Arab Women Writers: An Anthology Of Short Stories
Consisting of sixty short stories by forty women writers from across the Arab world, this collection opens numerous windows onto Arab culture and society and offers keen insights into what Arab women feel and think. The stories deal not only…
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Product DescriptionThis series sets out to explain why the major wars of the 20th century started, to describe what happened, and to analyse how the results changed our world. Each title includes 24 maps which show how the battles and…
Dubai Club Players: Cheick Oumar Dabo
Product DescriptionPurchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Senior club appearances and goalscounted for the domestic…
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
ISBN13: 9780345384560 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description“An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers.”THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDIn this stunningly intelligent book, Karen…
Islamic Law and Finance:Religion, Risk, and Return
Product DescriptionMirroring the expansion of wealth in the Middle East and Asia and a surge in Islamic self-identity, Islamic banking practices have either become the law of the land or coexist and compete with Western practices in at least six…
The Arab Chest
Product DescriptionThis is the first exhaustive study of a piece of furniture that has been used in the Arab world for centuries, and on the East African coast since the early 1800s. The Arab chest caught the attention of expatriates…
Bridges To Islam: A Christian Perspective on Folk Islam
Product DescriptionIn the acclaimed book Muslim Evangelism, Phil Parshall devotes one chapter to “bridges which can assist in facilitating understanding between Islam and Christianity.” In Bridges to Islam he expands that key chapter into a book. The most promising bridges…
Saadiyat Beach Golf Club launches Summer Passport Programme
Abu Dhabi, 30 June 2010 – Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Beach Golf Club – with its Gary Player-designed Saadiyat Beach Golf Course – has announced its summer playing packages for golfers looking to hone their skills during the emirate’s warmer months….
Website of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Charity Foundation launched
Abu Dhabi, Jun 30th, 2010 –The Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Board Chairman of the Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Charity Foundation launched today special website of the foundation on the Internet in the presence of the Deputy…
Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World
Product Description Democracy-building efforts from the early 1990s on have funneled billions of dollars into nongovernmental organizations across the developing world, with the U.S. administration of George W. Bush leading the charge since 2001. But are many such “civil society”…
Internet by Country
Internet by Country: Internet in Thailand, .Eu, Internet in Greece, Internet in Tunisia, Dubai Internet City, Internet in Ethiopia Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can…
A History of Egypt: From the Arab Conquest to the Present
Product DescriptionEgypt occupies a central position in the Arab world. Its borders between sand and sea have existed for millennia and yet, until 1952, the country was ruled by foreigners. Afaf al-Sayyid Marsot explores the paradoxes of Egypt’s history in…
Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence
ISBN13: 9780143112365 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionA revelatory look at what happens when political Islam collides with the secular West Ian Buruma ‘s Murder in Amsterdam is a masterpiece of investigative journalism, a…
Salama, ADEC launch summer challenge in fight against epidemic of road death
collaboration with Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) and with the support of Yas Marina Circuit, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, President of the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE, has urged hundreds of high school students to accept responsibility for helping…
China’s outbound tourism may top 100 mn journeys in 5-10 years : WTTC
BEIJING, 29th June 2010 — China’s outbound tourists may reach or top 100 million holiday journeys in the next five to ten years, predicted the 10th World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC), recently held in Beijing. The WTTC also said…
