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"The Scimitar and the Veil" portrays more than 30 extraordinary Muslim women, from the birth of Islam through the 19th century, in this first popular history and overview of Muslim women and their great accomplishments.

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Make your lessons fun and varied with minimal preparation using a wide range of components and practical ideas. The Teacher’s Book with reduced Pupil’s Book pages gives you the detailed information you need to use all components.

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Full-colour teacher''s guide with embedded Student Book pages Student Book pages with easy to find overwritten answers Tips and hints to develop your teaching skills Photocopiable activities MyEnglishLab An online, interactive edition of the Workbook Save time using the automated Gradebook in the Online Workbook, so more time to support weaker students Get instant online reports so less time worrying if work has been completed and more time focusing on progress Motivate teenagers with interactive activities and course video at home or in the classroom Offline access to teacher resources and printable worksheets and tests Extra Online Practice Reinforce Student Book material with additional, interactive grammar, vocabulary and skills practice Online, interactive activities Motivating, interactive activities based on course vi

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The human soul is eternally engaged in the search for enduring love. The Jewel and the Ember is a unique collection of compelling, enlightening, sometimes joyful, sometimes painful, often funny love stories culled from pre-Islamic folktales and poems, drawn from ancient sources throughout the Middle East, including Zoroastrian Persia, Turkey, Afghanistan, Moorish Spain, and Arabia. These eleven timeless tales resonate across cultures and ethnicities, adapted and retold (though not reinvented) from lengthy, dense translations and provide alternatives to the all-too-common Arabian Nights and other Orientalist sagas. Here, readers will encounter strong, smart, self-sufficient women - far different from the cliched, frequently shrouded creatures characterized in popular fables - and vulnerable men - full participants in the sufferings, longings, ecstasies, foibles, and complexities shared by all lovers. In haunting, entertaining, richly embroidered language, The Jewel and the Ember speaks

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The Workbook: Is designed for use in the class for practice and at home for homework Contains additional vocabulary, grammar, reading, and writing practice to reinforce the material in the Student Book Provides further opportunity to use BBC videos Contains challenging vocabulary sections provide students with extra activities Has word study sections provide focus on word building and collocations Contains exam format activities help students feel comfortable about international exams Comes with an app which allows students and parents to easily access workbook audio and unit opener video

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This groundbreaking volume, written entirely by women, examines the vastly misunderstood and multilayered world of the veil. Veiling - of women, of men, and of sacred places and objects - has existed in countless cultures and religions from time immemorial. Today, veiling is a globally polarizing issue, a locus for the struggle between Islam and the West and between contemporary and traditional interpretations of Islam. But veiling was a practice long before Islam and still extends far beyond the Middle East. This book explores and examines the cultures, politics, and histories of veiling. Twenty-one gifted writers and scholars, representing a wide range of societies, religions, ages, locations, races, and accomplishments, here elucidate, challenge, and/or praise the practice. Expertly organized and introduced by Jennifer Heath, who also writes on male veiling, the essays are arranged in three parts: the veil as an expression of the sacred; the veil as it relates to the emotional and the sensual; and, the veil in its sociopolitical aspects. This unique, dynamic, and insightful volume is illustrated throughout. It brings together a multiplicity of thought and experience, much of it personal, to make readily accessible a difficult and controversial subject. The contributors include Kecia Ali, Michelle Auerbach, Sarah C. Bell, Barbara Goldman Carrel, Eve Grubin, Roxanne Kamayani Gupta, Jana M. Hawley, Jasbir Jain, Mohja Kahf, Laurene Lafontaine, Shireen Malik, Maliha Masood, Marjane Satrapi, Aisha Shaheed, Rita Stephan, Pamela K. Taylor, Ashraf Zahedi, Dinah Zeiger, and Sherifa Zuhur.

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Make your lessons fun and varied with minimal preparation using a wide range of components and practical ideas. The Teacher’s Book with reduced Pupil’s Book pages gives you the detailed information you need to use all components.

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Reaching beyond sensational headlines, "Land of the Unconquerable" at last offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women. In a series of wide-ranging, deeply reflective essays, accomplished scholars, humanitarian workers, politicians, and journalists - most with extended experience inside Afghanistan - examine the realities of life for women in both urban and rural settings. They address topics including food security, sex work, health, marriage, education, poetry, politics, prisoners, and community development. Eschewing stereotypes about the burqa, the contributors focus instead on women's empowerment and agency, and their struggles for peace and justice in the face of a brutal ongoing war. A fuller picture of Afghanistan's women past and present emerges, leading to social policy suggestions and pragmatic solutions for a peaceful future.

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The first comprehensive look at youth living in a country attempting to rebuild itself after three decades of civil conflict, Children of Afghanistan relies on the research and fieldwork of twenty-one experts to cover an incredible range of topics. Focusing on the full scope of childhood, from birth through young adulthood, this edited volume examines a myriad of issues: early childhood socialization in war and peace; education, literacy, vocational training, and apprenticeship; refugee life; mental and physical health, including disabilities and nutrition; children’s songs, folktales, and art; sports and play; orphans; life on the streets; child labor and children as family breadwinners; child soldiers and militarization; sexual exploitation; growing up in prison; marriage; family violence; and other issues vital to understanding, empowerment, and transformation.Children of Afghanistan is the first volume that not only attempts to analyze the range of challenges facing Afghan children across class, gender, and region but also offers solutions to the problems they face. With nearly half of the population under the age of fifteen, the future of the country no doubt lies with its children. Those who seek peace for the region must find solutions to the host of crises that have led the United Nations to call Afghanistan “the worst place on earth to be born.” The authors of Children of Afghanistan provide child-centered solutions to rebuilding the country’s cultural, social, and economic institutions.

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The first comprehensive look at youth living in a country attempting to rebuild itself after three decades of civil conflict, Children of Afghanistan relies on the research and fieldwork of twenty-one experts to cover an incredible range of topics. Focusing on the full scope of childhood, from birth through young adulthood, this edited volume examines a myriad of issues: early childhood socialization in war and peace; education, literacy, vocational training, and apprenticeship; refugee life; mental and physical health, including disabilities and nutrition; children’s songs, folktales, and art; sports and play; orphans; life on the streets; child labor and children as family breadwinners; child soldiers and militarization; sexual exploitation; growing up in prison; marriage; family violence; and other issues vital to understanding, empowerment, and transformation.Children of Afghanistan is the first volume that not only attempts to analyze the range of challenges facing Afghan children across class, gender, and region but also offers solutions to the problems they face. With nearly half of the population under the age of fifteen, the future of the country no doubt lies with its children. Those who seek peace for the region must find solutions to the host of crises that have led the United Nations to call Afghanistan “the worst place on earth to be born.” The authors of Children of Afghanistan provide child-centered solutions to rebuilding the country’s cultural, social, and economic institutions.

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With ActiveTeach, Teachers can: manage their class smoothly, whether new or established teachers with everything at the touch of a button. manage their time efficiently, less time planning means more time supporting weaker students. access additional activities at the click of a button, great if you find yourself with a spare 5 minutes. With ActiveTeach, Students: can absorb information in multiple formats, suiting different learning styles resulting in increased retention and better results. will increase their class participation using a motivating presentation tool so students want to learn and creating a positive classroom environment. increase collaborative working through a more motivating medium, students become part of the process rather than end recipients of information so they’re more involved with their learning.

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