The Age Of Orphans

Author : Laleh Khadivi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608191583
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Orphans written by Laleh Khadivi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told with an evocative richness of language that recalls Michael Ondaatje or Anita Desai, the story of Reza Khourdi is that of the 20th century everyman, cast out from the clan in the name of nation, progress and modernity who cannot help but leave behind a shadow that yearns for the impossible dreams of love, land and home. Before following his father into battle, he had been like any other Kurdish boy: in love with his Maman, fascinated by birds and the rugged Zagros mountains, dutiful to his stern and powerful Baba. But after he becomes orphaned in a massacre by the armies of Iran's new Shah, Reza Pahlavi I.; he is taken in by the very army that has killed his parents, re-named Reza Khourdi, and indoctrinated into the modern, seductive ways of the newly minted nation, careful to hide his Kurdish origins with every step. The Age of Orphans follows Reza on his meteoric rise in ranks, his marriage to a proud Tehrani woman and his eventual deployment, as Capitan, back to the Zagros Mountains and the ever-defiant Kurds. Here Reza is responsible for policing, and sometimes killing, his own people, and it is here that his carefully crafted persona begins to fissure and crack.

Author : Laleh Khadivi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781408802533
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Orphans written by Laleh Khadivi and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kurdistan, Persia. A village high in the Zagros mountains. A small green-eyed boy wrestles free from his mother and climbs atop a straw and mud hut to gaze at the dusty landscape; the jagged mountains and azure sky, the cattle in the distance. With his arms stretched out beside him he pretends to be a bird, to lift up and soar over this land- the land of his fathers and forefathers. Kurdish land. Soon after he is ritually initiated into manhood, messengers from the hills bring whispers of war; rumours that the Shah's army is moving from village to village, stamping out any tribal rebellion that may stand in the way of the creation of a unified 'Iran'. Just nine years old, the boy must stand alongside his men and fight for their land. Years later, Reza Pahlavi Khourdi can only faintly recall the brutal murder of his father and cousins. Orphaned on the bloody battlefield, conscripted into the great column of the army and given a new name, he has quickly risen up the ranks, proving both his prowess in battle and allegiance to the Shah's troops. Now in Tehran, Reza is about to marry to a beautiful, educated, city girl, and become a Capitian. But there are stirrings within his heart. He will soon be sent west to be the Shah's servant in Kermanshah, the land of his birth, and a figurehead of modernization. At once rich and bleak, The Age of Orphans unleashes a tapestry of untold horrors and pleasures, of blood and smoke, hopes, dreams and desires. It is a profound and darkly poetic story of a land roughly sewn together under the ambitious imagining of a nation, and of the life of a boy, whose identity does not, can not, unite with this vision.

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Publisher : UNICEF
ISBN 13 : 9280640356
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa's Orphaned and Vulnerable Generations written by and published by UNICEF. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa's Orphaned and Vulnerable Generations: Children affected by AIDS shows how the AIDS epidemic continues to affect children disproportionately and in many harmful ways, making them more vulnerable than other children, leaving many of them orphaned, and threatening their survival. Released by UNICEF, UNAIDS and PEPFAR (The US President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief), the report contains new and improved research on orphans and vulnerable children, including what governments, NGOs, the private sector and the international community can do to better respond.

Author : Manasa Dzirikure
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004283285
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of Zimbabwean Orphans written by Manasa Dzirikure and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices of orphans and other vulnerable children and young people and of their carers and professional development workers are documented and analysed to both criticise the inadequacies of current social development work and to create a new, alternative theory and practice of project management in Zimbabwe and southern Africa. This is the first extensive and intensive empirical study of Zimbabwean orphans and other vulnerable children and young people. Chronically poor children and their carers can be corrupted or silenced by management systems which fail to recognise their basic human needs. Resilience in the face of such adversity is celebrated by the dominant project management ideology and practice but is a major barrier to achieve genuine sustainable improvements in the lives of vulnerable children. We propose a new person-centred project management approach aimed at delivering comprehensive services for orphans, which explicitly recognises the needs of orphans and other poor children to be fully socially, politically and economically included within their communities and which avoids the reinforcement of power based inequalities and their unacceptable consequences. The moral bankruptcy of much social development work in Zimbabwe and elsewhere in Southern Africa is described and we delineate an alternative project management policy and practice.

Author : Indiana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year Book of the State of Indiana ... written by Indiana and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Indiana State Board of Health
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report written by Indiana State Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports for 1957/58- are condensations of the unavailable official annual reports published as issues of the Board's Monthly bulletin.

Author : Indiana. Executive Dept. Division of Accounting and Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yearbook of the State of Indiana written by Indiana. Executive Dept. Division of Accounting and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes annual reports of the state officers, departments, bureaus, boards and commissions.

Author : Indiana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yearbook of the State of Indiana written by Indiana and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Indiana. Division of Accounting and Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1236 pages
Book Rating : 4.ZY/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year Book of the State of Indiana for the Year ... written by Indiana. Division of Accounting and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes annual reports of the state officers, departments, bureaus, boards, and commissions.

Author : Indiana. Executive Department. Division of Accounting and Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year Book of the State of Indiana written by Indiana. Executive Department. Division of Accounting and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes annual reports of the state officers, departments, bureaus, boards and commissions.