Readers Club Selections: 2024
World Politics, Human Rights, and International Law Kindle Edition
By: Francis Boyle
World Politics, Human Rights, and International Law examines the functional dynamics between these concepts based upon the author's professional experiences dealing with real world situations, problems, and crises: from the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations; Iraq, Iran,...
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness - Arabic Edition
By: Hani Yared
Heart of Darkness follows one man's nightmarish journey into the interior of Africa. Aboard a British ship called the Nellie, three men listen to a man named Marlow recount his journey into Africa as an agent for the Company, a Belgian ivory trading firm. Along the way, he wi...
Culture and Imperialism
By: Edward Said
Following his profoundly influential study, Orientalism, Edward Said now expands his scope to explore the cultural component of Western imperialism. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to the media coverage of the Gulf War, Culture and Imperialism is a broad, fierce an...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 's Half of a Yellow Sun
By: Fatma Naoot
A masterly, haunting novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independ...
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
By: Mahmoud Abdelghaffar
The Vegetarian is Han Kang’s international breakthrough novel which won the International Booker prize in 2016, and contributed no doubt, to her 2024 Nobel Prize. It is the story of a middle aged Korean woman who one night suddenly decides not to eat meat anymore. The veget...
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Online discussion of The Vegetarian by Han Kang Nobel Prize winner 2024
November 08, 2024
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Art Auction: Support Palestinian Families in Gaza
October 18 - 20, 2024
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Book discussion:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 's Half of a Yellow Sun
September 28, 2024
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 's Half of a Yellow S...
Edward Said – Culture and Imperialism
July 27, 2024
Discussion of Edward Said's Culture and Imperi...