Kandahar Cockney

Author : James Fergusson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kandahar Cockney written by James Fergusson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable and touching story of a singular friendship between the author (an affluent Western correspondent) and his Pashtun interpreter who meet in an Afghan war-zone and resume their friendship when Mir becomes an asylum seeker in London's East End. In the spring of 1997, James Fergusson, a young freelance British correspondent, encounters a local Pashtun interpreter named Mir in rebel-controlled Afghanistan. They soon become firm friends, with Mir an invaluable guide not only to the battle zone, but to the country's complex politics, culture and traditions. Not long after James's return home, Mir and his family are forced to flee Afghanistan, fearing for their lives. When Mir arrives in London seeking asylum, it is to James that he turns for help. Now their roles reverse: the guided becomes the guide as James introduces Mir to the bewildering customs of the infidel West. Yet in many ways it is Mir who remains the guide -- this time to a side of his own homeland that James had never noticed or engaged with before. He discovers whole communities of Afghans scattered throughout London, and the shadow economy in which asylum seekers are forced to work. He accompanies Mir throug

Author : David Goodhart
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 0857899759
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Dream written by David Goodhart and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The British Dream, David Goodhart tells the story of postwar immigration and charts a course for its future. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with people from all over the country and a wealth of statistical evidence, he paints a striking picture of how Britain has been transformed by immigration and examines the progress of its ethnic minorities—projected to be around 25 per cent of the population by the early 2020s. Britain today is a more open society for minorities than ever before, but it is also a more fragmented one. Goodhart argues that an overzealous multiculturalism has exacerbated this problem by reinforcing difference instead of promoting a common life. The multi-ethnic success of Team GB at the 2012 Olympics and a taste for chicken tikka masala are not, he suggests, sufficient to forge common bonds; Britain needs a political culture of integration. Goodhart concludes that if Britain is to avoid a narrowing of the public realm and sharply segregated cities, as in many parts of the U.S., its politicians and opinion leaders must do two things. Firstly, as advocated by the center right, they need to bring immigration down to more moderate and sustainable levels. Secondly, as advocated by the center left, they need to shape a progressive national story about openness and opportunity, one that captures how people of different traditions are coming together to make the British dream.

Author : Steve Cohen
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1843102943
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deportation is Freedom! written by Steve Cohen and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deportation is Freedom! is a searing critique of today's immigration systems, a lively yet thought-provoking read that will captivate anyone who cares about the immigration systems that are shaping our world today. It will be of particular interest to social workers and all people politically engaged in immigration campaigning.

Author : James Fergusson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473567076
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Al-Britannia, My Country written by James Fergusson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the British Academy Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018. 'A SERIOUSLY NECESSARY BOOK.' ROWAN WILLIAMS, FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 'A MUST READ.' MIQDAAD VERSI, MUSLIM COUNCIL OF BRITAIN 'A COMPELLING AND COMPASSIONATE SURVEY OF BRITISH ISLAM.’ THE GUARDIAN 'A TIMELY BOOK.' BARONESS WARSI 'HUGELY IMPORTANT.' PETER OBORNE 'HEARTENING.' DAVID ANDERSON QC In this groundbreaking book, James Fergusson travels the length of Britain to explore our often misunderstood Muslim communities, and to experience life on both sides of our increasingly segregated society. The face of Britain is changing. The Muslim population has more than doubled over the last twenty years, and is projected to do so again over the next twenty. A societal shift of this size and speed has inevitably brought growing pains, with the impact on our communities becoming ever more profound – as well as painful, because in the eyes of many, Islam has a problem: the extremist views of a tiny minority, which, when translated into action, can result in catastrophic violence. The danger of this extremist threat - or our response to it - is that we are collectively starting to lose faith in the cultural diversity that has glued our nation together for so long. Our tolerance of others, so often celebrated as a ‘fundamental British value,’ is at risk. In this groundbreaking book, James Fergusson travels the length of Britain to evaluate the impact these seismic shifts have had on our communities. With the rise of nationalist movements, growing racial tensions and an increasingly out of touch political elite, what does it mean to be a Muslim in Britain? What is life like on both sides of this growing religious divide? And what can we do to heal the fractures appearing in our national fabric? Al-Britannia, My Country is a timely and urgent account of life in Britain today, a call to action filled with real-life experience, hard truths and important suggestions for our future.

Author : Lez Cooke
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795889
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troy Kennedy Martin written by Lez Cooke and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of the screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin, whose work for film and television includes Z Cars, The Italian Job, Kelly’s Heroes, The Sweeney, Reilly – Ace of Spies and Edge of Darkness. With a career spanning six decades Troy Kennedy Martin has seen the rise and fall of the television dramatist, making his debut in the era of studio-based television drama in the late 1950s prior to the transition to filmed drama (for which he argued in a famous manifesto) as the television play was gradually replaced by popular series and serials, for which Kennedy Martin did some of his best work. Drawing on original interviews with Kennedy Martin and his collaborators, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the film and television career of one of Britain’s leading screenwriters. Also included is a chapter examining Kennedy Martin’s significant contribution to innovative and experimental television drama - his 1964 ‘Nats Go Home’ polemic and the six-part serial, Diary of a Young Man, plus his 1986 MacTaggart Lecture which anticipated recent developments in television style and technology. Written in an easily accessible style, this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in television drama, screenwriting, and the history of British television over the last fifty years.

Author : James Fergusson
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 030682034X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taliban written by James Fergusson and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a small group of religious students formed in 1994, the Taliban quickly grew into a national movement that occupied all of Afghanistan. Led by the mysterious Mullah Omar, the group established a theocracy based on strict observance of Sharia law. When the Americans overthrew the Taliban in 2001, the United States thought the regime had been defeated. Yet today, nine years later, the Taliban continue to wage a bloody insurgency. In this extraordinary and compelling account of the rise, fall, and return of the Taliban, author James Fergusson, who has unique access to its shadowy leaders, presents the reality of themovement so often mischaracterized in the press. His surprising and, perhaps, uncomfortable conclusions about our current strategy in Afghanistan should be required reading for anyone who wishes to understand this intractable conflict.

Author : David Slavitt
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819568069
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue State Blues written by David Slavitt and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political neophyte challenges the status quo or How a Cranky Conservative Launched a Campaign and Found Himself the Liberal Candidate (and Still Lost)

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Publisher : Sura Books
ISBN 13 : 9788172540524
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NDA (National Defence Academy Examination) written by and published by Sura Books. This book was released on with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1362 pages
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Download or read book India Today written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : VARIOUS
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 500 OF THE BEST COCKNEY WAR STORIES written by VARIOUS and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To dig out the character of a General even from the plans of his General Staff is difficult; how much more difficult to dig out the adventures of Number 1000 Private Thomas Atkins from those of the other 999 who went “like one man” with him over the top? In the side-shows there was more scope for the individual and in the Victorian wars much more scope. To show the sort of thing I mean I am going to put down here for the first time an old story, almost forgotten now, in the hopes that it may interest by its contrast to barrages and barbed wire. Although only an old-fashioned affair of half a dozen bullets and three or four dead men it was a great event to me as it led to my first meeting with the great little Bobs of Kandahar...FROM THE BOOKS.