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An act of war reverberates through the life of a young man who flees his homeland of Afghanistan after its occupation by the Red Army in 1979. He finds refuge in the United States, forging a new path as a medical doctor, building a family, and embracing his admiration for his adoptive country, albeit with reservations lingering in the depths of his heart. However, the world changes dramatically on 9/11, ushering in a new era for him and his fellow Americans, albeit in divergent ways. As the United States engages in successive military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, his affection for America begins to wane. Through his firsthand experiences as a volunteer surgeon in these war-torn nat...
A clandestine cell of Arab jihadis bomb multiple targets in New York City. Their intentions are to strike at various significant symbols of American life and thereby force the American President to show himself publicly to reassure New York's citizens. Once he comes to New York, they plan to assassinate him. A small special committee from C.I.A., the F.B.I., U.S. Army Intelligence and the New York City Police, aided by an Arabic-speaking Israeli Mossad agent is appointed to hunt the jihadis down before they can do any further damage and to prevent them from killing the President. A cliff-hanger novel of suspense, The Holy Warriors shows us the deadly chess game between these two forces, from both the jihadis' side and the American side, as well as the seething violence and the savage personal dramas beneath the hunters and the hunted. Time Magazine writes Violence has become the idiom of the times, and Rothberg proves that he understands all the nuances!
Seventeen-year-old Enrique "Quique" Luna decides to get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi before the end of summer by pursuing other romantic prospects, but he ends up discovering heartfelt truths about friendship, family, and himself.
A History of the Indian Novel in English traces the development of the Indian novel from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up until the present day. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes extensive essays that shed light on the legacy of English in Indian writing. Organized thematically, these essays examine how English was "made Indian" by writers who used the language to address specifically Indian concerns. Such concerns revolved around the question of what it means to be modern as well as how the novel could be used for anti-colonial activism. By the 1980s, the Indian novel in English was a global phenomenon, and India is now the third largest publisher of English-language books. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History invites readers to question conventional accounts of India's literary history.
This book is a compilation of selected papers presented at the Fifth International Islamic Economics Seminar (1414/1993) jointly sponsored by the International Institute of Islamic Thought and the World Bank. This seminar adopted the theme of "The Role of Private and Public Sectors in Economic Development in an Islamic perspective." This work, which is edited by E. Ahmed, includes M. A. Choudhury's "Why Cannot Neoclassicism Explain Resource Allocation and Development in the Islamic Political Economy", J. Abu-Rashed's "Altruism in the Conduct of the Private and Public Sectors", I. Ahmad's "The Role of Public and Private Sectors in Economic Development in an Islamic Perspective", S.M. Ali Akka...
The International Conference on Communications, Management, and Information Technology (ICCMIT’16) provides a discussion forum for scientists, engineers, educators and students about the latest discoveries and realizations in the foundations, theory, models and applications of systems inspired on nature, using computational intelligence methodologies, as well as in emerging areas related to the three tracks of the conference: Communication Engineering, Knowledge, and Information Technology. The best 25 papers to be included in the book will be carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions, then revised and expanded to provide deeper insight into trends shaping future ICT.
This book seeks to provide a deeper understanding of Muslim migrant fathers’ experiences of home-school cooperation in Danish schools by identifying and contradicting a phenomenon of “mistrusted masculinity.” This term refers to a negative stereotype of Muslim migrant men that figures in political and media rhetoric where they are portrayed as controlling and patriarchal. Throughout the ethnography, migrant fathers confront this stereotype and express how they must navigate around this negative image in their struggle to be acknowledged as good fathers by their children’s schools. Jørgensen uses Geertzian “thick description” of micro-interaction between fathers and Danish teachers to explore the complex interplay of often-untested assumptions, misunderstandings, and untoward effects.
J.J., John Shannon's son, is a huge fan of hip-hop artist Yousef al-Salaam, formerly known as Deuce F., who recently converted to Sufism. The musician also happens to be on a terrorist watch list. When al-Salaam is shot dead, John Shannon agrees to investigate.
Curtis J. Austin’s Up Against the Wall chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another—Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley—left the party, was killed, or was imprisoned. Austin shows how the party’s early emphasis in the 1960s on self-defense, though sorely needed in black communities at the time, left it open to mischaracterization, infiltration, and devastation by local, state, and federal police forces and government agencies. Austin carefully highlights the internal tension between advocates of a more radical positio...