Author: Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Publisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 1907822895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
On a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town, the colonel paces back and forth inside his house waiting for the inevitable – the knock on the door from the secret police. From there he will be taken to the tortured body of his youngest daughter. The Islamic Revolution, like so many revolutions before it, is devouring its own children. The colonel must bury his daughter before sunrise, alone, without ceremony. So who is to blame? What follows is a shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian Left over the last sixty years. Confrontational, angry, sad and lyrical, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi leaves no taboo unbroken as he asks three generations who have suffered under oppressive and brutal regimes, how has it come to this.
The Colonel
Author: Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Publisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 1907822895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
On a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town, the colonel paces back and forth inside his house waiting for the inevitable – the knock on the door from the secret police. From there he will be taken to the tortured body of his youngest daughter. The Islamic Revolution, like so many revolutions before it, is devouring its own children. The colonel must bury his daughter before sunrise, alone, without ceremony. So who is to blame? What follows is a shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian Left over the last sixty years. Confrontational, angry, sad and lyrical, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi leaves no taboo unbroken as he asks three generations who have suffered under oppressive and brutal regimes, how has it come to this.
Publisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 1907822895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
On a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town, the colonel paces back and forth inside his house waiting for the inevitable – the knock on the door from the secret police. From there he will be taken to the tortured body of his youngest daughter. The Islamic Revolution, like so many revolutions before it, is devouring its own children. The colonel must bury his daughter before sunrise, alone, without ceremony. So who is to blame? What follows is a shocking diatribe against the failures of the Iranian Left over the last sixty years. Confrontational, angry, sad and lyrical, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi leaves no taboo unbroken as he asks three generations who have suffered under oppressive and brutal regimes, how has it come to this.
Easy Arabic Script
Author: Jane Wightwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Provides an easy-to-understand, practical guide to Arabic script. Explains the basic letter shapes, the combinations of letters, and different writing methods.--From publisher's description.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Provides an easy-to-understand, practical guide to Arabic script. Explains the basic letter shapes, the combinations of letters, and different writing methods.--From publisher's description.
Sisters' Entrance
Author: Emtithal Mahmoud
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449496709
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Brimming with rage, sorrow, and resilience, this collection traverses an expansive terrain: genocide; diaspora; the guilt of surviving; racism and Islamophobia; the burdens of girlhood; the solace of sisterhood; the innocence of a first kiss. Heart-wrenching and raw, defiant and empowering, Sisters’ Entrance explores how to speak the unspeakable.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449496709
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Brimming with rage, sorrow, and resilience, this collection traverses an expansive terrain: genocide; diaspora; the guilt of surviving; racism and Islamophobia; the burdens of girlhood; the solace of sisterhood; the innocence of a first kiss. Heart-wrenching and raw, defiant and empowering, Sisters’ Entrance explores how to speak the unspeakable.
Islamic Finance
Author: Mahmoud A. El-Gamal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139457160
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the practice of Islamic finance and the historical roots that define its modes of operation. The focus of the book is analytical and forward-looking. It shows that Islamic finance exists mainly as a form of rent-seeking legal-arbitrage. In every aspect of finance - from personal loans to investment banking, and from market structure to corporate governance - Islamic finance aims to replicate in Islamic forms the substantive functions of contemporary financial instruments, markets, and institutions. By attempting to replicate the substance of contemporary financial practice using pre-modern contract forms, Islamic finance has arguably failed to serve the objectives of Islamic law. This book proposes refocusing Islamic finance on substance rather than form. This approach would entail abandoning the paradigm of 'Islamization' of every financial practice. It would also entail reorienting the brand-name of Islamic finance to emphasize issues of community banking, micro-finance, and socially responsible investment.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139457160
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the practice of Islamic finance and the historical roots that define its modes of operation. The focus of the book is analytical and forward-looking. It shows that Islamic finance exists mainly as a form of rent-seeking legal-arbitrage. In every aspect of finance - from personal loans to investment banking, and from market structure to corporate governance - Islamic finance aims to replicate in Islamic forms the substantive functions of contemporary financial instruments, markets, and institutions. By attempting to replicate the substance of contemporary financial practice using pre-modern contract forms, Islamic finance has arguably failed to serve the objectives of Islamic law. This book proposes refocusing Islamic finance on substance rather than form. This approach would entail abandoning the paradigm of 'Islamization' of every financial practice. It would also entail reorienting the brand-name of Islamic finance to emphasize issues of community banking, micro-finance, and socially responsible investment.
