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Balancing direct language with a suggestive “aslantness,” Nye probes the fragile connection between language and meaning. She never shies from the challenge of trying to name the mysterious logic of childhood or speak truth to power in the face of the horrors of war.

Mullah Nasruddin (Nasreddin Hoca), the eight-centuries-old wise fool character originating from Turkey and the Levant, is the subject of thousands of funny, wise tales, jokes, and anecdotes told across the Middle and Far East and retold today worldwide. Carefully chosen from beloved authentic sources, these short stories and folk tales will bring readers a smile, nod, or chuckle of self-recognition.

שנות השישים בקאבול, בירת אפגניסטן. שני ילדים, אמיר וחסן, נולדים באותו בית מידות ויונקים משדיה של אותה מינקת, אך למרות זאת, הם גדלים בעולמות שונים לחלוטין. אמיר הוא בנו של איש עסקים עשיר ומכובד, מעמודי התווך של קאבול; חסן הוא בנו של עלי, המשרת של באבא, אביו של אמיר. אמיר הוא פאשטוני, מוסלמי סוני, בן לאליטה השלטת באפגניסטן. חסן הוא האזארי, בן למיעוט אתני נחשל ומנודה. לשני הילדים האלה — קאבול שלפני הפלישה הסובייטית היא עיר קסומה, ססגונית, מלאה ריחות אקזוטיים, בזארים שוקקי חיים ותחרויות להפרחת עפיפונים, שכל העיר יוצאת לקחת בהן חלק.

The words of Kahlil Gibran give his book The Prophet a broad range of inspiration and philosophy. They provide exceptional insight into human desires and understanding. The vivid observations are vibrant with feeling and acceptance of life’s many questions and hopes. One review saluted the story as being untouched by the harshness of life. Gibran’s other two books, The Forerunner and The Madman, are of deep assistance in the same manner.

Subsequent to the attack on the USS Cole in October of 2000, British intelligence reports pinpointed bin Laden's location in a safe house outside of Abyan, Yemen. A top secret project, code named Perfect Justice, was carried out by a team of highly-trained CIA operatives, two male and two female, in a commando-style raid. It was to be a Black operation, one that would be conducted in absolute secrecy under the cover of official deniability.

Printemps 1979, Téhéran. Alors que la révolution islamique met les rues de la capitale iranienne à feu et à sang, les mollahs brûlent tout ce qui représente le modèle occidental vanté par le chah déchu, désormais en exil. Seul dans les sous-sols du musée d'Art contemporain, son gardien Cyrus Farzadi tremble pour ses toiles. Au milieu du chaos, le jeune garçon des quartiers ouest convoque ses souvenirs. Il raconte la splendeur et la décadence de son pays à travers le destin incroyable de son musée.

Romans Essenes and Sicarii: Narrative Logic of the Judaean War is the first study to analyse the strategies Josephus uses in his War narrative to communicate his intended meaning to the readers. Without mastering the logic of the Judaean War it is impossible to comprehend what Josephus is trying to say. This approach also allows the readers to speculate in a reasonable manner about the hidden strategies Nero and Vespasian could have used to co-opt the help of Josephus and his friends the captive priests in Rome.

"No man can draw the line between necessities and luxuries. Only the angels can do that, and the angels are wise and wistful. Perhaps the angels are our better thought in space." - Kahlil Gibran Essential Kahlil Gibran quotes now at your fingertips A great way to explore the ideas and philosophy of Kahlil Gibran Perfect for casual reading, taking ideas, and finding inspiration Makes a thoughtful gift choice for friends and family-- The Sphinx spoke only once, and the Sphinx said, "A grain of sand is a desert, and a desert is a grain of sand; and now let us all be silent again." - Kahlil ...

يندرج ديوان (أنغام الخلود: شاعرة الوداد) للشاعرة الإماراتية هند بنت سعيد بن هلال الظاهري ضمن سلسلة تعنى بنشر الشعر الشعبي الإماراتي الذي يشكّل تسجيلاً لمشاعر الناس في حقبة تاريخية مهمة من تاريخ دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة. يضم الديوان مجموعة من القصائد والقطع الشعرية التي تتناول موضوعات متنوعة، ويشكل استمراراً للغة الشاعرة الأصيلة، ويحتوي صياغات وتراكيب شعرية فريدة، فالشاعرة معروفة بخبرتها في مجال الشعر الشعبي وهي مثالٌ يقتدى به للشاعرات من الجيل الجديد. أسلوبها متين ومنسبك، وينسجم مع الذوق التقليدي الموروث في صياغة الشعر، وتمتلك القدرة على تصريف المفردات والعبارات بما يناسب سياقات القصيدة.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY “O is so full of music and passion for life . . . Zeina Hashem Beck’s poems unfold the abundance of our world.” —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic From a “brilliant, absolutely essential voice” whose “poems...

