Middle World

الطفيل: كائن يعيش ويتغذى على كائن آخر، ولا يساعده على الحياة .. أو هو الشخص الذي يستغل كرم الآخرين ولا يقدم لهم شيئا بالمقابل. في العربية الطفيلي هو: الشخص الذي يدعو نفسه لكل مأدبة، وفي الإغريقية بارازيتوس (Parasitos) وهو: ضيف العشاء المحترف الذي لا يقدم شيئاً سوى تسلية الأغنياء.

وداعاً أيها الغريب .. كانت إقامتك قصيرة، لكنها كانت رائعة .. عسى أن تجد جنتك التى فتشت عنها كثيراً .. وداعاً أيها الغريب .. كانت زيارتك رقصة من رقصات الظل .. قطرة من قطرات الندى قبل شروق الشمس .. لحناً سمعناه لثوان هنالك من الدغل .. ثم هززنا الرءوس ، وقلنا إننا توهمناه .. وداعاً أيها الغريب .. لكن كل شىء ينتهى.

The tragedy of Al-Mansur is considered one of the poet Heine's earliest works. In it, he attempted to project his own feelings onto the story of his failed love for his cousin Amalie, who married another man. This caused him a psychological and spiritual crisis, which he tried to express in the tragedy of Al-Mansur.

روي لنا ستيفان زفايج في هذه الرواية قصة ميركو زينتوفيك الذي يتسم بالجهل ولكنه يكتشف موهبته في الشطرنج ويذيع سيطه في العالم كأبرز اللاعبين, واثناء رحلته لنيويورك يقابل بطل الرواية الآخر السيد "ب" والذي تعلم الشطرنج بدون أن يملك قطعة واحدة, ترى من يفوز؟ وكيف تمثل الشطرنج لعبة الحياه بأكملها؟

Mesopotamia, the "land between two rivers," was the cradle of civilization. In present-day Iraq and parts of Iran, Syria, and Turkey, this region birthed the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.

Orasmyn lives a peaceful life of quiet duty and thoughtful obedience. But a single wrong decision sets in motion an ancient curse that changes Orasmyn's fate forever. Told he will be killed by his own father, he is transformed into a lion on the day of a great hunt. The prince has no choice but to flee beloved Persia and his precious family. Balancing his fading human memories with his new beastly impulses, he makes his way to Europe - where his destiny awaits in the person of a French beauty.

From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 18th century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. In this path-breaking audiobook, Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction, studying all the ways in which thinkers in the West interpreted the Ottoman Empire as a political phenomenon - and Islam as a political religion.

أَلَا أَبْلِغْ عَلَيْكَ أَبَا دُلَامَهْ فَلَسْتَ مِنَ الكِرَامِ وَلَا كَرَامهْ إِذَا لَبِسَ العِمَامَةَ كَانَ قِرْداً وَخِنْزِيراً إِذَا نَزَعَ العِمَامَهْ جَمَعْتَ دَمَامَةً وَجَمَعْتَ لُؤْماً كَذَاكَ اللُؤْمُ تَتْبَعُهُ الدَّمَامَهْ فَإِنْ تَكُ قَدْ أَصَبْتَ نَعِيمَ دُنْيَا فَلَا تَفْرَحْ فَقَدْ دَنَتِ القِيَامَهْ

إِلَى هِنْدٍ صَبَا قَلْبِي وَهِنْدٌ مِثْلُهَا يُصْبِي وَهِنْدٌ غَادَةٌ غَيْدَا ءُ مِنْ جُرْثُومَةٍ غُلْبِ وَمَا إِنْ وَجَدَ النَّاسُ مِنَ الأَدْوَاءِ كَالحُبِّ لَقَدْ لَجَّ بِهَا الإِعْرَا ضُ وَالهَجْرُ بِلَا ذَنْبِ وَلَمَّا أَقْضِ مِنْ هِنْدٍ وَمِنْ جَارَاتِهَا نَحْبِي

أَبْلِغْ سُلَيْمَى بِأَنَّ البَيْنَ قَدْ أَفِدَا وَانْبِئْ سُلَيْمَى بِأَنَّا رَائِحُونَ غَدَا وَقُلْ لَهَا كَيْفَ أَنْ يَلْقَاكِ خَالِيَةً فَلَيْسَ مَنْ بَانَ لَمْ يَعْهَدْ كَمَا عَهِدَا نَعْهَدْ إِلَيْكِ فَأوْفِينَا بِعَهْدَتِنَا يَا أَصْدَقَ النَّاسِ مَوْعُوداً إِذَا وَعَدَا

إِنْ يَخْدِمِ القَلَمَ السَّيْفُ الَّذِي خَضَعَتْ لَهُ الرِّقَابُ وَدَانَتْ خَوْفَهُ الأُمَمُ فَالمَوْتُ وَالمَوْتُ لَا شَيْءٌ يُغَالِبُهُ مَا زَالَ يَتْبَعُ مَا يَجْرِي بِهِ القَلَمُ كَذَا قَضَى اللهُ لِلْأَقْلَامِ مُذْ بُرِيَتْ أَنَّ السُّيُوفَ لَهَا مُذْ أُرْهِفَتْ خَدَمُ

