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تراث الإمارات البحري
Maritime Heritage of the UAE is the result of a father-daughter collaboration. Abdullah Mohammed Suleiman Al Ali is a pioneer in the preservation of UAE heritage, especially maritime heritage.
This beautifully illustrated book, compiled by his daughter, Mona Al Ali, documents Abdullah’s vast experience of the UAE’s traditional crafts and maritime industries.
The reader is taken on an in-depth tour of UAE maritime heritage, glimpsing ways of life that have vanished or are rapidly vanishing. Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan, the founding father of the UAE, said, “He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.”
This quote inspired Abdullah Mohammed Suleiman and his daughter, Mona, to learn, revive, and protect the heritage of the UAE for future generations. This book represents a small part of this important work.
This quote inspired Abdullah Mohammed Suleiman and his daughter, Mona, to learn, revive, and protect the heritage of the UAE for future generations. This book represents a small part of this important work.
التراث البحري لدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة هو نتاج لترابُط أب وابنته.
يُعَدُّ عبد الله محمد سليمان آل علي رائدًا في الحفاظ على تراث دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، وخاصَّةً التراث البحري.
يوثِّق هذا الكتاب المصوّر بشكل جميل – الذي أعدَّته ابنته منى العلي – تجربة عبد الله الواسعة في الحِرَف التقليدية والصناعات البحرية في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة.
كما أنَّ الكتاب يأخذ القارئ في جولة متعمِّقة للتراث البحري لدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، ويلقي نظرة على طرق الحياة التي اختفَت أو تتلاشى بسرعة.
قال الشيخ زايد آل نهيان، الأب المؤسِّس لدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة: "مَن لا يعرف ماضيه لا يستطيع أن يستفيد مِن حاضره ومستقبله، فمِن الماضي نتعلَّم".
ألهمَت هذه المقولة عبد الله محمد سليمان وابنته منى لتعلُّم وإحياء وحماية تراث دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة للأجيال القادمة، ويمثِّل هذا الكتاب جزءًا بسيطًا مِن هذا العمل المهمِّ.
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Dodo
Dodo quickly went home and found his mother greeting him at the door with her usual smile. He asked her eagerly: “Was my father really a leader?”
She did not believe what she heard, so she answered him in confusion: “Repeat what you said!”
So, he repeated the question to her, but the question struck her like a thunderbolt and increased her confusion, so she said: “Come in and ask your father this question”.
After he entered and asked him, the father came out with tears in his eyes, repeating: “I don’t know, I don’t know!” Then he left.
Dodo followed him, confused and sad. He looked outside the house in search of his mother, but found no trace of her. He knew that she was also avoiding him.
In the morning, the students gathered at their appointed time, but the teacher was a little late, not as usual. He walked with heavy steps and sadness on his features. When he met with the students, he said in a growling tone: “Today’s lesson has been cancelled, and it has become a day of rest.”
When they dispersed, he called to Dodo: “Dodo, please follow me.”
He followed him until he entered a large hall in which a group great deer, they asked him to sit in between to tell him the story he should know.
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Dawn To Dusk
Running out of her home amidst tears and heartache, she now wonders if her spur-of-the-moment decision might have cost her the love of her family. But it’s too late now; there is no turning back. Defeated, alone, and confused, yet clear about her next step, she must keep moving forward. A little voice gnaws at her, questioning if they will ever find it in their hearts to forgive her…
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Behind Existing Places
Architecture in the gulf portrays an important link in the examination of the former times and traditions of the region.
Behind Existing Places attempts to transport viewers to the past while assisting them in observing locations outside of their normal field of vision.
Each image will have a distinct story that will alter the viewer’s perception of the scene.
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The Brief Details Of The Thirteen Prostitutes".
The greatest common factor between the Thirteen Secrets of Success and prostitutes is their profound impact on behaviour and the boldness to take a step forward.
You will succeed if you can enjoy the journey, as focusing on achieving the goal has proven ineffective in creating happiness.
If you can overcome the inevitable – such as the loss of a loved one – and the arbitrary judgments of society, and take responsibility for your actions, you will have overcome all challenges.
