Khedive Ismail's Army examines military failure in the age of imperialism. On paper, the mid-nineteenth century Egyptian army seems a formidable regional power. It had a tradition of success, modern weapons, and mercenary officers with experience in major wars. Egypt's ruler, Khedive Ismail, hoped to combine the imported technology and brains with native manpower, and establish an Egyptian dominated Horn of Africa. His soldiers did conquer parts of the Sudan, but they suffered disastrous defeats during the Egyptian Abyssinian War of 1875 to 1876.Presenting the first detailed examination of the Egyptian Abyssinian War in English, this new book also looks at the root problems that made Ismail's soldiers ineffective. These include issues of class, racism, internal, and external politics, finance, and the rapidly changing world of mid-Nineteenth Century military technology. This book is aimed at military historians, and will be of interest to those studying the Middle East or North East Africa.
Khedive Ismail's Army examines military failure in the age of imperialism. On paper, the mid-nineteenth century Egyptian army seems a formidable regional power. It had a tradition of success, modern weapons, and mercenary officers with experience in major wars. Egypt's ruler, Khedive Ismail, hoped to combine the imported technology and brains with native manpower, and establish an Egyptian dominated Horn of Africa. His soldiers did conquer parts of the Sudan, but they suffered disastrous defeats during the Egyptian Abyssinian War of 1875 to 1876.Presenting the first detailed examination of the Egyptian Abyssinian War in English, this new book also looks at the root problems that made Ismail's soldiers ineffective. These include issues of class, racism, internal, and external politics, finance, and the rapidly changing world of mid-Nineteenth Century military technology. This book is aimed at military historians, and will be of interest to those studying the Middle East or North East Africa.
A charming activity book, bursting with joyful animals and colorful backgrounds, that introduces children to the Prophet Ismail, and the Zamzam well. Full of activities including crosswords, puzzles, mazes and colouring, this book is a wonderful way to teach children about the Prophet Ismail and the life-saving Zamzam spring that appeared in the desert.
These pages challenge a historical heresy. They refuse to join in the chorus led by Milner, Colvin, and Cromer, and to agree that Ismail Pasha, the first Khedive of Egypt, was a spendthrift, a voluptuary, and a thief. Not even great names can stand up against facts and figures culled from official sources.
These pages challenge a historical heresy. They refuse to join in the chorus led by Milner, Colvin, and Cromer, and to agree that Ismail Pasha, the first Khedive of Egypt, was a spendthrift, a voluptuary, and a thief. Not even great names can stand up against facts and figures culled from official sources.
In this collection of poetry Afeif Ismail offers us a bird's-eye view of the refugee experience, while helping us reflect upon how humanity could experience the world's-eye presence of birds. The metaphorical image of orphaned birds, learning to fly anew in unfamiliar territory, resonates throughout these poems in many ways. It is applied directly to the challenges faced by refugees in a new homeland, as well as more broadly to illuminate the challenges facing humanity in transcending militarism and the destruction of nature. It is the gift of birds to combine both a strong connection to place and a sense of direction reaching far away over the horizon of what can be seen. Such a dynamic combination of local connection and global direction is what humanity needs to realise its full potential as custodian of the biosphere, by developing what the Russian scientist, Vladimir Vernadsky, called a "planetary perspective". This global perspective is strongly present in these poems. Even when the subject of a poem seems to be a specific image, such as a hunted bird in the poem "A Tooth for a Tooth", there is always a broader perspective speaking the same lines. Afeif Ismail was forced to leave his homeland of Sudan as a political refugee who stood up for human rights and freedom. He endured torture at the hands of the military dictatorship because of his role as a photographer who documented human rights abuses, and as a poet. While imprisoned, his mind was bursting with poems, which he wrote secretly on scraps of soap paper. Eventually, after protests from human rights activists within Sudan and abroad, his close relatives were allowed to visit him. As his mother left the visit with the precious scraps, Afeif says he "felt that now my poems were free like birds, prison had not been able to contain or isolate me". Many of those poems were published in his book Bet of the Argil. The new poems in this collection were composed