epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Jennifer Steil [Steil, Jennifer]

AT THE END OF NOVEMBER, two men from the South African embassy visit me. These men actually made an appointment, only I have completely forgotten. When they arrive, I am ...

epub |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:B.K. Wright [Wright, B.K.]

“Braden, is it okay if I come back?” Dumbfounded by the question and the unbelievable sadness with which it was asked, Braden could barely speak. “Tanner, I have been so ...

epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthony Shadid [Shadid, Anthony]

A few days after my visit to the basement workshop, I joined Dr. Khairalla in his kitchen. He had offered to teach me how to make awarma, cooked mutton mixed ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-19 | Author:Sophia Al-Maria [Al-Maria, Sophia]

14 UPSILON SCORPII • THE STING • Everything was changing, and I couldn’t do anything to stop it. The house was hectic with preparations for Uncle Faraj’s imminent wedding in ...

epub |eng | 1946-05-29 | Author:Agatha Christie Mallowan [Mallowan, Agatha Christie]

Another furious dissension breaks out over the day of rest. The day after pay-day is always a holiday. The Mohammedans claim that since there are more Mohammedans than Christians on ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-20 | Author:Andrew Burke

* * * WHO’S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR? As you wander around the narrow streets of Kashan look carefully at the doors. Most have two knockers: one round and ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Geraldine Brooks

Later that year the king’s democratic initiative bore fruit in an election that left Islamic hard-liners dominating the Parliament. Just before the election, a delegation of liberal-minded Jordanians had come ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Matt Taibbi

1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars… 5 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:Anthony Ham

* * * GIVING AMMAN A FACELIFT Amman is on the rise, with several high-profile construction projects set to change the face of the city. Here are two initiatives that ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Albert Hourani

PART IV THE AGE OF EUROPEAN EMPIRES (1800–1939) The nineteenth century was the age when Europe dominated the world. The growth of large-scale factory production and the changes in methods ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1988-06-21 | Author:Witness Lee

Chapter Eleven THE INWARD KNOWLEDGE We shall now see the eleventh main point concerning life, which is the inward knowledge, or the knowing of God by the inward law of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Amitav Ghosh

14 WITH THE COMING of winter the rains began and soon the lanes of Nashawy were knee-deep in cold, sticky mud and nobody ventured out of their houses if they ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Dave Eggers

He set out alone for a while and before long, at the corner of Canal and Scott, he encountered a small boat. It was a military craft, with three men ...

mobi |eng | 1995-07-15 | Author:Leroy Aarons

I’m becoming incredibly vain. I love it when people compliment me, and it happens a lot. I love love love it. Is that wrong? I deserve it. I work hard ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Deborah Rodriguez & Kristin Ohlson [Rodriguez, Deborah & Ohlson, Kristin]

AFTER I LIT MY CIGARETTE, I waved the match around in the air to put it out, but it continued to flame. So I touched it to a bead of ...