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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.

Über fast hundert Jahre lang beschreibt Khalifa die Entwicklung Syriens, indem er die Geschichten mehrerer Familien erzählt. Der Christ Hanna wächst am Ufer des Euphrat in einer muslimischen Familie auf, gemeinsam mit deren Sohn Zakaria. In die Tochter Suad mit den schönen langen Wimpern verliebt er sich. Doch Hanna und Zakaria sehnen sich nach einem freien Leben, das der gläubigen Muslimin Suad nicht gefällt. Mit ihren besten Freunden, dem Juden Azar und dem Christ William, ziehen Hanna und Zakaria nach Aleppo und errichten ein Freudenhaus, zu dem nur auserwählte Persönlichkeiten...

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...