Author: Masoud Banisadr
Publisher: Saqi Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
"Growing up in the aftermath of the 1953 CIA coup in Iran exposed the young Masoud Banisadr to extremes of wealth and poverty, loyalty and betrayal. Years later in the United Kingdom, where Banisadr had gone to do postgraduate study, he decided to join the Iranian Mojahedin, an organization fighting to dislodge the regime that took power following the 1979 revolution." "Torn between two loves - his family and the cause - Masoud gave up normal life to pursue the revolution. But it wasn't long before the dream turned sour. The Mojahedin's revolutionary fervour demanded more than total sacrifice: he was pressured to divorce his beloved wife, alienate himself from his family and career, and remain separated for over a decade from his children." "Years later, following his defection from the organization, Masoud decides to tell his story."--Jacket.
Masoud
Author: Masoud Banisadr
Publisher: Saqi Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
"Growing up in the aftermath of the 1953 CIA coup in Iran exposed the young Masoud Banisadr to extremes of wealth and poverty, loyalty and betrayal. Years later in the United Kingdom, where Banisadr had gone to do postgraduate study, he decided to join the Iranian Mojahedin, an organization fighting to dislodge the regime that took power following the 1979 revolution." "Torn between two loves - his family and the cause - Masoud gave up normal life to pursue the revolution. But it wasn't long before the dream turned sour. The Mojahedin's revolutionary fervour demanded more than total sacrifice: he was pressured to divorce his beloved wife, alienate himself from his family and career, and remain separated for over a decade from his children." "Years later, following his defection from the organization, Masoud decides to tell his story."--Jacket.
Publisher: Saqi Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
"Growing up in the aftermath of the 1953 CIA coup in Iran exposed the young Masoud Banisadr to extremes of wealth and poverty, loyalty and betrayal. Years later in the United Kingdom, where Banisadr had gone to do postgraduate study, he decided to join the Iranian Mojahedin, an organization fighting to dislodge the regime that took power following the 1979 revolution." "Torn between two loves - his family and the cause - Masoud gave up normal life to pursue the revolution. But it wasn't long before the dream turned sour. The Mojahedin's revolutionary fervour demanded more than total sacrifice: he was pressured to divorce his beloved wife, alienate himself from his family and career, and remain separated for over a decade from his children." "Years later, following his defection from the organization, Masoud decides to tell his story."--Jacket.
Iranian Cities
Author: Masoud Kheirabadi
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815628606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Exploring the rationale behind the physical structure and spatial patterns of traditional Iranian cities, this study examines cities built before the general modernization of Iran that began after World War II, in the light of specifically Iranian environmental factors.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815628606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Exploring the rationale behind the physical structure and spatial patterns of traditional Iranian cities, this study examines cities built before the general modernization of Iran that began after World War II, in the light of specifically Iranian environmental factors.
In Search of Walid Masoud
Author: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815606468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Walid Masoud disappears. A Palestinian intellectual, he has been living in Baghdad since the first Israeli War of 1948. As a member of an organization engaged in the armed struggle against Israel, suspicion arises that he has gone underground as part of a political movement. Masoud leaves behind a lengthy but disconnected tape recording of garbled utterances through which Jabra Ibrahim Jabra artfully crafts the basis for the narration. He transforms the transcription of the tape by each of Masoud’s comrades into a study of character. Through a series of monologues, each becomes a narrator of his own experience. Readers of The Ship (also translated by Adnan Haydar and Roger Allen) will remember the ingenious way the political themes emerge through the dialogue between passengers on a ship crossing the Mediterranean from the Arab to the European world. This novel echoes identical subjects: the misperceptions between Western and Islamic cultures, personal landscape as a shaper of culture, and the necessity of political commitment. A tour de force that places the evolution of the Faulknerian style into a political register, this book is a testament to the brilliance of one of Palestine’s preeminent writers.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815606468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Walid Masoud disappears. A Palestinian intellectual, he has been living in Baghdad since the first Israeli War of 1948. As a member of an organization engaged in the armed struggle against Israel, suspicion arises that he has gone underground as part of a political movement. Masoud leaves behind a lengthy but disconnected tape recording of garbled utterances through which Jabra Ibrahim Jabra artfully crafts the basis for the narration. He transforms the transcription of the tape by each of Masoud’s comrades into a study of character. Through a series of monologues, each becomes a narrator of his own experience. Readers of The Ship (also translated by Adnan Haydar and Roger Allen) will remember the ingenious way the political themes emerge through the dialogue between passengers on a ship crossing the Mediterranean from the Arab to the European world. This novel echoes identical subjects: the misperceptions between Western and Islamic cultures, personal landscape as a shaper of culture, and the necessity of political commitment. A tour de force that places the evolution of the Faulknerian style into a political register, this book is a testament to the brilliance of one of Palestine’s preeminent writers.
