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Birds of Nabaa is a tale of physical and spiritual journeys,
beginning in Nabaa, a remote Mauritanian village, whose herds lead
the community according to their own inscrutable instincts, to life
in Madrid, the Gulf states and Guinea, where the narrator's work as
an embassy accountant takes him, and to Mauritania's capital
Nouakchott. Inspired by the Sahara of his childhood and devoted
from an early age to the vagabond life of the pre-Islamic poets,
the narrator's constant life on the move in search of the inner
stillness known only to desert dwellers leads him back always to
the music, song and poetry so much a part of Mauritanian life and
the spiritual universe of Sufism. The mix of diverse characters
joining him includes Teresa, his Brazilian neighbour in Madrid whom
he taught to make tea the Mauritanian way; Rajab the inspiring
teacher in a blue face veil; Hussein the poet; Mariam, a postman
between the living and the dead via cowrie shell readings; the
exiled judge of Chinguetti; as well as his close friend the
voracious reader and rebel Abdurrahman who wants to change the
world, Abdel Hadi, the holy-fool sheikh with an encyclopaedic
knowledge of Arab history and poetry, and Ould al-Taher, the first
climate-change refugee. The narrator's travels take him to the
village of Kanz al-Asrar near a tributary of the Senegal River, an
area so fertile it is like a lush paradise. However, two and more
years without any rain create drought, wells dry out, livelihoods
shatter, and dreams turn to disturbing nightmarish premonitions of
disaster. The burning fire of the sun is winning its eternal
struggle with the hidden water that the clouds plant in the depths
of the sand. As desertification takes hold, that paradise of
southern Mauritania and of Nabaa gradually declines and the waves
of migration, always a feature of life in the Sahara, intensify.
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The Longlist (Paperback)
Yassin Adnan; Translated by Raphael Cohen; Abdelkarim Jouaiti; Translated by Mbarek Sryfi; Edited by (editors-in-chief) Samuel Shimon; …
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This is a fascinating collection of essays about Israeli society
and its institutions. It is written by practitioners who have
experience and understanding, who are equipped with the insight and
knowledge, and who bore responsibility while serving the public in
the various institutions. Among the authors are former State
President Yitzhak Navon, former cabinet minister Gad Yaakobi,
former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Naomi Chazan, former Attorney
General Elyakim Rubinstein, Former Supreme Court President Meir
Shamgar, the State Comptroller Eliezer Goldberg, and former member
of the Press Council Raphael Cohen-Almagor. The decision-makers
provide fresh, practical observations and personal, valuable
accounts of their respective roles. The book aims to tackle timely
concerns, analyzing the relationships between democracy and
bureaucracy, the military-political complex, the issue of
separation of powers in democracy and more specifically the role of
the Supreme Court, and the need for a written, solid constitution.
It also discusses citizenship education. The book will be useful to
researchers on Israeli democracy, students, teachers, historians,
sociologists, political scientists and legal scholars who wish to
better understand this fascinating society and its institutions.
Home to a mixed community of Muslims, Copts, Christians, Jews,
Buddhists, Indians, Europeans and Africans, Sur is plunged into
turmoil by an extremist revolution orchestrated by the Righteous
One. An obscure figure, the Righteous One is drawing followers from
the poor and discontented to his jihad. Sur and all its communities
represent the camp of apostasy and must be defeated. The city
begins to prepare itself for the onslaught. Together with other
young women, Khamila is led away to a house for female captives.
Kept in seclusion and guarded by eunuchs, these women are
instructed in the new faith and readied for marriage and sexual
servitude. Despairing of rescue and determined to resist her fate,
Khamila learns she is to be married off to the Righteous One
himself. She appears to be rescued by one of the eunuchs, Lulu, but
awakens from her dream, again and again, to find herself still a
captive. Despite its relative shortness, this poetic novel is rich
in detail and characters, while the author projects contemporary
horrors of sexual violence and slavery back into the past and
fiercely criticizes today's extremist ideologies.
In recent years, the discussion about Israel was dominated by
post-Zionist, post-Israeli opinions. Important voices that
represent large sectors of Israeli society were not heard. To
somewhat change this situation, some of the best scholars in their
respective fields participate in this ultimate collection of essays
about Israeli society, its politics and schisms. The book aims to
tackle timely concerns, like Israel's fight against terror, its
relationships with the Palestinians, the mutual relationships
between the civic society and the army, the status of women in
society, and separation between state and religion. Particular
attention is given to probing the state of human rights, minority
rights, and health rights. The volume also discusses the tensions
between liberalism and socialism, between state and religion, and
between immigration groups, most notably resulting from the
immigration from the former Soviet Union.
