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        Bastei Lübbe AG

        Bastei Lübbe AG, based in Cologne, Germany, is a large, both traditional and modern company in the German publishing industry, specializing in the publication of books, audio books and eBooks with fiction and popular science content. The company's core business also includes periodically published novel books. The product range of the twelve imprints of the media company currently comprises a total of around 3,600 titles from the fiction, non-fiction, children's and youth book sectors. International and national bestselling authors such as Ken Follett, Dan Brown, Jeff Kinney, Rebecca Gablé, Petra Hülsmann, Andreas Eschbach, Timur Vermes and many more have published their books at the Cologne publishing house, some of them for decades. Die in Köln ansässige Bastei Lübbe AG ist ein großes, sowohl traditionsreiches wie auch modernes Unternehmen im deutschen Verlagswesen, das auf die Herausgabe von Büchern, Hörbüchern und eBooks mit belletristischen und populärwissenschaftlichen Inhalten spezialisiert ist. Zum Kerngeschäft des Unternehmens gehören auch die periodisch erscheinenden Romanhefte. Das Angebot der zwölf Verlage und Imprints des vor mehr als 60 Jahren gegründeten Medienhauses umfasst derzeit insgesamt rund 3.600 Titel aus den Bereichen Belletristik, Sach-, Kinder- und Jugendbuch. Internationale und nationale Bestsellerautoren wie Ken Follett, Dan Brown, Jeff Kinney, Rebecca Gablé, Petra Hülsmann, Andreas Eschbach, Timur Vermes und viele mehr veröffentlichen ihre Bücher zum Teil seit Jahrzehnten im Kölner Verlagshaus.

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      • Almatykitab Baspassy

        Almatykitap Baspassy was founded in 1999 and focuses on a wide range children’s books for ages between 2 and 18, including education and non-fiction titles. There are also a number of ethnographic titles on Kazakh culture, its traditions and nature.

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        The Dinoraf
        Children's & YA

        The Dinoraf

        by Hessa Al Muhairi

        An egg has hatched, and what comes out of it? A chicken? No. A turtle? No. It’s a dinosaur. But where is his family?  The little dinosaur searches the animal kingdom for someone who looks like him and settles on the giraffe. In this picture book by educator and author Hessa Al Muhairi, with illustrations by Sura Ghazwan, a dinosaur sets out in search of animals like him. He finds plenty of animals, but none that look the same...until he meets the giraffe. This story explores identity and belonging and teaches children about accepting differences in carefully crafted language.

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        Hatless
        Children's & YA
        January 2015

        Hatless

        by Lateefa Buti / Illustrated by Doha Al Khteeb

        Kuwaiti children’s book author Lateefa Buti’s well-crafted and beautifully illustrated children’s book, Hatless, encourages children (ages 6-9) to think independently and challenge rigid traditions and fixed rituals with innovation and creativity.   The main character is a young girl named Hatless who lives in the City of Hats. Here, all of the people are born with hats that cover their heads and faces. The world inside of their hats is dark, silent, and odorless.   Hatless feels trapped underneath her own hat. She wants to take off her hat, but she is afraid, until she realizes that whatever frightening things exist in the world around her are there whether or not she takes off her hat to see them.   So Hatless removes her hat.    As Hatless takes in the beauty of her surroundings, she cannot help but talk about what she sees, hears, and smells. The other inhabitants of the city ostracize her because she has become different from them. It is not long before they ask her to leave the City of Hats.   Rather than giving up or getting angry, Hatless feels sad for her friends and neighbors who are afraid to experience the world outside of their hats. She comes up with an ingenious solution: if given another chance, she will wear a hat as long it is one she makes herself. The people of the City of Hats agree, so Hatless weaves a hat that covers her head and face but does not prevent her from seeing the outside world. She offers to loan the hat to the other inhabitants of the city. One by one, they try it on and are enchanted by the beautiful world around them. Since then, no child has been born wearing a hat. The people celebrate by tossing their old hats in the air.   By bravely embracing these values, Hatless improves her own life and the lives of her fellow citizens.     Buti’s language is eloquent and clear. She strikes a skilled narrative balance between revealing Hatless’s inner thoughts and letting the story unfold through her interactions with other characters. Careful descriptions are accompanied by beautiful illustrations that reward multiple readings of the book.

