Summary: From the 2011 overthrow of a 30-year dictator, through military rule, and culminating with the forced military removal of the Muslim Brotherhood president in the summer of 2013, we follow a group of Egyptian activists as they battle leaders and regimes, and risk their lives to build a new society of conscience. The Egyptian Revolution has been an ongoing rollercoaster. Through the news, we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SQUSummary: The rise and fall of the New York Cosmos, America's first great soccer team, and its larger-than-life superstar, Pel.̌ The Cosmos kicked off America's first love affair with the world's most popular sport in the 1970s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONCAl Abed, Bana
Summary: When seven-year-old Bana Alabed took to Twitter to describe the horrors she and her family were experiencing in war-torn Syria, her heartrending messages touched the world and gave a voice to millions of innocent children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AL ABED, BANA ALAMES, WINTHROP, ED
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1974
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad's breathtaking work, a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage, follows the efforts of the internationally recognized White Helmets, an organization consisting of ordinary citizens who are the first to rush towards military strikes and attacks in the hope of saving lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grasshopper Film 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASAhamed, Liaquat.
Summary: "With penetrating insights for today, this history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s presents unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century." "In Lords of Finance, we meet the neurotic and enigmatic Montagu Norman of the Bank of England; the xenophobic and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 332.1 AHAPel©♭
Summary: The three-time World Cup champion celebrates the kick and thrill of his favorite sport, recounting his inspiring rise to fame as illustrations depict his life and the story of a young athlete's efforts to follow in his hero's speedy footsteps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Pele 2010Ahamed, Liaquat.
Summary: Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 AHAAhmedi, Farah.
Summary: Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AHMEDI, FARAH AHMAhmed, Azam
Summary: "This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 AHMTorres, El
Summary: Goya: The Terrible Sublime is a graphic novel inspired by Goya’s life, in particular focusing on his final years, as he struggles with assorted physical ailments that threaten to take his mind, as well. Recovering from a serious illness in Cadiz, Spain, which has left him deaf, Goya suffers from terrible headaches, high fevers, and hallucinations, beset by visions of death that will become all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TORAhmed, Qanta.
Summary: A female, British Muslim doctor describes her practice treating women in Saudi Arabia, where the harsh code of orthodoxy for women is contradicted by some of the private behavior of wealthy women, but imposes a harsh reality on poor women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.82 AHMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B AHMED AHMRashid, Ahmed.
Summary: Rashid examines the region and the corridors of power in Washington and Europe to see how the promised nation building in these countries has progressed. His conclusions are devastating: an unstable and nuclear-armed Pakistan, a renewed al Qaeda profiting from a booming opium trade, and a Taliban resurgence and reconquest. While Iraq continues to attract most of American media and military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.05 RASAhmed, Sara
Summary: "As long as feminists have existed, they have been accused of being "killjoys," "buzzkills," "party poopers," and "wet blankets." For having the audacity to insist on a more-just world, feminists are criticized for getting in the way of other people's happiness. In The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, renowned feminist theorist Sara Ahmed reclaims the feminist killjoy-showing how killing joy can be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 AHMRashid, Ahmed.
Summary: The terrorist attacks of September 11 have turned the world's attention to areas of the globe about which we know very little. The author turns his skills as an investigative journalist to the five Central Asian republics adjacent to Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.04 RASTamimi, Ahed
Summary: "What would you do if you grew up repeatedly seeing your home raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, if just for a moment, to imagine this was your life. How would you want the world to react?" Ahed Tamimi's father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family's life has been touched by it. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAMIMI, AHED TAMSabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Summary: In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B SABIC-EL-RAYESS SAB(BERT, DIANA, ET. AL.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1984
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Place a hold to request this item.Ammer, Christine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2001
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 423.1 AMM(BROWN, ALAN, ET. AL.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 MIC(Oberg, Erik, Et. Al.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 621.8 MACHFuchs, Arved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 FUCSHEED, WILFRID
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1974
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zed Books 1999