Middle World

By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife...

Kahlil Gibran reveals his vision of the soul and understanding of the world - past, present, and future - in this rich sampling of more than 20 works. Prose tales, fables, and poems evoke the mystic East and form a world at once powerful, tender, joyous, and melancholy. This collection, penned when Gibran was still a young writer, reveals many of the themes and styles plumbed throughout his life.

The illuminating and deeply moving true story of twin sisters who survived Nazi experimentation, against all odds, during the Holocaust. Eva and her identical twin sister, Miriam, had a mostly happy childhood. Theirs was the only Jewish family in their small village in the Transylvanian...

The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, was a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before.

An unusually sharp look at the way in which the U.S. press and experts have dealt with the crisis in the Middle East and Iran...

Welcome to Syria! Picnic with locals at the ancient ruins of Palmyra. Taste rich foods like kibbeh and fattoush. Learn about the people, places, and traditions of this fascinating Middle Eastern country.

عالم المازني الساحر الذي ينفتح للقارئ كنافذة تطل على الحياة بألوانها المختلفة، فيه يسرد الكاتب حكاياته وتأملاته بأسلوب ساخر لا يخلو من الحكمة. يجمع بين الطرفة والنقد، بين الذكرى والحلم، كأنما يريد أن يجعل من هذه الصفحات مرآة تعكس عبث الدنيا وجديتها معًا.

Naguib El-Samadouni has a significant advantage: he's boring. Boring people are everywhere around us; finding one is as easy as looking in the bathroom mirror or opening the window and looking out at the street. But Naguib is boring to an exciting degree... to a fascinating, ever-renewing degree.

"مرحبًا بكم .. أنغام ( شوبرت ) تنبعث من جهاز الكاسيت العملاق .. قدح من الشيكولاتـة الساخنة .. هدوء تام هذه الليلة كأن الصاخبين قد ماتوا كما تمنيت .. لا سعال .. لا صـداع .. رائحة عطرة تنبعث من عـود بخور رفيـع تنقل لـك أجـواء المعابـد البوذية فى ( التبت ) .. الرائحة تمتزج بأنغام ( شوبرت ) صانعة مزيجًا شميًّا ــ سمعيًّا فريدًا .. أى أنك قد تصغى لرائحة البخور أو تشم الموسيقا ..".

ثمة تراثٌ أثري فريد من نوعه يلخّص فترات الحضارات المتعاقبة على الإمارات، وكيف امتلك الإنسان القديم فنّاً راقياً في التواصل مع الطبيعة وثقافة مهيبة ربما استفادها من حضارات أخرى بحكم التنقل والترحال، ولا شك أن النقوش الصخرية كشفت عن نبوغ ذلك الإنسان، كما امتلكت الجبال المنعزلة كجبل حفيت والبحايص والفاية وجبل مليحة مقومات الحياة كاملة قبل آلاف السنين. هذا الكتاب نتاج تأمّل داخل أفلاك الحجر والصحراء والماء والذات، يأخذك في رحلة بحث سرد حكائي أنثروبولوجي استقصائي إلى جماليات المكان الإماراتي منذ أزمنة التكوين البيئي، وإلى خيال الإنسان القديم الذي أصغى وانغمس في جوهر المخلوقات، وخلق تفاهماً ضمنياً فنياً مع طبيعتها وأجسادها.

¡Es el primer día de clases de Rashin en Estados Unidos! Todo tiene diferentes formas de lo que está acostumbrada, desde las comidas en su desayuno hasta las letras en sus libros ¡Y las familias de sus compañeros vienen de todos los rincones del mundo! La nueva maestra le pide a cada estudiante que se imagine la forma de su hogar en un mapa. Rashin sabe qué dirá de inmediato ¡Irán tiene forma de gato! ¿Qué irán a decir los otros niños? ¿Y qué hay del país de donde viene TU familia?

The prophet Al Mustafa has lived in the city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship that will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.

Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later - after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist. When she first moved to Sanaa in 2009, she was the only American reporter based in the country. She quickly fell in love with Yemen’s people and culture, in addition to finding herself the star of a local TV soap opera.

Gamal Abdel Nasser, the larger-than-life Egyptian president who ruled for eighteen years between the coup d'etat he led in 1952 and his death in 1970, is best known for wresting the Suez Canal from the British and French empires and befriending such iconic revolutionaries as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Yet there is a darker side to Nasser's regime. He was a brutal authoritarian, whose legacy, Alex Rowell argues, lies at the heart of the violent and repressive order that still prevails throughout the Arab world today.

In this recording are presented readings of all five editions of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, translated by scholar Edward Fitzgerald, as well as biographical material about Fitzgerald and Omar Khayyam and a laudatory poem by Andrew Lang.

Travel to Egypt. Find out the facts about this country in Africa.

A legendary civilization vanished under the Fertile Crescent and escaped a fate worse than death until Sumerologists questioned widely accepted truths. The Sumerians reemerged onto the extraordinary timeline of human history. Their tales of kings and gods, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, and their fearless trade in distant lands, during the remarkable Bronze Age, centered in the world’s first city-states that chronicled ancient rivalries and their enduring impact.

A shocking act of terror brings the Middle East to the point of explosion. As the resulting political conflict threatens to erupt, a young Jewish American lawyer joins the defense team of an arrested but possibly innocent Palestinian. Soon the lawyer's father, a famed criminal attorney, must win the Palestinian's case or risk losing his daughter forever. To do so, he must take into account the tormented history of the Holy Land from every possible angle.

Now with a new chapter! Sweeping from Syria into Iraq, Islamic State (ISIS) fighters have been brutalizing and annihilating Christians. Where did the terrorists come from, and what can be done to stop them? For more than a decade, journalist Mindy Belz has reported on the ground from the Middle East, giving her unparalleled access to the story no one wants to believe. In They Say We Are Infidels, she brings the stark reality of this escalating genocide to light, tracking the stories of real-life Christians who refuse to abandon their faith.

In this vivid and alluring history, medievalist Anthony Bale invites listeners on an odyssey across the medieval world. Journeying alongside scholars, spies, and saints, from Western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes and the ends of the earth, Bale provides indispensable information on the exchange rate between Bohemian ducats and Venetian groats, medieval cures for seasickness, and how to avoid extortionist tour guides and singing sirens.