Showing results for "Digital Jihad" in Literature & Fiction

2011: Genau zehn Jahre nach dem Terroranschlag auf das World Trade Center regnen Trümmer und brennende Flugzeugteile auf Mekka...

Algeria, regione della Cabilia, inizio del XXI secolo. La guerra civile infiamma il paese. I ribelli sono presi tra i due fuochi dell'Esercito nazionale islamico e delle fazioni integraliste che soffocano ogni libertà. Il villaggio di Aitldja viene attaccato, la giovane Fatima, sorella del ribelle Djamal, subisce le violenze di un mercenario francese, Max Tannart. Francia, un anno dopo. Il Partito nazionale è al potere, e impone con le sue milizie l'ordine "ultraliberale", facendo la guerra agli immigrati che sbarcano clandestinamente sul territorio.

>i>Keyboard Jihad is an attempt to rectify some of the misperceptions and misrepresentations of Islam and Muslims that resulted from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This book is a collection of original essays that were written over the years by Abdul Karim Bangura. These essays were not compiled to defend Islam-a deen, meaning in Arabic a complete way of life. Rather, Keyboard Jihad seeks to dispel common misperceptions and misrepresentations of Islam that can lead to prejudice and racism.

A former inmate, who is now an assistant stock broker and a part-time gang counselor, details his life on the inner city streets of Atlanta as a notorious drug dealer, vividly recreating the his struggle to break the cycle and walk the straight and narrow.

This is a story of a girl born to LA's rich and elite. She's known simply as Baby Girl. After the sudden and tragic murder of her father, Baby Girl and her mother are forced to give up their lives and go on the run. Soon they end up living on the streets among Atlanta's homeless, where Baby Girl's mother does whatever she has to do to make sure her daughter wants for nothing. Soon they befriend Shabazz, a white, heroin-addicted scam artist who thinks he is black, and his best friend Ben Franklin, an old scholarly alcoholic that carefully analyzes everything and everyone.

Rhythm is a college student in DC who learns of Moses King, the man who started the Disciples, the largest street gang in Chicago. She reads his court case, and the inconsistencies in his trial transcripts leads her to write him, asking him if he really did kill the Black Chicago congressman Perry Homes and rape his wife, Fiona. It seems unlikely; Moses started the Disciples to make a positive impact on the Black community.

Charles Dean is retired from the military, determined to be done with that part of his life. But when Julie Giraud, the daughter of his old commander, seeks him out, he can’t say no to a simple lunch. What she has in mind isn’t quite so simple. She wants Dean to help her kill the terrorists who murdered her parents. She offers him three million dollars and the chance to avenge his commander’s death. But all is not as it seems, and before long Dean and Giraud must use all their skills just to stay alive....

Three men who have a way with the ladies struggle to keep their heads when each finds that love is more important than sex.

Connaissez-vous le fou qui était sage ? Il se nomme Nasreddine Hodja et ses brèves histoires ont fait le tour du monde. Nasreddine est un personnage dont la célébrité dépasse les siècles, les générations et les âges. Il est connu dans le monde arabo-musulman sous différents noms : en Turquie, Iran et Pakistan, il est Nasreddine Hodja ; dans le monde arabe, il s'appelle Djeha, Jiha, Goha, Ch'ha... Dans d'autres lieux, il est l'idiot, le simple ou le fou-sage. Un livre audio de plus de 50 histoires tout en sagesse, à la lisière de l'absurde et de la raison.