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Portugal, 1486: Europe is emerging from the Dark Ages, and new lands are being discovered every day. But the East is still unchartered territory… Oblivious to the invasions, massacres, and religious fanaticism that characterize the fifteenth century, a young girl falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader. But all eyes are on the Portuguese fleets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on securing the profitable spice trade. Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous historical events with stories of love, honor, and nobility, while guiding us around the world of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah, and Istanbul.

The Holy Sail

The blockade of Qatar, which was launched in June 2017, has not only had important long-term implications for life in Qatar, it has also cast a giant shadow over future relations between Gulf neighbors and has impacted on dynamics across the wider international community. In this volume, 15 Doha-based scholars and experts offer insider accounts of the ways the blockade has influenced Qatar’s economy, politics, and society; how it has impacted on regional and international diplomatic, security, and strategic relations; and how it has been covered in traditional and social media outlets. These reader-friendly contributions are complemented by a series of photographs that provide an illuminating visual record of events. The result is an unmatched chronicle of the dynamics of the blockade in its first year that will appeal to experts and general readers alike.

The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar

How do you begin a career to ensure that it is driven by passion and purpose? And if you’re already down a certain career path and could start all over again, would you? In both cases, how do you distinguish yourself from other employees and rise to the top? How can you actively participate in shaping your career based on your personal goals, instead of blindly following the path set before you? As a management consultant who has worked in several senior managerial positions in numerous major companies within various industries, author Maryam Ibrahim Al Mansoori has collected various pearls of wisdom that can enlighten anyone looking to evaluate their own career choices. Her impressive CV more than qualifies her as an inspiring mentor to anyone at the onset or at a crossroads in their career. The 4ourth Floor is a must-read book that offers expert career counsel based on years of experience that can help you critically consider your own career and how the choices that you are making today are defining your future.

The Fourth Floor

Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré Palestinian community in other countries of the Middle East. Amiry mixes nostalgia with anger while mocking Israeli doublespeak that seeks to wipe out any trace of a Palestinian past in West Jerusalem. She juxtaposes serial bombardments and personal tragedies, evokes the sights and smells of Palestinian architecture and food, and weaves for us the tapestry that is the Palestinian reality, caught between official histories and private memories. Through poetry and prose, monologue and dialogue, we glimpse the lost Palestinian landscape, obscured by the silent battle between remembering and forgetting.

Golda Slept Here

Ibrahim recounts his past as the son of a family of farmers and landowners in Kirkuk: an idyllic place, where a mosaic of people from many different places and regions lived together and were neighbors in every sense of the word. But things changed with the start of the Iran-Iraq War when Ibrahim was conscripted into the Iraqi army to fight for Iraq. After the war, he left the country to escape the political tensions, ending up teaching Arabic Literature in Libya, then in Qatar. Passing through these countries accentuated Ibrahim’s memories of home, as did his sadness at each successive wave of violence that engulfed it and his memories.

Waves

Gardening in Arabia: Ornamental Trees in Qatar and the Arabian Gulf features over 70 types of ornamental trees and palms that are grown in our beloved country, Qatar, and in other Arabian Gulf countries. These are trees and palms that have shown their ability to thrive in this unique and challenging climate, and range from Acacias to Washingtonia palms. Here you will find the scientific name of every tree and palm, along with their English names, and a full description of each. There is useful advice on where, when and how to cultivate these trees and palms in your own garden, and how to treat their most common pests and diseases. The uses of each plant is also featured. Stunning photographs throughout will allow you to recognize the trees and palms and to enjoy their remarkable beauty.

Gardening in Arabia: Ornamental Trees of Qatar and the Arabian Gulf

It features 35 types of fruit trees and plants that are grown in our beloved country, Qatar, and in other Arabian Gulf countries. These are trees and plants that have shown their ability to thrive in this unique and challenging climate, producing luscious fruits of exceptional flavor. Trees and plants detailed in this book range from bananas to strawberries. There is a special section on date palms, an essential part of Middle Eastern culture and diet for millennia. Here you will find the scientific name of every tree and plant, along with their English names, and a full description of each. There is useful advice on where, when and how to cultivate these trees and plants in your own garden, and how to treat their most common pests and diseases. The use of each plant is also featured. Stunning photographs throughout will allow you to recognize the trees and plants and to enjoy their remarkable beauty.

Gardening in Arabia: Fruiting Plants in Qatar and the Arabian Gulf

Omar is an orphaned Palestinian born into chaos, who only has one thing to hold on to: a love that propels him forward and gives him hope. Nadia is maturing into womanhood in a refugee community in Damascus. Can she cope with the tough realities of her world and break out of her traditional social mold to create her own destiny? Heart-breaking and moving, Bitter Almonds is about displacement and exile, family duty and honor, and the universal feelings of love and loss.

Bitter Almonds

With a career in international politics and diplomacy that spans decades, Dr. Hamad Al-Kawari offers his unique perspective to the complex social and political issues facing Qatar and the Arab world. A mixture of personal stories, professional biography, and intellectual observations, The Global Majlis covers themes ranging from methods of negotiation to cultural diplomacy, education, art and literature, and the path to freedom. In doing so, Dr. Al-Kawari offers cultural solutions to pressing political and social dilemmas seen in both the Middle East and the world at large, such as injustice and intolerance.

The Global Majlis

When Sami Amara’s father suddenly dies, he is confronted with a past that he never knew existed: a mysterious girl, now woman, and promises unfulfilled. Single mother Petra Haddad has grown accustomed to a life of routine, predictability and…loneliness. When a lawyer calls her up to discuss the will of a man she never even knew, her world is turned upside down. Thrust together by fate, as their lives and histories entangle and intertwine, will they be able to forge a shared future together or will fate once again intervene?

Lost in Thyme

When one of Kuwait’s richest businessmen unexpectedly contacts author Taleb Al Refai, he has an unusual request: write a biographical novel that traces his ascent from poverty into the upper reaches of Kuwaiti society. As fact mixes with fiction, Alrefai is torn over whether writing such a book compromises his integrity as a writer. Alrefai is soon plunged into a world of enormous wealth, soaring ambitions, and frustrated love. It’s not only Alrefai’s reputation at stake: there are powerful people who don’t want this novel to be written, and they will stop at almost nothing to prevent it. Will Alrefai write the book? Will the forces lining up against him allow it?

Outclassed in Kuwait

Should entrepreneurship be guided by morals or by turning a profit? This book explores this question and highlights the necessity for an immediate response to create a balance between the traditional and modern fast-moving economies, using the State of Qatar as an example.

Localizing Entrepreneurship

In April 2016, Dr. Nasser Al-Mohannadi became one of the first Qataris ever to complete a full Ironman race. He swam 3.8km, biked 180km and ran 42.2km on one of the most difficult Ironman courses in the world. It was the fulfillment of a childhood dream and the climax of 28 years of preparation and training. In this book, Al-Mohannadi shows how he overcame childhood fears, cultural misunderstanding, and physical injuries to reach his goal. Through careful planning, persistence, and learning through mistakes, he achieved what seemed impossible.

How to be an IRONMAN

A reflection on the importance of school leaders’ role amidst the ENE reform and the progress that has been made by the implementation of the reform despite several challenges that school leaders and teachers have encountered.

Qatari School Leadership Portraits

Art therapy is rapidly expanding across the Arabian Peninsula. This book showcases the works of pioneering art therapists in the region who integrate and adapt Western psychotherapeutic models whilst adhering to culturally responsive practice, capturing innovative treatment protocols reflective of differentiated psychological and cultural needs. More importantly, it provides a voice to a cross section of a community from a region that is often misunderstood and muted on the global stage. This book is surprisingly the first of its kind for the region and provides a window to art therapy within this cultural context, its challenges and its strengths. It is informative and benefits mental health professionals, educators, students, and anyone with an interest in expressive therapy.

Making Its Mark: Art Therapy in the Arabian Peninsula

This book reveals the intricacies of inter-civilizational relations between Northern and Southern countries and details the resultant mistreatment of Southern nations. It discusses the North’s centralizing and condescending approach that has greatly harmed both stability and peace in the modern world. Starting with the author’s own personal experience and proceeding to offer a succinct historical overview, the West’s blatant disregard for many contributions from other human civilizations – including the Arab-Islamic civilization – appear in stark contrast. Having worked in the fields of diplomacy and culture for decades, the author aims to remind this generation of Arabs of their own heritage, hitherto overshadowed by conflicts and neglect of their role in building human civilization. The author calls for building bridges instead of erecting barriers and a completely new approach to relations between the North and the South; a message which resonates globally.

«Bridges, not Barriers» is already in circulation in Arabic, German, French, Spanish, and Farsi.

Bridges, Not Barriers

A man’s dying wish unearths a tumultuous past and brings together two lost souls searching for the missing pieces that will make them whole again…each other. When a horrific terrorist attack rocks the airport, Sami Amara happens to be transiting through, it triggers a chain reaction of events which threatens to jeopardize everything he holds dear, including his relationship with his fiancée, Petra. From international diplomatic strife to local scandal, Sami finds himself embroiled in a thrilling conspiracy that ripples further into the lives of his American-Palestinian family and everyone around him. It is a race against the powerful political elite, and this time, everything is at stake. Found in Thyme concludes the whirlwind journey of Lost in Thyme.


