Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. It takes Palestine as the key ground of spatial exploration, looking at the spaces between people, boundary lines, documents and maps in a search for the meaning of architecture of resistance. Stemming from the need for an alternative discourse that can nourish the Palestinian spaces of imagination, the author reinterprets the land from a new perspective, by stripping it of the dominant power of lines to expose the hidden dynamic topography born out of everyday Palestine. It applies a hybrid approach of research through design and visual documentary, through text, illustrations, mapping techniques and collages, to capture the absent local narrative as an essential component of spatial investigation.
*A BookMovement Group Read***A People Pick for Best New Books** Yara Zgheib's poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman's struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists' list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound. Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears - imperfection, failure, loneliness - she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day. Every bite causes anxiety. Every flavor induces guilt. And every step Anna takes toward recovery will require strength, endurance, and the support of the girls at 17 Swann Street.
*A BookMovement Group Read* Yara Zgheib's poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman's struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists' list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound. Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears - imperfection, failure, loneliness - she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day. Every bite causes anxiety. Every flavor induces guilt. And every step Anna takes toward recovery will require strength, endurance, and the support of the girls at 17 Swann Street.
Yara Zgheib's poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman's struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists' list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound.Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears - imperfection, failure, loneliness - she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day.Every bite causes anxiety. Every flavor induces guilt. And every step Anna takes toward recovery will require strength, endurance, and the support of the girls at 17 Swann Street.
Eclipse and a Torchlight is a selection of poems taken from over a decade of writing. The poems are arranged into twelve parts according to theme. Each part tells an independent story, and together they are strung as chapters to form a poetic novel. The story, narrated from various angles, is both of and by a multifaceted individual. Her journey is one which delves into a rich inner world of landscapes and characters, as she struggles with the outer world in its eclipse and turns to her own self to create the necessary light.
This book includes a precise pragmatic analysis of Bin Ali, Mubarak and Qaddafi's speeches during the Arab Spring revolutions which launched at the end of 2010 and reached its peak in 2011. The book concentrates on four pragmatic tools, namely, speech acts, politeness phenomenon, impoliteness phenomenon and personal pronouns (deixis). The use of each president of such pragmatic tools is clearly shown in this book through tables and charts to help illustrate their different range of usage. The book also includes a rich analysis that shows a comparison between the three presidents.
Armed conflict poses a huge threat to public health but perhaps not in the way you would think. It's time to reconsider our entire approach to human security.Thanks to our increasingly connected world, we can now witness the worst manifestations of war in ways we never could before. This makes it easier than ever to recognize dangerous conflicts as a threat to health and well-being—at least for those populations living in war zones. In How War Kills, Yara M. Asi exposes the devastating repercussions of war that extend far beyond the battlefield.By tracing the trajectory of violence throughout history, with a focus on contemporary conflicts, Asi argues that war has been overlooked from a public health perspective. From the breakdown of sanitation and other vital infrastructure to the scarcity of essential resources, war creates a perilous environment ripe for disease outbreaks and widespread suffering far beyond the reach of bullets and bombs. She also challenges the reactive nature of current humanitarian responses and calls for more proactive measures to prevent the catastrophic consequences of war and militarism. Drawing on data and stories from around the world, Asi breaks down the complex mechanics of war and how they impact human security. War is not an inevitable part of the human condition but is rather a global health crisis in dire need of intervention. Aimed at anyone seeking to understand why increased national security spending has left us feeling more insecure than ever, this book provides an eye-opening perspective on the "war machine" and makes an urgent call to dismantle it for everyone's sake.
Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. It takes Palestine as the key ground of spatial exploration, looking at the spaces between people, boundary lines, documents and maps in a search for the meaning of architecture of resistance. Stemming from the need for an alternative discourse that can nourish the Palestinian spaces of imagination, the author reinterprets the land from a new perspective, by stripping it of the dominant power of lines to expose the hidden dynamic topography born out of everyday Palestine. It applies a hybrid approach of research through design and visual documentary, through text, illustrations, mapping techniques and collages, to capture the absent local narrative as an essential component of spatial investigation.
It is the story of Eryn of Thera, an ancient vampire King who becomes immortal by ritual of blood performed millennia ago. His twin brother, Prince Erymach, destroys the temple of their powers. The King's master orders him to restore it by performing thirteen sacrifices where the victims must first build their temple, and then be sacrificed under the eclipse of the full moon. Those sacrificed are known as the Builders. They are believed to bestow their kind powers to rule humanity and even bring a soul back from the underworld in the body of the last victim. Throughout the centuries the King has accomplished twelve sacrifices. His victims have mysteriously disappeared, but in the present time he has only one more to choose. He hires Richard Fox, a young and ambitious architect from Los Angeles offering him all the riches money can buy. Richard forsakes his best friend and business partner to accept a higher position with all the perks; unbeknownst to him, he has signed the darkest contract of his life.
A bold and innovative novel, I Am Ariel Sharon dives into the tortured mind of the controversial Israeli prime minister as he lies comatose and faces an ultimate reckoning.Award-winning Palestinian Canadian novelist Yara El-Ghadban imagines the confrontation at death’s door between Ariel Sharon, the “King of Israel,” and the women closest to him — his mother, his wives, and the mysterious nurse Rita. Like latter-day Greek furies, they lament the brutality of his life and maltreatment of the Palestinian people and demand he face up to his part in the bloodshed of Israel’s wars.Here is an extraordinary, magical, and impassioned story of nearly impossible empathy, the singular work of a novelist in full flight.
