The Road from Damascus

2008-06-05 Fiction

Author : Robin Yassin-Kassab
Release : 2008-06-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 519/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Road from Damascus by : Robin Yassin-Kassab

Download or read book The Road from Damascus written by Robin Yassin-Kassab. This book was released on 2008-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is summer 2001 and Sami Traifi has escaped his fraying marriage and minimal job prospects to visit Damascus. In search of his roots and himself, he instead finds a forgotten uncle in a gloomy back room, and an ugly secret about his beloved father... Returning to London, Sami finds even more to test him as his young wife Muntaha reveals that she is taking up the hijab. Sami embarks on a wilfully ragged journey in the opposite direction, away from religion – but towards what? As Sami struggles to understand Muntaha’s newly-deepened faith, her brother Ammar’s hip hop Islamism and his father-in-law’s need to see grandchildren, so his emotional and spiritual unraveling begins to accelerate. And the more he rebels, the closer he comes to betraying those he loves, edging ever-nearer to the brink of losing everything... Set against a powerfully-evoked backdrop of multi-ethnic, multi-faith London, The Road from Damascus explores themes as big as love, faith and hope, and as fundamental as our need to believe in something bigger than ourselves, whatever that might be.

A Road to Damascus

2022-12-27 Fiction

Author : Meedo Taha
Release : 2022-12-27
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 839/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Road to Damascus by : Meedo Taha

Download or read book A Road to Damascus written by Meedo Taha. This book was released on 2022-12-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CINEMATIC DEBUT OF A PROMISING YOUNG NOVELIST FROM LEBANON--A FAUX-THRILLER ABOUT A RECLUSIVE BOTANIST WHO WITNESSES A POLITICAL MURDER AND IS DRAWN INTO A PERSONAL INVESTIGATION--A captivating thriller that reveals a family’s intergenerational secrets, a nation’s deepest fears, and an underground world of politics, religion, and society. Beirut at dawn. A bus leaves the Charles Helou station en route to Damascus. Seven passengers are on board, one of whom is a prominent Lebanese politician. Before crossing the border, the bus is accosted and derailed. All seven passengers are gunned down. A botanist studying a rare occurrence of acacias nearby witnesses the horror. While the nation around him plunges into conspiracy theories and chaos, the botanist realizes he holds the only clue to the mystery: his injured Acacia. This sends him on a quest for answers, through a minefield of national fears and family secrets, deep into a private underworld.

The Road to Damascus

2010-12-01 Drama

Author : August Strindberg
Release : 2010-12-01
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 406/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Road to Damascus written by August Strindberg. This book was released on 2010-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swedish writer August Strinberg played a major role in introducing a more modernist sensibility into his native country's literature, producing several major novels and plays that are still regarded as some of the most significant works of twentieth-century Swedish literature. The Road to Damascus is a dramatic trilogy that broke new ground in stagecraft and characterization, touching on complex themes of spirituality and selfhood in the process.

The Damascus Road

2020-03-17 Fiction

Author : Jay Parini
Release : 2020-03-17
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 201/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Damascus Road written by Jay Parini. This book was released on 2020-03-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international bestseller The Last Station, a superb historical novel of the Apostle Paul, whose tireless and epic preaching of the message of Jesus brought Christianity into existence and changed human history forever. In the years after Christ's crucifixion, Paul of Tarsus, a prosperous tentmaker and Jewish scholar, took it upon himself to persecute the small groups of his followers that sprung up. But on the road to Damascus, he had some sort of blinding vision, a profound conversion experience that transformed Paul into the most effective and influential messenger Christianity has ever had. In The Damascus Road novelist Jay Parini brings this fascinating and ever-controversial figure to full human life, capturing his visionary passions and vast contradictions. In relating Paul's epic journeys, both geographical and spiritual, he unfolds a vivid panorama of the ancient world on the verge of epochal change. And in the alternating voice of the Gospel writer Luke, Paul's travel companion, scribe, and ghostwriter, a cooler perspective on his actions and beliefs emerges -- ironic but still filled with wonder at Paul's unshakable commitment to the Christ and his divinity.

The Road from Damascus

2002-01-10 Religion

Author : Richard N. Longenecker
Release : 2002-01-10
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 644/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Road from Damascus written by Richard N. Longenecker. This book was released on 2002-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversion is intrinsic to the Christian Religion. The most remarkable conversion recorded in the New Testament is that of Paul, and most Christians consider Christ's encounter with Paul to be a prototype of Christian conversion generally. This collection of eleven essays give Paul's conversion a firmer rootage in the biblical materials while also emphasizing personal application. The contributors examine the nature of Paul's Damascus Road experience and the impact of that experience on his thought and ministry, and explore how Paul's experience functions as a paradigm for Christian thought and action today.

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