Alghoul, Asmaa
Summary: "Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, against the threats of prison, violence, and death, faced with misogyny and repression, Asmaa Alghoul has spoken her truth by any means necessary. She has continued to live and to love, to laugh, to write, to dream, and to protest. In this moving memoir of growing up in Gaza with a hunger for freedom and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALGHOUL, ASMAA ALGSummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRJawharīyah, Wāṣif
Summary: "The memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh are a remarkable treasure trove of writings on the life, culture, music, and history of Jerusalem. Spanning over four decades, from 1904 to 1948, they cover a period of enormous and turbulent change in Jerusalem's history-Ottoman rule, the British mandate, and the run-up to the founding of the state of Israel-but change lived and recalled from the daily vantage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAWHARIYAH, WASIF JAWSummary: "Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.03 AFRMachado de Assis
Summary: Em 1881, Machado de Assis lançou o romance que seria um divisor de águas não só em sua obra, mas na literatura brasileira. A prosa fragmentária e livre de Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, misturando elegância e abuso, refinamento e mau gosto, causou estranheza na época, inclusive entre a crítica. Com o tempo, o defunto autor que dedica sua obra ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes de seu...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 469.3 MACKassin
Contents: Comprimidos demais -- Relax -- Estricina -- Momento de clareza -- O anestesista -- Sua sugestao -- A paisagem morta -- Digerido -- Serio o donut -- As coisa que nos nao fizemo -- Enquanto desaba o mundo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Luaka Bop 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN KASSlime
Contents: Thurible -- Striding edge -- Hot dog / ft. George Maple -- My company -- In one year -- Symptoms -- The way of asprilla -- At sea again / ft. Selah Sue -- Patricia's stories / ft. Jeremiah Jae -- Down and tell.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Weird World Record Co. 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SLINassif, Thiago.
Contents: Soar estranho-- Pele de leopardo-- Voz Única foto sem calcinha-- Plástico-- Feral fox-- Trepa trepa-- Transparente-- Cor-- Rijo jorra já-- Santa
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Gearbox records 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NASTaleb, Nassim.
Summary: Not all swans are white, and not all events are predictable. Taleb shows that black swans, like 9/11, cannot be foreseen and have an immeasurable impact on the world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 003.54 TALTaleb, Nassim.
Summary: "The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Yaqub, Salim.
Contents: Part 1: Lecture l. A meeting of two worlds -- Lecture 2. Wilson & the breakup of the Ottoman Empire -- Lecture 3. The interwar period -- Lecture 4. U.S. & the Middle East during World War II -- Lecture 5. Origins of the Cold War in the Middle East -- Lecture 6. Truman & the creation of Israel -- Lecture 7. Eisenhower, the Cold War & the Middle East -- Lecture 8. The Suez crisis & Arab...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.73 YAQHassib, Rajia
Summary: The affluent Al-Menshawy family find their American dream shattered when a devastating turn of events leaves their eldest son and their neighbor's daughter dead, and, becoming pariahs in their upscale New Jersey community, they struggle to keep their family together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HASHassib, Rajia
Summary: "A powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters--their divergent fates and the secrets of one family Sisters Rose and Gameela Gubran could not have been more different. Rose, an Egyptologist, married an American journalist and immigrated to New York City, where she works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gameela, a devout Muslim since her teenage years, stayed in Cairo. During the aftermath of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hassib 2019Taleb, Nassim.
Summary: "The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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Summary: Examines the role of the unexpected, discussing why improbable events are not anticipated or understood properly and how humans rationalize the black swan phenomenon to make it appear less random.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Weston, Randy.
Contents: African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 1 (3:16) -- The healers (10:44) -- African cookbook (17:13) -- La Elaha-Ella Allah/Morad Allah (6:39) -- The call (6:12) -- African Village Bedford-Stuyvesant 2 (8:26) -- The seventh queen (16:35) -- Blue Moses (11:57) -- African sunrise (19:50) -- A prayer for us all (5:16).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Antilles 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ WESAbboud, Samer Nassif
Summary: In this fully revised second edition of his acclaimed text, Samer Abboud provides an in-depth analysis of Syria's descent into civil war, the subsequent stalemate, and the consequences of Russian military involvement after 2015.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Polity Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.91 ABDFassin, Didier
Summary: "Adapted from the landmark essay Enforcing Order, this striking graphic novel offers an accessible inside look at policing and how it leads to discrimination and violence. What we know about the forces of law and order often comes from dramatic episodes that make the headlines, or from sensationalized versions for film and television. These gripping accounts can obscure a crucial aspect of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2 FASKassis, Reem
Summary: "The Arabesque Table takes inspiration from the traditional food of the Arab world, weaving Reem Kassis's historic research and cultural knowledge with her contemporary interpretations of an ancient, remarkably diverse cuisine. Organized by primary ingredient, the recipes and vivid photographs bring the dishes to life while her narrative offers not only a sense of taste, but a sense of time and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon Press Limited 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5953 KASNashif, Kais
Summary: When a young Palestinian man, who has never done any creative writing in his life, as a result of unlikely circumstances becomes a screenwriter for a popular soap opera, an Israeli officer at the checkpoint that he passes daily, whose wife is a big fan ofthe show, agrees to help him with the plot ideas in exchange for a promise that the series will end with a wedding, but the Palestinian...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TELBader, Bonnie
Summary: "Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses. Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy. As First Lady she restored the once neglected rooms of the White House to their former glory, and through her charm and elegance became a style icon whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KENLassig, Jürgen.
Summary: A newly hatched spinosaurus wanders away from his nest into the forest and encounters many of the dangers and pleasures that lurk there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC LASContents: Ramajana / Muharem Serbezovski & Ansambl Crni Diamanti -- Kada zvona zvone / Šaban Bajramović & Ansambl Miodraga Mitrovića-Bate -- Pe romnasa o Miro turisti đelo / Hajra Sučurija & Ansambl Kud Ibar -- Đurđevdan, Đurđevdan / Esma Redžepova & Ansambl Teodosievski -- Amen sama but Roma / Duet Đurić-Runjaić & Sekstet Dušana Radalića -- Ramu, Ramu / Muharem Serbezovski & Ansambl Meda Čuna -- Selime...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013