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Dreaming of Change
Julia Droeber focuses on the everyday experiences of young, highly educated women in contemporary Jordan. She analyses their contributions to social change as well as the strategies they employ in dealing with the problems they face.
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 23:1
The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.
Towards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan
After seventy-five years of independence, the history of Pakistan remains centered on the state, its ideology and the two-nation theory. Towards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan seeks to shift that focus away from histories of an imagined nation, to the history of its peoples. Based on the premise that the historiographical tradition in Pakistan has ignored the existence of people who actually make history, this book brings together historians, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists to shed light on the diverse histories of the people themselves. Assembling histories of events and peoples missing from grand narratives of national history, the essays in this collection incorpora...
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 23:4
The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.
Peace Journey
He disconnects the electricity to his residence and brings in camels to share his living space. He burns his belongings. He treks thousands of kilometers. He observes silence for days on. He wears coarse cotton. He talks for hours on peace. He does it all for a cause. And for Salik, every action has a reason and an effect. Give him a syringe, and he will draw out his own blood, splash it on the soil, and pay obeisance to the earth that molded him. Julius Salik has done it. Nobel Peace Prize nominee and former federal minister of Pakistan, Julius Salik shares his life story and mission of world peace in Peace Journey.
(Re)constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria
For almost nine decades, since their mass-resettlement to the Levant in the wake of the Genocide and First World War, the Armenian communities of Lebanon and Syria appear to have successfully maintained a distinct identity as an ethno-culturally diverse group, in spite of representing a small non-Arab and Christian minority within a very different, mostly Arab and Muslim environment. The author shows that, while in Lebanon the state has facilitated the development of an extensive and effective system of Armenian ethno-cultural preservation, in Syria the emergence of centralizing, authoritarian regimes in the 1950s and 1960s has severely damaged the autonomy and cultural diversity of the Arme...
Razia
Farah is a lawyer living and working in London. She’s just ended a long relationship, and her parents are looking for a husband – whether Farah wants one or not. So far, so normal. But at a work dinner, hosted by a dangerously powerful man, she comes across a young woman called Razia, who Farah soon realises is being kept as a domestic slave. Farah travels from the law courts of London to the brick kilns of Lahore, and there she begins to uncover the traps that keep generations of people enslaved. Everywhere she turns there is deep-rooted oppression and corruption. She teams up with a human rights lawyer Ali to seek justice for Razia, but they cannot prevent the disaster that unfolds. Will Farah discover the explosive secret behind these tragic events?
Outrage
Whether spurred by religious images or academic history books, hardly a day goes by in South Asia without an incident or court case occurring as a result of hurt religious feelings. The sharp rise in blasphemy accusations over the past few decades calls for an investigation into why offence politics has become so pronounced, and why it is observable across religious and political differences. Outrage offers an interdisciplinary study of this growing trend. Bringing together researchers in Anthropology, Religious Studies, Languages, South Asia Studies and History, all with rich experience in the variegated ways in which religion and politics intersect in this region, the volume presents a fin...
Another Gulmohar Tree
Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like him, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship begins to blossom into something deeper Usman has to return to Karachi, leaving Lydia behind. Two years later, Lydia impulsively abandons her life in London and boards a ship to Karachi, where the two are married. But as the years flit by Usman feels distanced from his life and realises that he hasn't noticed the buds of the gulmohar tree unfurl. A beautiful account of a marriage that is in turns wry and unashamedly romantic. 'We are lucky to have Hussein among us, telling us stories as few can.' Amit Chaudhuri 'A lovely, strange, and very moving novel.' Ruth Padel 'At its heart it is a story of love, into which Hussein weaves all his remarkable skills of storytelling.' Kamila Shamsie 'In his splendid, dreamy Another Gulmohar Tree, Hussein gives us an indelible sense of two worlds - Karachi and London - in miniature and the strong parable of a love story that endures over a lifetime.' Joseph Olshan
... und ewig lockt das Emmental
Familie Stegemann wieder unterwegs. Eine turbulente Urlaubskomödie von Frank Michael Jork Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 150 Taschenbuchseiten. Der Sommer 1967 naht, und die Berliner Familie Stegemann zieht es wieder zu Helmuts Bruder Thomas, genannt Tommy, ins idyllische Emmental. Doch wieder gibt es statt geruhsamer Tage jede Menge Aufregungen. Christines Kusine Sigrid reist diesmal mit, Tommys Freund Bernd taucht ebenfalls auf und hat eine Überraschung parat, und Tommy selbst hat auch eine Neuigkeit zu verkünden. Statt geruhsamer Ferientage gibt es also jeden Tag turbulente Ereignisse.
