No Road to Paradise

No Road to ParadiseWhen the imam of a small town in Southern Lebanon is diagnosed with cancer, the illness he fears and has expected for years, he takes the radical decision to abandon the life he inherited from his father. He was persuaded to wear the robe and turban in his youth to preserve the family tradition and entered into an arranged marriage. While his grandfather and father were once powerful imams, he displays no interest in the mosque. The wife, for whom he

Introducing the concept of identity security

and from the haunted backstage world of The Phantom of the Opera to the sinister glamour of The Red Shoes and the theatrical politics of Mephisto and The Lives of Others

It explores how myths are created about the law and how myths are created by the law

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The book explores interactions between police officers and citizens in European countries

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/ For me to linger here

it stands as a chronicle of Jewish scholarship through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first

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Becoming couture explains how post-war Italian fashion reinvented itself through the persuasive strategies of intermediaries in Italy and the United States

the effects of new technologies and the overall impact of agriculture on the environment

A new interpretation of the creative work of well known British imperialists of the late nineteenth and early 20th century