أَقُولُ لَهَا وَقَدْ طَارَتْ شَعَاعاً مِنَ الأَبْطَالِ وَيْحَكِ لَنْ تُرَاعِي فَإِنَّكِ لَوْ سَأَلْتِ بَقَاءَ يَوْمٍ عَلَى الأَجَلِ الَّذِي لَكِ لَمْ تُطَاعِي فَصَبْراً فِي مَجَالِ المَوْتِ صَبْراً فَمَا نَيْلُ الخُلُودِ بِمُسْتَطَاعِ سَبِيلُ المَوْتَ غَايَةُ كُلِّ حَيٍّ فَدَاعِيهِ لِأَهْلِ الأَرْضِ دَاعِي وَمَنْ لَا يُعْتَبَطْ يَسْأَمْ وَيَهْرَمْ وَتُسْلِمُهُ المَنُونُ إِلَى انْقِطَاعِ وَمَا لِلْمَرْءِ خَيْرٌ فِي حَيَاةٍ إِذَا مَا عُدَّ مِنْ سَقَطِ المَتَاعِ

أَلَسْتِ أَحْسَنَ مَنْ يَمْشِي عَلَى قَدَمٍ يَا أَمْلَحَ النَّاسِ كُلِّ النَّاسِ إِنْسَانَا طَارَ الفُؤَادُ مَعَ الخَوْدِ الَّتِي طَرَقَتْ فِي النَّوْمِ طَيِّبَةَ الأَعْطَافِ مِبْدَانَا إِنَّ العُيُونَ الَّتِي فِي طَرْفِهَا حَوَرٌ قَتَلْنَنَا ثُمَّ لَمْ يُحْيِينَ قَتْلَانَا يَصْرَعْنَ ذَا اللُبِّ حَتَّى لَا حَرَاكَ بِهِ وَهُنَّ أَضْعَفُ خَلْقِ اللهِ أَرْكَانَا لَقَدْ كَتَمْتُ الهَوَى حَتَّى تَهَيَّمَنِي لَا أَسْتَطِيعُ لِهَذَا الحُبِّ كِتْمَانَا

Steven A. Cook charts the course of the United States' encounter with the Middle East from the mid-twentieth century through the present day. Looking back, Cook makes a bold claim: the US was—despite setbacks and moral costs—successful. That record of achievement began to unravel in the early 1990s when policymakers embarked upon a set of overly ambitious policies to remake the Middle East. Cook highlights that calls to withdraw from the region are rash given the important interests the US maintains in the region.

Growing up together in the Surra section of central Kuwait, Katkout, Fahd, and Sadiq share neither ethnic origin nor religious denomination - only friendship and a rage against the unconscionable sectarian divide turning their lives into war-zone rubble. To lay bare the ugly truths, they form the protest group Fuada’s Kids. Their righteous transgressions have made them targets of both Sunni and Shi’a extremists. They’ve also elicited the concern of Fahd’s grandmother, Mama Hissa, who cautions them that should they anger God, the sky will surely fall.

Scattered over the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea lie the remnants of failed peace proposals, international summits, secret negotiations, UN resolutions, and state-building efforts. The conventional story is that these well-meaning attempts at peacemaking were repeatedly, perhaps terminally, thwarted by violence. Through a rich interweaving of reportage, historical narrative, and powerful analysis, Nathan Thrall presents a startling counterhistory.

Beim Einloggen in die WELT fliehen Startum Eisenwolf und seine Freunde gerade noch rechtzeitig aus Palnisdale vor den nördlichen Invasoren. Ihre einzige Chance zu überleben besteht darin, der Orkhorde irgendwie lange genug vorauszueilen, um die Schiffe erreichen zu können, die in Darom auf sie warten. Ein nahezu unmögliches Vorhaben, da die Hafenstadt fast zwei Tagesmärsche entfernt ist. Irgendwie muss Startum einen Weg finden, das Unmögliche zu vollbringen oder er wird alles verlieren.

In The Race for Paradise, Paul M. Cobb offers a new history of the confrontations between Muslims and Franks we now call the "Crusades", one that emphasizes the diversity of Muslim experiences of the European holy war. There is more to the story than Jerusalem, the Templars, Saladin, and the Assassins. Cobb considers the Arab perspective on all shores of the Muslim Mediterranean, from Spain to Syria.

When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he'd be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three months in Iran’s most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knew only by his smell: Rosewater.

Peter Frankopan lehrt uns, die Geschichte neu zu sehen – indem er nicht Europa, sondern den Nahen und Mittleren Osten zum Ausgangspunkt macht. Hier entstanden die ersten Hochkulturen und alle drei monotheistischen Weltreligionen; ein Reichtum an Gütern, Kultur und Wissen, der das Alte Europa seit jeher sehnsüchtig nach Osten blicken ließ.