Bøger af Omar Sakr

An estranged father. An abused and abusive mother. An army of relatives. A tapestry of violence stretching between Turkey, Lebanon, and Western Sydney. This is the legacy left to Jamal Smith, a young queer Muslim trying to escape a past in which memory and rumour trace ugly shapes in the dark. When every thread in life constricts instead of connects, how do you find a way to breathe? Torn between faith and fear, gossip and gospel, family and friendship, Jamal must find and test the limits of love. In this extraordinary work, Omar Sakr deftly weaves a multifaceted tale brimming with angels and djinn, racist kangaroos and adoring bats, examining with a poet's eye the destructive impetus of repressed desire and the complexities that make us human.

Companies in the Consumer-Packaged Goods Industry are faced with a chronic dilemma: efficiency vs. agility. Companies must balance scale, which creates cost-saving opportunities, and flexibility, which often incurs incremental costs. Following extensive cost structure analysis and mapping of the company¿s supply chain network, a comprehensive Mixed Integer Linear Programming model was created. The model¿s objective function is cost minimization, which it must attempt considering ¿current-state¿ inputs and multiple operational constraints. The results suggest that a hybrid production planning strategy between ¿level-production¿ and ¿demand-chase¿ is preferred, and can generate significant cost savings. In summary, this strategy can help companies enhance their efficiency and reduce costs when optimizing the total end-to-end supply chain, instead of using department-based budget management.

Award-winning Arab Australian poet presents poetry that interrogates the bonds and borders of family, faith, queerness, and nationality.