Standing On An Isthmus
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Author | : Ayse S. Kadayifci |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780739111116 |
Standing on an Isthmus examines how religious beliefs, commitments, and traditions shape social action such as promoting either violent or peaceful behavior by analyzing different Islamic interpretations of war and peace in Palestine and seeks to answer the question: What is the best strategy to empower those groups and individuals that support a nonviolent Islamic approach to actively pursue a just peace for all parties involved?
Author | : Seniha Ayse Kadayifci |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1098 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Arab-Israeli conflict |
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Author | : Mohammed Abu-Nimer |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2009-02-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0739135236 |
This timely work addresses sensitive issues and relations between Muslims and Christians around the world. The book uniquely captures the opportunity for Christians and Muslims to come together and discuss pertinent issues such as pluralism, governance, preaching, Christian missionary efforts, and general misperceptions of Muslim and Christian communities. Joint authorship and discussion within the book is used to offer dialogue and responses between different contributors. This dialogue reveals that Christians and Muslims hold many things in common while having meaningful differences. It also shows the value of honestly sharing convictions while respecting and hearing the beliefs of another.
Author | : Terry Tempest Williams |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0375725199 |
"Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, to a small village in Rwanda where she joins genocide survivors to build a memorial from the rubble of war, Williams searches for meaning and community in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation. In her compassionate meditation on how nature and humans both collide and connect, Williams affirms a reverence for all life, and constructs a narrative of hopeful acts, taking that which is broken and creating something whole.
Author | : James Dunkerley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Annotation Country-by-country studies of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica as well as a wealth of charts, statistics and chronologies. Dunkerly teaches political studies at Queen Mary College, London. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author | : Ada Deer |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806165952 |
2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, “I was born a Menominee Indian. That is who I was born and how I have lived.” She proceeds to narrate the first eighty-three years of her life, which are characterized by her tireless campaigns to reverse the forced termination of the Menominee tribe and to ensure sovereignty and self-determination for all tribes. Deer grew up in poverty on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin, but with the encouragement of her mother and teachers, she earned degrees in social work from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Columbia University. Armed with a first-rate education, an iron will, and a commitment to justice, she went from being a social worker in Minneapolis to leading the struggle for the restoration of the Menominees’ tribal status and trust lands. Having accomplished that goal, she moved on to teach American Indian Studies at UW–Madison, to hold a fellowship at Harvard, to work for the Native American Rights Fund, to run unsuccessfully for Congress, and to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs in the Clinton administration. Now in her eighties, Deer remains as committed as ever to human rights, especially the rights of American Indians. A deeply personal story, written with humor and honesty, this book is a testimony to the ability of one individual to change the course of history through hard work, perseverance, and an unwavering commitment to social justice.
Author | : Yasmin Saikia |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2015-01-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1786739844 |
How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Muslim world? This question is the predominant focus for global analysis today, but its debate frequently ignores the cultural and social complexity of the Muslim world, reducing it into a system of states and select actors. This book addresses such a failing by exploring how the everyday interactions of women, in accordance with Islamic personal ethics, can offer the world a new interpretation of peace. In particular, it focuses on the women in Islamic societies, from Aceh to Bosnia, Morocco to Bangladesh, initiating a dialogue on the role of these women in peacemaking. This concentration upon the complex issues of the everyday both enables a detailed exploration of how people conceptualise peace and opens up new frameworks for conflict resolution. The discussions that emerge lead to a critical questioning of assumptions about peace as a state policy and cessation of violence. Drawing upon original research from different parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, including Iran, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt and Sudan, the contributors offer a refreshing new look at Muslim women as peacemakers, challenging any assumptions of Islam as an inherently violent religion. Such a timely work provides new and important analyses on the role of Muslim women in forging new pathways of peace in the contemporary world.
Author | : Ferdinand de Lesseps |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Suez Canal (Egypt) |
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Author | : Atalia Omer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 737 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199731640 |
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the literature on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. With a focus on structural and cultural violence, the volume also offers a cutting edge interdisciplinary reframing of the scope of scholarship in the field.
Author | : Joseph Warren Fabens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2015-06-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781330452950 |
Excerpt from A Story of Life on the Isthmus Chagres River; Dos Hermanas; A Night on the River; What a day may bring forth; An Official Disclosure; Scene at Palenquilla; Gorgona About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.