Middle World

وطننا العربي يقع في خانة أكتر الشعوب عجزاً عن ملاحقة مسيرة الحضارة، وهو موقع لا مبرر للشكوي منه، سوي أن الحضارة يأسرها ولدت أصلاً في وطننا، وأن السفن والأسلحة التي ارتاد بها الأروبيون قارات العالم الجديد كانت في أيدينا، قبل أن يعرفها الأوربيون بثلاثة قرون علي الأقل

كلُّ من عاشَ في الدَّار يصيرُ من أهلها؛ حمامُ الدَّار لا يغيب وأفعى الدَّار لا تخون، هذا ما قالتهُ لي بصيرة قبلَ سنتين من يومِنا ذاك، جدَّةُ والدي، أو رُبَّما جدَّةُ جدَّتِه، لا أدري فهي قديمةٌ جدًا، أزليَّة، ساكنةٌ في زاويةِ بهو البيت العربي القديم، ملتحِفةً سوادَها أسفلَ السُّلَّم. لماذا أسفلَ السُّلَّم؟ لم أسأل نفسي يومًا عن مواضع أشياءٍ اعتدتُها مُنذ مولدي، في بيتٍ عربيٍّ تطلُّ حُجُراته الضيِّقة على بهوٍ داخلي غير مسقوف، بهو بصيرة التي لم أرَها تفتحُ عينيها يومًا، كأنما خِيطَ جفناها برموشها منذ الأزل.

يونس الخطَّاط، بطل رواية "هنا الوردة"، الذي يبتلعه الحوت المجازي، شخصيَّة مثيرة للإعجاب، فهو مزيج من العاشق، والمتمرِّد، والمغامر، والحالم الذي يمشي إلى هدفه الكبير جارَّاً معه سائر شخصيَّات الرواية التي ترى حقيقة يونس بينما يبقى هو الوحيد الذي لا يرى ذاته لأنه، ببساطة، دون كيشوت العربي.

هذه الرواية تعتبر عملا ابداعيا رائعا يتميز بحيوية السرد ، فتجذبك من صفحاتها الأولى ببساطة مدهشة لتستغرق فى عالم مترابط من الشخصيات النابضة القريبة، اذ تقدم الكاتبة لوحة اجتماعية شديدة التشابك والكثافة ، تكتشف وتحرك الحياة الاجتماعية المصرية منذ خمسينيات القرن الماضى وحتى العقد الأول من القرن الحالى، وتصهر ثقافات الأولياء والمتصوفة مع عالم الحكمة والفلسفة اليونانية والغناء والحكى مع حضارات التبت ووصفات السحر الشعبي ،تلك العوالم التى من خلال تفاصيلها تقودك إلى فلسفة الطبيعة الإنسانية الممزوجة حتما ما بين عالم الروحانيات وأرض الواقع .. ما بين المتمنى والنجاح

The novelist Amir Taj Al-Sir presents us with his new novel entitled French Perfume. It is the story of many people whom we can see in our daily lives, all of whom dream of a better tomorrow, but in their lives they have nothing but monotony, stagnation, pain and regret, and with it they lose hope in a bright tomorrow and turn into forgotten and erased characters.

Since emigrating from Bangladesh, 14-year-old Nadira and her family have been living in New York City on expired visas, hoping to realize their dream of becoming legal U.S. citizens. But after 9/11, everything changes. Suddenly being Muslim means you are dangerous - a suspected terrorist. When Nadira's father is arrested and detained at the U.S.-Canadian border, Nadira and her older sister, Aisha, are told to carry on as if everything is the same. The teachers at Flushing High don't ask any questions, but Aisha falls apart....

As it prepared to ward off an invasion by five well-equipped neighboring armies in 1948, newborn Israel lacked the weapons to defend itself. Enter Al Schwimmer, an American World War II veteran who feared a repeat of the Holocaust. He created factitious airlines, bought decommissioned airplanes from the US War Asset Administration, fixed them in California and New Jersey, and sent his pilots - Jewish and non-Jewish WWII aviators - to pick up rifles, bullets, and fighter planes from the only country willing to break the international arms embargo: communist Czechoslovakia.

Egyptian-born and London-raised, Alya Mooro grew up between two cultures and felt a pull from both. Where could she turn for advice and inspiration when it seemed there was nobody else like her? Today, Mooro is determined to explore and explode the myth that she must identify either as ‘Western’ or as one of almost 400 million other ‘Arabs’ across the Middle East.

Beim Einloggen in die WELT fliehen Startum Eisenwolf und seine Freunde gerade noch rechtzeitig aus Palnisdale vor den nördlichen Invasoren. Ihre einzige Chance zu überleben besteht darin, der Orkhorde irgendwie lange genug vorauszueilen, um die Schiffe erreichen zu können, die in Darom auf sie warten. Ein nahezu unmögliches Vorhaben, da die Hafenstadt fast zwei Tagesmärsche entfernt ist. Irgendwie muss Startum einen Weg finden, das Unmögliche zu vollbringen oder er wird alles verlieren.

