"East or West Humans Seek the Best" is a powerful, timely book that delves into the ideological and historical clash between two global titans: the United States and China. More than just a geopolitical analysis, it's an exploration of two competing visions for humanity's future, one based on individual freedom and the other on state-led efficiency. The book goes beyond simple headlines to explore the "American Century" and China's "century of humiliation," revealing how these historical n...

Just like people around the world have done for generations, Arab people from the Middle East and North African (MENA) region have immigrated to various nations around the world. A number of ‘push’ factors account for why groups have left their homeland and ‘pulled’ to another nation to settle. The history and patterns of Arab migration out of the MENA illustrates the wide array of reasons for these patterns, primarily illustrating that mass emigration and settlement are highly linked to a...

Mina è una giovane ragazza di appena diciannove anni. Vive in un paese fuori città e ogni giorno prende il treno per recarsi all’università, dov’è iscritta al primo anno di Filosofia. Qui, durante una lezione, conosce Sara, una ragazza dolce e introversa che un po’ le somiglia. Tra le due nasce una bellissima e fortissima amicizia che le porterà a sostenersi a vicenda.Sono passati alcuni anni, Sara è diventata un ricordo sempre presente nei pensieri di Mina, che oggi disegna abiti p...

Advances in technology have enabled medicinal chemists to discover and formulate several highly specific, biocompatible, and non-toxic therapeutic agents for clinical applications. Nanotechnology has achieved significant progress in the last few decades and is crucial in every field of science and technology. Nanotechnology-based pharmaceuticals offer multifaceted and alternative methodologies in comparison to the limitations of many conventional clinical therapies. Expertise in designing ...

In this book, Robert K. Beshara applies decolonial film theory to an analysis of Youssef Chahine's (1997) *Al-Masir (Destiny).***Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory is the first book on decolonial film theory, which unpacks key concepts in decoloniality and decolonial aesthetics. Decolonial film theory is then applied to Youssef Chahine's (1997) historical drama al-Ma*?*ir in an effort to juxtapose the Egyptian filmmaker (Chahin...

Naval Institute Press and the United States Army Journal, Armor is pleased to offer a unique collection of essays highlighting Iraq’s social, political and military history from a purely Iraqi perspective. Dr. Ali al-Wardi (1913-1995) attended the American University of Beirut in 1943 and then traveled to the United States to attain his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Sociology at the University of Texas in 1948 and 1950 respectively. He would return to Iraq and spend a career te...

هدفت الدراسة إلى التعرف على الإدارة في المنظور الاستراتيجي المعاصر، وتوجيه الضوء على واقع العمل الإداري في المؤسسات والمنشآت وهل تتوفر في الإداريين مهارة التغيير التنظيمي، وتمثلت مشكلة الدراسة في التساؤل الرئيسي الآتي: ماهية الإدارة في المنظور الاستراتيجي المعاصر؟ واستخدم الباحث المنهج الوصفي التحليلي من أجل تحليل نتائج الدراسة، وقد تمثل مجتمع الدراسة من ١٠٠ فرد من القادة الإداريين في المؤسسات والمنشآت المتنوعة، وقام الباحث باستخدام طريقة العينة العشوائية من خلال توزيع الاستبانة على المبحو...

Advances in technology have enabled medicinal chemists to discover and formulate several highly specific, biocompatible, and non-toxic therapeutic agents for clinical applications. Nanotechnology has achieved significant progress in the last few decades and is crucial in every field of science and technology. Nanotechnology-based pharmaceuticals offer multifaceted and alternative methodologies in comparison to the limitations of many conventional clinical therapies. Expertise in designing ...

The semi autobiographical work chronicles the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to find work as peddlers in Lower Manhattan. After mixed success at immersing themselves in American culture, the two return to the Middle East at a time of turmoil following the Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire. Khalid attempts to integrate his Western experiences with Eastern spiritual values, becoming an absurd, yet all too serious, combination...

Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Brains Confounded pits the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbīnī describes the three rural “types”—peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervish—offering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day, with a 47-line poem suppos...