I found this book helpful in understanding the stereotypes and misunderstandings Arab and Western women have of each other.

The broad mix of women represented takes the reader well beyond the stereotypes.

Highly recommended.

I was amazed by this excellent book, that reveals what is usually hidden, or completely caricatured and falsely represented in the western media on arab women. The main discovery I have made was that far from being dominated and deshumanized, arab women (at least in Palestine and other arab countries) can undertake huge resonsabilities, organize their life and be far more independant as we would assume from a western point of view. The other very interesting point made by Suha Sabbagh is that the crtiticism and downlooking from western feminist over the "poor dominated" muslim women lacks complete understanding of a muslim society: these women actually benefits from an enlarged family solidarity network, and enjoy support and help from their relatives and neighbours - a situation that they are not ready to abandon for a freedom that would isolate them without any support. Because the state, in these country, does not provide all the help we -in our western countries- may ask for.

So, a very enlightening book, written by arab women themselves, that you should read to understand really who are these arab women and what do they think... and throw away all your prejudices!!

I knew the cultures were different, just never knew they were this different. I am anxious to read another book. Not because I love it, but because I am amazed at who can survive it.

Draven's Defiance. The story of a young man named Scott who found himself in the world you probably already know a little about, since you're looking up this book: Marus.

Confused and bewildered, he joins company with Draven, an individual who bears the mark of one chosen by the Unseen One as His servant: eyes of two different colors.

Scott eventually learns from Draven that, by the power of the Unseen One, judgment has been handed out on Marus in the form of time standing still. It is Perpetually Autumn, grass does not grow, people do not age. It is judgment against the apostate leader, Mobeck, and his wicked queen Skalaw. Scott finds himself headed, along with Draven, for a showdown with the corrupt leaders to vie for the hearts of the peoples of Marus. Will Scott join with Draven's Defiance?

Another very enjoyable tale about the fictional world of Marus, weaved by Adventures in Odyssey's Paul McCusker. It tells the Biblical story of Elijah in a refreshing way, a new environment that makes the story come to life anew. There's a few new spins on this story (Draven escapes with Scott on a motorcycle, and the judgment handed out is different from the God's No-Rain judgment in the Bible. A famine, however is a consequence of time standing still)

Another great read by the same great author, and I consider it worth the money. My only regret is that there are only six in this series.

This is a great retelling of the story of elijah and Elisha. Icant wait to read the next one.

I am now tring to enter into a private marrage. With Anna Couceiro is she Hillary's sister read To Tell the Truth and
Determine for yourself. Love To You.

New information on Bill, Hill and Janet Reno. Are they part of my family?

This story is on a similar vein as The Movie Red Dawn but was written earlier. It's well crafted and interesting. I liked it because it wasn't predictable. Well crafted story.

The thirteenth volume in the outstanding "New Directions In Anthropology" series from Berghahn Books, Defiance And Compliance: Negotiating Gender In Low-Income Cairo by Heba El-Kholy (Policy Advisor at the University Nations Development Program, New York) is a collection of insightful observations and cogent interviews derived from the residents of four low-income neighborhoods in Cairo, Egypt. Focusing in particular on the pressures and struggles of indigent women striving to make ends meet in a labor market that frequently discriminates against them, Defiance And Compliance is commended as being a thoughtful and thought-provoking survey which offers much-needed insights on economic ramifications and their lasting effects.

The authors of Defiance in the Family succeed not just in writing a superb book, but in creating a great therapy session for the reader. The writing has a tremendously intimate feel, like we are sitting in the living room with the authors and these families. We come away with greater respect for,and understanding of, their--and our--deeply human struggles. The authors act as experienced, wise tour guides to the land of family life, and allow us to see it for perhaps the first time in all its pain and beauty.

The authors themselves are "defiant" in the way they offer a refreshing view of the complex web of interpersonal relationships that we call "family". This stands in contrast to what they suggest as the prevailing tendency to compartmentalize, pathologize and medicate symptomatic teens, who are mostly a symbolic expression of family love in search of itself. The authors eloquently discuss the social/medical culture's love affair with the "quick fix", and offer us instead something more resonant and powerful. They offer us hope by conveying their deep respect for the complexities and ambiguities of family relationships. The authors are not engaged in a struggle to wrestle these ambiguities to the ground, but throughout the book, encourage the reader to embrace these ambiguities as a road that takes us closer to healing truths about families, and ourselves.

I think the broad appeal of this book lies in the combination of experience and humanity of the authors. Accomplished therapists will especially appreciate the chapters relating to the "self" of the therapist, including strategies for maintaining therapist equilibrium in the face of an acute family crisis.

Beginning and mid-level therapists will benefit from the authors "walking through" a therapy session, deliniating the components of the different therapy stages, and offering transcripts and vignettes which illustrate some of the "how to's" in conducting a family therapy session.

