Summary: Zaman and his wife Najma have built their happy life together in a house of reeds. When Najma falls ill, the doctor tells them she needs surgery or some medicine he does not have. Zaman sets off in his boat and journeys to Baghdad for the cure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZAMSummary: "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 ADRHossain, Saad Z.
Summary: "Welcome to Baghdad during the US invasion. A desperate American military has created a power vacuum that needs to be filled. Religious fanatics, mercenaries, occultists, and soldiers are all vying for power. So how do regular folks try to get by? If you're Dagr and Kinza, a former economics professor and a streetwise hoodlum, you turn to dealing in the black market. But everything is about to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Unnamed Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSSummary: Sixteen-year-old Nisha lives a double life. When out with her friends, she's a regular Norwegian teenager. At home with her family, she is the perfect Pakistani daughter. But when her father catches her alone with her boyfriend, Nisha's two worlds brutally collide. To set an example and escape the judgment of their peers, Nisha's parents send her to live with extended family in a small town in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHASummary: FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANContents: Dastgah of Mahour (Ahmad Ebadi, setar) (9:18) -- Avaz of Bayate Esfahan (Mohamad Heydari, santour) (7:33) -- Avaz of Afshari (Asghar Bahari, kamancheh) (3:10) -- Dastgah of Shour (Khatereh Parvaneh, voice) (10:51) -- Dastgah of Chahargah (Houshang Zarif, tar) (4:42) -- Dastgah of Homayoun (Hassan Kassayi, nei) (4:24) -- Dastgah of Segah (Ali Tajvidi, violin ; Nasser Effetah, drum ; Hossein...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian/Folkways Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST CLAAwad, Amal
Summary: For as long as humans have existed, we have consulted everything from the stars to stones with symbols on them. Growing up in an Arab Muslim family, SBS journalist and TEDx presenter Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - superstition, fatalism and magical jinn were more real to her than any Hollywood fantasy. From fundy (aka fundamentalist) Muslim to New Age...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Murdoch Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 204.092 AWASummary: A pair of siblings from London purchases a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price. Soon they're caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night--this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR UNIAlarnam, Imad
Summary: "This book is a celebration of how food has the power to bring people together. From the traditional dishes that my mother first taught me to cook, to the imaginative food that has become my own, my recipes tell my story. Enjoy them simply on their own or pile your table high and gather with family and friends. come, join the feast, and let me share with you the unforgettable flavors of my...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2024
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Summary: Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 297.082 KAMDigitonal
Contents: Proverb We three Autumn round Beltane Anaethmatics It doesn't matter Luna Polestar Eighteen
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Just Music 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIGHusseini, Suzanne
Summary: Husseini presents a mouthwatering collection of Arabian recipes celebrating the sumptuous cuisine of the Middle East. Authentic, simple, elegant and moder, these recipes encompass the colors, scents and flavors of Arabia.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Appetite by Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5956 HUSItal.
Summary: 2012 debut from Daniel Martin-McCormick AKA Ital. Hive Mind uses House's easygoing 4/4 structure as a kind of camouflage for more out-there sonic explorations, subverting expectations, seeking the links between Dub's space- and sound-bending, Industrial's unsettling sonics and the effects and black holes of Minimal at its weirdest. The album has a sculptured feel: sounds twist in space while...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Planet Mu 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC ITAObama, George Hussein.
Summary: This is a memoir of George Obama, President Obama's Kenyan half brother, who found the inspiration to strive for his goal--to better the lives of his own people--in his elder brother's example.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, GEORGE OBACMAT.
Contents: California (4:05 min) -- Phone Me (3:24 min) -- Vincent Kompany (3:01 min) -- Such A Miranda (2:35 min) -- Rent (4:42 min) -- Where Are Your Kids Tonight? / feat. John Grant (5:26 min) -- Can't Make Up My Mind (4:24 min) -- Whatever's Inconvenient (4:27 min) -- I... Hate Who I Am When I'm Horny (5:13 min) -- Torn Apart (3:20 min) -- Stay For Something (3:36 min) -- Have Fun! (4:30 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CMATBABY 2023
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CMACmat
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CMA'Omoumi, Hossein
Contents: Dastgâh-e homâyun (28:15) -- Avâz-e dashti (13:02) -- Dastgâh-e châhârgâh (28:44).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nimbus Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST NOMHossein, Robert
Summary: When her husband is killed by bandits, a woman seeks revenge and turns to an old friend for help.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2015
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY WESTERN CEMHussain, Nadiya
Summary: "The host of the beloved Netflix series Time to Eat and Nadiya Bakes and winner of The Great British Baking Show returns to her true love, baking, with more than 100 delicious, Americanized recipes for sweet treats. When Nadiya Hussain, the UK's "nationaltreasure," began cooking, she headed straight to the oven--which, in her home, wasn't used for baking, but rather for storing frying pans! One...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2021
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Summary: "The Great British Baking Show winner and host of Time to Eat shares more than 100 recipes for family meals, complementing such series favorites as Instant Noodles and Peanut Butter & Jelly Traybake with time-saving and make-ahead tips.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.555 HUSHussain, Anika
Summary: Best friends Zara and Adnan navigate the twists and turns of fake dating, family dynamics, and cultural stereotypes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC HUSHussain, Nadiya
Summary: "Nadiya Hussain, winner of The Great British Baking Show, knows that what we bake depends on the day of the week and what mood we're in. In Nadiya's Everyday Baking, Nadiya shares nearly 100 simple and achievable recipes for breakfast, dinner, dessert, and everything in between. Organized by situation and occasion, Nadiya's recipes are designed to always provide for a delicious, rewarding meal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2022
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Summary: "A touching story about a little boy whose worry monster follows him everywhere he goes. It's there when he gets dressed, when he wants to play with his toys, and even when his friends come over to visit. How can he escape his worries?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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Contents: Planets -- Blue road -- A marionette -- Sea's pasture -- Epilogue
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022