My Nights with the Shah

My Nights with the Shah
Author: Emerald Wilson-Bey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2014-11-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781503376052

This book chronicles the romantic bi-coastal affair between BRAVO reality star, and Nestseekers Beverly Hills Realty Agent, Mike Shouhed and a sexy Real Estate professional out of Maryland. Starting off pretty heavy, and going on for 6 months, and countless trips to Beverly Hills area, the two had the Cupid. So the young lady thought. With Mike Shouhed's reputation as a reformed player on the show, Shahs of Sunset. The bad boy had hardly been reformed. Unknown to the young lady he is actually in a relationship that he doesn't mention. Mike eventually gets ensnared in a web of lies. Somehow this information comes to a head and surfaces on the desk of BRAVO producers and members of Ryan Seacrest Entertainment, both contributors to the popular Shahs of Sunset franchise. This should be juicy in the eyes of a network that favors its daily dose of drama in the franchise, but not if your star is in an on-screen serious relationship. You will see actual correspondence between them and photos in this book. You will read how the whole thing unraveled, and what TV will do to circumstances and how a friendship was formed despite a lot of shade. Ranging from kissing and hugging, to death threats and fear. To understanding all the glitz and glam of Hollywood, all the historic places, all the sex, all the lies and all the scandal. In the beginning of the book it chronicles Emerald going on her many trips to BeverlyHills, CA area. By 2014 Emerald and McKenzie and other California agents she worksWith time to time had relocated 22 families in five years. McKenzie Howard is like a Mentor to Emerald. The two have a close relationship. She's constantly on Emerald to As she's a modern day Blanche Devereaux. Emerald in chance encounter meets MikeShouhed, who claimed to be single.. The two start a steamy affair that goes on for a while.Emerald and McKenzie are use to rubbing elbows with celebrities in premiere places so Emerald doesn't see him as a Celebrity. And that's what attracts Mike Shouhed. Emerald keeps the affair to herself for a long time not telling anyone. Then she begins to confide in two friends that she has been seeing Mike Shouhed. It is at that time that they tell her he has a girlfriend on his show. Emerald did not watch the show. So she thought she had something special.Soon after the two women send video and pics and Emerald confronts Mike and he can no longer deny it. Emerald's two friends are hell bent on exposing him and contact a friend that has connections to the Press. The possible leak of the story gets back to Mike when his producers at BRAVO Confronted him about his affair, as he's suppose to this reformed player on the showWho is in a monogamous relationship now and faithful. Mike calls Emerald pissed off and makes threats. Back against the wall Emerald confides in McKenzie Howard who confirms the situation is distasteful, dangerous and Emerald should end it. Against advice she continues the tryst. Mike was again confronted by BRAVO about the affair and that it looks bad for the his image on the show. So he proposes to his tv girlfriend, after having been with Emerald the day before and the day after the proposal. Emerald never knew this until a week after when it was broadcasted on tabloids. So some say the whole thing that's getting ready to air on the shows 4th season, is a fraud.

Nightmarch

Nightmarch
Author: Alpa Shah
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2019-04-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022659033X

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize Shortlisted for the New India Foundation Book Prize Anthropologist Alpa Shah found herself in an active platoon of Naxalites—one of the longest-running guerrilla insurgencies in the world. The only woman, and the only person without a weapon, she walked alongside the militants for seven nights across 150 miles of dense, hilly forests in eastern India. Nightmarch is the riveting story of Shah's journey, grounded in her years of living with India’s tribal people, an eye-opening exploration of the movement’s history and future and a powerful contemplation of how disadvantaged people fight back against unjust systems in today’s world. The Naxalites have fought for a communist society for the past fifty years, caught in a conflict that has so far claimed at least forty thousand lives. Yet surprisingly little is known about these fighters in the West. Framed by the Indian state as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is actually made up of Marxist ideologues and lower-caste and tribal combatants, all of whom seek to overthrow a system that has abused them for decades. In Nightmarch, Shah shares some of their gritty untold stories: here we meet a high-caste leader who spent almost thirty years underground, a young Adivasi foot soldier, and an Adivasi youth who defected. Speaking with them and living for years with villagers in guerrilla strongholds, Shah has sought to understand why some of India’s poor have shunned the world’s largest democracy and taken up arms to fight for a fairer society—and asks whether they might be undermining their own aims. By shining a light on this largely ignored corner of the world, Shah raises important questions about the uncaring advance of capitalism and offers a compelling reflection on dispossession and conflict at the heart of contemporary India.

