Black and Green is a call to action for the Black community to join the green movement. The book offers insights, ideas, and strategies that demonstrate how Black people can benefit from this movement and also fuel the go-green effort. Ali builds on the premise that the call to "go green" has not quite resonated in the Black community and discusses several reasons as to why. Ultimately, he offers tangible benefits that Black colleges, churches, and even cities should be eager to e...

This book explores the vital role of urban green spaces in mitigating environmental challenges, enhancing urban sustainability, and improving the quality of life in densely populated cities. Based on extensive doctoral research, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of how urban greenery impacts air quality, temperature regulation, biodiversity conservation, and public health. By focusing on Kolkata, a rapidly urbanizing metropolis, the book offers insights that are applicable to o...

Man is a copy of existence and existence is a copy of man. All opposites meet in the human being.Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri and Shaykh Hosam Raouf have translated key passages from the writings of Sidi `Ali al-Jamal of Fes, Morocco (d. 1193/4 AH or 1779 CE), who was a great sage of the Shadhiliyya order.Sidi `Ali later became better known through his pupil, Moulay al-`Arabi al-Darqawi, one of the most celebrated eighteenth-century Sufi masters and foun...

This edited volume explores the evolving practices and essential role of health and science journalists as they cover topics like conflict, displacement, and global pandemics. Amid a changing media landscape and new communication technologies, journalists in various countries report facing similar key challenges, stressors, and threats to professionalism. Contributors identify and explore these shared challenges, including funding cuts, unrealistic expectations for productivity, public mis...

This book takes a hermeneutic approach toward reading the writings of Jamal al-Banna and Tariq al-Bishri across several decades in order to explore contemporary Islamic political thought under authoritarianism. Ebtisam Aly Hussein uses the framework of 'meta-languages', in relation to the writings of these two particular Islamic intellectuals, to examine how authority over the public sphere is established, in both religious and political terms. Chapters outline the major themes of Islamic ...

The little child's love for his unusual hobby increased as he got older. He used to insist on going almost every day to the old airport and staying there for many hours, to watch the aircraft taking off and landing. Those moments, We remember, were the happiest of his day. When he returned home, he used to recall every single detail of what he had seen.

In this moving audiobook, inspired by the author’s experience as a Syrian refugee, a child's profound love for his family's apple tree gives him courage when he must flee his homeland.When a young boy asks his parents why he doesn’t have a brother or sister, his mother replies that on the day he was born, they planted an apple tree in their front yard. “The apple tree is your sister,” she says. At night, the boy wraps a blanket around his sister's trunk and during ...

Since the early eighties, Ali Süleyman Üstünel has been one of the main contributors to the field of Malliavin calculus. In a workshop held in Paris, June 2010 several prominent researchers gave exciting talks in honor of his 60th birthday. The present volume includes scientific contributions from this workshop.Probability theory is first and foremost aimed at solving real-life problems containing randomness. Markov processes are one of the key tools for modeling that plays a vital ...

1999 is a year that will haunt me forever.No matter how hard I try to forget it, I just can't.My friends and classmates ask me all kinds of questions to try and make me explain the events of that year. And I always give a similar answer."What happened that year?"Don't ask what."Why are you scared of that year?"Don't ask why."How did you get this fear?"Don't ask how.Just.Ask.WHEN.