Cool For Qat

Author : Peter Mortimer
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780574428
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cool for Qat written by Peter Mortimer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When author Peter Mortimer was commissioned to write a play about a little-known riot between Yemeni and British seamen at Mill Dam, South Shields, in 1930, he decided to take the long trip to Yemen itself in search of inspiration. Undeterred by post-11 September government warnings against visiting this 'highly dangerous' area, Mortimer set off and found an extraordinary and surprisingly Anglophile country. Cool for Qat documents this remarkable journey, during which Mortimer pieces together how the riots of 1930 arose and considers their relevance to Western attitudes towards Muslims today. He meets many remarkable characters along the way and immerses himself in the national custom of chewing the narcotic qat leaf. After visiting the ex-British Protectorate of Aden - through which many of the seamen passed en route to Britain - Mortimer travels on to San'a and then Tai'iz. It is while visiting the isolated mountain villages surrounding this city that Mortimer finally meets men who worked in South Shields some 50 years ago. Carrying a battered book with images of Yemenis living in the North-east in the '30s from home to home, trying to jog distant memories, he realises his visit has taken on a new purpose - bringing a small part of the country's history back to where it belongs. Back in the UK, Mortimer's investigations into the 1930 riot reveal a society with many striking similarities to current times. Then, as now, Muslim immigrants were treated as scapegoats for all manner of ills, tabloid newspapers drummed up prejudice and hatred, and the powers that be often used fear and racial mistrust to disguise their own economic failings. Cool for Qat questions just how 'civilised' the Western world - and Britain in particular - is in comparison to Yemen. It is a touching, thought-provoking and at times humorous document of one man's travels through a country about which little is known in the West.

Author : Richard F. Nyrop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yemens written by Richard F. Nyrop and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General study of Yemen - historical and geographical aspects, religious practice (Islam), demographic aspects and social structure, politics, political system, economy, international relations, defence and the administration of justice. Bibliography, diagrams, maps, photographs, statistical tables.

Author : Victoria Clark
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300167342
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yemen written by Victoria Clark and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another -- links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth -- then sinks into obscurity again. But, as Victoria Clark argues in this riveting book, we ignore Yemen at our peril. The poorest state in the Arab world, it is still dominated by its tribal makeup and has become a perfect breeding ground for insurgent and terrorist movements. Clark returns to the country where she was born to discover a perilously fragile state that deserves more of our understanding and attention. On a series of visits to Yemen between 2004 and 2009, she meets politicians, influential tribesmen, oil workers and jihadists as well as ordinary Yemenis. Untangling Yemen's history before examining the country's role in both al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement today, Clark presents a lively, clear, and up-to-date account of a little-known state whose chronic instability is increasingly engaging the general reader"--Publisher description.

Author : Abbott Katz
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 143022956X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 written by Abbott Katz and published by Apress. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 is a practical, step-by-step guide to getting started with the world’s most widely-used spreadsheet application. The book offers a hands-on approach to learning how to create and edit spreadsheets, use various calculation formulas, employ charts/graphs, and get work done efficiently. Microsoft rolled out several new features with Excel 2010—perhaps the most notable was the ability to use Excel 2010 online and collaborate on a project in real time. Beginning Microsoft Office 2010 keeps you up-to-date with all of these features and more.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004232079
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herbal Medicine in Yemen written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional medical lore along with its practitioners – druggists and healers – survives in Yemen today. Owing to the country's rich biodiversity, the main body of the medicines is plant-based. This book features fourteen scholars from Europe, North America and the Middle East (three of them from Yemen) who represent both humanities and natural sciences. They address the topic of herbal medicines and their multifaceted applications within traditional Yemeni society across boundaries of disciplines, such as Islamic studies, history, social anthropology, pharmacy and agriculture. The approaches are based on textual analysis, empirical research and laboratory experiment. Both historical and contemporary issues are covered. Contributors include: Mohammed Al-Duais, Jacques Fleurentin, Amin Al-Hakimi, Ingrid Hehmeyer, Gottfried Jetschke, Efraim Lev, Ulrike Lindequist, Miranda Morris, Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Frédéric Pelat, Mikhail Rodionov, Petra Schmidl, Daniel Martin Varisco and Anhar Ya’ni.

