Revolution and Disenchantment
Title | Revolution and Disenchantment PDF eBook |
Author | Fadi A. Bardawil |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2020-04-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478007583 |
The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed this question. Bardawil excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist organization Socialist Lebanon and its main theorist, Waddah Charara, who articulated answers in their political practice to fundamental issues confronting revolutionaries worldwide: intellectuals as vectors of revolutionary theory; political organizations as mediators of theory and praxis; and nonemancipatory attachments as impediments to revolutionary practice. Drawing on historical and ethnographic methods and moving beyond familiar reception narratives of Marxist thought in the postcolony, Bardawil engages in "fieldwork in theory" that analyzes how theory seduces intellectuals, cultivates sensibilities, and authorizes political practice. Throughout, Bardawil underscores the resonances and tensions between Arab intellectual traditions and Western critical theory and postcolonial theory, deftly placing intellectuals from those traditions into a much-needed conversation.
Madam Suzanne
Title | Madam Suzanne PDF eBook |
Author | Fadi Chaiban |
Publisher | Fadi Boulos Chaiban |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2020-06-06 |
Genre | True Crime |
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Madam Suzanne is a true journey from humble beginnings, to her role as the mastermind behind the most successful and upscale brothels in Las Vegas, Orange county, and the country. Follow Madam Suzanne behind the scenes, as she reveals the secrets behind the inner workings of OC FUN, an upscale escort agency which operated out of twelve brothels, with a collection of 8,600 VIP clients, and thousands of classy, beautiful, and sexy women. Discover the reasons why ordinary women choose to become high paid escorts, and why men pay an exuberant amount of money to enjoy their intimate relationship, and companionship. Watch Madam Suzanne as she skillfully navigates through the complicated relationships between the escorts, who offer their bodies as a high demand commodity, and the clients who shamelessly use them. After 30 years in the business, Madam Suzanne evaluates the balance between law enforcement need to combat prostitution, and the logistics behind legalization in the U.S. Prepare to be shocked when Madam Suzanne finally reveals her true Identity.
When Two Souls Meet
Title | When Two Souls Meet PDF eBook |
Author | Vahe Salibian |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2010-08-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1453540016 |
From Beirut, and from the south of Lebanon, three of the characters in the novel find themselves in Montreal, Canada, and through a set of unpredictable circumstances find themselves related to each other, where their lives get tangled and correlate, converge and diverge on different levels. Fadi is a young, handsome journalism student at McGill University, and chance brings him face to face with a locally born architect, Andre, who ends up challenging all his reservations thus far and irreversibly changes his life, challenging his resolve and inviting him ever so kindly and with patience and love, out of his self imposed prison, the culture he left behind, his upbringing and the limitations it imposes on him. What happens to them would come to alter their lives in ways thus far unimagined, and under no consideration into easy street. Some very tough decisions are ahead. Marwan is an ex-militiaman who now drives a taxi in the streets of Montreal, having escaped the ranks under unenviable and totally near-disastrous set of events that are otherwise potentially detrimental to his well-being and disruptive of his life. He is a newly wed man expecting a baby with his loving wife, but then things are not as simple as 1,2,3 in life, and he finds himself by chance, facing certain events that are to shake him to the foundations of his being, challenge his emotions, and threaten his loving marriage, with the baby on the way. His daydreaming, flashes of memory from the past, and the current predicament he finds himself in are at times a little too much to take for the smiling and very kind taxi driver, but the only way to face his future is not through the easy way out. Somehow related through destiny to the taxi driver, Mohammed is also in Montreal recently, though the two are not aware of this fact. A chance taxi fare pick-up brings them together after many years, where neither one was aware of the others whereabouts, or whether one or the other was still alive. Mohammed a new refugee in Canada, is looking for work, and working on putting his shattered life together, and a fresh new start in a new city. For him too life has a few surprises, as he goes on about with his new life, and an eventual business trip to Las Vegas ends up in turbulence and disruption of life to no total fault of his own, and yet the involvement is way too much to bear, and tears and black destiny are around the corner. Andre meanwhile imposes silence upon himself, for a while at least, after he leaves the hospital after a prolonged stay, but only until his brother and his family find out by chance, it was not due to the loss of speech he was not talking, which opens the door wide to questions, interpretations and eventual confessions and then unexpected counter-confessions of his brother, who had been hiding a big secret most of his life. It all comes to the fore, and is to effect other interrelations between the different characters by association or by mere careless mistakes that are committed, coincidence, doubt, jealousy, prying and pursuit, charged human emotions, with what turns out to dire results for some and worse for others. Life is never easy, but still interesting, and worth every moment we live through. Not all is bad though. To some readers some of the events are a total surprise and may be had to believe, but are facts of life all the same. When two souls meet, things happen.
Terra-Sorta-Firma
Title | Terra-Sorta-Firma PDF eBook |
Author | Fadi Masoud |
Publisher | Actar |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2021-03 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781948765381 |
A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanizing and expanding coastline. For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds; "reclaiming" land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds. While these artificial coastlines are sites of tremendous real estate, civic, and infrastructural investments, they are also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Terra-Sorta-Firma documents the global extent of reclaimed coastal lands, and provides a framework for comparison across varying geographies, cultures, and histories. It renders visible the ubiquity and precarity of urban coastal reclamation in an age of increased environmental and economic indeterminacy. It challenges designers, developers, policymakers, engineers, and urbanists to reconsider the design and construction of land itself, and to re-imagine this most fundamental of all infrastructures along a gradient of inundation.
Shooting Kabul
Title | Shooting Kabul PDF eBook |
Author | N. H. Senzai |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2011-07-12 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1442401958 |
Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family emigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
Rogue Strike
Title | Rogue Strike PDF eBook |
Author | David Ricciardi |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 546 |
Release | 2020-03-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0399585788 |
Jake Keller finds himself in a familiar position—on the run for his life and desperate to find the shadowy figures behind a global conspiracy. CIA agent Jake Keller and his partner, Curt Roach, are in Yemen on an important mission. They've been tipped off to a secret meeting of top al Qaeda leaders. The plan is to interrupt the meeting with a few unexpected visitors—a pair of Hellfire missiles from an orbiting drone. But the drone stops responding to their signals and soon disappears over the horizon. When next seen, the drone is attacking innocent pilgrims in Mecca. Jake and Curt are staggered. The U.S. government is desperate to disavow this atrocity. Who better to blame than a couple of rogue CIA agents? With all the governments of the Middle East looking for them and no help from their own side, they are in a desperate race to stay ahead of the mob and find out who's actually behind the crime.
The Colossus Crisis
Title | The Colossus Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Club Lighthouse Publishing |
Pages | 292 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1926839552 |