Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor. Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 ...
This memoirist was a teenager and an aspiring journalist when the Taliban overcame her native Kabul and her active life was transformed into enforced seclusion. Here she chronicles her loss.
Vibrant full-color photos show students lighting the menorah, playing dreidel, and telling the story of Judah Maccabee when they invite their grandparents to a Hanukkah party. Kids will love seeing children their own age in the pictures.
A preschool class demonstrates getting ready for Passover. Watch as they prepare matzah and charoset, the table and seder plate, and participate in the seder complete with the Four Questions and the afikomen.
The Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic; published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution. The novel traces the pressures on young women and young men of that time and ...
This is a book for students seeking an introduction to Islamic banking. It covers both the theory and the practice of Islamic banking in enough detail to make it easy to read and interesting. Difficult concepts are clearly explained without being overpowered by mathematics, and it is a "one-stop shop" for information on Islamic banking. With case ...
This book is a child's first introduction to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, in a context a young child can understand and enjoy--a birthday party for the world!
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop, SVM 2008, held in Munich, Germany, in October 2008. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Topics of the workshop include virtualization, key management issues, web services and SOA, new management ...
Carmann Productions Presents...Caught Up In Drama!! Amari is a dime piece loving the luxurious life provided by her hustlin' boyfriend, Daryl. It's not until she finds herself pregnant and abandoned that she realizes how truly alone she is in this world. But just when she thinks she's hit rock bottom, she discovers a light at the end of the tunnel ...
This is the true story of Latifa Ali, betrayed by her mother and left prisoner to her father in Kurdistan, northern Iraq. She has no allies, no liberty as a Muslim woman and no access to an embassy. As the war on terror rages around her, Latifa is at war with her culture and customs. Imprisoned, abused and violated, her efforts to escape Iraq fail ...
Eighteen-year-old Julia and twelve-year-old Alex are just like many other brothers and sisters. They fight ." a lot," Yet something is different in this family. Alex believes his sister has an evil mission-to ruin his life. One day, Julia backs over Alex's shiny new bike, yet Alex is the one who is punished by his parents for leaving his bike in ...
This 3 day workshop explored how one might create a beam of positrons and the requirements of such a source. In the case of high energy positrons at accelerator facilities, the theoretical and experimental motivation for experiments aimed at studying the structure and interaction of subatomic particles using high energy positrons were presented. ...
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