Bøger af Deborah Kanafani

Kate Kate The Bizzy Girls. New edition of Kate Kate The Fashion Plate, with fashion activities in the back of the book. Kate is an aspiring fashion designer who lives in New York with her mom and two adorable dogs. Kate her sister and friends all have little businesses and big dreams. They call themselves the Bizzy Girls.Kate's mom is a famous fashion magazine editor and heads the costume collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (sound familiar)? This gives Kate and the Bizzy Girls access to the world of high fashion, where they get themselves into trouble, faster than they can get out.In "I Have To Be Me" Kate's mom arranges for Kate to help decorate the windows at Bergs, New York's most famous fashion store. Kate thinks this is her chance to shine. But when Kate arrives at Bergs, she finds the dresses "boooring". Using her creative flair, Kate gives the clothes her own touch... until the owner of Bergs walks in and sees what Kate is doing. Now Kate is in big trouble.. what will happen to Kate's dreams of being a fashion designer?The book introduces girls to entrepreneurship and conveys the inspiring story of Coco Chanel. Kate encourages readers to start their own little businesses and follow their dreams now.This is followed by fashion templates to design clothes and accessories.Kate Kate and The Bizzy Girls entertains readers with fashion adventures that introduce them to women in history, and inspires girls to follow their dreams, regardless of age. Other books in the series are "Kate and The Queen" and "My Mother's Mummy."

In the early 1980s, Deborah Jacobs was an ordinary Lebanese American college student from Long Island, New York. By the end of the decade, she would bear witness to the making of international history. Her story begins in graduate school: through a series of chance encounters, young Deborah was introduced to Marwan Kanafani, a dashing former soccer star turned high-ranking Palestinian diplomat who was working at the United Nations. A political dynamo with movie-star charm, Marwan swept Deborah off her feet and into a marriage that kept her in the company of diplomats, dignitaries, world leaders, international glamour and intrigue. Although exciting, this lifestyle also isolated Deborah increasingly from her independent, American way of living, creating a rift that would end their marriage. Marwan's profile was on the rise, and with it came a number of crucial connections for Deborah: while his involvement with the PLO intensified, eventually resulting in his appointment as senior advisor and spokesperson for Yasir Arafat, she formed friendships with such women as Suha Arafat, Queen Dina of Jordan, and other women married to Arab leaders. After her divorce, when these women agreed to tell their stories of struggle and survival for a book, Deborah traveled to the Middle East to record them, planning to join her children, who were on the West Bank visiting their father. To her shock and horror, he refused to return the children to her. Deborah stayed in the Middle East for several years to be near her children, finding strength in the women whose lives she documented and whose incredible stories are told in this book. She was eventually able to arrange the return of her children when they were evacuated to another country during a Palestinian uprising. The story of her journey, intertwined with those of the wives of the Arab leaders, takes the reader into an otherwise inaccessible and cloistered world populated by larger-than-life characters living out all-too-human dramas. Culture, politics, and family collide in this gripping front-row perspective of the Middle East conflict and of the courageous women working behind the scenes for peace and challenging the patriarchal traditions of their homeland.