Showing results for "Ibrahim" in Literature & Fiction

Yarima Lalo believes he has been murdered twice before. The cause? Love. To make sense of these vivid memories he cannot shake, he travels from Abuja to Kano with his new friend and love interest Aziza to meet an old woman who he might have known in a past life. She is skeptical at first - and hesitant to revisit painful memories of her own - but together, they dig deeper and deeper into the past, piecing together a shared history with ripple effects that could shape Lalo’s future.

Kay Lynn Brooke is a wife and mother in Berkeley, California, building a solid future with her husband and family. Then on December 7, 1941, the bombing of Pearl Harbor throws Kay Lynn’s life, and the lives of everyone she knows and loves, into chaos.

Moments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father.

في زمن الأندلس، حيث ينبض فكر ابن رشد حيًا، ليُلهم الأجيال عبر العصور، نعيش مع قصة حبّ مُتخيّلة بين ابن رشد وفتاة قرطبية تُدعى لبنى، لنتعرف على تفاصيل حياته...

In the technologically advanced city of New Olympia, Dan Walton is a brilliant scientist who has achieved great success in his professional life, but still feels unfulfilled and lonely. Seeking adventure and purpose, he sets out on a journey that will take him to the far reaches of time and space.

Logan Gruver doesn't mean to commit the first murder in history. But now, he has introduced violence millennia early, escalating humanity's destruction, and is about to go on trial for the first time-travel murder ever.

1915. May and Naomi are extended family, their grandmothers’ lives inseparably entwined on a Virginia plantation in the volatile time leading up to the Civil War. For both women, the twentieth century promises social transformation and equal opportunity. May, a young white woman, is on the brink of achieving the independent life she’s dreamed of since childhood. Naomi, a nurse, mother, and leader of the NAACP, has fulfilled her own dearest desire: buying a home for her family. But they both are about to learn that dreams can be destroyed in an instant.

Jenn Henderson is proud of the church-centered life she's created for her family. She prays each morning, attends worship every Sunday, and confidently takes up the struggle to defend traditional marriage when she learns marriage licenses are being issued to gays and lesbians in nearby San Francisco. But the certainty that she is living right falters after her teenage son, Josh, swallows a bottle of sleeping pills. Her fear deepens when she discovers that Josh struggles with same-sex attraction. If she's living right, how can Josh be gay?

Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband’s first wife - a paper wife. On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the strength to endure the treacherous journey and detainment on Angel Island. But when she finally reaches San Francisco, she’s met with a surprise. Her husband, Chinn Kai Li, is a houseboy, not the successful merchant he led her to believe.

Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth's beloved nurse. The women have an unlikely bond deeper than friendship. Three years after the Civil War, Lisbeth and Mattie are tending their homes and families while Jordan, an aspiring suffragette, teaches at an integrated school. When Lisbeth discovers that her father is dying, she's summoned back to the Virginia plantation where she grew up.

It's 1894. Jordan Wallace and Sadie Wagner appear to have little in common. Jordan, a middle-aged black teacher, lives in segregated Chicago. Two thousand miles away, Sadie, the white wife of an ambitious German businessman, lives in more tolerant Oakland, California. But years ago, their families intertwined on a plantation in Virginia. There, Jordan's and Sadie's mothers developed a bond stronger than blood, despite the fact that one was enslaved and the other was the privileged daughter of the plantation’s owner.

‘We may look the same, but I am not you . . . We share nothing but a reflection in the mirror’ 'A bold, intriguing act of imagination' - Aube Rey Lescure, Women's Prize-shortlisted author of River East, River West ‘Beautiful, thought-provoking and meaningful’ - Nussaibah Younis, author...

Südchina, 1923. Eine arrangierte Ehe mit einem Witwer in Kalifornien ist für die junge Mei Ling die einzige Chance, bitterer Armut zu entkommen. Unter dem Namen seiner ersten Frau tritt sie die strapaziöse und oft demütigende Seereise an. Liebevoll kümmert sie sich dabei um das kleine Waisenmädchen Shiya. Doch endlich im chinesischen Viertel von San Francisco angekommen, erlebt Mei Ling eine herbe Enttäuschung.

Bereits Augenblicke nachdem Lisbeth geboren ist, wird sie ihrer Mutter weggenommen und Mattie übergeben, einer jungen Sklavin, die man von ihrem eigenen Kind getrennt hat, damit sie dem Baby als Amme dienen kann. So beginnt eine intensive Beziehung, die das Leben der beiden Frauen auf Jahrzehnte hinaus prägen wird. Obwohl Lisbeth ein privilegiertes Leben führt, findet sie bei ihrer überforderten Mutter und ihrem distanzierten Vater, der Sklaven hält, nichts als Einsamkeit.

Ohio, 1868: Lisbeths Vater liegt im Sterben. Um ihn noch einmal zu sehen, reist die junge Frau zur Plantage Fair Oaks, wo sie einst aufgewachsen ist. Doch in Virginia scheint die Zeit stehengeblieben. Ihre Familie glaubt immer noch an die Ideale der Südstaaten und kann ihr nicht verzeihen, dass sie sich den Werten des freien Nordens verschrieben hat. Auch die entflohene Sklavin Mattie Freedman, einst Lisbeths geliebtes Kindermädchen, ist auf dem Weg nach Fair Oaks. Sie will eine Verwandte in den sicheren Norden bringen. Mattie reist nicht allein.

كيف كانت تعرف، لترسل ضحكتها الفاجرة تهدر هكذا في عز الصمت؟ تختار أوقاتاً يكون فيها الكرب قد سكن واحدة من حجرات البيت أو أكثر، وتطلقها، قارحة، لتزرى بالمصائب،...

تعدّ رواية "مالك الحزين" أحد أشهر وأهم الروايات العربية المعاصرة، ومؤلفها هو إبراهيم أصلان أحد أهم الأدباء المصريين المعاصرين... كتب إبراهيم اصلان هذه الرواية في...

An illicit affair between 55-year-old widow Binta Zubairu and 25-year-old weed dealer and political thug Hassan "Reza" was bound to provoke condemnation in conservative Northern Nigeria. Brought together in startling circumstances, Binta and Reza discover a need that only each can satisfy in the other.

Der elfjährige Moses lebt allein mit seinem Vater, einem verknöcherten Rechtsanwalt, in Paris. Täglich kauft er in Monsieur Ibrahims Laden ein, dem Araber in der Rue Bleue, die so wenig blau wie Monsieur Ibrahim ein Araber ist. Zwischen dem alten Mann und dem Jungen, der am Haushaltsgeld spart, um zu den Huren zu gehen, entspinnt sich eine wunderbare Freundschaft.

İbrahim Kalın'ın Ben Öteki ve Ötesi isimli eseri, İslâm ve Batı’nın iç içe geçmiş tarihinin ana hatlarını ele aldığı, siyasî, askerî ve toplumsal ilişkileri ortaya koymayı amaçladığı bir çalışmadır. Bu podcast serisi ortaya konan bu çalışmanın sesli dökümüdür.