Bøger om Libanon

"Profetens bog" er en samlet udgave af klassikerne "Profeten" og "Profetens have". I "Profeten" er Profeten Almustafa på vej væk fra den lands by, hvor han har opholdt sig tolv år. Før han stiger om bord på det skib, der skal føre ham hjem til hans fødeø, taler han til folket om livet mellem fødsel og død; kærlighed, ægteskab, børn, glæde og sorg, forbrydelse og straf, religion og død. I "Profetens have" vender den oplyste Profet Almustafa hjem til sin fødeø efter sit lange fravær. Han samler ni disciple, og i korte kapitler belærer han sine disciple og lokalbefolkningen om livets sande mening og om det at være menneske.

I London fortæller en afhoppet sovjetisk agent om muldvarpe i vestlige sikkerhedstjenester.I Moskva får en deltager i en svensk delegation øje på en mand, som han ikke ventede at finde der. Hans beretning giverforsvarsstabens sikkerhedsafdeling noget at tænke på.I Stockholm pågriber orlogskaptajn Carl Gustaf Gilbert Hamilton en indbrudstyv, som er i færd med at gennemsøge hans bolig.Alt sammen hændelser, hvis indbyrdes sammenhæng ikkeer indlysende. Carl Hamilton sættes i aktion. Han må udføreen ukonventionel opgave i Libanon, og i Moskva udfører handen mest uhyrlige ordre, han hidtil har fået. Men kan den svenske forsvarsledelse stole på sin mest kompetente medarbejder, eller er Carl også hyret af andre?Det er kompetent og underholdende. Indimellem hylende grinagtigt og satirisk. Ikke mindst, når Guillou spiller på stridighederne mellem politi, sikkerhedsfolk og efterretningstjenesterne.B.T.Så har den svenske journalist og forfatter gjort det for fjerdegang: Skrevet en stor, fængslende og utroligt spændende romanom sin spionhelt Coq Rouge.Aalborg StiftstidendeDet hele er fortalt med både den sans for detaljen og den elementære spænding, som har præget også Guillous tidligereromaner ... Guillou mestrer blandingen af intens suspense og ond satire over fænomener i det svenske samfund.Information

FE-agent Sigrid Melin jager en terrorist, der planlægger et angreb i København, men da hun afslører hans identitet, bliver hun pludselig taget af sagen.Sigrid Melin arbejder undercover på den danske ambassade i Beirut, da hun spotter en mistænkelig passager i lufthavnen på vej mod København. Manden viser sig at være terrorist med planer om at udføre angreb på både dansk og tysk jord, og sammen med sin kollega fra Berlin, BND-agent Felix Zobel, må Sigrid infiltrere og optrevle terroristens organisation. Et pengespor fører dem dybt ind i Beiruts sofistikerede og bundkorrupte finansverden, hvor ikke kun Islamisk Stat, men også fjendtlige spioner følger hvidvasken af penge.Da Sigrids efterforskning peger i retning af en dansk IS-kriger, slår PET pludselig sagen hen. Manden er deres agent. Det er falsk alarm. Sigrid køber imidlertid ikke forklaringen. Desuden har hun af personlige årsager ingen tillid til PET’s operative chef, der er kæreste med hendes eksmand.Sigrid er tvunget til at søge hjælp hos sin far, Carl Rosa, som hun brød forbindelsen til som ung. Carl er ny justitsminister og vil gerne hjælpe. Men i det samme bryder en historisk flygtningekrise ud i Europa. Ifølge efterretninger er der jihadister blandt flygtningene på vej til Danmark, så Carl får nok at se til. Overbevist om, at der vil ske flere angreb, går Sigrid og Felix deres egne veje for at stoppe terroristen – uden at vide, at de langt fra er de eneste, der leder efter den danske agent.

