Автор: Rafiq, Fiaz Название: Muhammad ali ISBN: 190971593X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781909715936 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Muhammad Ali is one of the most remarkable sports personalities and celebrities of our time. He is a legend who transcended boxing and rose above all sport. A man of mythic proportions, Ali rose to become a prominent feature of our cultural landscape.
Through exclusive accounts from family members, close friends, associates and adversaries, Fiaz Rafiq has compiled a compelling and intriguing insight into a sporting legend. Muhammad Ali's story is an epic one, one of bravery, courage, hope, skill and indomitable will. Muhammad Ali: The Life of a Legend is an oral biography of the greatest icon of world sport who continues to influence millions.
Among those interviewed include, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Chuck Wepner, Joe Bugner, Angelo Dundee, Don King, Jim Brown, Lou Gossett Jr., Dr. Harry Edwards, Butch Lewis, Sugar Ray Leonard, Evander Holyfield, some close family members and some of the top sports journalists who worked with Ali, and many more.
Автор: Rafiq Husseini Название: Exiled from Jerusalem: The Diaries of Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi ISBN: 1838605398 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838605391 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 17424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The diaries of Dr Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi offer a unique insight to the peculiarities of colonialism that have shaped Palestinian history. Elected mayor of Jerusalem - his city of birth - in 1935, the physician played a leading role in the Palestinian Rebellion of the next year, with profound consequences for the future of Palestinian resistance and British colonial rule. One of many Palestinian leaders deported as a result of the uprising, it was in British-imposed exile in the Seychelles Islands that al-Khalidi began his diaries.
Written with equal attention to lively personal encounters and ongoing political upheavals, entries in the diaries cover his sudden arrest and deportation by the colonial authorities, the fifteen months of exile on the tropical island, and his subsequent return to political activity in London then Beirut. The diaries provide a historical and personal lens into Palestinian political life in the late 1930s, a period critical to understanding the catastrophic 1948 exodus and dispossession of the Palestinian people.
With an introduction by Rashid Khalidi the publication of these diaries offers a wealth of primary material and a perspective on the struggle against colonialism that will be of great value to anyone interested in the Palestinian predicament, past and present.
"When your views are at odds with the system, how do you walk your talk? What does it mean to live ethically in a world at war?"
Disillusioned with the religious and political models of the 9/11 age, Rafiq asks a question that we all face in our desire for authentic lives: how can he remain in the world and still be true to himself?
His quest for an answer carries him to a job at an Islamic university in Indonesia, where the US embassy is looking for terrorists, and then to the Sufi communes of northern India in search of the mystical. It pulls him into the trenches of 9/11 truth activism in Montreal before immersing him in the peyote ceremonies of the Huichol shamans of Mexico.
"Days of Shock, Days of Wonder" is the eye-opening true story of one man's confrontation with the spiritual and cognitive dissonance of our times - and how at last he escapes Babylon to find wisdom in the earthbound ways of the ancients.
Praise for "Days of Shock, Days of Wonder"
"If Kerouac or Bukowski had shunned alcohol for cannabis, encountered Sufism, and faced 9/11 truth and its implications, the result might have looked a bit like this. An engrossing read and an important document of our time." Kevin Barrett, author of "Truth Jihad" and "9/11 & American Empire"
"Rafiq narrates a twofold journey of discovery, describing how the 9/11 attack was engineered by the Bush administration and why humanity needs to replace religion, based on an external God, with devotion to the divine as a unifying force that lives in all of us." David Ray Griffin, author of "9/11 Ten Years Later" and "God Exists, although Gawd Does Not"
"This book links one man's luminous journey with a nation's crisis of identity and waywardness in the aftermath of the state crime that was 9/11. Rafiq gives us a deeply engaging account of arriving on the other side of a new awareness of our world from which there is no returning. Having shared this experience, I drew much solace and inspiration from his lyrical meditation on choice, doubt, determination, and resolve." Matthew Witt, co-editor of "State Crimes against Democracy"
Hear an interview with Rafiq about the book at http: //noliesradio.org/archives/109522.
Watch Rafiq's 2008 Parliament Hill speech at https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4hFZgR8VIU.
Автор: Kathwari Rafiq Название: My Mother`s Scribe: Poems and Tales ISBN: 9382579761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789382579762 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2206.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Rafiq Kathwari is a dangerous man. A poet of family history, of geopolitics, he breaks down walls and leaves glittering shards whose beauties make you weep for what is and what could be. This is poetry that expects tears and earns them. From a mother's heart-wrenching madness to a nation's lost paradise, the words confront change without flinching. Experience the alchemy by which art draws solace from suffering, resolution from desolation.
- Gerald Jonas, poet, longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, book reviewer and art critic for The New York Times.
Here is a threading together of loss: The Kashmir that Rafiq Kathwari spins together, held by poetic legacy so as to stop the essence of Kashmir from slipping through, is not a place but a prayer. Each line of My Mother's Scribe draws on poetry's miraculous capacity to reveal what the head finds so hard to hear from the heart.
- Justine Hardy, Founder, Healing Minds Foundation which supports Kashmiris who are mentally scarred by the violence and conflict.
At the heart of these poems, there remains an absent center, celebrated in song, wept over in exile: Kashmir, a homeland reduced to a battleground, its people subjected to endemic violence. A profound sadness inhabits these poems, yet so too do a continuity of affection, a lineage of hope. I leave you with the word Mouje: Mother, mother country.
- Ranjit Hoskote, curator who translated I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded (2011).
My Mother's Scribe gut-punched me. The poems are sensorial. You step into them, watching events unfold. The writing is crisp and delectable; Rafiq's own wit shines through to help navigate the painful burden of the maternal legacy that resides at the heart of these poems. Rafiq captures his mother's worldly vanities, endearing her to the reader. The apple does not fall far from the tree-this is a Kashmiri apple at that.
- Ather Zia, author of Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir (2019).
My Mother's Scribe is not some mealy-mouthed requiem for a departed materfamilias but a madcap homage to someone with imagined links to the makers and shakers of her era. Kathwari does for poetry what Marquez, Kharms and Vonnegut did for prose. He lifts his readers into the extraordinary, with his own precious brand of humour and grace.
- Gabriel Rosenstock, Irish poet and thaumaturgist.
Автор: Rafiq, Fiaz Название: Bruce lee ISBN: 1909715956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781909715950 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Labels such as `icon` or `legend` are rarely attached to one individual to the degree that they are to Bruce Lee. He only made a handful of films, yet four and a half decades after his untimely death at the age of 32, the Little Dragon`s influence on culture is as strong as ever.
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