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        In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat

        In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat

        by Iman Mersal

        ‘In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat’ is a book that traces the life of an unknown Egyptian writer who died in 1963, four years before the release of her only novel. The book does not follow a traditional style to present the biography of Al-Zayyat, or to restore consideration for a writer who was denied her rights. Mersal refuses to present a single story as if it is the truth and refuses to speak on behalf of the heroine or deal with her as a victim, but rather takes us on a journey to search for the individuality that is often marginalised in Arab societies. The book searches for a young woman whose family burned all her personal documents, including the draft of her second novel, and was completely absent in the collective archives.   The narration derives its uniqueness from its ability to combine different literary genres such as fictional narration, academic research, investigation, readings, interviews, fiction, and fragments of the autobiography of the author of the novel. The book deals with the differences between the individuality of Enayat, who was born into an aristocratic family, graduated from a German school and wrote her narration during the domination of the speeches of the Nasserism period, and that of Mersal, a middle-class woman who formed her consciousness in the 1990s and achieved some of what Enayat dreamed of achieving but remained haunted by her tragedy.   The book deals with important political, social and cultural issues, as we read the history of psychiatry in modern Egypt through the pills that Enayat swallowed to end her life on 3 January 1963, while her divorce summarises the continuing suffering of women with the Personal Status Law. We also see how the disappearance of a small square from her neighbourhood reveals the relationship between modernity and bureaucracy, and how the geography of Cairo changes, obliterated as the result of changes in political regimes. In the library of the German Archaeological Institute, where Enayat worked, we find an unwritten history of World War II and, in her unpublished second novel, we see unknown stories of German scientists fleeing Nazism to Cairo. We also see how Enayat’s neglected tomb reveals the life story of her great-grandfather, Ahmed Rashid Pasha, and the disasters buried in the genealogy tree.

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        The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air
        Children's & YA
        January 2011

        The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air

        by Abdo Wazen

        In his first YA novel, cultural journalist and author Abdo Wazen writes about a blind teenager in Lebanon who finds strength and friendship among an unlikely group.   Growing up in a small Lebanese village, Bassim’s blindness limits his engagement with the materials taught in his schools. Despite his family’s love and support, his opportunities seem limited.   So at thirteen years old, Bassim leaves his village to join the Institute for the Blind in a Beirut suburb. There, he comes alive. He learns Braille and discovers talents he didn’t know he had. Bassim is empowered by his newfound abilities to read and write.   Thanks to his newly developed self-confidence, Bassim decides to take a risk and submit a short story to a competition sponsored by the Ministry of Education. After winning the competition, he is hired to work at the Institute for the Blind.   At the Institute, Bassim, a Sunni Muslim, forms a strong friendship with George, a Christian. Cooperation and collective support are central to the success of each student at the Institute, a principle that overcomes religious differences. In the book, the Institute comes to symbolize the positive changes that tolerance can bring to the country and society at large.   The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air is also a book about Lebanon and its treatment of people with disabilities. It offers insight into the vital role of strong family support in individual success, the internal functioning of institutions like the Institute, as well as the unique religious and cultural environment of Beirut.   Wazen’s lucid language and the linear structure he employs result in a coherent and easy-to-read narrative. The Boy Who Saw the Color of Air is an important contribution to a literature in which people with disabilities are underrepresented. In addition to offering a story of empowerment and friendship, this book also aims to educate readers about people with disabilities and shed light on the indispensable roles played by institutions like the Institute.