Året er 1983. I Washington har præsident Ronald Reagan erklæret økonomisk og psykologisk krig mod USSR. I Moskva har Jurij Andropovs paranoia bredt sig fra KGB til toppen af den sovjetiske ledelse. Atomoprustning i Vesteuropa, invasion i Grenada, terrorbomber i Libanon og nedskydningen af et koreansk passagerfly er med til at gøre dette år til Den kolde krigs højdepunkt. Supermagternes provokationer og hårde retoriske angreb på hinanden skaber en farlig situation, hvor små tilfældigheder eller misforståelser risikerer at udløse en altødelæggende atomkrig.Ronald Reagan, Jurij Andropov, George Shulz og Oleg Gordievskij er nogle af hovedpersonerne i dette autentiske drama, som blandt andet udspiller sig i magtens korridorer i Washington og Moskva, i det krigshærgede Libanon og i luftrummet over Sakhalin og Kamtjatka-halvøen. Vi er med, hvor beslutningerne tages, og hvor konsekvenserne mærkes. Og historien fortælles i dramadokumentarisk form, så de afgørende begivenheder fremstår lige så intense, som de blev oplevet i 1983.Gateway /title /head body center h1 502 Bad Gateway /h1 /center /body /htmlRasmus Dahlberg (f. 1977) er cand.mag. i historie fra Syddansk Universitet og forfatter, historiker og adm. Direktør i Det Historiske Hus. Rasmus Dahlberg er særligt interesseret i historieteori og teknologi- og videnskabshistorie og har skrevet flere bøger om historie.

Ancient foodways don't recognize geopolitical boundaries. For instance, the harissa found in Tunisia is incredibly similar to the adjika used in Georgia. Both accessible and delicious, the food in this cookbook is perfectly suited to the home cook because it is not fussy, and everything on the table is meant to be shared.

¿ Lebanese Pavilion at the Biennale in Venice¿ Migration, loss, and memory artistically commented¿ One of the currently most interesting artistic positions

According to Rami Elias Kremesti, nothing in life is worse than living in ignorance... After many years of living in depression, fear, anxiety, hate and confusion, the author feels he is finally emancipated and enlightened and wants to bring a taste of this sweetness to the reader... In his third book, he talks about the accomplishments of the Jewish people, the same people that were and are still demonized in his home country of Lebanon. Rami was lucky he was able to escape from the toxic milieu of Lebanon after the end of the civil war. Instead of East, he went to the decadent "West" where paradoxically, he tasted the truth in the poetry of Rumi in Los Angeles, which was his home for about six years. There he also met some Jewish people that became his lifelong loyal friends. As Rumi puts it, his soul caught fire... He discovered the meaning of loving one's enemy and turning the other cheek... You see dear reader, when one tastes divine love, all pettiness, anger, and attachment dissolves... One starts to see unity instead of division... All religions, one praise, as Rumi puts it...In his first book, The Other Cheek of Islam, he reached out to his Muslim brothers. In his second book, For Love of the Sacred Awe, he talks about beauty and aesthetic. In his third one he reaches out to his Jewish brothers.

Kathryn Silver-Hajo's debut novel paints an unforgettable portrait of the life of young protagonist, Noor, as she navigates the dangers of civil war in her native Lebanon and the challenges of life in the diaspora in the New York City of the 1970s. Silver-Hajo deftly portrays the tragedy of a country torn apart by sectarian conflict, but also the excitement of the teenaged narrator's coming-of-age adventures. But when her mother reveals a closely-held secret, Noor is shaken, yet wiser and more determined than ever to define her place in the world. The characters and events that animate Roots of the Banyan Tree promise to burrow deep in readers' hearts and refuse to be forgotten.

