It's all about the pond we're fishing in

Many years ago, a group of people established a secret organization to protect the world from the devil thoughts, corruption, human traffic, slavery, ignorance, etc.With time, this secret organization started to be known as the TEMPLE, and the people who are serving inside it was called the KNIGHTS.The only way to get inside the TEMPLE is to be recruited from inside, the advisors each year was and still recruiting people from all around the world to achieve the Temple high ...

Involved for over thirty years in the politics of Iraq, Ali A. Allawi was a long-time opposition leader against the Baathist regime. In the post-Saddam years he has held important government positions and participated in crucial national decisions and events. In this book, the former Minister of Defense and Finance draws on his unique personal experience, extensive relationships with members of the main political groups and parties in Iraq, and deep understanding of the history and ...

"You say, the times are troublesome, the times are burdensome, the times are miserable. Live rightly and you will change the times. The times have never hurt anyone. Those who are hurt are human beings; those by whom they are hurt are also human beings. So, change human beings and the times will be changed."—St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 311, 8Growing up on the northernmost edge of the African continent, young Augustine had never known a l...

This book is a transcription of extensive interviews between Professor Ali A. Allawi and Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri, conducted in South Africa during January-February of 2014.In them, Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri discusses his life story, the spiritual journey and the path he has been on ever since.Professor Allawi’s questions highlight Shaykh Haeri’s life-changing encounters with Sufi Masters and other spiritual teachers and his travels and teaching with Sufi communities.Dra...

The first major biography of the founder of modern Iraq, a charismatic champion of Arab independence and unityBorn in 1883, King Faisal I of Iraq was a seminal figure not only in the founding of the state of Iraq but also in the making of the modern Middle East. In all the tumult leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of new Arab states, Faisal was a central player. His life traversed each of the important political, military, and int...

Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self. The most disturbing and possibly fatal of these currents—the imperial expansion of the West into Muslim lands and the blast of modernity that accompanied it—are now compounded by a third giant wave, globalization.These for...

This book joins four papers prepared in the framework of the Egypt inequality study financed by the World Bank. The first paper prepared by Sherine Al-Shawarby reviews the studies on inequality in Egypt since the 1950s with the double objective of illustrating the importance attributed to inequality through time and of presenting and compare the main published statistics on inequality. To our knowledge, this is the first time that such a comprehensive review is carried. The second paper pr...

ALEXIS LERIGER DE LA PLANTE and NATASHA TARA PETROVIC bring their popular webcomic OPHIUCHUS to Image Comics! OPHIUCHUS is the story of the lone sentry of an ancient, inactive gate. One day, a strange being breaks through and infects her with a virus. And shortly after, she is approached by two machines, who implore her to follow them to the center of the universe to put an end to that virus a malevolent being which rots all worlds.

Ramadan is almost here! It's Zain's favorite time of the year.Well, it usually is. After a recent move and with no mosque or Islamic school in his new neighborhood, will Zain find a new Muslim friend to celebrate with him?Children will learn what makes the ninth Islamic month special from pre-Ramadan decorating, the importance of fasting and volunteering in the community, and the festivities and prayers that continue through the month, ending with ...

A woman wakes up in the bed she shares with her now husband. They enjoy a lazy Sunday morning together.

The most popular gamer on YouTube, Ali-A, presents his very own action-packed graphic novel!It’s launch time for the hotly anticipated video game Alien Liberator 2, and who better to invite along than top gamer Ali-A? Ali is promised the biggest game launch ever—but what he doesn’t count on is just how real the action is about to get!When a merciless band of aliens turns up to spoil the party, it’s up to Ali to transform from gaming icon to real-li...