Amal Al-Jubouri

	Amal Al-Jubouri Amal Al-Jubouri (born 1967) is an Iraqi writer, poet, translator, journalist and publisher. Biography Al-Jubouri was born in Baghdad in 1967. When she was 19, al-Jubouri's first anthology ''Wine from Wounds'' was published. After a dissenting article she wrote came to the notice of Saddam Hussein, al-Jubouri was interrogated and put under surveillance. She fled Iraq and took political asylum in Germany in 1998. She continued writing her poems in Germany, translated German ones into Arabic language and brought out a periodical ''Diwan''. For a brief period, she also served as the cultural counselor for the Yemeni embassy in Berlin. Her poetry collection ''Eheduanna, the Priestess of Exile'' (1999), won the Best Arabic Book Award at a Lebanese book fair. ''So Much Euphrates Between Us'', another volume of her poems was published in 2003. The same year, she returned to Iraq just a few days after the fall of Hussein. In 2011, ''Hagar Before the Occupation, Hagar After the Occupation'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Dunya Mikhail - Beau Beausoleil - Dunya Mikhail 3748 (cropped) In Islam, ' ( ar, دُنْيا ) refers to the temporal world and its earthly concerns and possessions, as opposed to the hereafter ('' ʾākhirah''). In the Qur'an, ''dunyā'' and ''ākhira'' are sometimes used dichotomously, other times complementarily. Islam does not ''a priori'' dismiss the world as "evil". Instead, this world is defined as "the field of ''ākhira''" and the place of examination. In ancient Caucasian religions such as Mari, Dunya or Tunya refers to the God of the World. Two Qur'anic ayat (verses) show that ''dunyā'' and ''ākhira'' are not considered as alternatives to each other per se: * "Ordain for us the good in this world 'al-dunyā''and in the hereafter 'al-ākhira''" ( ''Surah Al A'râf'' 7:156) * "You are my friend in this world 'al-dunyā''and the next 'al-ākhira''" (''Surah Yusuf'' 12:101) What the Qur'an condemns is too much attention to the earthly life at the cost of forgetting the eternal life. For this purpose, Muslims are encouraged in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Smith College Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College), Sophia Smith and opened in 1875. It is the largest member of the historic Seven Sisters (colleges), Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite women's colleges in the Northeastern United States. Smith is also a member of the Five College Consortium, along with four other nearby institutions in the Pioneer Valley: Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst; students of each college are allowed to attend classes at any other member institution. On campus are Smith's Smith College Museum of Art, Museum of Art and The Botanic Garden of Smith College, Botanic Garden, the latter designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Smith has 41 academic departments and programs and is structured around a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]