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        The Madmen of Bethlehem
        January 2013

        The Madmen of Bethlehem

        by Osama Alaysa

        Adopting the story-within-a-story structure of Arabian Nights, author Osama Alaysa weaves together a collection of stories portraying centuries of oppression endured by the Palestinian people.   This remarkable novel eloquently brings together fictional characters alongside real-life historical figures in a complex portrayal of Bethlehem and the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank. The common thread connecting each tale is madness, in all its manifestations.   Psychological madness, in the sense of clinical mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, finds expression alongside acts of social and political madness. Together, these accounts of individuals and communities provide a gateway into the histories of the city of Bethlehem and Palestine. They paint a picture of the centuries of political oppression that the Palestinian people have endured, from the days of the Ottoman Empire to the years following the Oslo Accords, and all the way to 2012 (when the novel was written).   The novel is divided into three sections, each containing multiple narratives. The first section, “The Book of a Genesis,” describes the physical spaces and origins of Bethlehem and Dheisheh Refugee Camp. These stories span the 19th and 20th centuries, transitioning smoothly from one tale to another to offer an intricate interpretation of the identity of these places.   The second section, “The Book of the People Without a Book”, follows parallel narratives of the lives of the patients in a psychiatric hospital in Bethlehem, the mad men and women roaming the streets of the city, and those imprisoned by the Israeli authorities. All suffer abuse, but they also reaffirm their humanity through the relationships, romantic and otherwise, that they form.   The third and final section, “An Ephemeral Book,” follows individuals—Palestinian and non-Palestinian—who are afflicted by madness following the Oslo Accords in 1993. These stories give voice to the perspectives of the long-marginalized Palestinian population, narrating the loss of land and the accompanying loss of sanity in the decades of despair and violence that followed the Nakba, the 1948 eviction of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes.   The novel’s mad characters—politicians, presidents, doctors, intellectuals, ordinary people and, yes, Dheisheh and Bethlehem themselves—burst out of their narrative threads, flowing from one story into the next. Alaysa’s crisp, lucid prose and deft storytelling chart a clear path through the chaos with dark humor and wit. The result is an important contribution to fiction on the Palestinian crisis that approaches the Palestinians, madness, and Palestinian spaces with compassion and depth.

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        The End of the Desert
        Fiction
        2022

        The End of the Desert

        by Said Khatibi

        On a nice fall day of 1988, Zakiya Zaghwani was found lying dead at the edge of the desert, giving way to a quest to discover the circumstances surrounding her death. While looking for whoever was involved in the death of the young singer, nearby residents discover bit by bit their involvement in many things other than the crime itself. ///The story takes place in a town near the desert. And as with Khatibi’s previous novels, this one is also marked by a tight plot, revolving around the murder of a singer who works in a hotel. This sets off a series of complex investigations that defy easy conclusions and invite doubt about the involvement of more than one character. /// Through the narrators of the novel, who also happen to be its protagonists, the author delves into the history of colonialism and the Algerian War of Independence and its successors, describing the circumstances of the story whose events unfold throughout the month. As such, the characters suspected of killing the singer are not only accused of a criminal offense, but are also concerned, as it appears, with the great legacy that the War of Independence left, from different aspects.///The novel looks back at a critical period in the modern history of Algeria that witnessed the largest socio-political crisis following its independence in 1988. While the story avoids the immediate circumstances of the war, it rather invokes the events leading up to it and tracks its impact on the social life, while capturing the daily life of vulnerable and marginalized groups. /// Nonetheless, those residents’ vulnerability does not necessarily mean they are innocent. As it appears, they are all involved in a crime that is laden with symbolism and hints at the status of women in a society shackled by a heavy legacy of a violent, wounded masculinity. This approach to addressing social issues reflects a longing to break loose from the stereotypical discourse that sets heroism in a pre-defined mold and reduces the truth to only one of its dimensions.

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        Halima
        September 2008

        Halima

        Mein Weg aus der Hölle von Darfur

        by Bashir, Halima; Lewis, Damien / Übersetzt von Grabinger, Michaela

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        Biotechnology of Fruit and Nut Crops
        Technology, Engineering & Agriculture
        November 2019

