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If I touch the Depth of Your Heart ...

If I touch the Depth of Your Heart ... ab 125.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: The Human Promise of Poetry in Memories of Mahmoud Darwish. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,

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The Olive Branch from Palestine (eBook, ePUB)

Israeli settlements are proliferating in Palestinian territory, and if they are annexed, the possibility of a future Palestinian state is virtually impossible. Could it have been otherwise? Can it still be? These are the questions Jerome M. Segal poses in The Olive Branch from Palestine. Carefully argued and highly informative, this book is centered on an original strategy that Segal devised-a strategy adopted but only partially implemented by Palestinian leadership, leaving its feasibility untested. The first step of this strategy was the issuance in November 1988 of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence. That document, authored by Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish and modeled on Israel's own Declaration, called for a Palestinian state that would live in peace with Israel. In The Olive Branch from Palestine, Segal provides in the first part an analytical and historical study of the 1988 Declaration, a remarkable act of unilateral peacemaking through which the PLO accepted the legitimacy of the 1947 Partition Resolution and thereby redefined Palestinian nationalism. In the second part, he proposes a new strategy based on solutions to the two core issues of 1948: the preservation of a Jewish state, and the rights and circumstances of Palestinian refugees. With The Olive Branch from Palestine, Jerome Segal offers a new narrative of the peace process and details a Palestinian-led strategy that could end the conflict.

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No Place Like Home

Place of refuge, place where we can be ourselves; place we long to escape from, place where we are confronted by absence and loneliness; shabby downtown apartment or idyllic country cottage. Like it or loathe it, home is where we do most of our living. Home is, of course, many things to many poets. It is Billy Collins's favourite armchair and Imtiaz Dharker's 'Living Space' in the slums of Mumbai. It is Wordsworth's 'dear Valley' of Grasmere, and Philip Larkin's Coventry, that place where nothing so famously happens. It may be somewhere we long for, perhaps unattainably: Ovid and Mahmoud Darwish lament their home countries, Kapka Kassabova seeks 'a house we can never find', while Jules Supervielle is 'Homesick for the Earth'. There is an abundance of domestic life. Attend a miserable breakfast chez Jacques Prévert; observe Wendy Cope and partner happily 'Being Boring'. Cut to Anna Barbauld's washing-day, Marilyn Nelson dusting, Buson mending his clothes and Fiona Wright contending with a Tupperware party. Peep in on Amy Lowell in the bath and John Donne in bed, Auden in the privy and Joy Harjo at the kitchen table. Here are removals and homecomings, neighbours good and bad. Inevitably, after a year of enforced domesticity, some lockdown thoughts (Anna McDonald, Pauline Prior-Pitt); Mary Oliver's dream house, Naomi Shihab Nye's homes where children live, the far-from-safe houses of U. A. Fanthorpe, and some final reflections on the idea of a dwelling place from Rumi, Emily Dickinson, John Burnside, Vinita Agrawal, Derek Walcott, Les Murray and Iman Mersal. It may not always be sweet, but there is certainly No Place Like Home.

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INFLIGHT (Book #2) (eBook, ePUB)

About the Book Series,INFLIGHTBook #2Ex-CIA Jon Bradley 3-Series Thriller INFLIGHT, Book #2, continues with the action-oriented plot of dangerous and intriguing, multi-dimensional characters, revolving around a family sharing a terrorist bloodline, including their agenda of personal vendetta. Ex-CIA operative, Jon Bradley, is swept into investigating the sudden, brutal homicide of his mentor and friend, Eugene Lewek, the former Vietnam, CIA agent, suspected of being the local Mossad's Sayan asset, which leads him to question Joanne Ross, one of Lewek's last contacts. The latter, abandoned and abused as a child, grows up to be a narcissist psychopath, who is obsessed with discovering the identity and whereabouts of her elusive parents, both of whom have a shady past. Enters the scene, Khaleed al Abbasi, alias Pierre al-Khoury, the spurned son of the fugitive Hezbollah's mastermind, set forth on his agenda of family revenge. On the personal front, Jon Bradley assists the NYPD Sex Crime Division in the investigation and the arrest of the NBA celebrity, James Wainsford, the alleged rapist of his lady friend, Samantha Clarke, an attorney in the D.A.'s office. On the last day before exiting his FBI's Counterterrorism posting after being re-assigned to the CIA's Middle-East Division, Jonathan Bradley is drawn into a hostage crisis created by the homegrown terrorist cell led by Youssef Hariri, who is determined to avenge his father's death at the hands of the Mossad. Mohammed al Abbasi, in reality, Imad Darwish, a former powerful Lebanese Christian politician, and businessman, known by his infamous name of "Surq" - the Falcon, is presently active, moving from Iran to far-off African regions of Sudan-Uganda-Kenya-Somalia, inciting the tribes to sectarian infighting and revolts against the governments, facilitated by his illegal weapons and drugs trafficking. Jonathan resolves his true identity and plans to hunt down the mastermind. This, in turn, leads him to investigate the disappearance of the femme fatale MI6 field agent, Claire O'Neal - Jon's one-time lover - during his last operation, Mermaid, in Beirut, Lebanon. To summarize, the 3-part series of the Terror Bloodline abounds with terror-cell plots, personal conflicts, rape, vengeance, pedophilia, betrayals, murders, and illegal arms & drug trafficking, mingled with deceit and dangerous interplay by the FBI, CIA, Mossad, and MI6. Fields of Action: Beirut, Lebanon - New York City - London - Jerusalem.

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