Author: Publisher: EDITIONS MA HADHA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Author: Publisher: EDITIONS MA HADHA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
A Woman Among Warlords
Author: Malalai JoyaPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439132488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Malalai Joya has been called "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." At a constitutional assembly in Kabul in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan's new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug barons and their cronies. She has survived four assassination attempts to date, is accompanied at all times by armed guards, and sleeps only in safe houses. Often compared to democratic leaders such as Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, this extraordinary young woman was raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan. Inspired in part by her father's activism, Malalai became a teacher in secret girls' schools, holding classes in a series of basements. She hid her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldn't find them. She also helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah. The endless wars of Afghanistan have created a generation of children without parents. Like so many others who have lost people they care about, Malalai lost one of her orphans when the girl's family members sold her into marriage. While many have talked about the serious plight of women in Afghanistan, Malalai Joya takes us inside the country and shows us the desperate dayto-day situations these remarkable people face at every turn. She recounts some of the many acts of rebellion that are helping to change the country -- the women who bravely take to the streets in peaceful protest against their oppression; the men who step forward and claim "I am her mahram," so the fundamentalists won't punish a woman for walking alone; and the families that give their basements as classrooms for female students. A controversial political figure in one of the most dangerous places on earth, Malalai Joya is a hero for our times, a young woman who refused to be silent, a young woman committed to making a difference in the world, no matter the cost.
The Kurdish Women's Movement
Author: Dilar DirikPublisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780745341934
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of the most exciting revolutionary experiment in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle, most recently in the fight against ISIS, Rojava embodies a radical commitment to ecology, democracy and gender equality. But while striking images of Kurdish women in desert fatigues proliferate, a true understanding of the women's movement remains elusive.Taking apart the superficial and Orientalist frameworks that dominate, Dilar Dirik offers instead an empirically rich account of the women's movement in Kurdistan. Drawing on original research and ethnographic fieldwork, she surveys the movement's historical origins, ideological evolution, and political practice over the past forty years. Going beyond abstract ideas, Dirik locates the movement's culture and ideology in its concrete work for women's liberation and radical democracy.Taking the reader from the guerrilla mountains to radical women's academies and self-organised refugee camps, the book invites women around the world to engage with the revolution in Kurdistan, both theoretically and practically, as a vital touchstone in the wider struggle for a militant anti-fascist, anti-capitalist feminist internationalism.
Modern Art, 19th and 20th Centuries
Author: Meyer SchapiroPublisher: New York : G. Braziller, 1978, 1979 printing.
ISBN: 9780807608999
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Author: Nick TursePublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844674517
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan has now been singled out as Obama’s “just war,” the destination for an additional thirty thousand US troops in an effort to shore up an increasingly desperate occupation. Nick Turse brings together a range of leading commentators, politicians, and military strategists to analyze America’s real motives and likely prospects. Through on-the-spot reporting, clear-headed analysis and historical comparisons with Afghanistan’s previous occupiers—Britain and the Soviet Union, who also argued that they were fighting a just and winnable war—The Case for Withdrawal From Afghanistan carefully examines the current US strategy and offers sobering conclusions. This timely and focused collection aims at the heart of Obama’s foreign policy and shows why it is so unlikely to succeed.
TouchThinkLearn: Feelings
Author: Xavier DeneuxPublisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9781797203799
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Next up for the original TouchThinkLearn series, FEELINGS engages with classic emotions, from joy to anger. Like the original TTL titles, this ingenious continuation uses the same cut-out 'depressed' areas of the page as a creative space. The groundbreaking TouchThinkLearn books offer the youngest learners an opportunity to explore in a hands-on, multisensory way. Seeing the image, tracing its shape, saying its name . . . these modes of perception combine to stimulate understanding of essential concepts. Related words on each spread offer parents and children a springboard for further conversation to encourage the language skills crucial to later successful learning. In a format unlike any other, these groundbreaking books translate abstract thought into tangible knowledge.
Under My Tree
Author: Muriel TallandierPublisher: Blue Dot Kids Press
ISBN: 9781733121231
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Susanne leaves her city home to visit her grandmother, she finds a very special tree of her own in the forest. Each time she returns to the tree, she observes something unique about it--from the sheltering protection of its branches to the scratchy surface of its bark.
To Dare Imagining
Author: Dilar DirikPublisher:
ISBN: 9781570273124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new collection of articles and essays concerning the Rojava Revolution, including contributions from: David Levi Strauss, Bill Weinberg, David Graeber, Pinar O unc, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Newsha Tavakolian, Havin Gune er, Saleh Muslim & Jonas Staal, Murat Bay, Abdullah Ocalan, Nazan Ustunda, El Errante / Paul Z. Simons, Dilar Dirik, and Michael Taussig. Plus The Charter of the Rojava Cantons and other related resources."
Inside Bordeaux
Author: Jane AnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780951063231
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The Star Festival
Author: Moni Ritchie HadleyPublisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 080757600X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
2021 Freeman Book Awards Honorable Mention - Children's Literature The Best Children's Books of the Year 2022, Bank Street College STARRED REVIEW! "Hadley has created a remarkable debut that flows elegantly, interweaving the two tales in a way that is readable and fun...An exquisite choice for all collections."—School Library Journal starred review A multigenerational retelling of a Japanese legend. Tanabata Matsuri, the Star Festival, celebrates a popular folktale: The Emperor of the Heavens separates his daughter, Orihime, from her love, Hikoboshi, all year—but on this day the two stars finally reunite on a bridge across the Milky Way. For Keiko, her mama, and her grandmother, Tanabata is about making tanzaku wishes, taking in the colorful decorations, and eating delicious food like nagashi somen and shaved ice. But when Obasaan gets lost in the crowd, Keiko and Mama must make their own bridge to find her again—and see if their tanzaku comes true.