        Biotechnology of Fruit and Nut Crops

        by Richard E Litz, Fernando Pliego-Alfaro, Jose Ignacio Hormaza, Stephen W Adkins, Nuria Alburquerque, Maria Luisa Badenes, Luciana Baldoni, Araceli Barceló-Muñoz, Pedro M. Barros, A.T. Basford, Muhammad Ajmal Bashir, Diego Silva Batista, J. Biddle, Manuel Blasco, J. R. Botella, Patrick Brown, Lorenzo Burgos, John E. Carlson, Luis A. Cañas, Elisabeth Carmona, David Chagné, Rekha Chaudhury, Elisabeth Chevreau, V. E. Chhatre, Yelda Özden Çiftçi, C. Claflin, Yuval Cohen, Elena Corredoira, Valerio Cristofori, Niccolò Cultrera, Abhaya Dandekar, Maurecilne Lemes da Silva, Sadanand A. Dhekney, Leo D’Souza, Ofere Francis Emeriewen, Kate Evans, M. Faize, Fábio Gelape Faleiro, Ana Paula Farinha, Vicente Febres, Yolanda Ferradás, Antonio Figueira, Maureen M.M. Fitch, Henryk Flachowsky, M. Foale, Svetlana Y. Folimonova, María Victoria González, Isabel María González-Padilla, Julie Graham, Dennis J. Gray, Magda-Viola Hanke, Smitha Hegde, Jose Ignacio Hormaza, Uma Jaiswal, Nikki Jennings, Hülya Akdemir

        This book covers the biotechnology of all the major fruit and nut species, with persimmon, pomegranate and loquat included for the first time and colour illustrations illustrating the crop species and their wild relatives. Family by family, it details well-established techniques such as protoplast culture, in vitro mutagenesis and ploidy manipulation, but also newer approaches such as genomics, genetic transformation and marker-assisted selection.

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        The Handbook of Microbial Metabolism of Amino Acids
        Science & Mathematics
        March 2017

        The Handbook of Microbial Metabolism of Amino Acids

        by J P F D'Mello, K Abe, M I Afzal, M Akhtar, J M P Alves, R Balana Fouce, Q Bashir, R A Bender, Simon Brown, Catherine Cailliez-Grimal, R William Caldwell, Barbara Campanini, Yingying Cao, Trinad Chakraborty, D Charlier, N P Chowdhury, O O Coker, Daniela de Biase, Stephane Delaunay, Renwick C J Dobson, Mike F Dunn, D Fulton, Fabio Giovannercole, D E Holmes, A.O Hudson, Y Kera, G D Kornfeld, F Leroy, Z Liao, Rob D Locy, J S Lott, Patrick M Lucas, R Lucas, P Ludovico, J M Moran, A Mozzarelli, A J Nieuwkoop, N Osorio, John V Paietta, Prasit Palittapongarnpim, Emily J Parker, A Parthasarathy, F G Pearce, Eugenia Pennacchietti, Y Perez-Pertejo, R S Phillips, N Rashid, P J Quinn, F Rodrigues, M J Romero, B Sampaio-Marques, M A Savka, K Shibata, David C Simcock, H V Simpson, J A Smith, S Takahashi, Saleh Umair, X Wang, Matthew J Wargo, S Watanabe, Freya Wencker, W Ziebuhr, I W Dawes

