Preservation Resource Materials. Collections Advocacy Toolkit Advocacy refers to a broad range of activities aimed at getting the attention of public officials and influencing how they shape public policies that affect small and large organizations. Busy officials and their staff need to know what you do, what you contribute, and what support you need to achieve your long term preservation goals—and they also need to know what’s at stake. Advocacy requires action by you, your staff, and constituents.
Only you can showcase your institution and make the case to potential supporters for the resources you need. You are the best advocate for your organization. The advocacy process includes conversation, phone calls, letters, active engagement, testimonials, demonstration of program results, participation in regional and national events, tracking of relevant legislative action, and mobilization of allies, members, partners, and supporters. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects, by Giorgio Vasari. In Celebration of International Women’s Day: Egyptian Women Writers.
Huda Shaarawi is at center. Clearly, it’s time to take a hard look at gender relations. I have a piece in Al Masry Al Youm today that looks at different strands of Egyptian feminism (and alternatives to feminism) through the lens of women’s memoirs and novels. It particularly examines the following books: Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, by Huda Shaarawi, trans. Margot Badran Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories, by Alifa Rifaat, trans. Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, Nawal al-Saadawi, trans. The Golden Chariot, Salwa Bakr, trans. The Tent, Miral al-Tahawy, trans. The first modern Egyptian feminists—like Shaarawi and her compatriot Safia Zaghloul—could indeed be an inspiration to women today, as their activism was born in the cauldron of nationalist struggle against a corrupt and illegal (colonial) regime.
Read on here. Latifa al-Zayyat (1923-1966), The Open Door Radwa Ashour, (1946 – ), Specters Ahdaf Soueif, (1950 – ), In the Eye of the Sun And Forthcoming: Like this: Must Read Books on Sufism (online ebooks) "The term "Sufi" derives from the Arabic word "Soof" (meaning "wool") and was applied to Muslim ascetics and mystics because they wore garments made out of wool. Sufism represents a dimension of Islamic religious life that has frequently been viewed by Muslim theologians and lawyers with suspicion.
The ecstatic state of the mystic can sometimes produce extreme behavior or statements that on occasion appear to border on the blasphemous. The cause of this is that the Sufis can sometimes feel so close to God that they lose a sense of their own self identity and feel themselves to be completely absorbed into God. This in fact is the goal of the Sufi. Through following a series of devotional practices, which lead to higher levels of ecstatic state, Sufis aspire to realize a condition in which they are in direct communion with God. Excerpts from The Persian Sufis by Cyprian Rice. "William C. "Academic introduction to the origins of Sufism. "Focuses on the poems rather than on their authors.