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Ottoman Women, in the eyes of Western travelers: By Filiz Barin Akman

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  There have always been a misapprehension concerning Middle Eastern lifestyle, culture, and gender roles. In books, articles and even movies, Eastern women are portraited as illiterate housewives who are caged in their own households. Not only that, but some of the books I came across  elucidated on this matter by tracing women as slaves who live to serve…    Today my talk encompasses women related issues and private lives amid the Ottoman provinces. This is not a publication filled with boring long historical texts. No this is an interesting journey of privacy within households. The aforesaid is a collective study and chronicles of the indicated topic, but from the perspective of Western travelers. As you go further with the book, you’ll notice the disparity in narrations between men and women. And that’s because women travelers did have access to women related gatherings, while men came up with random explanations from what they apprehended through others or ...

Who Rules the world? : By Noam Chomsky

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 Power and Politics are two functional terms that easily flex and associate with one another. The complication rests on the strategies and principles used to distribute and put the indicated into action.    Not only that, but the global shift towards an international competition to lead, played an important role in ratifying the definition of both terms to what seems applicable to the current foreign and domestic situation.   The book I’m conversing on today  Who rules the World? : By Noam Chomsky  tends to answer the question of who actually rules the world, by presenting an ongoing debated historical and political timeline of events that have impacted the world as a whole. With the analysis provided through chronicle cases, you as a reader will be able to build a personal theory and opposition of who rules the world and why. This book will allow you to refresh your political knowledge and stimulate your debating and critical approaching skills.   Let...

Clanlands: By Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish

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  The pandemic marked a new technique of globetrotting that is based on screens and virtual reality. Due to lockdown and travel restrictions, we came to experience fun in a new way. Digital tours and expeditions on YouTube and other platforms were highly recommended and viewed. People happened to be glued to their monitors. But some of us bookworms in here have traveled and encountered leisure through papers and words. And that’s exactly how my journey with  Clanlands  have started!   Allow me to take you down the historical lanes of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen that are rich with untold stories and folklores. While the sound of bagpipes resonate into our ears, taking us towards an ancient duration filled with epic laughter and conversations of those who were flourishing, but now long gone.   Allow me to take you to Scotland, land of the Brave .   Let’s travel and experience this land through the eyes of the two amazing actors/authors,  Sam Heughan ...

Good Vibes, Good Life: By Vex King

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  Unspoken words, Agony of mind and Heaviness of heart ..  Are sensations that forces one to be motionless and drained, it’s like being physically alive but mentally dead. This kind of weakness is not easy to live with and even heal from. It sucks all your energy and happiness away, just like the dementors in Harry Potter. But in here, a chocolate bar won’t fix what’s broken from within. As we grow older, our responsibilities set off to be bolder and darker, that it opens the way for pain and darkness to settle in. The indicated new settlement marks the incitement of a whole new identity.  An identity that is based on solitude, silence, and isolation.   We have been taught to speak up and share our pain and grief whenever we feel like it, but sharing is not as easy as consuming it all in with a heavy mind and heart. If you have been through this situation you will certainly relate to this book, and if you’re going through it now, please stay strong because we’re all ...