One of the dangers in any political system is that the principles
that underlie and characterize it may, through their application,
bring about its destruction. Liberal democracy is no exception.
Moreover, because democracy is relatively a young phenomenon, it
lacks experience in dealing with pitfalls involved in the working
of the system - the 'catch' of democracy. This is an
interdisciplinary study concerned with the limits of tolerance,
this 'democratic catch', and the costs of freedom of expression.
Rights are costly, and someone must pay for them. We can and should
ask about the justification for bearing the costs, weighing them
against the harms inflicted upon society as a result of a wide
scope of tolerance. While recognizing that we have the need to
express ourselves, we should also inquire about the justifications
for tolerating the damaging speech and whether these are weighty
enough. This book combines theory and practice, examining issues of
contention from philosophical, legal and media perspectives and
covers such issues as: media invasion into one's privacy offensive
speech incitement hate speech holocaust denial media coverage of
terrorism. This book is essential reading for anyone who has
research interests in political theory, extremism, and free speech.
This is the ultimate collection of essays about Israeli society,
its politics, schisms and institutions. Leading authors in this
field tackle timely concerns, such as Israel's fight against
terror, its relationships with the Palestinians, the mutual
relationships between the civic society and the army, the status of
women in society, and separation between state and religion.
Particular attention is given to probing the state of human rights,
minority rights, and health rights. The volume also discusses the
tensions between liberalism and socialism, between state and
religion, and between immigration groups, most notably resulting
from the immigration from the former Soviet Union. The book
analyses the relationships between democracy and bureaucracy, the
issue of separation of powers in democracy and more specifically
the role of the Supreme Court. It also sheds light on the roles of
other influential institutions: the government, the Presidency, the
Knesset, the Legal Advisor to the Government, and the
StateComptroller. Finally, the book discusses the education system
as well as the press council and its role in a democratic society.
This is a special issue of the journal "Israel Affairs,"
This title was first published in 2000: The essays gathered in this
volume cover a wide range of theoretical and practical issues
concerning a variety of problems which democracies confront time
and again. Their aim is to look at challenges to democracy that
evolve from within democracy. The discussion sets out to examine
how democracies, in different times, dealt with attempts to
undermine democratic processes and fundamental human rights. The
design of the book is both interdisciplinary and comparative,
offering historical, philosophical, legal, sociological, political
and media perspectives of renowned scholars from the UK, Israel,
the USA and Canada. They analyze how different societies try to
cope with and find answers for attacks against them by political
extremists, cultural chauvinists, terrorists, hate groups and other
radical movements.
This book explores the main challenges against multiculturalism. It
aims to examine whether liberalism and multiculturalism are
reconcilable, and what are the limits of liberal democratic
interventions in illiberal affairs of minority cultures within
democracy. In the process, this book addresses three questions:
whether multiculturalism is bad for democracy, whether
multiculturalism is bad for women, and whether multiculturalism
contributes to terrorism. Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism argues
that liberalism and multiculturalism are reconcilable if a fair
balance is struck between individual rights and group rights.
Raphael Cohen-Almagor contends that reasonable multiculturalism can
be achieved via mechanisms of deliberate democracy, compromise and,
when necessary, coercion. Placing necessary checks on groups that
discriminate against vulnerable third parties, the approach insists
on the protection of basic human rights as well as on exit rights
for individuals if and when they wish to leave their cultural
groups.
Abir scrapes a living in a Beirut hospital morgue by night,
stealing from both the bodies he tends and his bosses. But he has a
dark history that continues to haunt him. Earlier in the civil war,
he fled his village for Beirut and, lost in the big city, joined a
political party to survive. When he is kidnapped from the hospital,
he knows he has not escaped his past and the many crimes he
witnessed. But what or who is still chasing him?
A chance encounter on a plane throws together Doha, a fashion
designer unhappily married to a leading figure in the Mubarak
regime, and Ashraf, an academic and leading dissident. The story of
their relationship and Doha's self-discovery runs alongside a young
Egyptian's search for the mother he never knew, and these
intersecting narratives unfold against the background of political
protests that culminate in the overthrow of the regime.
A moving and at times humorous story, Butterfly Wings is an
extended allegory of Egypt's modern experience of authoritarian
rule and explores the fractures and challenges of a society at the
moment of revolutionary transformation.
Mohamed Salmawy's almost prophetic novel was first published in
Arabic immediately prior to the events of 25 January 2011, and has
been celebrated as 'the novel that predicted the Revolution.'