        This book collates and reviews recent advances in the microbial metabolism of amino acids, emphasizing diversity - in terms of the range of organisms under investigation and their natural ecology - and the unique features of amino acid metabolism in bacteria, yeasts, fungi, protozoa and nematodes. As well as studying the individual amino acids, including arginine, sulfur amino acids, branched-chain amino acids and aromatic amino acids, a number of themes are explored throughout the work. These include: - Comparative issues between the metabolism of microbes and those of higher organisms, including plants and mammals - Potential for drug targets in pathways of both biosynthesis and degradation of amino acids - Relationship between amino acids or associated enzymes and virulence in parasitic pathogens - Practical implications for food microbiology and pathogen characterization - Future priorities relating to fundamental biochemistry of microrganisms, food quality and safety, human and animal health, plant pathology, drug design and ecology As the volume of research into the metabolism of amino acids grows, this comprehensive study of the subject is a vital tool for researchers in the fields of biological, medical and veterinary sciences, including microbiology, biochemistry, genetics and pathology. This book is also essential for corporate organizations with active research and development programmes, such as those in the pharmaceutical industry. ; This book collates and reviews recent advances in the microbial metabolism of amino acids, emphasizing diversity - in terms of the range of organisms under investigation and their natural ecology - and the unique features of amino acid metabolism in bacteria, yeasts, fungi, protozoa and nematodes. ; -: PrefacePART I: GLUTAMATE1: Structural and Functional Properties of Glutamate Dehydrogenases2: Glutamate Decarboxylase in Bacteria3: The Yeast GABA ShuntPART II: LYSINE, ARGININE AND HYDROXYPROLINE4: Lysine Biosynthesis in Microorganisms5: Arginine Deiminase in Microorganisms6: Arginase and Microbial Pathogenesis in the Lungs7: Arginine and Methionine as Precursors of Polyamines in Trypanosomatids8: Ornithine and Lysine Decarboxylation in Bacteria9: The Role of Nitric Oxide Signalling in Yeast Stress Response and Cell Death10: Hydroxyproline Metabolism in MicroorganismsPART III: SERINE AND THREONINE11: Cellular Responses to Serine in Yeast12: Threonine Degradation in Hyperthermophilic OrganismsPART IV: SULFUR AMINO ACIDS13: Methionine Synthesis in Microbes14: Regulation of Sulfur Amino Acid Metabolism in Fungi15: Insight on O-Acetylserine Sulfhydrylase Structure, Function and Biopharmaceutical ApplicationsPART V: BRANCHED-CHAIN AMINO ACIDS16: Metabolic Engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for L-Valine Production17: Flavour Formation From Leucine by Lactic Acid BacteriaPART VI: AROMATIC AMINO ACIDS AND HISTIDINE18: Microbial Degradation of Phenolic Amino Acids19: The Biosynthesis of Tryptophan20: Tryptophan Biosynthesis in Bacteria: Drug Targets and Immunology21: The Kynurenine Pathway of Tryptophan Metabolism in Microorganisms22: Histidine Degradation in Bacteria23: Histidine Phosphatase Superfamily in Pathogenic BacteriaPART VII: D-AMINO ACIDS24: Functions and Metabolism of D-Amino Acids in Microorganisms25: Pathways of Utilization of D-Amino Acids in Higher OrganismsPART VIII: ECOLOGY26: Rhizobial Amino Acid Metabolism: Polyamine Biosynthesis and Functions27: Working Together: Amino Acid Biosynthesis in Endosymbiont-Harbouring Trypanosomatidae28: Amino Acid Metabolism in Helminths29: Microbial Degradation of Amino Acids in Anoxic Environments30: Utilization of N-Methylated Amino Acids by Bacteria31: Biofilm Formation: Amino Acid Biomarkers in Candida albicans32: Recent Advances Underpinning Innovative Strategies for the Future

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      • Emergence and Development of Police in the Trucial States
        Humanities & Social Sciences

        Emergence and Development of Police in the Trucial States

        by Mubarak Bashir Mubarak

        This research is concerned with issues of security and protection of the newly established institutions in the Trucial States before by the Union, from 1955 to 1971, during which period of time the sheikhs and officials began to be interested in security issues and the provision of means to preserve the first institutions within each emirate. This was only able to be done by creating a police service, which would be assigned the tasks of oversight and defense. Each emirate paid attention to this important sector and worked to implement its plans. Dubai was a pioneer in formulating the initial structure of a security institution and in qualifying police officers who would guard the emerging institutions, manage and maintain security in various parts of the Emirate, then the rest of the other emirates followed suit; therefore, such a protective structure appeared successively in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, and Fujairah.  The research also focuses on pursuing the development of these institutions and their various branches and structures, from their emergence to the establishment of the Union, and the number of the Union's supervisors, including foreign experts, most of whom were British, the citizens who helped them. The research does not neglect any of the affairs of security institutions, as it provides all the statistics related to employees, such as clothing, salaries, grants, equipment, and more. Although there is a scarcity of documentary sources and despite the lack of interest in this field, the research includes most of the sources, extracts their most prominent components and contents, and mentions lists of names of employees in this sector, their ranks, salaries, and their career and social status.

