her husband to a party, Najma wears a dress and Sana gets a tan on her white legs, they set malicious tongues wagging. Meanwhile, Wadha, the sixth wife of Mannan, the chief of the clan, still believes that the washing machine and television are inhabited by evil spirits. Set in the tumultuous time after the nakba (the Palestinian exodus from what is now Israel), Praise for the Women in the Family portrays the rapid advance of modernity and the growing conflict in 1950s Palestine. It also reveals the impossibility of political equality in a society that treats its women unjustly and denies them the right to dignity and equality with men.

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Simon and Schuster

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162371088X

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9781623710880

Data Algorithms

Recipes for Scaling Up with Hadoop and Spark

By: Mahmoud Parsian

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Data Algorithms

Recipes for Scaling Up with Hadoop and Spark

By: Mahmoud Parsian

If you are ready to dive into the MapReduce framework for processing large datasets, this practical book takes you step by step through the algorithms and tools you need to build distributed MapReduce applications with Apache Hadoop or Apache Spark. Each chapter provides a recipe for solving a massive computational problem, such as building a recommendation system. You’ll learn how to implement the appropriate MapReduce solution with code that you can use in your projects. Dr. Mahmoud Parsian covers basic design patterns, optimization techniques, and data mining and machine learning solutions for problems in bioinformatics, genomics, statistics, and social network analysis. This book also includes an overview of MapReduce, Hadoop, and Spark. Topics include: Market basket analysis for a large set of transactions Data mining algorithms (K-means, KNN, and Naive Bayes) Using huge genomic data to sequence DNA and RNA Naive Bayes theorem and Markov chains for data and market prediction Recommendation algorithms and pairwise document similarity Linear regression, Cox regression, and Pearson correlation Allelic frequency and mining DNA Social network analysis (recommendation systems, counting triangles, sentiment analysis)

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1491906154

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The Neighbors

By: Ahmad Mahmoud,Nastaran Kherad

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The Neighbors

By: Ahmad Mahmoud,Nastaran Kherad

Ahmad Mahmoud sets The Neighbors against the backdrop of the oil nationalization crisis that gripped Iran in the early 1950s. His protagonist, Khaled, a young man from a rundown neighborhood in Ahvaz, a city in southern Iran, becomes involved in the struggle to wrest Iran’s oil industry from the British and, as the result of his political activities, comes to realize that there is more to life than the drudgery and poverty his parents and neighbors have experienced. The Neighbors, published in 1974, cemented Mahmoud’s reputation as a novelist and captured the ethos of a generation—the generation that laid the groundwork for those who continue to struggle for democracy in Iran today. Though the novel received considerable praise and was read widely, its political nature earned the ire of Mohammad Reza Shah’s regime, and the Islamic Republic has objected to its sexually explicit content. This is the first time one of Ahmad Mahmoud’s novels has appeared in English translation.

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University of Texas Press

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0292749058

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9780292749054

On Translating Arabic and English Media Texts

A Coursebook for Undergraduates

By: Mahmoud Altarabin

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On Translating Arabic and English Media Texts

A Coursebook for Undergraduates

By: Mahmoud Altarabin

This book is a unique and must-read coursebook for undergraduate students studying media translation between English and Arabic. Adopting a practical approach, it introduces the reader to the linguistic and stylistic features of media texts in both English and Arabic, newspaper sections, structures and types of news stories. Packed with extensive vocabulary items and exercises, the book features a collection of seven types of media texts which are dominant in the media industry.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527553930

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Mastering Arabic 1

By: Jane Wightwick,Mahmoud Gaafar

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Mastering Arabic 1

By: Jane Wightwick,Mahmoud Gaafar

Learn to understand, speak and read Modern Standard Arabic confidently with this lively and accessible text. Mastering Arabic 1 is aimed at beginners with little or no previous knowledge of the language. It gradually builds knowledge, introducing the Arabic script from the very first page. Mastering Arabic 1 is in full colour and features an abundance of cartoons, photos and engaging exercises. It also offers a wealth of audio and video resources, free-to-access online! Easily the bestselling Arabic course on the market, it is widely used in universities, schools, community colleges, adult evening classes and for self-study. New to this Edition: · Extended reading exercises that challenge students with longer passages, accompanied by exercises on the companion website. Links to newspapers and other Arabic material can also be found here. · Expanded video selection, now covering every language learning unit. · A refreshed design with updated photo programme. · Strengthened cross-referencing with the accompanying Grammar and Activity books.

