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A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--a Woman's Journey
Leila AhmedAS SHE JOURNEYS ACROSS CULTURES, AN EGYPTIAN WOMAN STRUGGLES TO DEFINE HERSELF In language that vividly evokes the lush summers of Cairo and the stark beauty of the Arabian Desert, Leila Ahmed tells the story of her life.
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
Leila AhmedIn this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to the current debate about women and Islam by exploring its historical roots, tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender from the ancient world to the present.
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Jean Bernard JolyCe conte fait partie des cinq histoires que Jean Bernard avaient imaginées pour les raconter à Leïla, petite fille algérienne, accueillie dans sa famille en 1983 pour se faire soigner d'une leucémie.
From Obscurity to Clarity in Psychometric Testing: Selected ...
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Leila
Robin JenkinsRobin Jenkins returned to the Far East in the 1950s for "Leila", a tender love story involving a Scottish teacher, Andrew Sandilands, and Leila, the exotically beautiful daughter of a local politician.
Islam in Historical Perspective
Alexander KnyshProfessor Leila Ahmed of Yale University has pointed out that the former group of verses constitutes “the fundamental message of Islam,” whereas the latter, “even his [the Prophet's] own practices, were the ephemeral aspects of the religion, ...
The World of Persian Literary Humanism
Hamid Dabashi“Sasanian society, which prevailed in the IranIraq region,” Leila Ahmed believes, is particularlyimportant ...inthat Muslim conquered its peopleanddirectly inherited its culture and institutions. The mores of the incoming Arabs and the ...
The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity : ...
Mehran KamravaBorn in Cairo in 1940, Leila Ahmed received a doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge and was later appointed to professorships first at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and later at the Harvard Divinity School, where she ...
Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Talal AsadIn a powerful critique of that work, Leila Ahmed has argued that "In calling for women's liberation the thoroughly patriarchal Amin was in fact calling for the transformation of Muslim society along the lines of the Western model and for the ...
A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle ...
Leila AhmedRichly insightful, intricately drawn, and passionately argued, this absorbing story of the veil's resurgence, from Egypt through Saudi Arabia and into the West, suggests a dramatically new portrait of contemporary Islam.
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America-- a Woman's Journey
Leila AhmedThe author of Women and Gender in Islam offers a thought-provoking memoir of her own odyssey from an Egyptian Muslim childhood, to her struggle to define herself as a woman, a Muslim, an Egyptian, Arab, and feminist. Reprint.
Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East
PreviewLILA ABU-LUGHOD IN THE CONTEXT of her analysis of the East/West dialectic that has secured the veil as a loaded symbolic marker of cultural identity and women's status in the contemporary Muslim world, Leila Ahmed has argued that ...
Akbar Ahmed: Two Plays
Akbar S. AhmedPraise for Noor 'Akbar Ahmed sets the clock ticking from the first moments of his wondrous new play, N007. The three sons of Assad Hussein must find a way to get their beloved sister released from a US-sponsored prison, ironically referred to ...
Official Congressional Directory, 2007-2008
PreviewPage Khalil, Mohsen A 917 Khalili, Deborah W 454 Khalilzed, Zalmay 595 Khan, Leila 436 Khan, Mohsin S 897 Khan, Zakir Ahmed 917 Khatri, Prakash 1 755 Khokhar, Jamal 892 Khosla, Jay 347 Khoury, MuinJ 719 Khure, Atul 913 Ki-moon , ...
The Canadian Who's who
Elizabeth Lumley196-1; num. honours 8: awards incl, 'The Leila Ioy MacKenzie Lobby' Fac. of Social Work, Univ. of Toronto; 'The Leila Joy MacKenzie African Women Studies Collection' The Nellie Langford Rowel Library, York Univ.; York Univ. Womens' ...
Journey Into Islam
Akbar AhmedJourney Into Islam: The Crisis Of Globalization Is The Riveting Story Of Their Search For Common Ground. From The Mosques Of Damascus To The Madrassas Of Karachi And Deoband, Ahmed And His Companions Met With Muslims From All Walks Of Life.
Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin
Akbar AhmedAkbar Ahmed, by revealing Jinnah's human face alongside his heroic achievement, both makes this statesman accessible to the current age and renders his greatness even clearer than before.
Murder on Kaanapali Beach (Leila Kahana Mysteries, Book 2):
R. Barri FlowersBonus material includes a complete mystery novelette, Kaanapali Beach Paradise, and excerpts from the upcoming third book in the Leila Kahana Mysteries series, Murder of the Hula Dancers; as well as the author’s bestselling Hawaii ...
Ber and Other Jujubes
S. Azam-AliHussain, F., Ahmed, M., Durani, M. J. and Shaheen, G. (1993) Phytosociology of the vanishing tropical dry deciduous forests in district Swabi, Pakistan. I. A community analysis. Pakistan Journal of Botany, 25(1): 51-66. Hussain, F., Ahmed, M., ...
Wicked Games
Arjun Krishna LalRüya looks great, considering that she's overweight! Rüya Ahmed: Um,thanks for that Jo . . . Malika Yousef: Oooooh niceeeeee! Rüya Ahmed: Thnx Millie! Zaid Hassan Malik:Yeah, 'thanksJo'. Beyoncé Sweetz??? Are you scared about people ...
Am Abgrund: Pakistan, Afghanistan und der Westen
Ahmed RashidNach STURZ INS CHAOS schreibt Ahmed Rashid die Geschichte des Afghanistankriegs fort und schildert die dramatische Lage in seinem Heimatland.
James Brown
PreviewAlthough Hynie stated that her marriage to Javed Ahmed was later annulled, the annulment for Hynie's 1997 marriage to Ahmed did not occur until April 2004.266 ,269 In an interview on CNN with Larry King, Hynie produced a 2001 marriage ...
Project Reaper: A Max Storm novel
M.W. FletcherA photo of an Asian man replaced the picture on the plasma screen, “this gentlemen is one Ajaz Ahmed.” Max sat up and leaned forward starring angrily at the photo. Vince spoke, “You asked us to track Ajaz Ahmed down, it took a little while ...
Pukhtun Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals): ...
Akbar AhmedFirst published in 1980, this groundbreaking Routledge Revival is a reissue of an original and authentic anthropological account of Pukhtun society by Professor Akbar Ahmed.
Nuclear Pakistan
M. G. ChitkaraAhmed Rashid, "The Resurgence of Central Asia", (1994) p. 27. 28. E. All Worth, " The Modern Uzbeks from the Fourteenth Century to the Present: A cultural history , (1990) Hoover Institution Press, USA. 29. Ahmed Rashid, 'The Resurgence of ...
Pioneers of Digital: Success Stories from Leaders in ...
Mel CarsonAjaz Ahmed AKQA Digital discipline From the very beginning Ajaz Ahmed has been a pioneer of digital media advertising. He helped drive the internet as an advertising channel, introduced new interactive technologies to communications, ...
Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize
Ahmed H. ZewailIn this engaging expose of his life and work until his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1999, Ahmed Zewail explores in non-technical language the landscape of molecules glimpsed on the scale of one quadrillionth of a second: the femtosecond
What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic
Shahab AhmedIn What Is Islam?, Shahab Ahmed presents a bold new conceptualization of Islam that challenges dominant understandings grounded in the categories of "religion" and "culture" or those that privilege law and scripture.
Pakistan on the Brink: The future of Pakistan, Afghanistan ...
Ahmed RashidWhat does the immediate future hold, and what are the choices that Pakistan, Afghanistan and the West can make? These are some of the crucial questions that Ahmed Rashid takes on in this follow-up to his acclaimed Descent into Chaos.
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