Author: Saroj Raj Choudhury Publisher: ISBN: 9788185019710 Category : Languages : en Pages : 192
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Living with a tigress is no joke! This is the true story of a Forest Conservator who risked his life and went beyond the call of duty for Khairi, a tigress he considered as his very own. The book offers the perfect balance of a biography and a scientific study. Khairi is so brilliantly brought to life in this book that you almost expect to hear her padding up behind your chair, purring loudly.
Author: Dr Alice Moore-Harell Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1837641838 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
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This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria, located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account has previously been published on the effort to conquer and create a new Egyptian province in the 1870s in the interior of Africa, despite its importance to the history of the on-going northsouth conflict in the Sudan. The annexation of Equatoria emerged from the Khedive (viceroy) Ismail's aspiration for an African empire that would control the source of the White Nile at Lake Victoria. At the time he was under pressure from the British government to suppress the lucrative slave trade in the Turco-Egyptian Sudan, and to this end the new province was to be under direct control of Cairo and not the authorities in Khartoum. The two conquering expeditions of Equatoria were led by Britons, Samuel Baker and Charles Gordon (later Governor-General of the Sudan). With them were other Europeans, Americans, Sudanese and Egyptians. Baker, Gordon and some of the others left detailed accounts of their experience in the region. All of which contribute to our knowledge not only of the difficulties involved in the annexation of a region thousands of kilometres from Cairo, but also geographical data and a record of the complex human relations that developed between the men involved in the expeditions, and the creation of the new province. Official documents from the Egyptian state archive, Dar al-Wathaiq, provide detailed accounts of the politics of the annexation of Equatoria, and these accounts are discussed in their historical context.
Author: Maryam Wasif Khan Publisher: Fordham University Press ISBN: 082329014X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 175
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Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan—popular novels, short stories, television serials—is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question “Who is a Muslim?,” a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.
Author: Sandy Tolan Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1596919221 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 386
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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST “Extraordinary ... A sweeping history of the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum ... Highly readable and evocative.” – The Washington Post The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East – with an updated afterword by the author. In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next half century in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, demonstrating that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and transformation.
Author: Sandy Tolan Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 154760395X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 209
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The tale of friendship between two people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East. “Makes an incredibly complicated topic comprehensible.”--School Library Journal In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town of Ramallah to Ramla, Israel, with a goal: to see the beloved stone house with the lemon tree in its backyard that he and his family had been forced to leave nineteen years earlier. When he arrived, he was greeted by one of its new residents: Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student whose family had fled Europe following the Holocaust. She had lived in that house since she was eleven months old. On the stoop of this shared house, Dalia and Bashir began a surprising friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and later tested as political tensions ran high and Israelis and Palestinians each asserted their own right to live on this land. Adapted from the award-winning adult book and based on Sandy Tolan's extensive research and reporting, The Lemon Tree is a deeply personal story of two people seeking hope, transformation, and home.
Author: Kreisya Reisya Publisher: Alaf 21 ISBN: 9678606941 Category : Malay fiction Languages : en Pages : 252
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Combi Binti Jofree. Itulah nama yang diberi oleh nendanya. Sewaktu kecil setiap kali Combi diejek dan diusik rakan-rakan, ada Abang Hairell dan rakannya yang mempertahankan Combi daripada gangguan rakan-rakannya. Peristiwa itu meninggalkan kesan mendalam kepadanya. Meniti kedewasaan, namanya masih lagi menjadi bahan teguran dan usikan. Kerana itulah di rumah, keluarga memanggil Combi ‘adik’. Bila mula berkenalan dengan kenalan lelaki, Combi menggunakan nama Puteri dan lelaki pertama yang disangkanya menambat hatinya dipanggil Prince. Prince lelaki yang bekerja di Singapura dan selalu berulang-alik melalui pemeriksaan imigresen dan kastam. Mereka berkenalan. Abang Combi, Kamarul begitu ‘protected’ terhadap adiknya itu. Pertemuan pertama Combi secara rasmi pun hanya dilakukan di tempat parkir kereta ditemani Kamarul. Tak ada dating-dating itu semua.
Author: Asma Husain Publisher: Partridge Publishing ISBN: 1482848309 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 282
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On the crest of the harrowing divide of the Indian subcontinent, amid a climate of ferocious genocide, two girls abscond from the riot struck and smoldering city of Delhi. The family migrates to Pakistan, helplessly forsaking two of their daughters. Laleh Bukhari the older of the two reunites with her lover a person of Hindu faith. The young 15 year old Pareesa Bukhari, tricked by the older sibling, is taken to Bombay to live with a man whom she is bound only by a marriage contract. The story revolves around the obsession of the famed painter, Akbar Waziri, with his muse and the challenges of his young wife, Pareesa, to the diverse conflicts in her life. The famous film star Moneta Sen Gupta reveals the fears of a psychotic mind beneath the glitz and glamour of stardom. It also tells the story of secrecy and intrigue that surround Khairi Aztar Hekim bashi, born during the dwindling phase of the Ottoman Empire. From the brothels of Calcutta to the elite of Bombay the narrative traverses through India and cuts across realms. From India to Pakistan and Turkey to Morocco the narrative surpasses cultures, creeds and races to bind the commonality of oppression and abuse and tells a sensitive tale.
Author: Saroj Raj Choudhury
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