Since the passing of their father, Oscar has tried—and in his little brother Sufyan’s eyes, failed—to be the man of his family of Syrian refugees. As Oscar waits in line for rations, longing for the books he left behind when his family fled their home, Sufyan explores more nontraditional methods to provide for his family. Ignoring his brother’s warnings, Sufyan gets more and more involved with a group that provides him with big rewards for doing seemingly inconsequential tasks.

It is the year 1915, and the British and Ottoman Empires clash in a deadly struggle in the Middle East. Tasked with keeping the Ottomans out of Suez Canal, Major Andrew Selkirk discovers that his real assignment is to retrieve a Bengali spy working for those who vow to see British rule out of India. After landing on the west coast of Palestine, Selkirk discovers the Ottomans have taken the spy captive. Even more troubling are the plans by Ottomans and Germans to draw Afghanistan and Persia into the war against Great Britain.

Jerusalem, 1947: Judith, a young Jewish woman who survived Dachau concentration camp, arrives in Palestine after a treacherous journey and seeks refuge with her only remaining relative, her uncle. When Judith learns her uncle has died, she tries to take her own life in despair. In Hadassah Hospital, Hana, an Arab nurse, saves Judith’s life by donating her own blood. A fragile bond of friendship develops between the two women, but it will face a harsh test over time.

Being able to detect black magic isnt all tea and crumpetsand for Theodosia Throckmorton, it can be a decidedly tricky business! When Sticky Will drags Theo to a magic show featuring the Great Awi Bubu, she quickly senses there is more to the magician than he lets on, setting in motion a chain of events she never could have bargained for.

A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the dawning of a brave new world? Or is their vaunted newness a mirage?

During 1915 to 1923, one and a half million Armenian people were deported and killed in the most appalling ways comprehensible. They were ripped from their homes (in a land where they had lived for longer than history can tell, a land so old that many speculate it was the site of the biblical Garden of Eden) and sent off on death marches across the blistering Syrian Desert. They were shot on the thresholds of the houses where they were raising their children. They were butchered with swords in gruesome ways in order to dishearten those left alive.

Using the writings of Cosmas and a wealth of other historical and archaeological evidence from the period, eminent historian G. W. Bowersock carefully reconstructs this fascinating but overlooked chapter in pre-Islamic Arabian history. The flashpoint of the war, Bowersock tells us, occurred when Yusuf, the Jewish king of Himyar, massacred hundreds of Christians living in Najran. The Christian ruler of Ethiopia, Kaleb, urged on by the Byzantine emperor Justin, led a force of 120,000 men across the Red Sea to defeat Yusuf.

Balıkçı'nın kitaplaşmamış yazılarından derlenen bu yapıt, bir yandan yurdumuzun tarih, sanat ve uygarlığını sergilerken, öte yandan Anadolu birikiminin nesnel temellerine ışık tutuyor. Halikarnas Balıkçısı'nın birbirinden ilginç düşünce yazılarını bir araya getiren Merhaba Anadolu'dan tadımlık: “Anadolu'da açılan özel bankaların garip gelenekleri vardı. Bankalar şairlere bankalarıyla ilgili şiirler sipariş ederlerdi. Bu şiirler bankaların kapılarına asılırdı. Bu yolla bankaların sanatçılara da yardımları dokunurdu. Şimdi de bankaların sanatçılara yardımları olmuyor değil…”

رواية تغوص في أعماق البطل السجين، وفي نفسية السجَّان الذي يستجوبه، وتقدم لنا صورة مختلفة تمامًا عن إيران.

Les traumatismes du nationalisme arabe – Pour comprendre la situation complexe du Moyen Orient aujourd'hui il faut revenir à l'histoire et aux traumatismes successifs du nationalisme arabe qu'ont été le colonialisme européen, les défaites successives contre l'État d'Israël et plus récemment l'invasion américaine de l'Irak. L'islamisme radical relais du nationalisme - Cet enregistrement offre le recul et les clés pour déchiffrer le présent et comprendre l'émergence de l'islamisme religieux supranational et radical d'aujourd'hui qui a en grande partie pris le relais du nationalisme arabe laïc.

Ancient Iran: Cosmology, Mythology, History presents Iran's pre-Islamic history within the context of both its complex cosmology and rich mythology. The audiobook uses the concept of farr to show how authority, finding guidance in the cosmic realm, organized the lives of Iran's hero-saints in the mythic realm. It also discusses how historical monarchs organized their hierarchical societies according to the dictates of Ahura Mazda.