Found In Thyme

As the need for economic growth takes a salient role in the political discourse of society's welfare and progress, the middle class, as a social grouping existing within socioeconomic structures, has a multiplier effect - politically and culturally. The middle class serves a vital role in supporting a country's growth through stimulating economic development and promoting a politically engaged society. By examining Vietnam and Serbia as ideologically attuned countries which differ in economic development, the author draws on functionalist, dimensional paradigms to underline how critical the rise of middle class is in understanding the political stability of modern societies before concluding that society's sub-social challenges and cultural determinants do affect the course of development and growth. This comprehensive study will appeal to social scientists with interests in political stability, ideological states and development narratives.

The Centrality Of Middle Class

This book briefly encompasses all of the routine Quality Control (QC) tests required for Computed Tomography (CT), Fluoroscopy, Radiography, Mammography, Dental Intraoral, Panoramic, Cephalometric, and CBCT systems. It is intended to guide medical physicists through each QC test starting from its purpose and the list of tools required, to the setup of the X-ray equipment, the measuring process, and the interpretation of the results. For each tested parameter, reference and limiting values are cited to allow for the identification of mis-adjustments or malfunctions requiring corrective actions. The QC tests also include the comparison of median values of patient dose indices from data derived from the dose monitoring system with the Diagnostic Reference Level values (DRLs) to test whether the clinical use of each system is optimized.

Quality Control Procedures for Diagnostic X-ray Equipment

An abridged version of the Introductions of Muhammad Tahir bin Ashur (d. 1393 AH/1973 CE) popularly known as Ibn Ashur to his Tafsir Al-Tahrir wa Al-Tanwir. Muhammad Bin Hamad Al Thani Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization, had so far been publishing translations of classical works of the Islamic civilization. Owing the expansion of their work's scope, they have now included works which might not be termed classical in the general sense of the word, but which are certainly imbued with that sense of classicism. Ibn Ashur's Al-Tahrir wa Al-Tanwir is one such work in their estimation, and merited translation into English and publication owing to its comprehensive nature and significance. Qur'anic studies has long since become an important research area among the Islamists of the West and the modernists if the Muslim world, in addition to its permanently paramount status in the eyes of Muslim scholars.

The Great Books of Islamic Civilization: On Qur'anic Exegesis

An insightful examination of the various communication strategies that Qatar has undertaken in recent times to enhance its brand image and engage in practices of nation-branding. Through analysis of contextual examples, this book explores the role of reputation, identity and image in shaping Qatari domestic politics, along with its foreign policies. The book explains advances in relevant technologies including Artificial Intelligence, as well as best communication practices learned from the private sector. The authors relate in detail how Qatar invented, re-invented, and solidified its image, and the benefits emerging from Qatar's communication strategies on a domestic and global level.

Qatar Communication Strategies

The great majority of the world’s two-hundred plus legally sovereign states are small. The conventional view among scholars and policymakers has been that size is the determining factor of state-behavior and that the lack of surplus capabilities in small states limits their capacity to act autonomously both at home and abroad. The co-authors of this scholarly and accessible work acknowledge the constraints of “smallness.” Small state vulnerabilities are very real and smaller state actors tend to be more preoccupied than their larger counterparts with immediate security concerns and their own survival. At the same time, this book argues for a more nuanced view of small states. In doing so, the authors frame their discussion in terms of the extensive and constantly evolving theoretical literature on small states. They also draw on a wide range of small state case studies, with a special focus on the recent blockade of Qatar, to analyze the opportunities as well as challenges that small states must deal with as economic and foreign policy actors in the contemporary global system.

Overcoming Smallness

The Simply Said series offers balanced views and reliable explanations on complex issues in several categories. Leading authorities provide clear, consise, and up-to-date information to simplify even the most complicated subjects for general readers. Perfect for students, professionals and inquisitive individuals. In What You Should Know About Cybersecurity, key terms relating to this vast field are defined and explored. Case studies and their implications are presented to provide context of how cybersecurity can affect people in their personal and professional lives.

What You Should Know About: Cybersecurity

As the scents of cooking waft through her small apartment in Beirut, our heroine is confronted by memories of the past. They are as much a part of her as the jagged scar on her neck that she dutifully hides, and the invisible scars that mar her soul that she doesn’t need to. For three days, she toils. And with the familiar scents, the same as those from the village she left behind, her secrets unfold, drawing a picture of a tumultuous life lived in a small town full of contradictory feelings and conflicting ideas, amidst blood and tears. In her preparations, our heroine relives the past believing it a new start, and reconciliation with all life. But how can she reconcile with the thing she hates the most: herself?

Bitter Oranges

This study tackles two of the most important topics from an Islamic and human perspective. The first subject is medicine, which centers on human beings and the appropriate methods to maintain their physical and mental health, perserve progeny and provide the suitable treatment. Fulfilling this objective necessarily contributes to protecting property and wealth. Actually, both medicine and religion provide healing and mercy; however, religion is distinguished by a broader and more inclusive share of such mercy and healing. The Quran reads: "We send down the Quran as healing and mercy to those who believe" (Surat Al-Isra, 17:82).