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      • My Testimony
        Humanities & Social Sciences

        My Testimony

        The Egyptian Foreign Policy 2004-2011

        by Ahmed Abo ElGheit

        An Egyptian foreign minister’s fascinating account of his time in office during the final years of the Mubarak eraAhmed Aboul Gheit served as Egypt’s minister of foreign affairs under President Hosni Mubarak from 2004 until 2011. In this compelling memoir, he takes us inside the momentous years of his time in office, revealing the complexities and challenges of foreign-policy decision-making and the intricacies of interpersonal relations at the highest levels of international diplomacy.Readable, discerning, often candid, Egypt’s Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis details Aboul Gheit’s working relationship with the Egyptian president and his encounters with both his own colleagues and politicians on the world stage, providing rich behind-the-scenes insight into the machinery of government and the interplay of power and personality within. He paints a vivid picture of Egyptian–U.S. relations during the challenging years that followed September 11 and the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, as we navigate the bumpy terrain of negotiations, discussions, and private meetings with the likes of Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, and Hillary Clinton. Successive attempts by Egypt to revive Palestinian–Israeli negotiations, U.S. assistance to Egypt, and the issue of NGO funding get full play in his account, as do other matters of paramount concern, not least Egypt’s strenuous attempts to reach an agreement with fellow riparian states over the sharing of the Nile waters; Sudan, Libya, and Cairo’s engagement with the wider African continent; the often tense negotiations surrounding UN Security Council reform; and relations with Iran and the Gulf states.More than a memoir, this book by a senior statesman and veteran of Egypt’s foreign affairs is a tour de force of Middle Eastern politics and international relations in the first decade of the twenty-first century and an account of the powers and practice of one of Egypt’s most stable and durable institutions of state.

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      • I Was an Ambassador to the Sultan
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2019

        I Was an Ambassador to the Sultan

        "SULTAN’IN ÜLKESİNDE BÜYÜKELÇİYKEN"

        by Abdel-Rahman Salah

        He worked in Turkey as an ambassador for Egypt at a very delicate stage in the history of the Middle East region as a whole. Since 2010 - when he assumed his duties in Ankara - and until the end of 2013 - at the end of his duties there - he witnessed many pivotal events in the relationship between the two countries.From here comes the importance of the book, “Abdel-Rahman Salah,” the last Egyptian ambassador to Turkey, as it details a relationship between two countries that have military and political weight in the Middle East, and the similar rapprochement - to some extent - during the era of former President “Mohamed Hosni Mubarak”, It increased after 2011 AD and “Mohamed Morsi” took over the rule of the country by virtue of the political doctrine that links the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey and the Brotherhood in Egypt, thenTurkish estrangement and hostility to Egypt's interests after the June 30 revolution and the overthrow of the Brotherhood's rule. The pages of the book not only give you a new vision of the relationship between Egypt and Turkey under the rule of four presidents of Egypt, but they also give you accurate and documented accounts - in which Ambassador “Abdel-Rahman Salah” participated by virtue of his position - of what happened between the two countries during the past years... Away from the whims of support or opposition.

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      • Establishment of Women's Associations in the United Arab Emirates
        Humanities & Social Sciences

        Establishment of Women's Associations in the United Arab Emirates

        by Mouza Al Alghufli

        The book discusses the emergence of women’s associations in the UAE and introduces their establishment, branches and affiliated centers, the laws of these associations, their administrative structure, and their financial resources, starting from Abu Dhabi Women’s Association in Abu Dhabi 1973, Umm Al Quwain Women Association 1973, Women’s Union Association in Sharjah 1973, Umm Al Moumineen Women's Association in Ajman 1974, and Al Nahda Women's Association in Ras Al Khaimah 1979. It also highlights the emergence of the General Women's Union in the UAE in 1975, and the interest of His Late Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder of the UAE, in Emirati women’s issues, and his constant encouragement of them by supporting the Mother of the Nation, Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, President of the General Women's Union, Supreme President of the Family Development Foundation, and President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, which made it one of the Union's most prominent achievements in the advancement of Emirati women. The research deals with the Dubai Women's Association, using it, as an example, for monitoring what has been accomplished by the Association in service of its affiliates in particular and society in general. The time frame for the research in this book is set as starting from 1973, the year in which the first women's association was established in the UAE (Abu Dhabi Women’s Association), until 2001, the year in which the UAE's General Women's Union obtained a silver jubilee.

