After a lifetime of disillusionment with love, a woman's beliefs are shattered by a profound personal crisis. In her despair, she engages in a direct and starting conversation with God, challenging the very nature of existence, loneliness, and faith. This philosophical journey culminates in an unexpected pact: forty days to rediscover love and meaning alongside the divine being she has come to question, forcing her to confront her own brokenness and find a new way to live.As her da...

A queer Palestinian refugee plans to come out at his elaborate birthday dinner party in this tragicomic modern reimagining of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.Firas Dareer wakes up on his twenty-third birthday with a sense of purpose: today he’ll jump from a Stage 3 to a Stage 6 in his self-determined Coming Out Scale, professing his sexuality to a captive audience of immediate and extended family, friends, acquaintances, coworkers, and neighbours. But despi...

Through Loss is an intimate memoir that captures the raw emotions of losing a loved one and the slow, fragile process of healing. With honesty and heartfelt detail, Lívia Saadi takes readers through the depths of grief, the power of memory, and the unexpected ways hope can return.This is not just a story about sorrow, but about resilience, love, and rediscovering life after tragedy. Written with vulnerability and courage, it speaks to anyone who has faced loss and is searching for ...

Pluviophile veers through various poetic visions and traditions in search of the sacred within and beyond language. Its poems continually revitalize form, imagery and sonancy to reconsider the ways we value language, beauty and body. The collection houses sonnets and other shorter poems between larger, more meditative runes. One of these longer poems, “The Place Words Go to Die,” winner of The Malahat Review’s 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry, imagines an underworld whe...

Saadi is one of the greatest figures of classical Persian literature. His best-known work of poetry is the ‘Bustan’ (The Orchard), composed entirely in epic metre and consisting of stories illustrating the standard virtues recommended to Muslims, as well as offering reflections on the behaviour of dervishes and their ecstatic practices. Saadi also wrote the ‘Gulistan’, a prose collection featuring stories and personal anecdotes. The text is interspersed with a variety of short poem...

"The Famous and Influential Arabs in Chicagoland" is a persuasive book that accentuates the resolute contributions of Arab leaders, professionals, and visionaries who have sculpted the region's cultural, economic, and intellectual terrain. Through conscientiously curated interviews and convincing narratives, this book analyzes the Arab-American community's steadiness, innovation, and influence in Chicagoland. It spotlights the historical expansion of their presence and the socio-political ...

These days, the real meaning of photography has blurred out like an out of focus picture. There is a misconception of what is photography is really about. There are people who have forgotten the purpose of photography and then there are those who did not even know the purpose in the first place. Whether its camera basics or professional level photography, people have become ignorant of the true meaning and purpose of this amazing art. I believe that this thing has ruined the professional p...

In recent years there has been an explosion of curiosity and debate about Islam and about the role of religion, both in the world and in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The numerous books published on these questions speak to issues of politics, history, or global security. None speaks to the heart and the spirit, and yet millions of people experience these issues not as political, economic, or intellectual questions but as questions of deep spiritual, emotional, and religious significance....

This book highlights and addresses a crucial need in the emerging field of Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) by offering a comprehensive and accessible guide that blends theory, algorithms, and applications. It explores how the synergy between machine learning and scientific computing can lead to more accurate, interpretable, and efficient models for scientific discovery. The book covers foundational mathematical principles, physics-informed neural networks, optimization techniques, unce...

The Silence of the World is a powerful exploration of the ongoing genocide and atrocities in Gaza and Palestine. This thought-provoking book delves into the harsh realities faced by Palestinians, exposing the human suffering and systemic oppression endured for decades. It raises the critical question: Why does the world remain silent in the face of such injustice? Through compelling insights and an unflinching narrative, the book challenges readers to confront the global indifference and r...

An in-depth, by examples ,look to the forgotten powerful tool .The jsonb type, We will learn 'Jsonb' type true usefulness when we have complex tables with complex columns that contains composite data types, where conventional build of columns is of no use , and use of 'Jsonb' is the solution. In this book chapters we will get to know the: 1- Build of a jsonb . 2- The operators used in queries, and their uses. 3- How to run complex queries on columns with composite types. 4- How to run diff...

Voices from the Middle East on the fight for self-determination.Much of the present discourse about the pro-democracy Arab uprisings of 2011 paints a bleak picture of their defeat. But the truth is more complicated, and moments of struggle and inspiration still recur despite the overwhelming odds against the movements’ success.This collection of short comics documents the political and social unrest in the Middle East during the 2010s, in such places as Leb...