Author : Ahmet Yorulmaz
Publisher : Neem Tree Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781911107293
Fifteen generations of Hassanakis's family have been Cretan. After WW1, amidst rumours that Cretan Muslims will be sent to Turkey, Hassanakis worries he will have to leave behind his great love, the Greek widow Marigo, and his beloved homeland. He can't believe he will be sent to a country whose language he barely knows and where he knows no-one.
Author : Hale Adasal
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1447864689
In search of her ancestry one woman embarks on an epic journey, travelling back more than 5000 years to the ancient Altai Mountains, where she discovers not only her history ...
Author : David Yellin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1351812963
This wonderful resource from two authors with an infectious enthusiasm for children's literature will help readers select and share quality books for and with young children. Specifically focused on infants through the third grade, Sharing the Journey contains descriptive book annotations, instructive commentary, and creative teaching activities tailored for those important years. Extensive book lists throughout will help readers build a library of quality children's literature. Books representing other cultures are included to help celebrate diversity as well as cultural connection. Genre chapters include poetry, fantasy, and realistic and historical fiction. A chapter on informational books demonstrates how young children can be introduced to, and learn to enjoy, nonfiction.
Author : Jane A. Caballero,
Publisher : Green Dragon Books
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 1987-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0893345415
Songs from the Ivory Coast, clothes from Korea, food from Russia are all explored in this amazingly comprehensive encyclopedia of cultures. All children want and need to learn about the uniqueness that makes diversity so wonderful is here. Children Around the World contains recipes, activities, stories, games, vocabulary, maps, and flags from fifty-two countries throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, South America, and the Caribbean. Recently revised and updated, this book includes the recent political and geographic changes in Eastern Europ
Author : Gerhard Jaritz
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2005-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 6155053790
The volume contains selected papers from two conferences in 2003, at the University of Bergen (Norway) and at Central European University in Budapest. They deal comparatively with the communication of the Holy See with Northern Europe and Eastern Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages, both areas at the margins of Western Christendom. Special emphasis is placed on analysis of registers in the Apostolic Penitentiary.
Author : Egor Kovalevsky
Publisher : Amherst College Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1943208174
In 1847, Russian military engineer and diplomat Egor Petrovich Kovalevsky embarked on a journey through what is today Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia, recording his impressions of a region in flux. Invited by Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali to look for gold and construct mines in the area between the Blue and White Nile, Kovalevsky captured the social milieu of both elites and ordinary people as well as compiled a rich record of the Upper Nile’s climate and natural resources. A Journey to Inner Africa, masterfully translated into English for the first time by Anna Aslanyan, is both a tale of encounter between Russia and northern Africa and an important document in the history and development of the Russian imperial project. Contributions by Egor Kovalevsky, Anna Aslanyan, Sergey Glebov, David Schimmelpenninck, Mukaram Hhana, and Michal Wasiucionek
Author : Frances Trix
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781934536124
Baba Rexheb founded the first community of the Bektashi order in America. This ethnographic biography recounts his life through lived example and through stories collected during Frances Trix's more than twenty years of study with the dervish.
Author : James S. Kessler
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1483444821
There is no dearth of news, not always of the most cheerful sort, coming out of the broad geographic arc of the vast territory that once constituted the mighty Ottoman Empire. The Arab Spring continues to reshape regions, an economic crisis is tearing apart Greece, pirates off the Horn of Africa are terrorizing ships, and conflicts in the Caucasus and Balkans are simmering. In Echoes of Empire: An Accidental Historian's Journey through the Post-Ottoman World, James S. Kessler chronicles his travels through a dizzying array of cultures, religions, languages, and political systems found within many of the former Ottoman Empire's possessions in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Drawing upon his experience as a historian and educator, Kessler explores how the shared Ottoman past-and how that past is remembered-continues to play a role in the post-imperial present in the more than forty countries that constitute the post-Ottoman world.
Author : GW Staufenberg
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1524514330
The book is about a journey on four continentsEurope, Africa, Asia and the Americasalongside sharing my personal life story. With the subtitle, Beyond Native Boundaries, I suggest more than leaving home but leaving behind personal realities I was born into. Moreover, in the second part, I reflect on my experiences; here I share my observations made along the way.
Author : Alev Scott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1643131664
An exploration of the contemporary influence of the Ottoman Empire on the wider world, as the author uncovers the new Ottoman legacy across Europe and the Middle East. Alev Scott’s odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey’s borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800 years of rule ended a century ago—and yet, travelling through twelve countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that’s vital and relevant; where medieval ethnic diversity meets twenty-first century nationalism—and displaced people seek new identities. It's a story of surprises. An acolyte of Erdogan in Christian-majority Serbia confirms the wide-reaching appeal of his authoritarian leadership. A Druze warlord explains the secretive religious faction in the heart of the Middle East. The palimpsest-like streets of Jerusalem's Old Town hint at the Ottoman co-existence of Muslims and Jews. And in Turkish Cyprus, Alev Scott rediscovers a childhood home. In every community, history is present as a dynamic force. Faced by questions of exile, diaspora and collective memory, Alev Scott searches for answers from the cafes of Beirut to the refugee camps of Lesbos. She uncovers in Erdogan's nouveau-Ottoman Turkey a version of the nostalgic utopias sold to disillusioned voters in Europe and America. And yet—as she relates with compassion, insight, and humor—diversity is the enduring, endangered heart of this fascinating region.