Fame comes with a price.Nobody knows this as well as Annabelle, daughter of the famous Hollywood power couple, Richard and Marianne Righetti. Anna's parents are on the verge of separating. For her own good, they send her to a remote small town where no one knows who she is.With colorful sisters as roommates, the most gorgeous guy in school trying to win her heart, and a head cheerleader dead-set on ruining her, Blue Hills proves to be Anna's biggest challenge yet.
Yara Gonz lez Montes, Profesora Em rita de la Universidad de Hawai donde ense desde 1965 hasta 1997, desempe ando la c tedra de literatura del Siglo de Oro y Poes a Espa ola Contempor nea, se doctor en Filosof a y Letras en la Universidad de La Habana, y m s tarde obtuvo un American Ph.D de la Universidad de Pittsburgh. Este volumen de ensayos deja constancia de su preocupaci n por las letras cubanas, y en particular por la divulgaci n de la obra de aquellos autores que han producido su obra fuera del espacio insular. A lo largo de su carrera, ha publicado extensamente en numerosas revistas acad micas y particip en un buen n mero de conferencias internacionales reunidos en este libro a partir de "Pl cido", Lezama Lima, Agust n Acosta, Gast n Baquero, Eugenio Florit, seguidos de estudios monogr ficos sobre Ana Rosa N ez, Rita Geada, Magaly Alabau, Heberto Padilla, Orlando Rossardi, Jes s Barquet, Jorge Valls, Jos Corrales, Guillermo Hern ndez, Jorge Rodr guez Florido, Hilda Perera, Rosario Rexach, Zoe Vald s, Mat as Montes Huidobro, Chac n y Calvo, Jos Olivio Jim nez, Ra l de C rdenas, Pedro Monge Rafuls, e interpretaciones panor micas donde ubica y discute aspectos de la obra de Marcedes Garc a Tudur , Amelia del Castillo, Uva de Arag n, Gladys Zald var, Mireya Robles, Juana Rosa Pita, Pura del Prado, Maya Islas, Martha Padilla, Lillian Moro, Zoila Toledo, Teresa Mar a Rojas, Belkis Cuza Mal , Maricel Mayor Mars n, ngel Cuadra, Mauricio Fern ndez, Jos Kozer, P o Serrano, Roberto Cazorla, Pablo LeRiverend, Orlando Gonz lez Esteva, Luis Gonz lez-Cruz, Luis Mario, Lucas Lamadrid, Gustavo P rez-Firmat, Reinaldo Garc a Ramos, Octavio Armand, Rafael Catal , Orlando Gonz lez-Esteva, Ricardo Pau Llosa. Se trata, en s ntesis, de una fuente de consulta ineludible para cualquier acercamiento a las letras cubanas, que deja constancia de su dedicaci n a la tarea investigativa y cr tica.
"Deep down, I knew it wasn't Leo I was afraid of. He was pretty amazing, and it made sense, in a weird way, that he would be special like that. So then what was I doing out here alone, in the middle of the night? Why did I freak out so much when I saw what he could do?"Ever since she was abandoned by her parents when she was just a few weeks old, Cody has never known the meaning of family. Or friendship, for that matter.This year, however, something's changed. This year, she met Leo. They have too much in common for their meeting to have been anything but the work of fate; their personalities, their past and even their birthdays are the same.But Leo carries a heavy secret that may bring on dangers neither of them knew existed and which puts them in the center of a war that has been churning for years.
Yara Gonz lez Montes, Profesora Em rita de la Universidad de Hawai donde ense desde 1965 hasta 1997, desempe ando la c tedra de literatura del Siglo de Oro y Poes a Espa ola Contempor nea, se doctor en Filosof a y Letras en la Universidad de La Habana, y m s tarde obtuvo un American Ph.D de la Universidad de Pittsburgh. Este volumen de ensayos deja constancia de su preocupaci n por las letras cubanas, y en particular por la divulgaci n de la obra de aquellos autores que han producido su obra fuera del espacio insular. A lo largo de su carrera, ha publicado extensamente en numerosas revistas acad micas y particip en un buen n mero de conferencias internacionales reunidos en este libro a partir de "Pl cido", Lezama Lima, Agust n Acosta, Gast n Baquero, Eugenio Florit, seguidos de estudios monogr ficos sobre Ana Rosa N ez, Rita Geada, Magaly Alabau, Heberto Padilla, Orlando Rossardi, Jes s Barquet, Jorge Valls, Jos Corrales, Guillermo Hern ndez, Jorge Rodr guez Florido, Hilda Perera, Rosario Rexach, Zoe Vald s, Mat as Montes Huidobro, Chac n y Calvo, Jos Olivio Jim nez, Ra l de C rdenas, Pedro Monge Rafuls, e interpretaciones panor micas donde ubica y discute aspectos de la obra de Marcedes Garc a Tudur , Amelia del Castillo, Uva de Arag n, Gladys Zald var, Mireya Robles, Juana Rosa Pita, Pura del Prado, Maya Islas, Martha Padilla, Lillian Moro, Zoila Toledo, Teresa Mar a Rojas, Belkis Cuza Mal , Maricel Mayor Mars n, ngel Cuadra, Mauricio Fern ndez, Jos Kozer, P o Serrano, Roberto Cazorla, Pablo LeRiverend, Orlando Gonz lez Esteva, Luis Gonz lez-Cruz, Luis Mario, Lucas Lamadrid, Gustavo P rez-Firmat, Reinaldo Garc a Ramos, Octavio Armand, Rafael Catal , Orlando Gonz lez-Esteva, Ricardo Pau Llosa. Se trata, en s ntesis, de una fuente de consulta ineludible para cualquier acercamiento a las letras cubanas, que deja constancia de su dedicaci n a la tarea investigativa y cr tica.