This is how you achieve changeFridays for Future. Just Stop Oil. Black Lives Matter.From Greta Thunberg's inspiring school strike in Sweden to emerging 'hacktivism' in Ethiopia and Iran to the toppling of the statue of a notorious slave trader in Britain, Barney Cullum travels around the world to find out how disruptors are fighting for a better future. Meet the dissidents campaigning for democracy in Moscow and Istanbul, activists in the Sahel, Palestine, Brazil, and Ukraine, a commune claiming underground energy in Denmark and climate emergency protesters across Europe. Everywhere Cullum goes, he asks: how are you achieving change? Find out the secrets of successful movements for social change, including:What made Ireland U-turn on abortion?How did Taiwan's students resist when Hong Kong's could not?What persuaded Britain to reform its drug laws?How did peace finally break out in Colombia?Reviews"Making a Movement is a call to action but also a great insight into some of the leading international campaigns over the last ten years, which gives a sense of hope and aspiration for the next generation of campaigners and activists." - Patrick Vernon OBE, Windrush Campaigner"Jam-packed with stories of collective action, Barney Cullum deftly brings to life the lives and passions of people who have been driven to action for a better world. Whatever your perspective on their campaigns, we all have things to learn from their imagination and skill in drawing people together to bring change." - Abigail Thomas, Hopeful Activists Podcast Host"Making a Movement delivers a wrecking ball to the unsustainable populism of the right." - Simon Speakman Cordall, Al Jazeera Journalist"If you read Barney Cullum's book, you will come away with comprehensive knowledge of the severe problems impacting people every day all over the world, but you will also feel utterly inspired to take action yourself. Powerful stories reframe the brave people and organisations who are truly taking risks to bring about positive change, all achieved in an accessible, fascinating way." - Lucy Skoulding, Human Rights Campaigner and Independent Journalist"Cullum skilfully weaves together and situates social movements, campaigns and their tactics around the world. Interviews with key and ordinary people are interlaced with stories of how he obtained access. Filled with illuminating behind-the-scenes accounts of current situations, poignant viewpoints include those of pacifist Russians and Belarusians on the war in the Ukraine. Closer to home in the UK, Cullum captures the senselessness of people locked up in psychiatric hospitals for years with no end in sight." - Valerie de Schaller, Amnesty International Grassroots Activist"Through interviews with activists and campaigners across the global spectrum, these chapters offer a crucial insight into environmental, political and human rights movements. From strike action, to street art, to direct action, this book is an argument for why a whole range of tactics are so critical to achieving real change. A captivating and meaningful read." - Ella Abraham, Praxis, For Migrants and Refugees Campaigner

The construction of sacred spaces has been shaped throughout millennia by the idea of a divine presence within the realm of human life. In the course of time, manifold and diverse architectural forms have been developed to express the idea of a divine presence at a particular place and to make it tangible there. Thus, religious architecture aims to enable a local and multi-dimensional encounter with the sacred. This volume provides thirteen contributions on temples, synagogues, churches, and mosques from ancient Palestine. These papers show developments within the Southern Levant, from the Early Bronze Age to the Late Islamic periods, related to the construction, use, and abandonment of religious buildings. The main architectural forms of the buildings in the different epochs are highlighted, as well as the continuities and discontinuities of diachronic developments. Symbolic, ideological, and social conceptions of sacred buildings are considered, as well as their communicative, representative, and regional aspects. Numerous plans, drawings, and photographs of the architectural remains and of individual elements (altars, benches, mosaics, columns) serve to illustrate the religious buildings discussed in this volume. A total of twenty-six color plates add to the volume's illustrations.

Demonstrates the role of Beirut's postwar graffiti and street art in transforming the cityscape and animating resistance.

Many countries in Asia are inhabited by multi-segment societies diversified in terms of race, religion, language and economic status. They have repeatedly provided the basis for analysis of the search for consensus in the construction of a political scene that would ensure the participation in power of each group. Regardless of the chosen model, the distribution of power in multi-segment societies has always been characterized by a state of "unstable equilibrium". Practical solutions constantly evolved between consociationalism, centripetalism, federalism. In extreme cases they led to political disintegration of states or to permanent domination of one of the segments, most often based on authoritarian solutions. In this volume, a group of scholars specializing in countries of the region try to point out the dynamics of the "unstable equilibrium" of power sharing in particular Asian countries and analyze the trends occurring in them in the 21st century.

