mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-10 | Author:Barghouti, Mourid [Barghouti, Mourid]

I contemplated the guesthouse on whose platform I stood. This is my first place. The faces of its men and their voices come back to me. Or is it my ...

epub |eng | | Author:Darwish, Mahmoud.,Muhawi, Ibrahim.

Happiness – When It Betrays I They taught you to be wary of happiness because it hurts when it betrays. But from where did it come all of a sudden? ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-25 | Author:Steve Coll

26. AMERICA IN MOTION THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION of 1979 cast thousands of privileged Persians into exile. Many gathered in Los Angeles, where they poured their agitations into business. First-and second-generation ...

mobi |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Joris Luyendijk

Before I became a correspondent, I saw a journalist as a kind of a fly on the wall, an invisible microphone recording events, like the football commentators who sit somewhere ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Kara Cooney [Cooney, Kara]

She continues with a section on how temple building is akin to marking herself as the chosen one. The temple of the mistress of Qusae, which had (completely) fallen into ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Peter Stothard [Stothard, Peter]

Maurice did not enjoy his Nubian night. When I returned from the King’s Arms, I found the would-be seducer sitting on our two-seat settee almost exactly where I had left ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Caroline Stoessinger [Stoessinger, Caroline]

TEN Snapshots Alice lives amid her few remaining photographs and mementos. Her one-room flat, humble in its timeworn simplicity, is a kind of cocoon carrying her memories forward day by ...

azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Toumani, Meline [Toumani, Meline]

13 How to Be a Turk My friend Ramazan took out a pen and grabbed a napkin. He scrawled a map of Turkey on it, drew a large X at ...

mobi |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Alexander Aaronsohn

Railroad Station Scene Between Haifa and Damascus/Camels Bringing in Newly Cut Trees, Damascus We felt sure that the Turkish defeat would put a damper on the arrogance of the soldiery. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jean Sasson

Love Affair When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. —KAHLIL GIBRAN Amani and her sister, Maha, woke me from a pleasant afternoon nap. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jean Sasson

Chapter Ten Stolen Angels Our plane soon landed at the La Guardia Airport in New York. Thankfully, we passed through customs and immigration quickly since one of the Saudi officials ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jean Sasson

Chapter Twelve: On the occasion of my wedding, the preparation room was filled with gaiety. I was surrounded by women of my family; no one person could be heard, for ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-04 | Author:Annia Ciezadlo

A few days later Mohamad appeared at the door of our bedroom. I was sitting at the desk, finishing an article about the evils of Lebanon’s sectarian political system. “My ...

epub |eng | 2003-10-30 | Author:Avi Shlaim

16 The October War All diplomatic activity to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict was suspended in the second half of 1972. Israel had no real interest in negotiating with any of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Kahlili, Reza [Kahlili, Reza]

17 THE TORCH IS PASSED INSIDE MEHRABAD AIRPORT’S terminal, echoing voices competed with loudspeaker flight arrival and departure announcements. Somaya and Omid were waiting at the gate outside customs. I ...