Universal Principles of Islamic Bioethics

The Simply Said series offers balanced views and reliable explanations on complex issues in several categories. Leading authorities provide clear, consise, and up-to-date information to simplify even the most complicated subjects for general readers. Perfect for students, professionals and inquisitive individuals.

What You Should Know About: Anti-Corruption

What You Should Know About: White-Collar Crime

Josephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid. She meets Rashid, and with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of the Gulf War growing louder, Rashid abandons her and sends her home with their baby son, José.
Brought up struggling with his dual identity in the Philippines, José clings to the hope of returning to his father’s country when he turns eighteen. Will his Kuwaiti family live up to his expectations? 
Al Sanousi crafts a captivating saga that boldly deals with issues of identity and alienation.

The Bamboo Stalk

Medhat is an orphaned boy who grows up shuttling between various farming families in the beautiful province of Sharkia, east of the Nile Delta.  What was intended to be a brief visit for the five-year-old to Ismailia, a beautiful and cosmopolitan city in the Suez Canal zone, ends up being the beginning of a nomadic life no one could have imagined. Medhat’s journey takes him across the many landmarks of Egypt and beyond, all the way to Vienna where he discovers that his feelings of displacement still haunt him to the core. In a narrative that interweaves aspects of Egyptian folklore, epic prose, and classical literature, the author skillfully presents the conflict between the man in exile who reflects longingly on his history and origins, and the village boy who belonged nowhere.

After Coffee

Diets don’t work. If you want to lose fat, get healthier and feel more confident, it’s time to stop dieting and fall in love with food that is truly good for you! A Beautiful Balance: A Wellness Guide to Healthy Eating and Feeling Great will show you how. A complete resource that gives you the tools to help you live a healthier lifestyle, get control of sugar cravings and look and feel your best! Full of delicious, nourishing recipes, including healthier twists on traditional Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes, and Zoë’s easy-to-adopt nutritional guidelines and framework for health, The Six Pillars of Wellness, you’ll learn how to make healthier and more sustainable choices, so you feel more satisfied, energized, lighter, and happier. Forget the fad diets and take back control of your well-being and waistline today!

A Beautiful Balance

1368: Granada is under threat from violent extremists. Abu Abdallah, the penniless globetrotter and his West African slave, Sinan, arrive to find the labyrinthine palace-citadel, the Alhambra, nearing its triumphant completion. Inexplicable events and baffling mysteries lie in wait at every turn and threaten to ruin forever the delicate balance of Muslim- Christian power in Spain.

Bloodstone

(Paperback Edition) - When Qatar won its bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup™, it was the ultimate sporting miracle for a young and ambitious nation. But the critics were quick to judge, saying that Qatar, with no football history of its own, didn’t deserve the chance to host the biggest football tournament in the world. In Journeys on a Football Carpet, Qatar-born journalist and author Matthias Krug sets out to debunk that myth by sharing the fascinating inside story of the country’s football evolution over the past six decades. From its earliest football days towards becoming the epicenter of the football world in 2022, Qatar has realized the Maroon sporting philosophy: No dream, no matter how big, is impossible.

Journeys on a Football Carpet

(Hardcover Edition) - When Qatar won its bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup™, it was the ultimate sporting miracle for a young and ambitious nation. But the critics were quick to judge, saying that Qatar, with no football history of its own, didn’t deserve the chance to host the biggest football tournament in the world. In Journeys on a Football Carpet, Qatar-born journalist and author Matthias Krug sets out to debunk that myth by sharing the fascinating inside story of the country’s football evolution over the past six decades. From its earliest football days towards becoming the epicenter of the football world in 2022, Qatar has realized the Maroon sporting philosophy: No dream, no matter how big, is impossible.

A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles – in an uncanny and terrifying way – a real person he has never met. Since he condemned this character to an untimely death in the novel, should he attempt to save this real man from a similar fate?
Elsir takes his readers on a terrifying journey through the unsettled mind of an author who loses control over his own creations and sense of reality. Set in both sides of Khartoum – the bustling capital city and the neglected, poverty-stricken underbelly – this is a novel of unreliable narrators, of insane asylums and of the dubious relationship between imagination and reality.

Telepathy

It’s the early nineteenth century and piracy in the Gulf threatens global maritime trade routes. Britain, eager to reinforce its presence in the Middle East and protect its interests, sends an Englishman to quash the pirates while persuading Egypt to join an international alliance with Oman and Persia to fight against the Wahabbis. But Erhama bin Jaber, a historical figure and one of the most notorious pirates in the Gulf, has his own agenda and his own vendettas.

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