From Baghdad To Jerusalem

Author : Mordechai Yerushalmi
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847286666
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Baghdad to Jerusalem written by Mordechai Yerushalmi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Abu-Moch? Is he Kadouri Kudsi Zada, a hard-working Jewish businessman from Baghdad? Or is he a Muslim dervish named Nur El Din Khan? Find out when you read this spellbinding true-to-life tale of a shoemaker from Baghdad who, when forced to flee for his life, finds refuge in Iran as a Shi'ite Muslim. Readers of this gripping novel about the inimitable Abu-Moch will gain insight into the Muslim culture that features so prominently in the news. Watch as events move between Iraq and Iran and you will discover the complexity of life for Jews in Muslim countries. When relationships between Jews and Muslims deteriorate in Iraq, the hero and his family are forced to relocate to the newly created State of Israel. The difficulties they face are revealed in their desperate attempt to be absorbed into the Jewish State. As fast-paced as any thriller, this biographical novel offers a penetrating study of immigration. It should be required reading for anyone interested in Middle-Eastern culture!

Author : Nuha al-Radi
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400075254
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baghdad Diaries written by Nuha al-Radi and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this often moving, sometimes wry account of life in Baghdad during the first war on Iraq and in exile in the years following, Iraqi-born, British-educated artist Nuha al-Radi shows us the effects of war on ordinary people. She recounts the day-to-day realities of living in a city under siege, where food has to be consumed or thrown out because there is no way to preserve it, where eventually people cannot sleep until the nightly bombing commences, where packs of stray dogs roam the streets (and provide her own dog Salvi with a harem) and rats invade homes. Through it all, al-Radi works at her art and gathers with neighbors and family for meals and other occasions, happy and sad. In the wake of the war, al-Radi lives in semi-exile, shuttling between Beirut and Amman, travelling to New York, London, Mexico and Yemen. As she suffers the indignities of being an Iraqi in exile, al-Radi immerses us in a way of life constricted by the stress and effects of war and embargoes, giving texture to a reality we have only been able to imagine before now. But what emanates most vibrantly from these diaries is the spirit of endurance and the celebration of the smallest of life’s joys.

Author : Roy E. Skinner
Publisher : Radcliffe Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem to Baghdad, 1967-1992 written by Roy E. Skinner and published by Radcliffe Press. This book was released on 1995-12-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected letters by the former UN worker in the Middle East

Author : Violette Shamash
Publisher : Memories of Eden
ISBN 13 : 0955709504
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of Eden written by Violette Shamash and published by Memories of Eden. This book was released on 2008 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a privileged young woman growing up with her extended family in Baghdad, Violette Shamash relives the excitement of a vibrant society coming to terms with daily life, first under Ottoman, then British, and finally pro-Nazi rule, which ended in disaster for the Jews of Iraq.

Author : Albert Kudsizadeh
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525537393
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Baghdad To Kokomo written by Albert Kudsizadeh and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling account of growing up during the mid-twentieth century in the two oldest and once vibrant Jewish communities of Iraq and Iran--the first now obliterated, the second eroded. From Baghdad to Kokomo is part memoir, part history in which momentous events are interwoven with the author’s own family biography: Iraq’s transition from Ottoman and British rule to hopes for building a democratic nation-state; the emergence of extreme nationalism that ends centuries-old Arab-Jewish co-existence; the Farhoud pogrom in 1941; and the tumultuous exodus of an entire community. In Iran, too, the Shah’s modernization policies clash with nationalist and Islamist opposition forces leading to the Islamic Revolution and millions leave or flee the country to settle abroad. This book also shows the fortuitous circumstances how one pen pal correspondence brought the author from Tehran to the American midwestern city of Kokomo, Indiana, where he arrives penniless as a teenager and resumes his studies after a four year hiatus. "The Exodus from Iraq, the cradle of civilization, meant the destruction of Babylonian Jewry with its rich history of nearly 2,600 years. Lives were shattered and families scattered. Many of its time-honoured values and traditions --the glue that held it together and gave its unique identity--are now rapidly fading away under the pressure of Westernization...." Excerpt from the book.

Author : Michael Joseph Cohen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0714633127
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palestine to Israel written by Michael Joseph Cohen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles analyzes the underlying motivation, strategy and interests which lay behind "Great Power" (British and post-World War II American) involvement in Palestine and the Middle East, from 1917 to 1948.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : AndreElias Mazawi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135153629X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Yearbook of Education 2010 written by AndreElias Mazawi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Yearbook of Education 2010 volume, Education and the Arab 'World': Political Projects, Struggles, and Geometries of Power, strives to do justice to the complex processes and dynamics behind the world of Arab education. Western interest in all things Arab has greatly increased over the course of the decade, but this interest runs the risk of forgetting that the Arab world is positioned within wider contexts of regional, geopolitical, and global processes. This volume examines Arab education in a range of contexts regional, diasporic, and trans-national to better understand how the field of Arab education is formed through local, regional, geopolitical and global engagements and resonances. In doing so, contributors from a range of disciplines open critical conversations about the intersections of history, culture, geopolitics, policy, and education. The World Yearbook of Education 2010 offers new conceptual and empirical approaches that deal with some of the often-neglected aspects of the study of Arab education: contested political projects; struggles towards emancipation, recognition and liberation; and a larger concern for social justice, equity, and political inclusion. Andrlias Mazawi is associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is also an associate fellow at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research at the University of Malta.Ronald G. Sultana is professor in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Malta, where he also leads the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research. He is the founding editor of the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies.

Author : Alexandra Nocke
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047426711
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Israeli Identity (paperback) written by Alexandra Nocke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new perspectives on Israel’s evolving Mediterranean identity, which centers around the longing to find a "natural" place in the region. It explores Mediterraneanism as reflected in popular music, literature, architecture, and daily life, and analyzes ways in which the notion comprises cultural identity and polical realities.

Author : David Solomon Sassoon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Jews in Baghdad written by David Solomon Sassoon and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: