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The Transgender Debate: The crisis surrounding gender identities

The Transgender Debate

The crisis surrounding gender identities Stephen Whittle

Transgender has become a cultural obsession. From the high camp of Rue Paul to the working class transsexual icon, Hayley of Coronation Street, it pervades our lives. Yet for many it remains a freakish interest on the sidelines. For transsexual and transgender people, though, it is a reality bound up in complexities, legal contradictions, family discord, and a desperate need to explain what it means to be a man or a woman, or neither, or both.

Mosaic of Love

Mosaic of Love

Laura Thompson

Mosaic of Love is a playful, wise and poignant book of poems about love and the mystery of life. With a unique perspective and distinct voice, Laura Thompson explores the meaning of love beginning with family, progressing to the garden of flowering lovers and culminating on the mystical note of universal love. Be a traveler on this pilgrimage of poems and seek for yourself the way of love.

A Safer World?

A Safer World?

Luc Debieuvre

Luc Debieuvre is a French banker who between 2003 and 2005 wrote a fortnightly opinion column for the United Arab Emirate-based English-language daily Gulf News. The period of Debieuvre’s association with the newspaper has been among the most significant and memorable in recent history.

Laughter in the Canyon

Laughter in the Canyon

Laura Thompson

Laughter in the Canyon is the story of two lovers, living across many different lifetimes, both unaware that they have been soulmates since the dawn of history. Over and over, fate brings them together only to tear them apart. It is a journey across time, three continents, many countries, cultures, and religions. Will this story of eternal love ever be fulfilled?

Arabs Down Under

Arabs Down Under

Mohammed Mahfoodh Al Ardhi

Ibrahim, a freelance journalist from Arabia, has always been deeply aware of his rich Arabian heritage and history but has become disillusioned and disheartened by the seemingly incessant onslaught of Western suspicion, abuse and adverse media attention thrust upon his people. To Ibrahim and his family, it seems as if Western paranoia and prejudice against the Arab has become set in stone.

A Saudi Woman’s Memoir of American Arabia and Wartime Beirut

Brownies and Kalashnikovs

A Saudi Woman’s Memoir of American Arabia and Wartime Beirut Fadia Basrawi

Fadia, a Saudi Arab, grew up in the strictly circumscribed and tailor-made ‘desert Disneyland’ of Aramco (the Arabian American Oil Company). This slice of modern, suburban, middle America was located in Dhahran, one of the leading cities of Saudi Arabia, a theocratic Muslim kingdom run according to strict Wahabbi Shari’a law.