One of the dangers in any political system is that the principles
that underlie and characterize it may, through their application,
bring about its destruction. Liberal democracy is no exception.
Moreover, because democracy is relatively a young phenomenon, it
lacks experience in dealing with pitfalls involved in the working
of the system - the 'catch' of democracy. This is an
interdisciplinary study concerned with the limits of tolerance,
this 'democratic catch', and the costs of freedom of expression.
Rights are costly, and someone must pay for them. We can and should
ask about the justification for bearing the costs, weighing them
against the harms inflicted upon society as a result of a wide
scope of tolerance. While recognizing that we have the need to
express ourselves, we should also inquire about the justifications
for tolerating the damaging speech and whether these are weighty
enough. This book combines theory and practice, examining issues of
contention from philosophical, legal and media perspectives and
covers such issues as: media invasion into one's privacy offensive
speech incitement hate speech holocaust denial media coverage of
terrorism. This book is essential reading for anyone who has
research interests in political theory, extremism, and free speech.
This book explores the main challenges against multiculturalism. It
aims to examine whether liberalism and multiculturalism are
reconcilable, and what are the limits of liberal democratic
interventions in illiberal affairs of minority cultures within
democracy. In the process, this book addresses three questions:
whether multiculturalism is bad for democracy, whether
multiculturalism is bad for women, and whether multiculturalism
contributes to terrorism. Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism argues
that liberalism and multiculturalism are reconcilable if a fair
balance is struck between individual rights and group rights.
Raphael Cohen-Almagor contends that reasonable multiculturalism can
be achieved via mechanisms of deliberate democracy, compromise and,
when necessary, coercion. Placing necessary checks on groups that
discriminate against vulnerable third parties, the approach insists
on the protection of basic human rights as well as on exit rights
for individuals if and when they wish to leave their cultural
groups.
Terrorism, cyberbullying, child pornography, hate speech,
cybercrime: along with unprecedented advancements in productivity
and engagement, the Internet has ushered in a space for violent,
hateful, and antisocial behavior. How do we, as individuals and as
a society, protect against dangerous expressions online?
Confronting the Internet's Dark Side is the first book on social
responsibility on the Internet. It aims to strike a balance between
the free speech principle and the responsibilities of the
individual, corporation, state, and the international community.
This book brings a global perspective to the analysis of some of
the most troubling uses of the Internet. It urges net users, ISPs,
and liberal democracies to weigh freedom and security, finding the
golden mean between unlimited license and moral responsibility.
This judgment is necessary to uphold the very liberal democratic
values that gave rise to the Internet and that are threatened by an
unbridled use of technology.
This book analyses French cultural policies in the face of what the
French government perceives as a challenge to its Republican
secular raison d'etre. It makes general arguments about France's
changing identity and specific arguments about the burqa and niqab
ban. The book further explains how French history shaped the
ideology of secularism and of public civil religion, and how
colonial legacy, immigration, fear of terrorism, and security needs
have led France to adopt the trinity of indivisibilite, securite,
laicite while paying homage to the traditional trinity of liberte,
egalite, fraternite. The book argues that while this motto of the
French Revolution is still symbolically and politically important,
its practical significance as it has been translated to policy
implementation has been eroded. It shows how the emergence of the
new trinity at the expense of the old one is evident when analyzing
the debates concerning cultural policies in France in the face of
the Islamic garb, the burqa, and the niqab, which are perceived as
a challenge to France's national secular raison d'etre.
Subsequently, the book raises various important questions, such as:
Is the burqa and niqab ban socially just? Does it reasonably
balance the preservation of societal values and freedom of
conscience? What are the true motives behind the ban? Has the
discourse changed in the age of COVID-19, when all people are
required to wear a mask in the public space? Therefore, this book
is a must-read for students, scholars, and researchers of political
science, as well as a general audience interested in a better
understanding of French politics, elections, cultural policy,
secularism, and identity.
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Banipal - Short Stories (Paperback)
Samuel Shimon; Shekha Helawy, Muhammad Khudayyir, Bothayna Al-Essa; Translated by Raphael Cohen, …
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The 100 Best Arabic Novels (Paperback)
Balkis Sharara, Hayat Sharara, Ahmed Morsi; Edited by Samuel Shimon; Series edited by Samuel Shimon; Translated by …
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The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG98-B940Cataloged from cover. "Reprinted from the
Philosophical Review, Vol. XXV, No. 6, November, 1916."--Cover.
U.S.: s.n., 1916]. p. 761-777; 24 cm
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