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Director Oliver Stone visits seven presidents in five countries in South America to gain some understanding about the political and social ideas and the revolutions, and to clear up how people view them. Includes interviews with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Argentinean presi...
A stunning and profoundly entertaining work on modern philosophy and the genius that revolutionized it. A humorous and bold portrait of the irreverent 20th-century gay thinker who preferred detective fiction and Carmen Miranda musicals to Aristotle.
There's a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn't know it. In South of the Border, Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America...
'Zero Bridge' is the story of Dilawar, a teenage pickpocket planning to escape his strict uncle, Ali Muhammed, a mason who struggles to make ends meet and to raise the rebellious youth. Dilawar's plans take a twist when he forms an unusual bond to Bani, a bright, nurturing woman ...
Tariq Ali is working as a lecturer in the English department of KFUEIT. He is a good writer and always tries to portray a symphony of relation, sadness, and love. This novel is such an effort and hopes it would touch the innermost feelings of the readers.
An ailing king attempts to unify the Christian and Muslim worlds of medieval Sicily in this "marvelously paced and boisterously told novel of intrigue" ( The Guardian ). Amid the chaos and misery of the Middle Ages, Sicily proved to be an island in more ways than one. Even...
"Whether depicting erotically charged harem intrigue or siege warfare, The Book of Saladin is an entertaining feat of revisionist storytelling" - The Sunday Times As victories mount and accolades are showered upon the great warrior Saladin, he is nearly deified. He...
The Islam Quintet concludes with a powerful portrait of life and loveTariq Ali's epic quintet, which began on the streets of medieval Granada, culminates in present day with Night of the Golden Butterfly. The story darts between the past and present of Dara, a Lahore-born writer ...
The story of a family whose life mirrors the rise and fall of the Soviet Union With the fall of Communism, East German dissident Vlady Meyer's life begins to fall apart. As the German nation unifies, his wife splits up with him. He loses his university job now that the times ha...