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The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's ...

The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's ...

Abdullah Öcalan

These are the essential writings of a man who inspired a new, egalitarian socialist regime in the Middle East, which is currently fighting for survival against religious extremism and state violence.Abdullah calan led the struggle for ...
The Qur'an: An Introduction

The Qur'an: An Introduction

Abdullah Saeed

53 StefanTheil, 'Challengingthe Quran:Scholar's New Book, A Commentary on the Qur'an'sEarly Genesis', cited in Nerina Rustomji, 'American Visionsof the Houri',TheMuslim World, vol. 97, January 2007, p. 88. 54Alexander Stille, ' Radical ...
The Future of Afghanistan and Turkey‘s Contribution:

The Future of Afghanistan and Turkey‘s Contribution:

Selçuk Çolakoğlu

What is more, 42 percent of women participated in the elections.3 The first round of elections on April 5, 2014, ended up with two frontrunners: Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai. Abdullah received 45 percent of the total vote while  ...
Islamic Political Thought and Governance

Islamic Political Thought and Governance

Abdullah Saeed

By political thought is meant, broadly, the study and interpretation of Islamic political culture, ideas, beliefs, and institutions; the contribution of key political theorists and authorities to the understanding or practice of governance; ...
East Africa and Its Invaders: From the Earliest Times to the ...

East Africa and Its Invaders: From the Earliest Times to the ...

Sir Reginald Coupland

Abdullah, of Johanna Isl., 247. Abdullah-bin-Ahmed, Sheikh, 220, 222-4. Abdullah-bin-Salim, Governor of Taljora, 358. Aberdares, mountains, 7. Aberdeen, Lord, 413, 447-8, 450, 454. 474. 475. 489, 5°8, 510-16, 518, 522. Abou-Zaid-Hassan, ...
From Iran to Hollywood and Some Places In-Between: Reframing ...

From Iran to Hollywood and Some Places In-Between: Reframing ...

Christopher Gow

What does that say about 'us'?1 (Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa) ... and for that matter, any émigré filmmaker (and by 'us' I mean myself and the readers of this book, though Saeed-Vafa's 'us' could refer to any number of film festival organizers, cinema ...
War and Peace in Kurdistan - International Initiative Edition

War and Peace in Kurdistan - International Initiative Edition

Abdullah Öcalan

In this essay, Abdullah Öcalan gives an overview of the historical background of the Kurdish quest for nationhood and offers options and possible solutions.
Middle Eastern Societies and the West: Accommodation Or ...

Middle Eastern Societies and the West: Accommodation Or ...

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One pertinent example is the publication in Film of a dialogue on Kiarostami's art, from a book co-authored by film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Mehrnaz Saeed- Vafa. 1 1 Interestingly. Mehrnaz Saeed, who initiated this collaboration in  ...
The Roots of Civilisation

The Roots of Civilisation

Abdullah Ocalan

PRISON WRITINGS - THE ROOTS OF CIVILISATION Abdullah Ocalan was the most wanted man in Turkey for almost two decades until his kidnapping and arrest in Nairobi in 1999.
Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization: Civilization: The ...

Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization: Civilization: The ...

Abdullah Ocalan

In this work, Abdullah Ocalan distills 35 years of revolutionary theory and praxis and 10 years of solitary confinement in Turkish prisons. These reflections represent the essence of his ideas on society, knowledge, and power."
Mevzuat böyle efendim

Mevzuat böyle efendim

Mete Akyol

Kemal Mumcu, Maliye Bakanlığı, Milli Emlâk Genel Müdür Yardımcısı Abdullah Atay'la bir kez daha görüştü. «Söz konusu arsada yapılacak okula, adınızın verilmesini istemişsiniz» dedi. Abdullah Atay, «Bu hususun kabul edilip edilmeyeceğini ...
Diplomatic List

Diplomatic List

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NADA ABDUL RAHIM YOUSUF AL HOOTI FIRST SECRETARY MR. HAMOOD SALIM ABDULLAH AL TOWAIYA MRS. ASMA ALI MASOUD AL KHARUSI FIRST SECRETARY DR. ASYA MOHAMED SULAIMAN AL LAMKI DR. HARITH MOHAMED AL GHASSANI ATTACHE (CULTURAL ) MR. AHMED ABDULLAH M. AL SHANFARI MRS. FATIMA AYAD BAHOU ATTACHE (INFORMATION) BRIGADIER GENERAL HILAL AMUR HAMOOD AL HAJRI MRS. SHAMS SAID HAMOOD AL ...
Profiles

Profiles

Rina Saeed Khan

Biographical sketches of prominent Pakistani personalities; collection of articles previously published in the weekly Friday Times from 1992-1998.
Khartoum 1885: General Gordon's last stand

Khartoum 1885: General Gordon's last stand

Donald Featherstone

Early in 1881 unrest in the Sudan began to crystallise around Mohammed Ibn Ahmed el-Sayyid Abdullah.
Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema: Borders ...

Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema: Borders ...

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Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad has suggested that the Centre for the Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents was since the 1960s the primary source of financial support for more experimental directors such as Kiarostami and Naderi ...
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The ...

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The ...

Hamid Naficy

... Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, based her film about exile, including her own, on a photograph. As emblems of psychic and physical displacement, the photographs in both films are, in Freudian terms, those of an Other, not of the self. Born in Tehran ...
Sheik Seduction

Sheik Seduction

Dana Marton

Honor demanded that he protect her passion made him claim her She had planned to be all business, but nothing could have prepared Sara for the strength and sensuality of Sheik Tariq Abdullah.
Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa

A unique and resplendent collaboration featuring two distinct but complementing perspectives, the book places Kiarostami and his films in a national context and provides American readers with valuable insights into Iranian culture, ...
The Politics of Iranian Cinema: Film and Society in the ...

The Politics of Iranian Cinema: Film and Society in the ...

Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

I would also like to thank Dr Ziba MirHosseini, Professor Laura Mulvey, Dr Lloyd Ridgeon, Dr Jerome Bredt and Dr Christopher Gow for either reading the entire manuscript or large sections of it and making suggestions. There are very many ...
Projek Seram Cermin:

Projek Seram Cermin:

Zaifuzaman Ahmad, Illya Abdullah, Suzani Nadzir, Julie Jasmin

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From Iran to Hollywood and Some Places In-between: Reframing ...

From Iran to Hollywood and Some Places In-between: Reframing ...

Christopher Gow

... for agreeing to review my work upon submitting my book proposal to I.B.Tauris; and my fellow PhD candidates during my postgraduate years, Saeed Zeydabadi- Nejad, Nacim Pak and Leon Gurevitch, for their friendship and good humour.
A Colourful Presence: The Evolution of Women's ...

A Colourful Presence: The Evolution of Women's ...

Maryam Ghorbankarimi

As Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa explains, “Their work was charged with political rebellion and existential despair, as well as a skeptical view of progress and development.”3 Sadegh Hedayat in fiction, Nima Yushij in poetry, and Jalal Al-e Ahmad in ...
Iranians in Chicagoland

Iranians in Chicagoland

Hamid Akbari

Left: Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, a professor of filmmaking at Columbia College, has been a consultant to the Film Center for its Iranian Film Series since 1989. She has made several short films including Far from Home, The Silent Majority, Ruins  ...
Quarterly Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society

Quarterly Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society

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XV, ed. By Mircea Eliade, ef al, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1987, p. 329. 49. ... Saeed Ahmad Rafiq, Iqbal Ka-Nazria-i-Akhlaq, Lahore, 1960, p. 126, cited by ... M. Quraish Shihab, Membumikan Al-Qufan, Mizan, Bandung, 1996. 71 .
World Aviation Directory

World Aviation Directory

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E F. - 847800 Grubisha, George _ J2640 Gruce, John T — A-200 Gruennert. R. _ A58250 ... Ron _ K43240 Gummel, Ronald C — K-6590 Gumusdere, Fikret — А- 2510 Gunasekera. Ranei _ .... Saeed - А-2630 Habibie. Piol 01 ing в J _85%o ...
Leadership in Architectural Research

Leadership in Architectural Research

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On the other hand, referring to the intimacy between filmmakers and architects, as Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa alleges, there is even a significant portion of reality beyond filmmaker's choice of location: For the filmmaker, the choice of location is a ...
Projek Seram - Hostel:

Projek Seram - Hostel:

Hasrudi Jawawi, Eqbal Mohaydeen, Noorfadzillah, Illya Abdullah

Herlina bukan tiada pendidikan tinggi tetapi desakan hidup membuatnya terima sahaja pekerjaan maid di Borneo Amazon Homestay, Tawau.
The Prospect of Global History

The Prospect of Global History

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On relations with Abdullah see David Brophy, 'The Oirat in Eastern Turkistan and the Rise of Āfāq Khwāja', Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 16 (2008/2009), pp. 5– 28; on contact with Imam Quli Khan and Nadhr Muhammad, see Giorgio Rota, ...

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