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      • Witness to War and Peace
        Humanities & Social Sciences

        Witness to War and Peace

        Egypt.. The October War and Beyond

        by Ahmed Abo ElGheit

        The son of a fighter pilot, raised in an air force barracks, Ahmed Aboul Gheit was privy to the confidential meetings, undisclosed memoranda, and battle secrets of Egyptian diplomacy for many decades. After a stint at military college, he began his career at the Egyptian embassy in Cyprus before later going on to become permanent representative to the United Nations and eventually, Egypt’s minister of foreign affairs under Hosni Mubarak. In this fascinating memoir, Aboul Gheit looks back on the 1973 October War and the diplomatic efforts that followed it, revealing the secrets of his long career for the first time.In vivid detail he describes the deliberations of Egypt’s political leadership in the run-up to the war, including the process of articulating Egypt’s war aims, the secret communications between President Sadat and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the role of the Soviet Union during the war, and the unfolding of events on the battlefront in Sinai. He then gives a detailed and deeply personal account of the arduous process of peacemaking that followed, covering the 1973 Geneva Conference, the 1977 Mena House Conference, Sadat’s visit to Israel, the 1978 Camp David Accords, and the subsequent 1979 Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty.From Sadat’s impassioned address to his cabinet on the eve of the war to delegations ripping out the wiring at their respective hotels, from Jimmy Carter cycling through the bungalows at Camp David to Yitzhak Shamir’s blunt admissions to his Arab counterparts in the 1991 Madrid conference, Aboul Gheit offers an information-packed, first-person account of a turbulent time in Middle Eastern history.

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      • Journeys of Ibn Elbytar

        Journeys of Ibn Elbytar

        by Ali Brisha

        In his quest to shed the light on Egypt's contemporary hardships, the young Egyptian novelist (Ali Brisha) introduced his second novel “Journeys of Ibn Elbytar”. Few months after the former president of Egypt Mubarak was ousted in 2011, the darker side of the Islamists and the extremist in Egypt surfaced all over the country . the novel is an in depth research to summarize the complicated relationships between the east and west since the crusades all the way through the modern ages.   The novel is named after Ibn Elbytar, who is the main character of the story. Ibn Elbytar is an imaginary character who lived in the 13th century. Ibn Elbytar would visit Europe at the peak of the dark ages, he is the son of a European Nobel who raped an Egyptian woman in Damietta during the seventh crusade which was led by King Louis IX of France. seeking to follow the traces of his dad, Ibn Elbytar starts his adventure sailing off to Europe while tense relationships between east and west dominated the scene , in his epic journey between the two shores of the Mediterranean he was captured in Cyprus, and his stay in Cyprus would reveal the Coptic roots of our Egyptian Moslem young adventurer, and would shed the light on the complicated and integrated life style of the Mediterranean people. In parallel to the journey of Ibn Elbitar, the writer travels along with the other contemporary flip of the novel, which is represented by «Prof.Daniel». Daniel is an Egyptian Archaeologist , who falls in love with his pretty Italian assistant during his scientific mission in Rome. The name of Daniel itself bares a variety of revelations . From one side the name of Daniel refers to a mosque in Alexandria, which is his home city that shaped out his Mediterranean identity, from the other side it refers to an Israelite profit mentioned in the old testament, referring to the homelessness suffered by the Israelite long time ago. At the very end of the story the link between Daniel and Ibn Elbitar revealed, showing that the two different stories are actually the same story, but each is narrated counter-wise.

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      • January Revolution: Critic Vision

