Author: Lawrence HarrisPublisher: London : Smith, Elder
ISBN:
Category : Morocco
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A Ride in Morocco Among Believers and Traders
Author: Frances MacnabPublisher:
ISBN: 9780526776863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
With Mulai Hafid at Fez
Author: Lawrence HarrisPublisher: London : Smith, Elder
ISBN:
Category : Morocco
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In Morocco
Author: Edith WhartonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522863946
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included her good friend Henry James, and she counted among her acquaintances Teddy Roosevelt and Sinclair Lewis.
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Author: Laila LalamiPublisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 156512751X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
“A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise.” —Junot Diaz Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, the debut of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami, evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. The book begins as four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain.What has driven them to risk their lives? And will the rewards prove to be worth the danger? There’s Murad, a gentle, unemployed man who’s been reduced to hustling tourists around Tangier; Halima, who’s fleeing her drunken husband and the slums of Casablanca; Aziz, who must leave behind his devoted wife in hope of securing work in Spain; and Faten, a student and religious fanatic whose faith is at odds with an influential man determined to destroy her future. Sensitively written with beauty and boldness, this is a gripping book about what propels people to risk their lives in search of a better future.
The Simple Past
Author: Driss ChraibiPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681373602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The Simple Past came out in 1954, and both in France and its author’s native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury. The protagonist, who shares the author’s name, Driss, comes from a Moroccan family of means, his father a self-made tea merchant, the most devout of Muslims, quick to be provoked and ready to lash out verbally or physically, continually bent on subduing his timid wife and many children to his iron and ever-righteous will. He is known, simply, as the Lord, and Driss, who is in high school, is in full revolt against both him and the French colonial authorities, for whom, as much as for his father, he is no one. Driss Chraïbi’s classic coming-of-age story is about colonialism, Islam, the subjection of women, and finding, as his novel does, a voice that is as cutting and coruscating as it is original and free.
A manual of classical bibliography
Author: Joseph William MossYoung Islam
Author: Avi Max SpiegelPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140086643X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
How the competition for young recruits is creating rivalries among Islamists today Today, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty. Young Islam takes readers inside the evolving competition for their support—a competition not simply between Islamism and the secular world, but between different and often conflicting visions of Islam itself. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research among rank-and-file activists in Morocco, Avi Spiegel shows how Islamist movements are encountering opposition from an unexpected source—each other. In vivid and compelling detail, he describes the conflicts that arise as Islamist groups vie with one another for new recruits, and the unprecedented fragmentation that occurs as members wrangle over a shared urbanized base. Looking carefully at how political Islam is lived, expressed, and understood by young people, Spiegel moves beyond the top-down focus of current research. Instead, he makes the compelling case that Islamist actors are shaped more by their relationships to each other than by their relationships to the state or even to religious ideology. By focusing not only on the texts of aging elites but also on the voices of diverse and sophisticated Muslim youths, Spiegel exposes the shifting and contested nature of Islamist movements today—movements that are being reimagined from the bottom up by young Islam. The first book to shed light on this new and uncharted era of Islamist pluralism in the Middle East and North Africa, Young Islam uncovers the rivalries that are redefining the next generation of political Islam.
Bernardo Del Carpio
Author: George Washington MontgomeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bernardo del Carpio (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Catalogue of Books: pt. 1. Greek and Latin classics, with commetaries and translations
Author: Henry George BohnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A Catalogue of Greek and Latin Classics Also of Modern Latinists, and of Works Upon Classical Philology, Greek and Roman Archaeology, and History
Author: Bernard QuaritchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description