Mahmoud
Author: Tara Grammy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770913240
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A play about strangers, racism, sexism, homophobia, and homesickness.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770913240
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A play about strangers, racism, sexism, homophobia, and homesickness.
Dialogue with an Atheist
Author: Muṣṭafá Maḥmūd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781870582094
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781870582094
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Iran's Epic and America's Empire
Author: Mahmoud Omidsalar
Publisher: eBooks2go, Inc.
ISBN: 0985498102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Shahnameh is Iran's national epic. It is a compendium of Iranian myths, legends, and history. Unlike other Indo-European epics, it is not about a war, like the Iliad, or an individual, like the Odyssey, Beowulf, or the Ramayana. The central character of the Shahnameh is Iran, which it glorifies both as subject and hero. Unlike other classical Indo-European epics, the Shahnameh is not in a dead language. It is intelligible to every speaker of Persian in Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.
Publisher: eBooks2go, Inc.
ISBN: 0985498102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Shahnameh is Iran's national epic. It is a compendium of Iranian myths, legends, and history. Unlike other Indo-European epics, it is not about a war, like the Iliad, or an individual, like the Odyssey, Beowulf, or the Ramayana. The central character of the Shahnameh is Iran, which it glorifies both as subject and hero. Unlike other classical Indo-European epics, the Shahnameh is not in a dead language. It is intelligible to every speaker of Persian in Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan
Author: Shah Hanifi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804774110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Originally published online in 2008 by Columbia University Press.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804774110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Originally published online in 2008 by Columbia University Press.
Saddam City
Author: Maḥmūd Saʻīd
Publisher: Saqi Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
One morning Mustafa Ali Noman, a teacher in Baghdad, is arrested as he reaches the school gates. For the next 15 months he is brutally interrogated and barred from contacting his family. The question of guilt or innocence clearly irrelevant, Mustafa must fight to retain a grip on reality. 'How do I know that I am not dreaming this?' he asks.
Publisher: Saqi Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
One morning Mustafa Ali Noman, a teacher in Baghdad, is arrested as he reaches the school gates. For the next 15 months he is brutally interrogated and barred from contacting his family. The question of guilt or innocence clearly irrelevant, Mustafa must fight to retain a grip on reality. 'How do I know that I am not dreaming this?' he asks.
Finding Mahmoud
Author: Tom Filer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595174167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Peggy Cambell, 27, meets Mahmoud Allam, 29, an Egyptian surgeon at a disco in London. They fall in love and sail off to make a new life in Zagazig, a provincial city on the Nile Delta. Peggy finds herself imprisoned in a world of hostile and hysterical women, deprived of her birthrights in the west. Learning ugly truths about Mahmoud’s past, she wants to leave but becomes involved with a commune of women weavers. Supporting Mahmoud’s mother and sisters in their attempts to achieve freedom, Peggy sets loose the force that even Mahmoud cannot stop. His nemesis, Sami, risks intimacy with Mahmoud’s mother. Though Mahmoud’s heart is in the future, one foot remains planted in the past.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595174167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Peggy Cambell, 27, meets Mahmoud Allam, 29, an Egyptian surgeon at a disco in London. They fall in love and sail off to make a new life in Zagazig, a provincial city on the Nile Delta. Peggy finds herself imprisoned in a world of hostile and hysterical women, deprived of her birthrights in the west. Learning ugly truths about Mahmoud’s past, she wants to leave but becomes involved with a commune of women weavers. Supporting Mahmoud’s mother and sisters in their attempts to achieve freedom, Peggy sets loose the force that even Mahmoud cannot stop. His nemesis, Sami, risks intimacy with Mahmoud’s mother. Though Mahmoud’s heart is in the future, one foot remains planted in the past.