1001 Nights

1001 Nights
Author: Richard Francis Burton
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 4115
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"In tide of yore and in time long gone before, there was a King of the Kings of the Banu Sásán in the Islands of India and China, a Lord of armies and guards and servants and dependents . . . So he succeeded to the empire; when he ruled the land and forded it over his lieges with justice so exemplary that he was beloved by all the peoples of his capital and of his kingdom." The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night is a collection of Middle Eastern, West Asian and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights.The stories proceed from an original tale of ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade where some stories are framed within other stories, while others begin and end of their own accord. This edition contains more than 1001 tales of romance, erotica, supernatural and adventure along with copious notes transport you into the land of magic and nostalgia.

The Caliph's House

The Caliph's House
Author: Tahir Shah
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2007
Genre: Casablanca (Morocco)
ISBN: 0553816802

By turns hilarious and harrowing, this work by an acclaimed English travel writer is the story of his family's move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge--and nothing is as easy as it seems.

Journey to the Heart of the Abyss

Journey to the Heart of the Abyss
Author: London Shah
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0759555060

The sequel to London Shah's thrilling futuristic mystery The Light at the Bottom of the World, perfect for fans of Illuminae and These Broken Stars Leyla McQueen has finally reunited with her father after breaking him out of Broadmoor, the illegal government prison—but his freedom comes at a terrible cost. As Leyla celebrates his return, she must grapple with the pain of losing Ari. Now separated from the boy who has her heart and labeled the nation’s number one enemy, Leyla must risk illegal travel through unchartered waters in her quest for the truth behind her father's arrest. Across Britain, the fallout from Leyla's actions has escalated tensions between Anthropoid and non-Anthropoid communities, bringing them to an all-time high. And, as Leyla and her friends fight to uncover the startling truths about their world, she discovers her own shocking past—and the horrifying secrets behind her father’s abduction and arrest. But as these long-buried truths finally begin to surface, so, too, do the authorities’ terrible future plans. And if the ever-pervasive fear prevents the people from taking a stand now, the abyss could stay in the dark forever.

My Part of Her

My Part of Her
Author: Javad Djavahery
Publisher: Restless Books
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1632062445

In exiled Iranian author Javad Djavahery’s captivating English debut, a youthful betrayal during a summer on the Caspian sea has far-reaching consequences for a group of friends as their lives are irrevocably altered by the Revolution. For our unnamed confessor, the summer months spent on the Caspian Sea during the 1970s are a magically transformative experience. There, he is not the “poor relative from the North,” but a welcome guest at his wealthy cousin Nilou’s home and the gatekeeper of her affections. He revels in the power of orchestrating the attentions of her many admirers, granting and denying access to her would-be lovers. But in a moment of jealousy and youthful bravado, he betrays and humiliates an unlikely suitor, setting into motion a series of events that will have drastic repercussions for all of them as the country is forever transformed by the Iranian Revolution a few short years later. Over the next twenty years, the lingering effects of that betrayal set the friends on radically different paths in the wake of political, religious, and cultural upheaval. Their surprising final reunion reveals the consequences of revenge and self-preservation as they each must decide whether and how to forget the past. Urgent and gorgeously written, My Part of Her captures the innocence of youth, the folly of love, and the capriciousness of fate as these friends find themselves on opposing sides of the seismic rifts of history. Praise for My Part of Her: “A searing novel, by Iranian exile Djavahery, of love and betrayal in a time of revolution…. Djavahery’s novel is an aching evocation of paradise lost, one that is impossible to regain, even in our narrator’s searching dreams. Vivid, shattering, and utterly memorable.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “There will be no kowtowing to the Western reader in these pages. There is no room for that gaze, because this is a story about our part in Iran’s undoing. It is a collective reckoning with ourselves, with our part of her—the monster we created. —from the Preface by Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee and Refuge “This English-language debut of exiled Iranian novelist Djavahery captures the headiness of youth, with all its promise and peril, and displays how seemingly small actions can become pivotal moments when the world is turned on its head.” —Booklist