"تقوم تجربة زهران القاسمي الشاعر والروائي العماني، على إبدالاتٍ شتى، فهو مثال المبدع المتعدِّد،رجل العسل، هذا هو اسم زهران القاسمي، لا صفته! رحلات كثيرة للبحث عن...

The Prophet is Kahlil Gibran's most famous work. He focuses on human relationships, as well as many other topics, including love, friendship, passion, work, good and evil, and time in a beautiful, simple, lyrical style.

Kahlil Gibran was Lebanese by birth but spent a major part of his life in America in the early part of the 20th century. He wrote many collections of stories with a wise or whimsical tone, but none more popular than The Prophet, his first collection, or The Wanderer, his final anthology.

Accent of the Gods The Beauty of Her Voice and the Breaking of My Silence by Eric Infanti Her voice was the first prayer I ever truly listened to. Not because she was eloquent— but because she was true. And in the hushed music of her Iranian accent, I heard something divine: a homeland, a woman, a God I had long forgotten how to trust. In Accent of the Gods, Marine Corps veteran and spiritual writer Eric Infanti tells a love story unlike any other—one born not from ease or similarity, but from the transcendent power of difference. At the heart of this memoir is the voice of his beloved ...

The Iranian Connection: Code Word Orchid - an internationally-flavored novel - relates the actions of Hezbollah operatives who wish to detonate a nuclear device in New York City in order to weaken the United States' support for Israel in post September 11th months, as well as disrupt the U.S. economy.

Anti-terrorist organizations work at odds with, and then in concert with, one another to foil the deadly explosion.

"La obsesión de Serfaty" es un relato autobiográfico que fusiona ficción y realismo fantástico . Narra la experiencia de Salomón Serfaty, un escritor multilingüe y sefardí que, tras su expulsión simbólica del establishment literario israelí, comienza a enseñar español en un liceo francés de Jerusalén. La novela, estructurada como un diario íntimo y un blog de viajes a España, explora su crisis de identidad, sus problemas de sordera y su obsesión por la escritura. A través de un estilo fragmentario, Benarroch —ganador del Premio del Primer Ministro israelí y el Premio ...

Maze of Destiny paints a vivid picture of a Syrian family struggling to survive amidst the chaos and brutality of war. Mullah Abdullah, a respected imam, sees his peaceful world shattered when a bombing devastates his mosque. Injured and grappling with fear, he must confront the terrifying reality of a war that spares neither places of worship nor human lives. Meanwhile, his wife Amani faces a mother's worst nightmare: their daughter, Zahra, has been kidnapped. As Amani desperately seeks news of her daughter and tends to her injured husband, Zahra finds unexpected solace in her friendship ...

Nostradamus had some way of seeing the future. When he was alive he was most famous as a medical doctor. He had some understanding of medicine that did not fit with his time. He did not have the pharmaceuticals that we have today, but he made do with what was available. He lived during the time of the Black Death epidemic in Europe that killed some 30 to 60 percent of the population of Europe. Cities would contract with him to come and save them. Somehow he understood that the disease was being spread by unclean condition and rats. It was actually the fleas on the rats. He would order the ...

Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī is commonly known to us as Hafiz, the Persian poet who was born in Shiraz, Iran, in either 1315 or 1317. The facts of much of his early life are unknown to us but it is said that, at an early age, he memorised many passages of the Quran and was therefore given the title of Hafiz, which means 'the memoriser or the safe keeper'. Hafiz mainly wrote lyric poetry or ghazals - an ideal form for expressing the ecstasy of the divine and the intoxicating mystical union with God.

Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and narrated by Matthew Schmitz. Sanai's book, The Enclosed Garden of the Truth, a treatise on God and the seekers journey to Him, forms one part of three highly influential early Sufi works. The others being Attar's Conference of the Birds and Rumi's Masnavi. Sanai's work is considered to be the first to use poetry to express religious, spiritual and mystical ideas. Rumi acknowledges both Sanai and Attar as having a major influence on his own poetry and stated 'Attar is the soul and Sanai the two eyes'.