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Khaled Khalifa erzählt in einer poetischen Sprache mit überraschenden Bildern eine ergreifende Familiengeschichte aus Aleppo. Ein berührendes Buch über eine verlorene Stadt und Kultur. Ein Lehrstück darüber, wie Populismus und Fanatismus eine einst offene Gesellschaft vollkommen zerstörten.

In Syrien, von den achtziger Jahren bis heute: Als der Vater einer fünfköpfigen Familie mit einer jüngeren Frau nach Amerika verschwindet, zieht die Mutter mit den drei Kindern vom Land nach Aleppo, wo sie groß geworden ist. Die einst blühende liberale Stadt hat sich durch...

Irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation. She and her siblings and mother are slowly choked in violence and decay, as their lives are plundered by a brutal regime.

Set between the 1960s and 2000s, No Knives in the Kitchens of this City unravels the systems of fear and control under Assad. With eloquence and startling honesty, it speaks of the persecution of a whole society.

In the midst of a struggling black community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, twenty-five-year old LeMar Early is handsome, intuitive, and well-liked by nearly everyone. Despite being orphaned at six and on his own since he was eighteen, LeMar still manages to have a positive outlook on life-until his best friend, Chip, and his girlfriend, Venetia Waits, are kidnapped by a gang commissioned to snatch victims for a scientific experiment.

Drama quickly unfolds as LeMar sets out to find Venetia, but when a private eye with brains and an attitude to match enters the investigation, LeMar...

Al-Tanuki was a judge who was born in Basra and lived in Baghdad during the tenth century CE. During his life he wrote three books which compiled poetry, stories, anecdotes and hadith. In this introduction to al-Tanuki's works and thought, Nouha Khalifa identifies the central theme of hardship and deliverance within wider narratives about love, generosity and the journey. Al-Tanuki was principally concerned with how humankind can alleviate hardship and suffering in life and achieve deliverance. His unshakable conviction in the necessity of deliverance was rooted in his Mu'tazilite...