The Arab Spring
Author: Jason Brownlee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199660069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East. While Tunisia has made progress towards democracy, other countries that overthrew their rulers - Egypt, Yemen, and Libya - remain in authoritarianism and instability. This volume provides a foundational exploration of the Arab Spring's successes and failures.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199660069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East. While Tunisia has made progress towards democracy, other countries that overthrew their rulers - Egypt, Yemen, and Libya - remain in authoritarianism and instability. This volume provides a foundational exploration of the Arab Spring's successes and failures.
Counting Islam
Author: Tarek Masoud
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139991868
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism? This book argues that the answer lies not in the political unsophistication of voters, the subordination of economic interests to spiritual ones, or the ineptitude of secular and leftist politicians, but in organizational and social factors that shape the opportunities of parties in authoritarian and democratizing systems to reach potential voters. Tracing the performance of Islamists and their rivals in Egyptian elections over the course of almost forty years, this book not only explains why Islamists win elections, but illuminates the possibilities for the emergence in Egypt of the kind of political pluralism that is at the heart of what we expect from democracy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139991868
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism? This book argues that the answer lies not in the political unsophistication of voters, the subordination of economic interests to spiritual ones, or the ineptitude of secular and leftist politicians, but in organizational and social factors that shape the opportunities of parties in authoritarian and democratizing systems to reach potential voters. Tracing the performance of Islamists and their rivals in Egyptian elections over the course of almost forty years, this book not only explains why Islamists win elections, but illuminates the possibilities for the emergence in Egypt of the kind of political pluralism that is at the heart of what we expect from democracy.
Racial Discrimination
Author: Masoud Kamali
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135856613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This multidisciplinary text identifies and investigates the variety of practices that make up the complex phenomena of racism and xenophobia. In systematically analyzing these problems, Kamali contributes to a deeper understanding of the forces underlying xenophobia and racism and to generating more effective anti-racial and integrative policy making.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135856613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This multidisciplinary text identifies and investigates the variety of practices that make up the complex phenomena of racism and xenophobia. In systematically analyzing these problems, Kamali contributes to a deeper understanding of the forces underlying xenophobia and racism and to generating more effective anti-racial and integrative policy making.
Islam
Author: Masoud Kheirabadi
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438106432
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Presents a study of Islam that examines the history and foundations of this religion, the Muslim worldview, worship practices, cultural expression, holidays, what it is like to grow up Muslim, and Islam in the world today.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438106432
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Presents a study of Islam that examines the history and foundations of this religion, the Muslim worldview, worship practices, cultural expression, holidays, what it is like to grow up Muslim, and Islam in the world today.
Self Organizing Maps
Author: Josphat Igadwa Mwasiagi
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9533075465
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
Kohonen Self Organizing Maps (SOM) has found application in practical all fields, especially those which tend to handle high dimensional data. SOM can be used for the clustering of genes in the medical field, the study of multi-media and web based contents and in the transportation industry, just to name a few. Apart from the aforementioned areas this book also covers the study of complex data found in meteorological and remotely sensed images acquired using satellite sensing. Data management and envelopment analysis has also been covered. The application of SOM in mechanical and manufacturing engineering forms another important area of this book. The final section of this book, addresses the design and application of novel variants of SOM algorithms.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9533075465
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
Kohonen Self Organizing Maps (SOM) has found application in practical all fields, especially those which tend to handle high dimensional data. SOM can be used for the clustering of genes in the medical field, the study of multi-media and web based contents and in the transportation industry, just to name a few. Apart from the aforementioned areas this book also covers the study of complex data found in meteorological and remotely sensed images acquired using satellite sensing. Data management and envelopment analysis has also been covered. The application of SOM in mechanical and manufacturing engineering forms another important area of this book. The final section of this book, addresses the design and application of novel variants of SOM algorithms.
Masoud the Bedouin
Author: Alfreda Post Carhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Recognition
Author: Philip F. Kennedy
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433102561
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This interdisciplinary collection of essays advances the study of anagnorisis («recognition»), a quintessential concept in Aristotelian poetics. This book explores narrative structure and epistemology by examining how anagnorisis works in narrative fiction, music, and film. Contributors hail from the fields of cinema; opera; religion; medieval and modern English, German, and French literatures; comparative literature; and Indian (Sanskrit) and Islamic (Arabic) literatures, both classical and modern.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433102561
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This interdisciplinary collection of essays advances the study of anagnorisis («recognition»), a quintessential concept in Aristotelian poetics. This book explores narrative structure and epistemology by examining how anagnorisis works in narrative fiction, music, and film. Contributors hail from the fields of cinema; opera; religion; medieval and modern English, German, and French literatures; comparative literature; and Indian (Sanskrit) and Islamic (Arabic) literatures, both classical and modern.