Artworks and archival documents from Lebanon's turbulent postwar yearsThis volume revisits a turbulent chapter in Lebanese modernism, from the 1958 crisis to the 1975 outbreak of civil war. Through 230 works by 34 artists and more than 300 archival documents, it shows how collisions between art, culture and polarized political ideologies turned Beirut's art scene into a microcosm for larger transregional tensions.

Award-winning graphic history of the modern Arab world, combining travelogue, memoir, and gorgeous full-color art

Halima har rødder i Palæstina, men er opvokset i Danmark og bor i et rækkehus i Vollsmose. Hun er 18 år og går i 3.g på Mulernes Legatskole.
Siden 1.g har hendes liv ikke været let. Hun kæmper sig igennem gymnasiet, og hun skændes konstant med sin mor, som er intenst optaget af, hvad omgivelserne tænker, synes og mener. Derudover er frierne begyndt at banke på Halimas dør.
Hendes mor jubler, men ikke Halima. Hun er ulykkeligt forelsket i sin grandfætter Amir, der bor i Libanon.På den anden side er en bog om en ung pige, der er fanget mellem to kulturer. Hun ønsker at følge sine egne drømme og sit hjerte, men også at ære sine forældre. Som flygtninge fra Libanon, der har klaret skærene og fundet et trygt sted til deres familie, ønsker forældrene, at Halima skal stikke så lidt ud som muligt, og især moren er imod, at Halima søger dybere ind i troen og begynder at komme i moskeen.Huda El-Hawari er født i 1989 i en palæstinensisk flygtningelejr i Libanon.
Hun har en BA i international virksomhedskommunikation og arabisk sprog og kommunikation samt en cand.mag. i Mellemøstens sprog og samfund med arabisk litteratur. Romanen På den anden side er forfatterens skønlitterære debut.

'Poignant and compelling. will resonate with anyone who cares about justice and the abuse of power' - Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor and author of Sandstorm'Essential and urgent' - Kim Ghattas, journalist and author of Black Wave'Courageous and essential' - Sally Hayden, journalist and author of My Fourth Time, We DrownedOn August 4 2020, a huge explosion in the heart of Beirut killed hundreds of people - it is the apocalypse of a sequence of events that have led to Lebanon's unprecedented collapse. Journalist Dalal Mawad has interviewed tens of Lebanese and foreign women - victims of the explosion, and those stuck in Lebanon - and weaves an extraordinary story of survival, corruption and impunity.Award-winning journalist Dalal Mawad was in Lebanon when the blast happened, and was one of the first journalists to report on the mysterious and devastating explosion.During her reporting, she discovered something else - that it is the women who stay behind, and it is through their stories that the history of the Middle East must be re-constructed. She set out to record the stories of those she met, the women long discriminated against, and those whose stories are untold. She spoke to mothers who lost their children on August 4, spouses who lost their partners, refugee women who have fled from the war in Syria - and who now find themselves in another failing state. We hear from the Lebanese grandmother, bankrupted by the small nation's collapse, who remembers Beirut's glory days of the 1960s - when the likes of Brigitte Bardot and Miles Davis came to Beirut. And then the women like Dalal herself, who have left their home behind.The women in this book all experienced the explosion and suffered unimaginable loss and tragedy, but it is not just this one event that brings them together. Their personal stories converged to tell the story of a nation whose glory days are long gone, now riven by protracted violence, lurching from crisis to crisis, and fighting to survive. It tells not only of what these women have lost, but also what Lebanon has lost, and a part of the Middle East that is no more.