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1350367273

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Iran and Cultural Centers in Europe

Roles, Dimensions and Limits of Influence

By: Mohammed Alsulami,Mahmoud Abu Alqasim

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Iran and Cultural Centers in Europe

Roles, Dimensions and Limits of Influence

By: Mohammed Alsulami,Mahmoud Abu Alqasim

Iranian cultural centers play a crucial role in expanding Iran’s influence beyond its borders, making them one of the country’s most significant assets. The importance of these centers is evident within the context of the Wilayat al-Faqih ideology, which is a critical part of Iranian foreign policy. With a complex mix of geopolitical, religious and sectarian factors at play, Iran seeks to become a dominant regional power. The Iranian government understands the importance of cultural centers in achieving these objectives and has invested heavily in their development. Iran’s global ambitions have sparked a profound interest in Iranian communities in Europe, extending beyond their traditional sphere of influence. In pursuit of their political and religious goals, Iran established cultural centers in Europe, which have been politicized to align with their foreign policy objectives. However, incidents associated with these centers raised alarm and prompted European authorities to probe into their activities. It is of utmost importance to scrutinize their role and assess whether they are linked to Iranian security and intelligence apparatuses, according to European governments. The significant nature of these centers and their potential impact on European security is comprehensively analyzed in this book.

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Partridge Publishing Singapore

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1543782124

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Tears for Tarshiha

By: Olfat Mahmoud

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Tears for Tarshiha

By: Olfat Mahmoud

A Palestinian refugee’s inspiring tale of her lifelong fight to return home. Olfat Mahmoud is a Palestinian refugee – a descendant of the Christian and Muslim people who fled Palestine in the period leading up to and after the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. She is an accomplished woman in her own right: the director of an international NGO, an internationally recognised peace activist, a registered nurse and, most recently, the recipient of a doctorate. Born in a refugee camp in Lebanon more than 60 years ago, Olfat’s determination to help her people in their fight to return to their homeland led to a nursing career that has placed her at the front line of atrocious massacres and wars in the Middle East. Tears for Tarshiha follows Olfat’s career amid the death and destruction of Lebanon’s many conflicts, and chronicles the Palestinian people’s remarkable capacity for love and bravery in the most extreme conditions. Olfat’s extraordinary story is emblematic of the Palestinian plight, illustrating their continued survival and determination that has become an inconvenience to the international community. These are the descendants of those Palestinians who were forced from their homeland at gunpoint by the Israeli military in 1948 in what is known as the Nakba – or Catastrophe. In 1949, David Ben-Gurion, one of the founders and the first prime minister of Israel, stated that ‘we must do everything to ensure [the Palestinians] never do return...the old will die and the young will forget’. Despite Olfat’s parents and grandparents never seeing Tarshiha again, this book is part of Olfat’s ongoing campaign to keep her people’s predicament in the public consciousness.

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Wild Dingo Press

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0987381342

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The Slutty Hotel

By: Mahmoud Elshehaby

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The Slutty Hotel

By: Mahmoud Elshehaby

Adel Elshirif released from prison, he cooperates with his colleague "Saleem" to conduct a journalistic investigation into a gang run by a woman named "Ehsan". The owner of the slutty hotel "Adel" falls in love with "Ehsan", and discovers that she was deceived by the gang leader "Abdo". The conflict between good and evil takes place in exciting events.

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shehabiat

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Connecting Histories in Afghanistan

Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

By: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

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Connecting Histories in Afghanistan

Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

By: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Most histories of nineteenth-century Afghanistan argue that the country remained immune to the colonialism emanating from British India because, militarily, Afghan defenders were successful in keeping out British imperial invaders. However, despite these military victories, colonial influences still made their way into Afghanistan. Looking closely at commerce in and between Kabul, Peshawar, and Qandahar, this book reveals how local Afghan nomads and Indian bankers responded to state policies on trade. British colonial political emphasis on Kabul had significant commercial consequences both for the city itself and for the cities it displaced to become the capital of the emerging Afghan state. Focused on routing between three key markets, Connecting Histories in Afghanistan challenges the overtly political tone and Orientalist bias that characterize classic colonialism and much contemporary discussion of Afghanistan.