in Perth, where Afeif and his family have lived for seven years. The most recent poem, "Wings", is typically multi-vocal, containing more than one image or voice. Its subject could be read variously as a caged bird, or as a political prisoner or detainee, or perhaps as humanity itself, trapped within its own cage. The moment of liberation is the same, when the subject flees the cage that separated it from other birds, other people, or nature. Liberation from a cage of isolation also features in a long, kaleidoscopic poem about a soulless meeting place in the centre of Perth, which is brought to life by a blind pianist who connects members of his audience with their souls. Connecting planetary perspectives across cultures and deepening our understanding of humanity's potential are central themes of Afeif Ismail's creative work. His poems challenge us to imagine and create a just and humane world, in which we can soar like birds far above the parochialism and prejudice towards others that still now remains prevalent. His voice speaks powerfully to us as a global citizen, exploring how we should feel as part of humanity and act as part of nature, while encouraging us to bridge cultural divides through mutual understanding, and helping us to expand our horizons through a journey of imagination. Dr. Roderic Pitty The University of Western Australia
Moulay Ismail et Jacques II: une apologie de l'Islam par un sultan du Maroc / Cte Henry de CastriesDate de l'edition originale: 1903Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
Läsglädje är en serie med enkla lättlästa böcker för vuxna som just lärt sig att läsa och förstå lite svenska. Vi får följa med några personer på olika vardagliga aktiviteter och lära oss relevanta glosor och användbara fraser. Texterna är kopplade till foton som speglar och konkretiserar vardagshändelser där läsaren kan känna igen sig. Fotona och texterna ska inbjuda till samtal kring händelserna i böckerna. Längst bak i böckerna finns en ordlista och dialoger. Det finns även en ruta med pedagogiska tips till läraren.Läsglädje Ismail går till tandläkaren är en bildsatt läsebok för vuxna ovana läsare. Vi får följa med Ismail på ett tandläkarbesök. Hela berättelsen är konkret och har tydliga bilder så att man enkelt kan följa med i handlingen utan att förstå alla ord i texten.Läsglädje i korthet:Lättläst material för vuxna Ger eleverna meningsfullt innehåll i lästräningen Lyfter ordkunskap, dialoger och kortfattad grammatik i ett reellt sammanhang
The diverse portfolio of the practice led by Diego Comamala and Toufiq Ismail-Meyer, which was founded in 2013 and is based in Delémont and Biel, ranges from private to public buildings. Their architecture exists in the field of tension between abstraction and construction. For instance the sports hall in Vernayaz (2019) stages light as a spatially formative element, while the new school building in Thun (2025) sounds out the spatial potential of appropriately designed wooden constructions. Text in English and German.
Paketet Tema Flykt samlar fyra nyskrivna noveller av Agri Ismaïl, Balsam Karam, Alexandra Pascalidou och Malou von Sivers. Utgångspunkten för berättelserna är hösten 2015, då över 150 000 människor sökte skydd i Sverige på flykt från krig och förföljelse. Bakom varje siffra finns en människa och en berättelse, ett liv som vändes upp och ner av krig, förlust och hopp. Novellerna ger liv åt dessa berättelser som så ofta reduceras till statistik och rubriker. Här möter eleverna skildringar av alla delar av flykten; förväntan inför ett bättre liv, den skoningslösa resan över Medelhavet, sorgen i att lämna allt man känner bakom sig och att börja om i ett nytt land. Eller att inte nå fram alls. Fyra noveller med fyra röster som alla bär på den viktiga påminnelsen – ingen hör hemma på flykt. I paketet ingår 4 x 8 exemplar av varje titel – totalt 32 böcker – vilket gör det enkelt att läsa och arbeta med texterna tillsammans i klassen. Texterna passar för elever i högstadiet och gymnasiet, och öppnar för samtal om teman som rättvisa, identitet och människors olika förutsättningar. Novellens korta format har en särskild styrka i skolan: den är kort nog för att sänka tröskeln till läsning, men tillräckligt koncentrerad för att skapa goda förutsättningar för analys, engagerande diskussioner och reflektion. Till skolpaketet finns även en kostnadsfri lärarhandledning att ladda ner från vår hemsida - ett stöd för dig som vill fördjupa undervisningen och arbeta vidare med novellerna i klassrummet. Genom samarbetet med Sverige för UNHCR går 400 kr per sålt paket oavkortat till organisationens arbete för människor på flykt. Paketet innehåller: 8 ex av 4,5 x 3,5 cm av Agri Ismaïl 8 ex av I Sverige finns inga granatäpplen av Balsam Karam 8 ex av En moders odyssé av Alexandra Pascalidou 8 ex av En annan pojke av Malou von Sivers
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