By Stanley Lane-Pool
By Stanley Lane-Pool
By Elizabeth Warnock Fernea,Robert A. Fernea
Growing up is a common adventure, however the particularities of place of birth, tradition, ethnicity, faith, kinfolk, etc make each adolescence particular. to provide Western readers perception into what becoming up within the heart East was once like within the 20th century, this booklet gathers thirty-six unique memoirs written through heart japanese women and men approximately their very own childhoods.
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, a widely known author of books and documentary movies approximately girls and the kinfolk within the center East, has amassed tales of childhoods spent in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. The bills span the full 20th century, a whole diversity of ethnicities and religions, and the social spectrum from aristocracy to peasantry. they're grouped by way of eras, for which Fernea presents a concise historic caricature, and contain a quick biography of every contributor. The creation by means of anthropologist Robert A. Fernea units the memoirs within the greater context of heart jap lifestyles and culture.
As a set, the memoirs supply an unparalleled chance to examine a similar interval in historical past within the similar sector of the area from various very diverse remembered reports. from time to time dramatic, funny, or tragic, and regularly deeply felt, the memoirs rfile the range and richness of people's lives within the glossy heart East.
By Charles Perry
Organized like a meal, it opens with appetizers and juices and proceeds via major classes, part dishes, and truffles, together with such confections as goodies in line with the better densities of sugar syrup—an innovation particular to the medieval Arab global. Apricot drinks, crammed eggplant, pistachio chook, coriander stew, melon crepes, and almond pudding are professional with nutmeg, rose, cloves, saffron, and the occasional infrequent aspect like ambergris to please and shock the banqueter. Bookended by means of chapters on preparatory perfumes, incenses, medicinal oils, antiperspirant powders, and after-meal hand soaps, this finished culinary trip is a ceremonial dinner for the entire senses.
With the exception of 4 extant Babylonian and Roman specimens, cookbooks did no longer seem at the global literary scene until eventually Arabic audio system started compiling their recipe collections within the 10th century, peaking in reputation within the 13th century. Scents and Flavors fast grew to become a bestseller in this golden age of cookbooks, and continues to be at the present time a tasty learn for epicures and cultural historians alike.
By Ovamir Anjum
By Tilman Tarach,Waleed Al-Husseini,Henryk M. Broder
Pressestimmen:
»Wenn guy die Fakten liest, ist guy fassungslos. Ein tolles, minutiös geschildertes Buch«
(›BERLINER MORGENPOST‹)
»Eine gründlich recherchierte Studie «
(›DIE WELT‹)
»Tarachs gesammelte Fakten zwingen zum Nachdenken.«
›n-tv‹
»Der ewige Sündenbock ... sollte Pflichtlektüre in Schulen, Universitäten und Redaktionen sein.«
›Jüdische Allgemeine‹
»Selbst für Kenner des Themas ein Zugewinn.«
›Aufklärung und Kritik‹
»Tilman Tarach, promovierter Jurist,legt eine faktenreiche, dezidiert belegte und zudem spannend geschriebene Studie vor […] ein wichtiges Korrektiv gegen gängige Klischees, Vorurteile und Stereotypen zur Beurteilung des israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikts.«
›Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte‹
By Gregory Harms,Todd M. Ferry
By Kevin M. Woods,David D. Palkki,Mark E. Stout
By Roshdi Rashed
By Donald Macintyre
By Ela Greenberg
From the overdue 19th century onward, women and men through the heart East mentioned, debated, and negotiated the jobs of younger women and girls in generating smooth international locations. In Palestine, women' schooling was once pivotal to discussions approximately motherhood. Their schooling used to be visible as having the capability to remodel the kin in order that it may possibly meet either glossy and nationalist expectations.
Ela Greenberg bargains the 1st examine to check the schooling of Muslim ladies in Palestine from the top of the Ottoman management throughout the British colonial rule. depending upon vast archival resources, reliable stories, the Palestinian Arabic press, and interviews, she describes the adjustments that happened in ladies' schooling in this time. Greenberg describes how neighborhood Muslims, usually portrayed as detached to ladies' schooling, truly spoke back to the inadequacies of present executive schooling through sending their daughters to missionary colleges regardless of spiritual tensions, or through developing their very own inner most nationalist institutions.
Greenberg exhibits that individuals of all socioeconomic sessions understood the triad of ladies' schooling, modernity, and the nationalist fight, as informed ladies might develop into the "mothers of the following day" who could bring up nationalist and sleek youngsters. whereas this used to be the purpose of a number of the faculties in Palestine, no longer all informed Muslim women this course, as a few used their schooling, no matter if it was once uncomplicated at top, to turn into lecturers, nurses, and activists in women's organizations.