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Pie
This is a story about a sweet but bold rabbit who wants to please her kind and wise grandmother by preparing a cherry pie that she kneads and bakes with all the precision and care to make her grandmother happy, but events turn out differently than the rabbit had hoped.
Fortunately for the bunny, she survived the horrific ordeal, but this ordeal caused a change in the cute bunny’s personality. Now she has become unusual, and she is seeking to get something that will cost her more than she can imagine or imagine, and she will use any way or means to get that thing. Will you succeed?
This story features eleven characters, each playing an important role in the unfolding events. Each character has distinct and unique traits that set them apart from the others in this thrilling tale, and each one has an intriguing and distinctive appearance with their splendid shapes and vibrant colors.
The story is filled with many unexpected surprises, all leading to an ending that fits the story and its main character, the gentle bunny. Every exciting story needs a logical and satisfying conclusion for the reader.
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Who Broke The Glasses? And Other Stories
The series is the second part of a collection of stories that narrate, in an engaging manner, events that children face with bullies at home or school. It ties these events to Prophetic hadiths and Quranic verses.
This connection helps teachers and caregivers reinforce the child’s faith and moral dimension through the situations they encounter.
The stories promote the concepts of respecting human differences, whether racial or personality differences, as well as respecting the privacy of others’ possessions, avoiding harm to them, or damaging their properties, and understanding their fears without mocking them.
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Kung Fu Magic
Kung Fu is a form of body exercise deploying high combat skills, in addition to being a self-exercise on internal discipline and intense focus. It also works to develop one’s ability to be ready and patient, to control one’s emotions and mind appropriately.
Although there is a similarity between this sport and some other martial arts such as Taekwondo and Karate, there is a difference between them, and they also differ in terms of rules and history.
Based on my experience of Kung Fu and its benefits that overwhelmed me with positive energy, which in turn had a drastic effect on my personal and professional life, I wanted to share, dear reader, all the information I have about this ancient sport that will surely entice you to want to know more about it. So why not practice it seriously and make it a way of life for you and your children?
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The Disappearance Of Vidya Singh
The Disappearance of Vidya Singh is a young adult fictional short story about the murder of Vidya Singh dated back in the 1800s in India. Four suspects have been looped into the case. Her story is clouded with mists of misconception and deceit because of the gender stigmas surrounding the country at the time including budding technological innovations that are on the cusp of epiphany that manipulates her tale to the eye of the beholder. Who really did it? Spontaneously, this rule-breaking whodunnit inspires a revolution in history that we know all too well.
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Under The Rubble
This novel delves into the impermanence of most aspects of our lives, where peace and security can transform to fear and instability overnight.
The characters in this story will face sudden upheavals that can drive even the wisest minds to madness, brought about by both human actions and events beyond their control.
There is no such thing as perpetual comfort or endless worry. As long as we humans remain alive, things will never stay the same. This is the nature of the world; this is not paradise!
As the poet Al-Mutanabbi said:
If life remained forever for anyone,
We would count the most foolish as the brave.
And if death is inevitable,
It is cowardice not to face it.But will the end of these upheavals bring solace? Let’s see.
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The Four Boys And The Donkey
Can someone like Saher doubt his best friend for the sake of a donkey?!
Will he forgive the accused, like a lifelong friend, for accusing him and criminalizing him without visible evidence or proof of guilt?!
Or are they the only events and situations that show us the nature of friendship, regardless of the years that have passed for this friendship?
How can two friends who are close to each other reveal the depth of their friendship?
Brave boys with their story, and a greedy, greedy man traps them with the strict police officer, and it happens that the magic turns against the magician, and he gets himself involved in something he did not expect, and all of this is only through the clever eyes of a young orphan girl!
Yes…it is the case of the four boys and the donkey before the easy-going and faithful judge.
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Stream Of Thought
I started this saga in 2004, scribbling my thoughts on observations, memory, or incident triggers, and how I see myself within it. These 50 poems explain the liveliness of poetry in our daily lives. We enter the mystery of hopes and fears, life and death, relations we adore, romance and friendship, funny and sad, cloud and snow, autumn, winter, rain, mystery - all in a collection of a book of poetry. I hope you enjoy reading and relating them as much as I liked writing them.
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