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Rabeeya's Reflections: Love, Sex and Wit
It all begins in a lobby of a hotel in Sydney, Australia . . . Korean, Chinese, Japanese; they look alike in his eyes. He saw ample ethnic groups and races before, but it is impossible to differentiate between all these Asians speaking in linguistic codes. This is the way he perceived this human mumbo jumbo in his accidental visit. His English was quite clear to their ears, but he could not detect their mish-mash Australian English accent with their sharp syllables and consonants. It was Greek to him. He could not connect his monotheistic heritage with their cultural and religious gods, customs and mores. In his eyes they were not exotic at all. They were just people with poker faces, as if ...
No Soul in King Saul
In his many publications in the past, Dr. Rabeeya has immersed himself in the political, cultural, and religious perspectives of Judaism and Islam as well as the perspectives of the customs and mores of Sephardic Jews who were born in Arab and Muslim lands. He continues to explore universal human themes associated with the unpredictability in the lives of people and its effect upon the integration and disintegration of both the intellect and the soul of man. King Saul and his spontaneous behavior can be seen in all of us.
Baghdadi Treasures
Dr. Rabeeya's recent book contains original sayings based on his life in three cultures and seeing both the humanity and the universality of human beings with their common traits, foibles and virtues. This writing contains his witty, often cynical and always insightful and thought-provoking ideas that look under the surface and expose the raw realities of life that people wish to ignore, but with his sensitivity and humor the reader is able to accept and even chuckle over these proverbial expressions of the human condition. Feel free to quote from these treasures in your own life
America: Criticize It but Stay
America is a continent and a country full of cruelties and compassion and even hypocrisy with civility. Legalistic and chaotic, oppressive and democratic, capitalistic in the extreme and religiously generous. Black and White sometimes manage to tolerate each other but they prefer not to live near each other. The boundaries are not secure, but her political representatives spend thousands of hours talking about it. Talk is cheap in this mass humanity, and every uninformed person has many opinions about things about which he or she does not know anything. The degradations and attacks of others on the many tools of communication can frequently sound like a religious duty, and publishing gossips about things which have never occurred is often turned into a promising business. Political opponents can cut each others throats for power, money, and fame, but they also publicize their attendances in religious institutions and organizations
Fruma
This is a story of Fruma, a Hasidic woman who has decided to reexamine her inner thoughts in light of her well-anchored religious beliefs. She quickly recognizes that even free binds can have an encounter with the vultures of the spacious sky. In her return to her nest, she found it shaking in the winds of time.
The Plow and the Sword
This anthology includes a novella about the metamorphosis of one man from a peaceful, loving person to a fanatic, radical, religious zealot. Other sections include the destructive use and abuse of God in human history, as well as the loss of the Jewish Iraqi civilization and its effects on their individual and communal life in Iraq and Israel. Finally, the Lexicon is about the Middle East undressing the mythological concepts and ideas about the region, offering new realistic definitions for terms associated with Zionism and Arab nationalism. Dr. Rabeeya continues to provoke the readers to think about his own interpretations of Jewish and Arab histories, as well as the loss of many individuals who are left only with their pen and mouth to record real events that have affected the soul and the memories of those who are stripped from their dignity and honor.
Women's Struggles: Women's Dreams
This collection of novellas tells the stories of several women and one man who are caught in circumstances not of their liking. Each person had to find an answer on their own in order for them to go on after conflicts and tragedies touched their life. The thrust of Dr. Rabeeya's writings is to tell stories about women who appear to be the weaker one, but who universally suffer, yet manage to use their inner strength and spirituality to keep themselves and their families together. This phenomena is a universal struggle to take the irrational suffering of weaker people and try to rationalize and deal with what life deals you in order to survive with dignity.
Israel: Stripped Bare
Israel: Stripped Bare is a book about the brutal reality of Israels existence, written from a perspective of an Arab-Jew. Some of these articles were already published in Sephardic Heritage Update, and some have been added over the years. It becomes crucial to see Israels existence through the eyes of the Levantine prison, outside of the European perspective of the Jewish State. The book provokes serious ideas and thoughts concerning the future relationship between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East and the possible contribution of Jews born in Arab and Muslim countries to the future cultural symbiosis of this historical crossroads.
A Humanistic Siddur of Spirituality and Meaning
This Siddur (prayer book) speaks to all those who seek a meaningful and humanistic approach to prayer. Rabbi Rabeeya offers his reflections and inner thoughts about the divine to those searching for meaning in an alienated society.
Visionary Memoir
Visionary Memoirs: Arab Mother, Jewish Baby tells the personal story of an individual who was able to not only overcome numerous and incredible challenges and setbacks in both Iraq and Israel, but also to find physical and spiritual security in the United States. Both steadfast determination and psychological stamina and an unyielding sense of humor were utilized in order to triumph against many odds.