Tripoli, Lebanon's 'Sunni City' is often presented as an Islamist or even Jihadi city. However, this misleading label conceals a much deeper history of resistance and collaboration with the state and the wider region. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork and using a broad array of primary sources, Tine Gade analyses the modern history of Tripoli, exploring the city's contentious politics, its fluid political identity, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups. Offering an alternative explanation for Tripoli's decades of political troubles - rather than emphasizing Islamic radicalism as the principal explanation - she argues that it is Lebanese clientelism and the decay of the state that produced the rise of violent Islamist movements in Tripoli. By providing a corrective to previous assumptions, this book not only expands our understanding of Lebanese politics, but of the wider religious and political dynamics in the Middle East.

Beautifully illustrated, intimately personal and politically trenchant account of Beirut's catastrophic 2020 port explosion

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, language: English, abstract: In this thesis, I examine and compare the Socioeconomic Status and the Subjective Social Status of the naturalized at the time of naturalization and 15 years after in order to explore how, notwithstanding other factors, the naturalized perceive their situation pre and post-naturalization. I analyze the strength of the association between citizenship acquisition/naturalization and socioeconomic mobility and political participation through Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Subjective Social Status (SSS) among 164 Kurds who were naturalized Lebanese by the Presidential Decree 5247/1994 of June 20, 1994. I also examine their political participation through voting and political partisanship in order to test the theory whether their political engagement at the beginning of the process shifted downward to a state of political apathy in the years since their naturalization, and whether there is a significant gap between them and the native-born in voting turnout.

International and Local Actors in Disaster Response uses the Beirut explosion in August 2020 to explore disaster prevention and response in developing states.

Henry James gennemførte i 1882 en række rejser rundt i Frankrig ud fra mottoet: "Frankrig er måske Paris, men Paris er ikke Frankrig." James' guidebog er en sprænglærd og fascinerende blanding af kultur- og arkitekturkritik, tips og ideer til rejsen og ikke mindst betragtninger om stort og småt med referencer til den klassiske litteratur. En tur rundt på den ”gamle” verdens præmisser. Ventetid, støv, dårlig mad, ubekvemme hotelværelser og ikke mindst et rigidt og langsommeligt transportsystem. I 1906 tager Edith Wharton hul på en rundrejse i Frankrig. I automobil og på bagsædet sidder ingen ringere end Henry James. Whartons tekst indvarsler den moderne tid og den moderne turisme, hvor den rejsende ikke er afhængig af jernbanespor, hestevognes planlagte ruter, men også et opslidende, tidskrævende og ineffektivt europæisk vejnet. Whartons tekst er en dybt original, tankevækkende og indsigtsfuld tur med afstikkere, omveje og indskydelser rundt i et Frankrig, der ikke findes længere.

Paul Veyne rejser med sin bog en fascinerende og enestående gravsten over en næsten forsvunden by og tegner en modvægt til IS og deres destruktive terrorisme, der tilbage i 2015 ødelagde store dele af den unikke ruinby.Bogen er rigt illustreret."I mit professionelle virke inden for studiet af den græsk-romerske antikke verden er jeg hele tiden stødt på Palmyra. Efter Islamisk Stats ødelæggelse af Palmyra er en hel side af vores kultur og genstanden for mine studier brutalt blevet sprængt i stumper og stykker.Hvorfor hærge nogle uskadelige mindesmærker fra en længst forsvunden tid (eller sætte dele af dem til salg)? Hvorfor skulle de ødelægge dette Palmyra, som var optaget på UNESCOs verdensarvsliste? Og hvorfor alle disse massakrer, heriblandt afstraffelsen, torturen og hals-hugningen i 2015 af Palmyra-arkæologen Khaled al-Assaad, som denne bog er tilegnet?Trods min høje alder var det min pligt som tidligere professor og som almindeligt menneske at udtrykke min bestyrtelse over denne uforståelige ødelæggelse og tegne et billede af Palmyras forgangne pragt, som man kun kan stifte bekendtskab med i bøgerne nu". PAUL VEYNE