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Stanford University Press

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0804777772

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9780804777773

Mastering Arabic Vocabulary and Pronunciation

By: Jane Wightwick,Mahmoud Gaafar

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Mastering Arabic Vocabulary and Pronunciation

By: Jane Wightwick,Mahmoud Gaafar

This highly illustrated textbook is both a reference and activity book for all beginners and early intermediate students of Arabic. As a reference book, it provides friendly theme-based vocabulary lists to perfect pronunciation through both listening and repetition. As an activity book, it helps absorb and practise vocabulary through a variety of engaging exercises. Each of the units in the book is divided into two sections with the first section suitable for early beginners, and the second section for late beginners or early intermediate students. Each section presents key vocabulary followed by a wide range of activities. This book assumes a reasonable knowledge of the Arabic script and basic grammar, and is intended for beginners and early intermediate students to back up learning elsewhere. Vocabulary acquisition and pronunciation are both important but sometimes tricky aspects of learning Arabic, and this book aims to help overcome this.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1352002264

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Sustainable Design Through Process Integration

Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement

By: Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi

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Sustainable Design Through Process Integration

Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement

By: Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi

Sustainable Design through Process Integration: Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement, Second Edition, is an important textbook that provides authoritative, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow coverage of the fundamental concepts and practical techniques on the use of process integration to maximize the efficiency and sustainability of industrial processes. The book is ideal for adoption in process design and sustainability courses. It is also a valuable guidebook to process, chemical, and environmental engineers who need to improve the design, operation, performance, and sustainability of industrial plants. The book covers pressing and high growth topics, including benchmarking process performance, identifying root causes of problems and opportunities for improvement, designing integrated solutions, enhancing profitability, conserving natural resources, and preventing pollution. Written by one of the world's foremost authorities on integrated process design and sustainability, the new edition contains new chapters and updated materials on various aspects of process integration and sustainable design. The new edition is also packed with numerous new examples and industrial applications. - Allows the reader to methodically develop rigorous targets that benchmark the performance of industrial processes then develop cost-effective implementations - Contains state-of-the-art process integration and improvement approaches and techniques including graphical, algebraic, and mathematical methods - Covers topics and applications that include profitability enhancement, mass and energy conservation, synthesis of innovative processes, retrofitting of existing systems, design and assessment of water, energy, and water-energy-nexus systems, and reconciliation of various sustainability objectives

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0128098244

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9780128098240

EFL Learners' Acquisition of the English Article System

A Comparative Study

By: Mahmoud Hajjar

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EFL Learners' Acquisition of the English Article System

A Comparative Study

By: Mahmoud Hajjar

This book addresses several issues that have been controversial in the literature surrounding second language (L2) acquisition, including the role that the first language (L1) plays in development, the ability of L2 learners to acquire properties of functional categories not realised in their L1, the nature of L2 development itself, and the extent to which such development is constrained by innate linguistic capacities (universal grammar). These issues are considered by investigating the acquisition of the English articles by speakers of an L1 that has an article system encoding definiteness (Arabic), and an L1 that lacks articles (Japanese), at different proficiency levels in English. Those who will find this book useful include policy makers in language education as well as students and their teachers. Researchers in the field of second language acquisition can benefit from reading this book to keep abreast of the latest developments in this area in the hope of stimulating further research.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1036400387

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9781036400385

Decentralized Control and Filtering in Interconnected Dynamical Systems

By: Magdi S. Mahmoud

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Decentralized Control and Filtering in Interconnected Dynamical Systems

By: Magdi S. Mahmoud

Based on the many approaches available for dealing with large-scale systems (LSS), Decentralized Control and Filtering in Interconnected Dynamical Systems supplies a rigorous framework for studying the analysis, stability, and control problems of LSS. Providing an overall assessment of LSS theories, it addresses model order reduction, parametric un

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CRC Press

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1439838178

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9781439838174

Desert Plants of Egypt's Wadi El Gemal National Park

By: Tamer Mahmoud

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Desert Plants of Egypt's Wadi El Gemal National Park

By: Tamer Mahmoud

The vegetation in Wadi El Gemal National Park in Egypt's Eastern Desert is more diverse than might first be expected, but even more surprising is the relationship that the desert dwellers continue to have with the plant life in their habitat, despite the increasing modernization of their world. As a ranger in the park, Tamer Mahmoud quickly realized the importance of surveying, identifying, and documenting the indigenous plants, and recording the information he compiled from interviews with the local community about how they use the plants for food, healing, animal fodder, and fuel. The result is this detailed and colorful guide, which includes photographs of each plant, the scientific name and local name in Arabic and English, and information on location, distribution, uses, and ecology. A glossary, bibliography, visitors' information section and distribution maps make this a comprehensive reference work that will interest visitors, scientists, anyone interested in the flora of arid areas, and even anthropologists.

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9774163508

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9789774163500

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