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Cinders & Sapphires: At Somerton

Cinders & Sapphires: At Somerton

Leila Rasheed

Sumptuous and enticing, the first novel in the At Somerton series introduces two worlds, utterly different yet entangled, where ruthless ambition, forbidden attraction, and unspoken dreams are hidden behind dutiful smiles and glittering ...
Leila

Leila

Robin Jenkins

Robin 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.
Muted Modernists: The Struggle Over Divine Politics in Saudi ...

Muted Modernists: The Struggle Over Divine Politics in Saudi ...

Madawi Al-Rasheed

Madawi Al-Rasheed, 'Saudi Arabia: the challenge of the US invasion of Iraq', in Rick Fawn and Raymond Hinnebusch (eds), The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences, London: Lynne Rienner, 2006, pp. 153–62. Salman al-Awdah denounced ...
Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia: The Challenge of Succession

Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia: The Challenge of Succession

Stig Stenslie

15 Quoted in Alexei Vassiliev, The History ofSaudi Arabia, p. 355. 16 Madawi al- Rasheed, A History ofSaudi Arabia, p. 107. 17 Madawi al-Rasheed, A History of Saudi Arabia, pp. 107–9. 18 David Holden and Richard Johns, The House of ...
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--a Woman's Journey

A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--a Woman's Journey

Leila Ahmed

AS 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.
The Canadian Who's who

The Canadian Who's who

Elizabeth Lumley

196-1; 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' ...
Les contes pour leila: ahmed

Les contes pour leila: ahmed

Jean Bernard Joly

Ce 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.
Murder on Kaanapali Beach (Leila Kahana Mysteries, Book 2):

Murder on Kaanapali Beach (Leila Kahana Mysteries, Book 2):

R. Barri Flowers

Bonus 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 ...
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Leila Ahmed

In 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.
Multiplication Tables Beyond 12 to 50

Multiplication Tables Beyond 12 to 50

RASHEED HUGGINS

In multiplications beyond to 50 you learn to multiply your time tables beyond 12 to 50.
Iraqi Assyrian Christians in London: The Construction of ...

Iraqi Assyrian Christians in London: The Construction of ...

Madawi Al-Rasheed

This volume examines previous literature on ethnicity and its revival, challenging established perceptions of the concept.
A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in ...

A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in ...

Madawi Al-Rasheed

This book goes beyond conventional tropes describing women in Saudi Arabia to probe the historical, political and religious forces thwarting their emancipation.
Politics in An Arabian Oasis: The Rashidis of Saudi Arabia

Politics in An Arabian Oasis: The Rashidis of Saudi Arabia

Madawi Al Rasheed

This text is both a study of the relationships between tribes and state formation, and a political history of central Arabia.
A History of Saudi Arabia

A History of Saudi Arabia

Madawi al-Rasheed

This new edition covers the political, economic and social developments in Saudi Arabia since 9/11 to the present day.
Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation

Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation

Madawi Al-Rasheed

Bridging the gap between text and context, the author also examines how states and citizens manipulate religious discourse for purely political ends, and how this manipulation generates unpredictable reactions whose control escapes those ...
Past Perfect

Past Perfect

Leila Sales

A sweet and clever novel about the woes of (boy) history repeating itself, from the author of Mostly Good Girls.
Historia de Arabia Saudí

Historia de Arabia Saudí

Madawi Al-Rasheed

Aunque Arabia Saudí es un país rico y poderoso, cuya influencia se extiende a todo el mundo islámico y a Occidente, su sociedad sigue siendo para nosotros cerrada y enigmática.
This Song Will Save Your Life

This Song Will Save Your Life

Leila Sales

All her life, Elise Dembowski has been an outsider.
Kiss Me First

Kiss Me First

Lottie Moggach

. SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD On the internet, we can be anyone we choose. No one knows who we really are. Sheltered and obsessive, Leila spends more time online than out in the real world.
The Arab Nahdah: The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist ...

The Arab Nahdah: The Making of the Intellectual and Humanist ...

Abdulrazzak Patel

Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature Series Editor: Rasheed El-Enany Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq and the Advent of Arab Modernity Nadia Al-Bagdadi Autobiographical Identities in Contemporary Arab Literature Valerie Anishchenkova ...
War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction

War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction

Ikram Masmoudi

... Literature Series Editor: Rasheed ElEnany Writing Beirut: Mappings of the City in the Modern Arabic Novel Samira Aghacy Autobiographical Identities in Contemporary Arab Literature Valerie Anishchenkova The Iraqi Novel: Key Writers, Key ...
Diaspora is Not Like Home: A Social and Economic History of ...

Diaspora is Not Like Home: A Social and Economic History of ...

Rasheed Olaniyi

A similar pattern of trading strategy was pursued by female shea nut traders in Bawku market, Northeast Ghana as explained by Brenda Chalfin, 2000, "Risky Business: Economic Uncertainty, Market Reforms And Female Livelihoods ln ...
Cynthia

Cynthia

Leila Prince Golding

Shattered when her boyfriend marries someone else, Cynthia takes a job as a forest-fire watcher where, instead of finding refuge, she finds danger and love with a fellow Christian.
Cynthia

Cynthia

Leila Prince Golding

Shattered when her boyfriend marries someone else, Cynthia takes a job as a forest-fire watcher where, instead of finding refuge, she finds danger and love with a fellow Christian.
Song of the Water Saints: A Novel

Song of the Water Saints: A Novel

Nelly Rosario

Leila inherits her great-grandmother Graciela’s passion-driven recklessness. But, caught as she is between cultures, her freedom arrives with its own set of obligations and dangers. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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