        January Revolution: Critic Vision

        by Amr Abdelrahman, Amr Adly, Mahmoud Hadhood and Aly El-Raggal

        This book looks through the question of “the historical horizon of January Revolution”; namely it follows the roots and the characteristics of the main and active powers in the revolution; studying their histories before 2011 to find out the limits of their potentials and historical horizon.  The book supposes that the revolution did not happen by coincidence. It has not evoluted and progressed, then retreated and defeated at random. This is understood and self-evident. But in addition to, and based on, this axiom; the four authors present what can be described as the DNA profiling of the main actors in January, the DNA profiling that reveals the genetic trait, namely defines the nature and limits of options.  For example, the new capitalism that emerged in the late 1970s and participated in the governance one way or another under the umbrella of the project of power inheritance to Gamal Mubarak, whose spearhead was the Committee of Policies in the National Democratic Party – this capitalism rushed to put forth its demands and try to impose them. So, it merged in this context, due to the nature of the Egyptian political sphere, in a project of power inheritance with an authoritarian nature. This exactly what played a critical role in defining its situations and options after January.         Another example is the Muslim Brothers, who waged the turbulence of the revolution carrying a long history of “liability to otherness”, namely to isolation and marginalization as “others” that can be depicted -as said in a song- “they are people and we are people”. Those isolated Brothers, as opposite to the pressing powers to isolate them, entered in a mutual trajectory of exclusion and disengagement that ended with the catastrophic results we have witnessed. That was also the case with the civil powers that introspected practices and crystalized a discourse of “wholly national” nature that included in its combination what allowed later the explosion of “statehood” that defined the period after June 2013. At all these levels and fields, the book reveals the roots of January’s victories and defeats in the history previous to 2011, not with the logic of “historical determinism” but with the logic of potentials whose limits can be understood only through the deconstruction of the context and the history.

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      • Cairo Now
        January 2014

        Cairo Now

        Short List Sheikh Zayed literature Award 2015

        by Ibrahim Abd AL Mageed

        In his latest novel, we travel with Ibrahim Abdel Meguid back to the seventies which, as he views, marked a major transformational shift in modern Egyptian society. It was in this decade, Meguid argues, that the achievements of the 1952 Revolution and the former Liberal era underwent a slump as the self-called “religious” groups, pushed by the Egyptian government, came to have a front seat just to keep creeping over the years, under both Sadat and Mubarak, until they got Egypt to the current political scene.Despite such a seemingly background, the novel penetrates into night-and-day private lives of the characters in Cairo: their madness, their blooms of youth and their love stories taken from streets to oubliettes. Captivated by its beautiful fantasies and imaginations, the reader will infinitely keep reading this novel, with all its time-crossing astonishing scenes which go far further beyond what is realistic and what is humane. The novel moves through many of the famous Cairo neighbourhoods – Roxy, Hadayek El-Kobba, Deer El-Malak, Downtown and Old Cairo – and also through Giza where greeneries on both sides of Al-Haram street turned to noisy and poorly slums. From inside, and despite, all these scenes, the novel spots the light on that optimistic spirit of the main characters who have fun and seize opportunities for the joy of life. Not only do the main two male protagonists of the novel have their names; i.e., “Saber Said[1]” and “Said Saber”, full of significances, but do also their friends, “Ibrahim Omar” and “Omar Ibrahim,” while the heroines of the novel have all the name “Safaa[2]” and are described as “First Safaa”, “Second Safaa” and so on. Yet, all these heroines are, the same like other women in society, besieged either by backward values or by inhumane acts of others. Not only do laughter and joy have a vast space within the society in this novel, but does also pain. Although it was the decade of the victory of Egypt in the war 1973 against Israel, the seventies was, the decade of the great Exodus/alienation of Egyptians inside their home country. The novel goes on, that the culture of tolerance and humanness was at the last gasp. Furthermore, as this novel depicts the everyday life of that decade, it goes easy at both secret and open night lives of Cairo. Hence, it leaves the door wide open before human soul, with its limitless and timeless desires. Ibraim Abdel Maguid is one of the most famous writers in Egypt and the Arab world were most of his novels were translated into French , English and German. He is winner of the state award for Excellence in Literature and Naguib Mahfouz prize from the American university.

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      • The Libya War
        International relations
        March 2018

        The Libya War

        The use of rhetoric and deception to destroy a state

        by Ola Tunander

        The war in Libya has become a humanitarian disaster. This book reveals the dishonest methods that were used to influence world opinion to accept the need for a “humanitarian intervention” in Libya in 2011. It draws a picture of an operation in which a number of actors collaborated towards a common goal: to oust Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi . In 2011, the news media reported that Gaddafi had launched a genocide. Today we know that this claim was false. This book explains what actually happened during the war in Libya, and how everyone was deceived.

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