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As someone who has a foot in both the Western and Arabic worlds, Amal set out to explore the lives of Arab women both in Australia and the Middle East, travelling to the region and interviewing more than 60 women about feminism, intimacy, love, sex and shame, trauma, war, religion and culture. Beyond Veiled Cliches explores the similarities and differences experienced by these women in their daily lives - work, relationships, home and family life, friendships, the communities they live in and more.

On a brief visit to Cairo to support an investigation her fiancé, a Jewish American journalist, has undertaken, Salma is caught up in the machinations of a new, radical Islamist group with a vendetta against her father, a man with his own dark side. A former lover and Islamist, kidnaps her. He forces her to flee with him from Cairo to Aswan in the far south of Egypt. As they navigate the backroads, Salma, a privileged Egyptian American, finds herself hiding under a burqa, running desert sandstorms and relying on the goodwill of poor villagers.

Zwei Feindinnen in einer Zeit des Krieges. Verbotene Nachrichten, heimlich ausgetauscht auf den verlassenen Schlachtfeldern. Und eine ganz große Liebe, die Raum und Zeit überwindet. Amal El-Mohtar und Max Gladstone verbinden in diesem Kurzroman in wunderbarer, poetischer Sprache eine weltumspannende Zeitreisegeschichte mit einem Liebesroman in Briefform.

Ten years after the bloody events of season one, the Kingdom of Awadh is now being ruled by an iron hand by Maharani Sukanya. It's an uneasy peace she has fostered, which has led to minor rebellions in remote parts of her kingdom. The absence of the magical forces of Mayawar hasn't gone unnoticed by Sukanya's enemies. Awadhpuri Palace is torn from the inside, and loyalties continue to shift.

Quand l'ambition et la tradition tuent l'amour... Boussoura et Seini forment un couple moderne qui vit à Yaoundé. Il est médecin, elle est professeure de littérature. Une famille épanouie jusqu'au jour où tout bascule quand Seini est rattrapé par son passé. Fils de roi, il est appelé à prendre la succession. Malgré les réserves de son épouse, l'attrait du pouvoir est le plus fort. Devenu lamido, commandeur des croyants et garant des traditions et de la religion, il se transforme en roi tout-puissant.

Eight years ago, Sahar pursued her happily-ever-after when she married Khaled and followed him to Jordan, leaving behind her family, her friends and a thriving cake business. But married life didn’t go as planned, and, haunted by secrets, Sahar has returned home to Sydney without telling her husband. With the help of her childhood friends, Sahar hits the reset button on her life. She takes a job at a local patisserie run by Maggie, a strong but kind manager who guides Sahar in sweets and life.

The lake in the middle of her father’s kitchen is only the first in a series of disasters in Zeina’s life. Nassar’s recent health crisis has seen his well-established community restaurant, Casablanca, losing ground and customers to trendier competition. Casablanca’s deterioration is not the only chaos in Zeina’s world but, unlike her husband who won’t speak to her, her best friend who is sliding towards self-destruction, and her cousin who is stealing Zeina’s life story for content, the restaurant is something she can fix. And Zeina, lonely and adrift, needs something she can fix.

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, journalist Amal Awad was keenly aware of the unseen forces at play in her life - like superstition, fatalism and magical jinn. From religious devotion to New Age love and light, Amal has tried a lot. While this doesn't make her an expert in healing lives, it does make her a well-versed one, fluent in the boundless healing modalities on offer in our retail universe.

Moving past the divides of faith and reason, of religion and spirituality, of history and politics, Beyond Materialism is a striking vision of a balanced and life-affirming future.

Helping you become the leader everyone loves!Most new leaders feel more self-doubt and stress than they're used to feeling. New managers shouldn't have to struggle alone to become great leaders! In The Happy Leader Podcast, Amal shares her years of experience as a leadership coach to help new and emerging managers and leaders feel less stressed, more confident and energized.She shares engaging stories, and actionable tools to help listeners overcome the four most common challenges for new leaders:1. Feeling Confident2. Communicating Clearly and Directly 3. Holding People Accountable4. ...

King Leo and the Feast is a delightful story of a cat named King Leo who decides to serve a magnificent feast. Invitations are sent far and wide, but those who accept are quite a surprise! Come to the king's table, where pink kangaroos and tangerine lions sit side by side, where all are called to come and to eat. Welcome to the world of King Leo!

Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar. With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales, and lyrical prose.

പുതുകാലത്തിന്റെ മാധ്യമമായ ഫെയ്‌സ്ുക്ക്ഉപയോഗിച്ചു നടത്തുന്ന ചതികളും അതില്‍ പെട്ടുപോകുന്ന നിസ്സഹായരായ മനുഷ്യരുടെ വേദനകളുമാണ് ഈ നോവല്‍ പറയുന്നത്. പുറമേ തമാശയുടെ നനവുണ്ടെങ്കിലും അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര തല ത്തില്‍ വേരുകളുള്ള ഒരു വലിയ തട്ടിപ്പുസംഘത്തിന്റെ അടിവേരുകള്‍ ഈ നോവല്‍ ചുരുളഴി ക്കുന്നുണ്ട്.

Welcome to my first podcast , I hope you enjoy listening to it!

The number of people who have been forcibly displaced continues to increase alarmingly; as of mid 2022, the UNHCR has reported that for the first time on record, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide has surpassed 100 million. This is a staggering figure in itself, but another tragedy of the enormity of this number is that it often overshadows the fact that every one of those 100+ million is a distinct individual who has had their life irrevocably altered and their inspiring story tends to be buried under the statistics. During the first edition of the Migration Summit in 2022, we ...

In Women of the Middle East Podcast, Dr. Amal attempts to bridge the worlds of academia and activism. Tapping into her unique position as a Qatari scholar with an international reach and credibility, she offers women an audiovisual platform to discuss the topics that are most relevant to them beyond cultural filters and historical stereotypes. The podcast is also set to educate and empower the younger generation of Middle Eastern women, who were stripped of their historical references and weren’t raised to believe in their agency and power to create their own destiny.

A.MAL hosts talks and workshops with artists, scientists and researchers to explore questions of ecology, globalisation and the arts with a big focus on Morocco, but expanding out across the diaspora and the locations of our community.From artist talks and recorded zoom chats, to seminars with expert speakers and more intimate conversations, listen to a range of ideas and practices using art, imagination and creativity as catalysts for reflection and hope. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A collection of thoughts from my first book and all the work that went into it.

The podcast about state-of-the-art research on polymer and soft matter science. The show is hosted by Amal Narayanan, mostly joined by researchers, academicians, and industrialists. With them, Amal explores the latest research themes, futuristic ideas, the journey behind who they are now, what they want to be, and their advice for you. Amal Narayanan, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University working on Cellular Membraneless Organelles Contact Amal: amalnarayanan@thesoftmattershow.com Check out: thesoftmattershow.com amalnarayanan.weebly.com

Amal talks about Youth and other topics that interest them in this thought provoking series of Podcasts. Conversations are in Arabic about topics that matter to women, parents and youth in the Arab world. I will interview adults and youth from all across the Arab world in conversations to share their experiences with us. I want to talk about topics that are important to youth and don't usually have the chance to talk to anyone about. We will be talking in Arabic and it's an opportunity for youth to listen and talk in Arabic as nowadays they are exposed to more English.