Author : Dr. Getu Tadesse Mindaye
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664112049
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Genital Mutilations written by Dr. Getu Tadesse Mindaye and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female Genital Mutilation ( FGM) is a procedure that involves partial or total removal of Female External Genitalia. It is considered a violation of women’s sexual rights and currently is happening mostly in East, West and North Africa, as well as the Middle East. "The story of Kedra, who is a victim of the most dangerous kind of FGM which is called "infibulation", will tell us what is happening to a million little girls in those countries. This book will show in great detail the short and long term effects of FGM and life as it is down the road for the millions in countries where this procedure is being performed.

Author : Loukia K. Sarroub
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812290232
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All American Yemeni Girls written by Loukia K. Sarroub and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than two years of fieldwork conducted in a Yemeni community in southeastern Michigan, this unique study examines Yemeni American girls' attempts to construct and make sense of their identities as Yemenis, Muslims, Americans, daughters of immigrants, teenagers, and high school students. All American Yemeni Girls contributes substantially to our understanding of the impact of religion on students attending public schools and the intersecting roles school and religion play in the lives of Yemeni students and their families. Providing a valuable background on the history of Yemen and the migration of Yemeni people to the United States, this is an eye-opening account of a group of people we hear about every day but about whom we know very little. Through a series of intensive interviews and field observations, Loukia K. Sarroub discovered that the young Muslim women shared moments of optimism and desperation and struggled to reconcile the America they experienced at school with the Yemeni lives they knew at home. Most significant, Sarroub found that they often perceived themselves as failing at being both American and Yemeni. Offering a distinctive analysis of the ways ethnicity, culture, gender, and socioeconomic status complicate lives, Sarroub examines how these students view their roles within American and Yemeni societies, between institutions such as the school and the family, between ethnic and Islamic visions of success in the United States. Sarroub argues that public schools serve as a site of liberation and reservoir of contested hope for students and teachers questioning competing religious and cultural pressures. The final chapter offers a rich and important discussion of how conditions in the United States encourage the rise of extremism and allow it to flourish, raising pressing questions about the role of public education in the post-September 11 world. All American Yemeni Girls offers a fine-grained and compelling portrait of these young Muslim women and their endeavors to succeed in American society, and it brings us closer to understanding an oft-cited but little researched population.

Author : Anne Meneley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487512988
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tournaments of Value written by Anne Meneley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world. Meneley’s data challenges assumptions about the cross-cultural validity of a division between household and community, between domestic and public domains. She demonstrates the fluidity of social life, the shifting nature of community organization, and in doing so provides a welcome counterpoint to more rigid formulations of Middle Eastern social structure usually expressed in ethnographies. Tournaments of Value incorporates vignettes to illustrate more analytical points and to enliven the text, allowing the reader to enter fully into the rich world of Zabid in Yemen. This expanded 20th anniversary edition introduces this seminal work on Middle Eastern ethnography and women’s studies to a new generation of readers.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Area Handbook Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bill Jelen
Publisher : Tickling Keys, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615473556
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Excel 2016 with MrExcel written by Bill Jelen and published by Tickling Keys, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updating the previous edition's tips to include features in Excel 2016, this new edition of MrExcel's popular software guide even incorporates suggestions sent in by readers. Each featured topic has a problem statement and description, followed by a broad strategy for solving the problem. MrExcel then walks readers through the specific steps to solve the issue. Alternate strategies are also provided, along with common scenarios that trip users up, leaving readers with not only answers to their specific dilemmas but also new and quicker ways to use formulas and spreadsheets.