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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

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  The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017   is a 2020 book by Rashid  Klaidi   i , in which the author describes the Zionist  claim to Palestine  in the century spanning 1917–2017 as late   settler colonialism   and an instrument of British and then later American   imperialism. Rashid Ismail Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian specializing in the Middle East. He  has oftened appeared on TV Shows like GPS(CNN). The First Declaration of War, 1917–1939"   Theodor Herzl , father of modern political Zionism. The chapter "The First Declaration of War, 1917–1939" in "The Hundred" discusses the early 20th-century period when the foundations for the conflict in Palestine were laid. It highlights the impact of the B alfour Declaration and the subsequent British Mandate in Palestin e, marking the beginning of a formal conflict against the Palestinian people. This era saw ...

Book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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The Book review is in  our parts    1) General  book review  2)  Part II, Areas not covered in the film  3) Part III:  Interaction of Oppenheimer with top Physicists 4) Part IV: Interaction of Oppenheimer with top Physicists Part  I: Authors and the book : American Prometheus’ by Kai Bird (Author), Martin J. Sherwin (Author): It took a rare collaboration between two indefatigable writers — and 25 years — to write the prizewinning Oppenheimer biography that inspired the film.  This Pulitzer Prize-winning book reflects on Oppenheimer’s life and his contribution to the development of the atomic bomb. It brings to light the dramatic interplay of science, politics, and personality that shaped the mid-20th century. One of the best scientific biographies to appear in recent years, It is an intense book with many details  covering the complex personality of the genius scientist versatile in arts and s...

Cinephile VS. Bibliophile

  “Harry Potter,” “Percy Jackson,” “Twilight,” “The Notebook,” “Divergent,” “If I Stay,” “The Maze Runner,” and plenty more are movies recently made from a popular book! Both movies and books are great. Some people wouldn’t take the time out of their day to read a page of a book on purpose and some would drop everything they are doing just to read a book. A cinephile would just rather watch the movie for two hours while others, called bibliophile, will read a book and get every juicy details and imagine everything that’s happening and then consider seeing the movie.  I  would rather watch the movie because reading the book is boring and takes way too much time. On other hand, my wife and  few friends  often find the  book better than the film.   They  prefer read the book first is because you can tell what they are thinking. It spreads more emotions. It’s not someone acting out something and hoping that it gets across the idea.” "Comey Rules"...

Books in 2021

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   Amazon 2021 List - Books  Read   The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)  by   Viet Thanh Nguyen     (Author) Homeland Elegies: A Novel   Ayad Akhtar   (Author, Narrator) Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World    Fareed Zakaria   (Author, Narrator), The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone  by  Satya Nadella ,  Greg Shaw , The Palace of Illusions    Chitra Banerjee  Divakaruni The American War in Afghanistan: A History  by  Carter Malkasian ,      The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War  by Craig whitlock