Book Description
Celebrates the diversity of life through the exploration of cultures around the world.
Author : Ettagale Blauer
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761431169
Celebrates the diversity of life through the exploration of cultures around the world.
Author : Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 183885519X
Previously published as Guantánamo Diary, this momentous account and international bestseller is soon to be a major motion picture The first and only diary written by a Guantánamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previously censored material restored. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay in 2002. There he suffered the worst of what the prison had to offer, including months of sensory deprivation, torture and sexual assault. In October 2016 he was released without charge. This is his extraordinary story, as inspiring as it is enraging.
Author : Boubacar N'Diaye
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781138059481
"Mauritania's Colonels examines the personalities and policy of five military officers turned heads of state who ruled Mauritania for nearly 40 years." -- from preface.
Author : Katherine A. Wiley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253036259
Although slavery was legally abolished in 1981 in Mauritania, its legacy lives on in the political, economic, and social discrimination against ex-slaves and their descendants. Katherine Ann Wiley examines the shifting roles of Muslim arāīn (ex-slaves and their descendants) women, who provide financial support for their families. Wiley uses economic activity as a lens to examine what makes suitable work for women, their trade practices, and how they understand and assert their social positions, social worth, and personal value in their everyday lives. She finds that while genealogy and social hierarchy contributed to status in the past, women today believe that attributes such as wealth, respect, and distance from slavery help to establish social capital. Wiley shows how the legacy of slavery continues to constrain some women even while many of them draw on neoliberal values to connect through kinship, friendship, and professional associations. This powerful ethnography challenges stereotypical views of Muslim women and demonstrates how they work together to navigate social inequality and bring about social change.
Author : Janet Fleischman
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781564321336
Author : Diane Himpan Sabatier
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 162273582X
'Nomads of Mauritania' aims at understanding the cultural identity (religious beliefs, language, values, relationships with others) of the Mauritanian nomads through their geographical environment, an original history, their lifestyle, caste system, diet, housing and crafts and how it is revealed by their art, materially expressed on the everyday objects and the body and defined for the first time as geometrical-abstract and respectively as ephemeral usual art and ephemeral living art. Furthermore, what has become of the nomads of Mauritania with the climate warming and the economic and cultural globalization and to what extent are they still the pillars and heart of the Mauritanian society of today?
Author : Brian Dean Curran
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Mauritania
ISBN :
Social, political, economic and governmental aspects of Mauritania.
Author : Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316517881
The acclaimed national bestseller, the first and only diary written by a Guantánamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previously censored material restored. When GUANTÁNAMO DIARY was first published--heavily redacted by the U.S. government--in 2015, Mohamedou Ould Slahi was still imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, despite a federal court ruling ordering his release, and it was unclear when or if he would ever see freedom. In October 2016, he was finally released and reunited with his family. During his 14-year imprisonment, the United States never charged him with a crime. Now for the first time, he is able to tell his story in full, with previously censored material restored. This searing diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir---terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. GUANTÁNAMO DIARY is a document of immense emotional power and historical importance.
Author : Boubacar N’Diaye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351671421
This book, the result of more than a decade of research, focuses on the socio-political dynamics and civil-military relations in a little studied country: Mauritania, located in the troubled North-western part of Africa. Boubacar N’Diaye brings into light the political evolution of this country which holds lessons for African politics, and could affect the future of the West African sub-region. Mauritania’s Colonels examines the personalities and policy of five military officers turned heads of state who ruled Mauritania for nearly forty years. After comparing and contrasting the personal traits, social origins, itineraries, and evolution as military officers, it critically evaluates the policies they enacted to address four key challenges their country faces. These are, namely, the difficult cohabitation between the country’s ethno-cultural communities, the illusive democratization and military withdrawal from politics, the judicious management of the country’s abundant natural resources to meet the socioeconomic needs of their people, and the prudent conduct of foreign policy given Mauritania’s location, straddling Arab North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. Showing the impact that each Colonel has had on the evolution of Mauritania, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of West Africa, African politics, civil-military relations and democratization processes.
Author : El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1793612668
In modern-day Mauritania, as in several multilingual states, tensions over language policy and identity between the two ethnic groups—Arab and afro-Mauritanian—have been flaring ever since the nation’s independence. In Language Policy and Identity in Mauritania: Multilingual and Multicultural Tensions, El Hacen Moulaye Ahmed investigates language policy and identity in this North African country. Moulaye Ahmed traces the past and the present Mauritania’s identities and language policies and reveals Mauritanians’ language policy preferences and the relationship between their identities and their preferences.