Sayed: 57 books
Transforming Education In Egypt
Western Influence and Domestic Policy Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Basic education-considered essential for building democratic societies and competitive economies-has headed the agendas of development agencies in recent years. During the same period, Egypt topped the lists of recipients of development assistance and proclaimed education to be its national project....
by Sayed Kashua
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
**In this “**slyly subversive, semi-autobiographical” novel “of Arab Israeli life,” a Palestinian man struggles against the strict confines of identity (Publishers Weekly).
In Sayed Kashua’s debut novel, a nameless anti-hero contends with the legacy of a grandfather who died fighting...
by Sayed Isaq Reha
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
We are all interested in the real Afghanistan. The Only Candle is a timely collection of ten gripping true stories, behind the scenes, that illustrate the miseries and atrocities suffered by a basically peaceful nation, invaded and overtaken by the Russians thirty years ago and still yoked today by...
Native
Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Sayed Kashua has been praised by the New York Times as a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society.” An Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate...
by Farouq M. Alhuseini, Sayed
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Islam and the Glorious Kaabah presents a unique guide that provides the background information about Islam since the time of Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him). It begins at the time when he came to Makkah and left his wife, Hajar, and his baby son, Ismael. Years later he journeys back to Makkah...
Second Person Singular
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
An award-winning novel of love, betrayal, and Arab Israeli identity by the author of Dancing Arabs—“one of the most important contemporary Hebrew writers” (Haaretz).
A successful Arab criminal attorney and a social worker-turned-artist find their lives intersecting under the most curious...
by Sayed Kashua
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “disturbing and powerfully accomplished novel” of conflicting allegiances among Arab Israelis from the acclaimed author of Dancing Arabs (The Guardian).
A young Arab journalist returns to his hometown—an Arab village in Israel’s borderland near the West Bank. There, his conflicted...
Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism
The Theological and Ideological Basis of al-Qa'ida's Political Tactics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Beginning with an examination of medieval Islamic fundamentalist movements such as Kharjism, Ibadism, Hanbalism, and Wahhabism, Sayed Khatab looks at the similarities and differences between them and present organizations such as al-Qa*'ida. It may be surprising that many of the radical narratives...
by El-Sayed
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Inadmissible chronicles the unlikely story of a young man who emigrated to the U.S. in pursuit of the American dream, and how one mistake landed him behind bars along with some of America’s most notorious offenders. Against innumerable odds, he manages to survive prison, becoming an accomplished...
Paranormal Obsession
America's Fascination with Ghosts & Hauntings, Spooks & Spirits
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Ghosts and ghouls, demons, poltergeists, phantoms, haunted houses, and shadow people—why is America so captivated by the creepy and unexplained? Paranormal Obsession is the first book to explore why we have an insatiable interest in spirits, ghost hunting, and all things otherworldly.
Paranormal...
The Lost Testament
What Christians Don't Know About Christ
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
They have been closely guarded for centuries.. Painstakingly and meticulously preserved at great risk to their keepers. Now, they are being revealed to the world, giving a glimpse of who Jesus really was and providing timeless answers for timely questions. Renowned scholar, Sayed M. Modarresi, searches...
Medicine and Morality in Egypt
Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
In Middle Eastern and Islamic societies, the politics of sexual knowledge is a delicate and often controversial subject. Sherry Sayed Gadelrab focuses on nineteenth and early-twentieth century Egypt, claiming that during this period there was a perceptible shift in the medical discourse surrounding...
Eingeboren
Mein israelisch-palästinensisches Leben
Language: German
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Es sind kleine Szenen, die Sayed Kashua einfängt, um eine zutiefst gespaltene Gesellschaft zu beschreiben und die absurde Situation auszuloten, in der Israelis heute leben. Etwa wenn der arabische Kolumnist der Tageszeitung Haaretz sich zum doppelten Preis beim Juden das Haar schneiden lässt, einen...
Llega un nuevo día
Notas de una vida palestino-israelí
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Sayed Kashua ha sido elogiado por el New York Times como un maestro de la sutileza en el trato de las sociedades árabe y judía. Árabe-israelí que vivió en Jerusalén la mayor parte de su vida, Kashua comenzó a escribir con la esperanza de crear una historia con la que tanto palestinos como israelíes...