And finally, this book will serve as a beacon for families privileged to be living with a "defiant" child. Believing that "parents blame themselves enough", the authors instead offer a rich story about the many ways in which family members unintentionally wound each other, and give parents new insight into the meaning of their child's bewildering behavior. This makes it possible for parents to respond to the behavior in a new way--they will now have the pleasure of confusing their child!

I continue to enjoy this book as I would a good CD. I pick it up, open to any page, and savor the sounds coming from its pages. And, like a good piece of music, when it's over I am lighter, freer, more human.

Thank you for that, Drs. Keith and Connells.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading each of the stories in Dr. Salti's book. Each narrative, whether set in the Arab world or in the West, provided me with new insight into the quest for an identity by many marginalized social elements in Arab countries. In this work, identity is not only conflicted but also fluid in nature. Thus, the characters seem to exist in a state that transcends eastern vs. western notions of identity, focusing instead on the plight of the subaltern subject in western as well as neo/post-colonial societies.

Liehm's book is one of the most informative and interesting guides to post-war Italian cinema. She covers a lot of territory! --- ["Mira Liehm has known personally many of the leading figures in Italian cinema, and her work is rich in insights into their lives and working methods."---back cover] --- If you enjoy reading about international cinema, this may be the most comprehensive, well illustrated, general guide to Italian cinema currently available. Don't hestitate to buy this book if you think that the material may be dated, though an updated edition including Italian films of the last 16 years would be a real gift!

This collection of poetry is absolutely fabulous. RAOD invoked a variety of emotions in me. It is a work about life that expresses ideas and situations which many people avoid.

I recommended this book to a friend who said he doesn't read poetry but would try RAOD. After he read it, he said Kenneth-Carlisle won him over and he is now interested in poetry.

I love the different styles of poetry Kenneth-Carlisle used in RAOD. I highly recommend it and am sure you will enjoy it as much as I did.

Evelyn Ryan is a woman who will soon touch your heart. In spite of her violent, alcoholic husband, she struggles to raise six sons and four daughters in the 50's and 60's. What makes Evelyn so unique is the method in which she manages to come up with the financial resources to provide for the family. She enters contest after contest, winning everything from cash prizes, household appliances, bicycles and car to trips and televisions. Miraculously, prizes seem to be won just when they are most needed.

The story is fascinating and certainly captures the reader's compassion; however, the jingles became somewhat of a repetitious aggravation towards the end of the book. The book takes place during an era when the amount of cash won, certainly would not have the same monetary value by today's cost of living. With Evelyn's poems, jingles and rhymes she seems to have "an angel on her shoulder" as she struggles to make ends meet and put food on the table. While the book is not in-depth reading material and could use some additional editing, it is amazing to learn of Evelyn's creative talents and miraculous good fortune in a time of great need. If she were to try her accomplished ability today, she might be considered somewhat of a flourishing entrepreneur!

In a field crammed with memoirs of dysfunctional families, here's a book about a family that is able to be FUNCTIONAL because of an amazing woman.

This book is a loving memorial to Evelyn Ryan, but also a nostalgic remembrance of the glory days of jingle contests. I don't usually like this type of book, but its premise intrigued me, so I picked it up at a discount. I now feel guilty for that (and I'm notoriously cheap). Any book this good really should be paid for at full price. I have pushed this book on everyone that I know who reads. I can't say that it's inspirational, because a major point of the book is that you couldn't do this sort of thing today -- Evelyn's language skills allowed her to support her family, not luck.

I don't usually go for this type of work, but the love and admiration that Terry Ryan and her siblings have for her mother shines through this memoir. Ryan never falls into the dysfunctional family memoir trap of blaming everything on the alcoholic father. He's not evil, he's simply one more hurdle to overcome. There's no blame, just a celebration of the survival of this family, and their ability to overcome a situation that could have, and has, overwhelmed so many other people.

The Prize Winner Of Defiance Ohio" is a beautiful love letter from a daughter to her mother. It is a special kind of biography that chronicles the life of Evelyn Ryan an extraordinarily resourceful woman who was born ahead of her time.

Evelyn Ryan, raised her ten children with grace and style, using her wit and ability to see the humor in a life that would have most people begging for relief to win prizes large and small. It is an unflinching look at a large family that depended on an alcoholic and abusive breadwinner who was more likely to drink his wages rather than pay his mortgage.

"The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio" is a fantastic chronicle of an America that no longer exists and in some ways never existed. It shatters the myth of the middle class 50's housewife who stayed at home and took care of the children without 'worrying her little head' about the finances. In this America contests were won by skill rather than luck and Evelyn managed to keep her family going with prizes such as that ranged from bicycles to two-week trips to Switzerland (converted to cash) to TVs and juke boxes. Ryan had the touch.

This book has made me laugh and cry and think about my family. My grandmother was in an abusive marriage, with an alcoholic husband and seven children, at around the same time that Evelyn was at a time when the law and the community blamed a woman for an abusive husband. What a life.

What a great story. Buy this book and celebrate the life of Evelyn Ryan, or E.L. Ryan, or Mrs. Ryan, or whatever entry was the winner of the day, with her daughter, Terry Ryan