The Sheikh Of Baghdad

Author : Adnan Alkaissy
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN 13 : 9781572437302
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sheikh of Baghdad written by Adnan Alkaissy and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheikh of Baghdad is the true story of one man's journey across two continents to find his place in the world. It is an unbelievable rags-to-riches-to-rags story with wrestling as a metaphor for life itself. Adnan Alkaissy, better known as professional wrestling's General Adnan, can finally, safely, tell his story now that Saddam Hussein-a childhood companion, powerful associate, then threat to Alkaissy and his family-is in custody awaiting trial. An odd juxtaposition of two very different worlds, this incomparable life story encompasses both the hilarious tales of what life was like in and out of the squared circle of professional wrestling and stories of heartache and despair from a man whose country is trying to find itself once again. It is also the story of a man's desire to achieve closure on a separate life lived many years ago. Finally, it is a story about a man, now in his midsixties, who wants nothing more than to go home to a free and democratic Iraq so that he can finally introduce his new family to his old one. The Sheikh of Baghdad is the story of an Iraqi American trying to make a difference in this post-9-11 world by telling his story to provide a small ray of hope for peace in the tumultuous Middle East. Book jacket.

Author : ابن الساعي، علي بن انجب،
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479866792
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book كتاب جهات الأئمة الخلفاء من الحرائر والإماء المسمى نساء الخلفاء written by ابن الساعي، علي بن انجب، and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving texts by Ibn al-Saʿi (d. 674 H/1276 AD). Ibn al-Saʿi was a prolific Baghdadi scholar who chronicled the academic and political elites of his city, and whose career straddled the final years of the Abbasid dynasty and the period following the cataclysmic Mongol invasion of 656 H/1258 AD.

Author : Abraham Josephine Riesman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982169451
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ringmaster written by Abraham Josephine Riesman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive biography of Vince McMahon, former WWE chairman and CEO, is “riveting, essential reading” (Rick Perlstein, New York Times bestselling author) as it charts his rise from rural poverty to the throne of one of the world’s most influential media empires. Featuring exclusive interviews with more than 150 people who witnessed, aided, and suffered from his ascent. Even if you’ve never watched a minute of professional wrestling, you are living in Vince McMahon’s world. In his four decades as the defining figure of American pro wrestling, McMahon was the man behind Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, John Cena, Dave Bautista, Bret “The Hitman” Hart, and Hulk Hogan, to name just a few of the mega-stars who owe him their careers. For more than twenty-five years, he has also been a performer in his own show, acting as the diabolical “Mr. McMahon”—a figure who may have more in common with the real Vince than he would care to admit. Just as importantly, McMahon is one of Donald Trump’s closest friends—and Trump’s experiences as a performer in McMahon’s programming were, in many ways, a dress rehearsal for the 45th President’s campaigns and presidency. McMahon and his wife, Linda, are major Republican donors. Linda was in Trump’s cabinet. McMahon makes deals with the Saudi government worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And for generations of people who have watched wrestling, he has been a defining cultural force and has helped foment “the worst of contemporary politics” (Kirkus Reviews). Ringmaster built on exclusive interviews with more than 150 people, from McMahon’s childhood friends to those who accuse him of destroying their lives. “Smart, entertaining, impressively reported, and beautifully written. Wrestling fans will devour it, but everyone who wants to better understand this crazy country and one of its truly original characters ought to read it” (Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life).

Author : Robert Olson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029276412X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925 written by Robert Olson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last quarter of the nineteenth century was crucial for the development of Kurdish nationalism. It coincided with the reign of Abdulhamid II (1876-1909), who emphasized Pan-Islamic policies in order to strengthen the Ottoman Empire against European and Russian imperialism, The Pan-Islamic doctrines of the Ottoman Empire enabled sheikhs (religious leaders) from Sheikh Ubaydallah of Nehri in the 1870s and 1880s to Sheikh Said in the 1920s-to become the principal nationalist leaders of the Kurds. This represented a new development in Middle Eastern and Islamic history and began an important historical pattern in the Middle East long before the emergence of the religiousnationalist leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. This is the first work in any Western language dealing with the development of Kurdish nationalism during this period and is supported with documentation not previously utilized, principally from the Public Record Office in Great Britain. In addition, the author provides much new material on Turkish, Armenian, Iranian, and Arab history and new insights into Turkish-Armenian relations during the most crucial era of the history of these two peoples.

Author : Royal Central Asian Society, London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society written by Royal Central Asian Society, London and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Talha Çiçek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009002317
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Empire in the Middle East written by M. Talha Çiçek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1840s, Ottoman rulers launched a new imperial project, partly in order to reassert their authority over their lands and subjects, crucially including the Arab nomads. By examining the evolution of this relationship between the Ottoman Empire and Arab nomads in the modern era, M. Talha Çiçek puts forward a new framework to demonstrate how negotiations between the Ottomans and the Arab nomads played a part in making the modern Middle East. Reflecting on multiple aspects of Ottoman authority and governance across Syria, Iraq, Arabia, Transjordan and along their frontiers, Çiçek reveals how the relationship between the imperial centre and the nomads was not merely a brutal imposition of a strict order, but instead one of constant, complicated, and fluid negotiation. In so doing, he highlights how the responses of the nomads made a considerable impact on the ultimate outcome, transforming the imperial policies accordingly.

Author : Justin Marozzi
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306823993
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baghdad written by Justin Marozzi and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This is the history of its storytellers and its tyrants, of its philosophers and conquerors. Here, in the first new history of Baghdad in nearly 80 years, Justin Marozzi brings to life the whole tumultuous history of what was once the greatest capital on earth.

Author : Canon Andrew White
Publisher : Monarch Books
ISBN 13 : 0857210971
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vicar of Baghdad written by Canon Andrew White and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I live with a price on my head ...The kind of people that I spend my time engaging with are not usually very nice. On the whole nice people do not cause wars ." Andrew White is one of a tiny handful of people trusted by virtually every side in the complex Middle East. Political and military solutions are constantly put forward, and constantly fail. Andrew offers a different approach, speaking as a man of faith to men of faith. Compassionate and shrewd, gifted in human relationships, he has been deeply involved in the rebuilding of Iraq. His first-hand connections and profound insights make this a fascinating document.

Author : Henry Layard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia including a Residence among the Bakhtiyari and other wild Tribes before the Discovery of Nineveh written by Henry Layard and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia written by Austen Henry Layard and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: