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DECO | Stylish 1 Bed in Galatasaray
Size45 m²
Floor No.2
- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Towels
- Dishwasher
Accommodation summary
|Hayriye Cad, 34425 Istanbul, Turkey
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Deco apartment is situated on the second floor of a newly renovated building with one big and bright living room/bedroom, a fully stocked kitchen with a dining set-up and a modern, stylish bathroom. The floor has gorgeous wooden floor boards.
The apartment is filled with hand-picked pieces of antique furniture and art, combined with a few modern ones. In here you will find everything needed for a comfortable stay. You have a large room with a double bed (140x200) and a large sofa bed (160x200), fresh clean linens for all guests, 24 Hour Hot Water, Central Heating, Hair Dryer, Satellite TV, AC, Wi-Fi, Microwave, Gas Stove, Kettle, Toaster, Washing Machine, Dishwasher.
Upon your arrival we will meet you at the rental, check-you in, give you the keys and tell you about the neighborhood and the whole area for orientation and tips. We will be also assisting you closely during your stay and in case of any needs or emergency.
The flat is close to all major tourist attractions. Within walking distance you'll find the Galata Tower, Istiklal Avenue, Taksim Square, the Old City, the Spice Bazaar and the Grand Bazaar. You are surrounded by lots of great restaurants, cafés, pubs, bars and night clubs, close enough to walk to, but not close enough to hear any noise.
When you reach Taksim Square by Bus/Shuttle/Metro you need to go to Istiklal street and keep walking (around 600m) till you reach Galatasaray High School. Turn the first left after the school. The street goes a bit down. Turn the first one left (the street makes like a L). Keep walking and you will see a grey building with four floors in front of you.
House rulesTransfer from the airport, iron, DVD player, Sony Playstation 3, baby cot and high chair can be ordered for an extra fee.
Please remember our check in/out rules as described in our listing:
Our regular Check-In time is between 13:00 and 19:00
Any Check-Ins outside these hours need prior confirmation and are subject to additional fees.
Our regular Check-Out time is between 8:00 and 11:00
Check-Ins between 19:00 and 23:59 are subject to a fee of EUR20
Check-Ins between 08:00 and 11:59 are subject to a fee of EUR20
Check-Ins between 0:00 and 7:59 are subject to a fee of EUR40
Check-Outs between 11:00 and 14:59 is subject to a fee of EUR20
Check-Outs between 15:00 and 18:00 is subject to a fee of EUR40
A €200 security deposit is required via PayPal ahead of check-in, and is refundable up to one week following successful check-out.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|Price for > 2 guests
|$ 132 HKD per guest/night extra
|Maximum nights
|6 months
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|On arrangement
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Reviews of this property
Apartment well located and beautifully team while being very quiet. Recommend it highly.
Appartement bien équipe et magnifiquement situé tout en étant très calme. À recommander fortement.
Reviews for this host's other properties
Lovely well equipped apartment in a nice and quiet area close to Taksim Square, tram ..
The garden remains significant
Just across a small supermarket
The host was very helpful with any request.
I recommend.
Note that the area is located in the hills
It goes a bit at times!
We had a pleasant stay in Istanbul
We will return
thank you!
Charmant appartement bien équipé dans un quartier sympathique et calme proche de la place Taksim,tramway..
Le jardinet reste appréciable
Juste en face une supérette
L'hôte était très disponible pour toutes demandes.
Je recommande.
A noter que le quartier est situé dans les hauteurs
Ca monte un peu par moment !
Nous avons passé un agréable séjour à Istanbul
Nous reviendrons
merci !
We had a great stay. The team led by Ogul were all very helpful. It is even for us going gone on the first day to gewechseln for our money (Euro in Turkish Lira). Just great !!!!
Wir hatten einen tollen Aufenthalt. Das Team um Ogul waren alle sehr hilfsbereit. Er ist sogar wegen uns los gegangen am ersten Tag, um für uns unser Geld ( Euro in türkisch Lira) zu gewechseln. Einfach klasse!!!!
Pretty, clean apartment with great terraces. Most of the sights in the immediate vicinity. 4th floor, without a lift. Who wants TV, finds no (listed on Wimdu, however). View by the surrounding houses somewhat limited.
Still recommended. Is a great starting point to discover this beautiful city. Transfer from / to the airport on time, courteous. Nice landlord
Hübsche, saubere Wohnung mit tollen Terrassen. Die meisten Sehenswürdigkeiten in unmittelbarer Nähe. 4.Stock, ohne Lift. Wer TV wünscht, findet keinen (auf Wimdu jedoch aufgeführt). Aussicht durch die umliegenden Häuser etwas eingeschränkt.
Trotzdem empfehlenswert. Ist ein toller Ausgangspunkt um diese schöne Stadt zu entdecken. Transfer vom/ zum Flughafen pünktlich, zuvorkommend. Netter Vermieter
Beautiful Flat! Good Service! And once a week there´s a big market right in front of your house, which is very fun to brouse. You´re also living door to door with very friendly, real Istanbul citizens.
Unfortunatelly we heared gunshots not far away from the flat at one night. But i´m very shure this will not happen this often. All in all it was a wonderfull stay in a really wonderfull and save flat.
Thanks a lot
Great location, spacious cabin. Not quite as neat as the photos might suggest, but OK. Fits well even for two couples or larger families.
Hieno sijainti, tilava kämppä. Ei ihan niin siisti, kuin kuvista voisi päätellä, mutta OK. Sopii hyvin vaikka kahdelle pariskunnalle tai isommallekin perheelle.
The apartment in Istanbul was great. It was in a real nice neighbourhood and very near to Taksim square. Lots of nice shops, restaurants and bars close by. The apartment itself had everything you might need for a (short) stay and was very clean and comfortable. It has a small garden were you can park you bicycle (which was very convenient for us!) or dry your washing. In summer it might even be possible to sit outside and have a bbq (which was available as well)! The host and the owner were both very helpful and communicative. When the wifi was not woring the host arranged a solution very quickly. We had a very nice stay in Istanbul and in the aparment, if friend or family will visit we will defenitly advise them to rent this apartment.
Very pleasant stay. Apartment remarkably well located in old Istanbul with views of Hagia Sophia and the Bosphorus!
Séjour très agréable. Appartement remarquablement bien situé dans le vieil Istanbul avec vue sur Sainte-Sophie et le Bosphore !
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You are torturing me again!! <grin> I used to live on West End Ave, Lanc. (in the old umbrella factory) within a block or two of the Hammond Pretzel factory. I'd bring in my own tin and have them fill it regularly. Yeah, these were hard pretzels, but hand tied and amazing when they were hot out of the oven.I would not be surprised if those soft pretzel recipe would work for pizza crust.jack
Might be heresy to post this in a forum of avid DIYer's who pride themselves on making stuff from scratch, however I think many will find it useful. I found this website http://www.abelandschafer.com/ who sells commercial baking products retail. The only caveat is you have to buy big sizes, like 10, 25 or 50 lb sacks. The good side is I have tried their pretzel products and I can confess they are the REAL DEAL. They also sell NaOH but you have to buy it in 10kg quantities. (that's roughly 22 pounds). They also have dough improvers and conditioners which many folks trying to develop a commercial product might enjoy trying. They are expensive though. I have not tried their cake or bread mixes, but if they are anything like the pretzel products, they must be fantastic. BTW, I am not affiliated with these folks in any way.
Bah... you've got me itching to make some pretzels now! While surfing I found another site with lots of great information on pretzels here: http://www.thefreshloaf.com/recipes/pretzelsA few folks commented that Auntie Annies uses the baking soda method. From what I recall of their pretzels that sounds correct because I remember they have a tougher, more crunchy crumb. They aren't so soft and chewy.
Not scared at all. I am a molecular biologist and use chemicals all day long in the lab. I understand by training how to handle certain chemicals appropriately. Being a "food forum" where most people will not have this experience and training, I laid the caution on there pretty thick. This is especially important because people are going to consume these things, or likely to make them with children present in the kitchen. If handled properly and the appropriate protective wear used, it's not a dangerous thing. However there is a real hazard here if you don't know what you're doing, including skin burns, loss of vision, blindness, scarring, etc. I certainly would not want to see something bad happen to someone on these forums just for the sake of making a better pretzel. It makes for some good pretzels though...
Norma, from your account of how he describes using this "powder" it sounds like NaOH. I don't know what else it could be. If it were baking soda or any kind of bicarbonate powder, I don't think gloves would be necessary. The reasoning for using warm water is to aid in dissolving the crystals when preparing the solution. The issue here is people tend to add it too fast to water when dissolving. That is the same info that came with the stuff I bought from abel and schafer. Even if they say it isn't NaOH, I certainly would not smell it because if it's any stong base, it is bad for your lungs if inhaled. The easiest way I think you could test this is when you dissolve it use room temperature water. It will take longer to dissolve, but if it's NaOH or a strong base, it will generate heat and warm the water upon dissolving. You should be able to feel this heat by touching the side of the bowl. (Don't touch the solution!) You could also use a laboratory grade thermometer to see the temperature of the solution increase. It should still dissolve in the concentations being used for pretzel making even in room temperature water, it will just take longer and need occaisional stirring. This won't conclusively make it NaOH, but I don't see what else it could be.When you dissolve this powder, sprinkle it in slowly, don't just drop a bunch of it in the water at once.
Yeah I agree with you. I can't imagine they'd have a hot steaming NaOH bath in such a small place. In theory the steam would just be water vapor, but the concentration would increase as the water evaporated unless they were constantly keeping the water at a certain level. Who knows? The suspense is killing me. I hope you figure out what they are using. I would be interested in a less hazardous approach to this.

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IRON RIVER – Marilyn L. Salzeider, of Pawnee, Ill., and Iron River, passed away Saturday, March 23, 2013, in the comfort of her husband, John Earl Salzeider, and sons, John (Robin) and Jerry (Sherri).
Marilyn was preceded in death by her son, James (Christine).
Marilyn was born on Jan. 22, 1945, the daughter of Marvin and Doris Moe. A sister, Donna Graham preceded her in death in 2010.
Marilyn resided in Pawnee from 1966 to 1996. While there, she was heavily involved with the Pawnee Picnic Association and Pawnee Sports Boosters. She leaves a number of great friends (sisters) in Pawnee and cherished her time there raising all three of her sons and her husband.
In 1996, she and her husband moved to Iron River to begin a new chapter in their life as a retired couple living on the lake. It is there Marilyn forged her most cherished memories in life with her grandchildren, Samantha, Abigail, Ryan, Tyler, Eric, Caitlin, Logan and Jack. Those thoughts carried her through her short battle with cancer and will remain with her always.
Marilyn was known for her kind and generous nature and her unflappable ability as a caregiver to all. She had an immense heart and was always a friend. Her most precious times in life were spent with her family and especially her grandchildren. She will be remembered by all but especially by them.
Visitation will be held Wednesday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Jacobs Funeral Home of Iron River.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at Faithorn United Methodist Church in Faithorn.
Interment will be in Riverside Cemetery in Faithorn.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests you make a donation to any children's charity in her name.
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"You want to make sure with a race in which you'll be flying home with other drivers that you don't crash into them. It's happened before, and it can make for a little bit of a tense situation."
John Hendricks
To appreciate what John Hendricks has created, just spend some time watching his Discovery Channel. Consider, for example, the moment on the Curiosity show when Dr. Dunn rips a piece of tape off host Mike Rowe's eyebrow and finds what he is seeking: eyebrow mites. A closeup shot takes you deep into the world of these mites, so deep that one of Mike's eyebrows looks like the bole of a 2,000-year-old sequoia. You watch as the mites–fat little slug-like aliens able to squish their way into the tiny space between Mike's hair shaft and skin–pulse up and down as they gorge on hair follicle excretions.
Oh, yuck! But you keep watching, just as you can't stop watching other Discovery networks shows to see what the Mythbusters have uncovered or what TLC might teach you or what awesome portable weapon those clever boys at Sons of Guns have cobbled together in their incendiary workshop.
That is the magic that John Hendricks created when he founded Discovery Channel in 1985–but he didn't create it by magic. He had to spend a lot of time querying bemused TV executives about why the nascent cable networks included no documentary channels. Then he had to raise $25 million to launch Discovery under the radar of the clueless TV networks. A little more than 25 years later, Discovery Communications operates in approximately 200 countries and has 1.5 billion subscribers and 28 brands, including TLC, Animal Planet and HowStuffWorks.com.
Hendricks' own curiosity and love of the outdoors led him to buy 400 acres, which grew to 8,000, near the red rock canyon country outside Grand Junction, Colo., in the early 1990s, to create Gateway Canyons resort. The resort offers not only a traditional Western vacation in luxury surroundings but also some unusual opportunities. For example, guests can view dinosaur tracks or study brilliant night skies through a powerful telescope with the aid of a renowned scientist.
Hendricks also started Gateway Canyons Air Tours, so guests can take day trips to places like Aspen and Telluride. He maintains a grass airstrip on his property near Gateway Canyons, where he raises horses and bison.
What led you to create Discovery Communications?
My favorite kind of television was nonfiction. I was a work-study student at the University of Alabama and if [professors] wanted to show a 16-mm film, my job was to rent it. I had these [film] catalogs, and I knew there was this wonderful inventory of documentary products, but they weren't on television.
So you made some calls...
One was to a local broadcaster, but the guy just laughed at me. I called a cable operator and the general manager said, "Son, you don't understand. By law, we can only retransmit broadcast signals." The powerful broadcasting lobby had made sure that this cable technology couldn't compete with them.
In 1975 Time Inc. created a service called Home Box Office, where every night they would offer a movie. So broadcasters filed suit, saying it was against the law. The Supreme Court ruled that that law banning cable from providing its own content violated our First Amendment rights.
I remember seeing that in 1975, and that's when I realized, my goodness, there's going to be these very simple ideas, starting with a movie channel. Then Ted Turner did CNN in 1980. The year before, a guy in Connecticut created something called Entertainment Sports and Programming Network. ESPN.
Nobody was doing my favorite kind of TV. I got really obsessed in 1982 and incorporated the Discovery Channel. I was fortunate enough to find the investment backers that enabled me to pull it all together and launch in '85.
How much money did it take?
To be a cable network, you have to have a satellite transponder, and the lease was $336,000 a month. [That was] the biggest fixed expense and then programming [and] staff costs. We raised an initial $5 million and then a secondary round of $20 million. And we got Discovery Channel to break even within about two and a half years.
How did you find Gateway Canyons?
My father spent a lot of time in his 20s here and would regale me with stories of Colorado and Utah. He said there's this beautiful red rock canyon country west of Grand Junction. So in the early '90s, my wife and I started looking around. I remember looking in the Wall Street Journal, and it said, "Beautiful ranch for sale in red rock canyon country southwest of Grand Junction."
Our real estate agent was a pilot, and he picked me up at Grand Junction. We landed on this little dirt strip, and the sun was hitting the Palisade, and it was like, goodness, this place is like a national park. [My wife] Maureen and my son and daughter came out, and then we settled on the property. Since that time we've added the property here [Gateway Canyons resort], and a number of ranches, a lot of which we've put into conservation easements.
We decided to start exploring the potential for locating a resort here that had the mission of satisfying curiosity, which has been my mission with Discovery since the beginning. I think of this as kind of a place where the planet opens up to tell its story.
More recently we've started to experiment with a concept we call Discovery Retreats–knowledge retreats that are themed around a topic. Whether it's dinosaurs or secrets of the universe, we had experts fly in from around the country. And people could have a wonderful vacation but twice a day would be these incredible lectures.
What led to your purchase of one of the earliest NetJets shares?
It made sense, this new concept that [NetJets founder] Richard Santulli had created, fractional ownership. Our first plane at Discovery was a Citation II that I had a one-eighth interest in. We could meet well into the night and not worry about commercial flight schedules and then be able to return. This was especially important, as we had to meet with distributors all across the country as we were getting Discovery up and running.
We graduated from a Citation II to a Hawker 1000 and today Discovery has three shares in NetJets aircraft, including a Gulfstream IV that we'll use when we have larger group travel, or are going to Europe. We have a Citation X, and if we're taking short trips with two or three people, we use a Citation Excel. My wife and I, for years we've had our personal share, a 3/16th share in a Gulfstream 200. We're big believers in business aviation.
Owning a whole aircraft doesn't make sense for you?
[I like] the flexibility of a fractional share that can meet the mission profile. Plus, aircraft have maintenance issues, and that's another one of the advantages. NetJets has 800 aircraft. There's always going to be an aircraft within an hour or two of where you are.
Is travel time a good time to focus on work?
I use the aircraft time as work time. Now NetJets is putting Wi-Fi in the aircraft. You don't miss a beat.
Do Discovery's jet shares help with your international expansion plans?
NetJets allows you to trade up, and there was a trip all over China, meeting with authorities to introduce our content. It would have been hard to pull off the number of meetings that we had throughout China without business aviation.
How is Discovery dealing with the rapidly changing television landscape?
Television has gone through its third stage of evolution. [At first] the consumer had no control over it. What cable brought was a movie channel, sports channel, news channel, documentaries, content available 24 hours a day. This third stage is programs on demand. And the Internet will be a big way that satisfies that consumer demand for "I want to watch what I want to watch when I want to watch it."
The broadcast industry grew up with one stream of revenue: advertising. Those of us in cable, we've benefitted from having two streams of revenue. Every time you pay your cable or satellite bill we get 20, 30 or 40 cents per channel. And we get advertising on top of that.
As people go to the Internet for content, we have to try to keep those streams of revenue intact and develop additional means online either through advertising or a micro fee. We have to get paid for the content. One of the worries in our industry now is what's called cord-cutting. If [consumers] disconnect from cable or satellite, that's a huge loss to all of us on the network side. Because we depend on that for the bulk of our revenue. So we're [preparing for changes] slowly. For instance, Discovery provides some of our content on Netflix, Amazon and Google, and we'll soon follow with some television offerings.
Discovery today has revenue of close to $4.5 billion a year, and about $1.5 billion a year we get from the subscription license fee in the United States. It's important to keep that intact. The way to do it is what we call TV Everywhere. Where people are a Discovery channel subscriber and either a cable or satellite subscriber, we will offer them this add-on service of being able to watch anything in our library. Otherwise, we will disable the economic model that made the Discovery Channel possible.
These are key questions in our industry. What we can't do is make the mistake of some of the early broadcasters. Like ABC with Wide World of Sports and all of that history of sports programming didn't create a sports network. They ended up having to buy [ESPN] for an extraordinary amount. CBS could have done a Discovery Channel. They didn't properly define their business. They defined it with the technology of the time, as broadcasters. And I remember talking to some of the broadcasters about investing in cable. They said, "We're not in the cable business." If they had stepped back and said, "We're in the television business," they would have flocked into cable. I'm glad they didn't. They left all these opportunities.
Broadcasting is just a distribution medium, right?
Exactly. That's why I've been careful to educate our employees. Don't call us a cable network. That defines us with the technology. We've always said we're in the business of satisfying curiosity. We're technology neutral. Whatever technology comes along, we will play on that platform. We're playing on the tablet platforms, because if we're not there, there will be other entrepreneurs who will develop a Discovery-type service for the iPad.
Does that keep you awake at night, worrying about what some smart kid is planning?
Absolutely. We were the nightmare for the broadcast industry as we created all these cable channels. Today, the majority of viewing in America is cable networks rather than broadcasters. We have to be on the lookout for that next platform, and it's clearly going to be the Internet and the Internet also tied to these personal exploration devices. The iPad has really changed my life. It's the only device that I've ever taken to bed with me because I read my books on it. When I travel, I load up television shows so when I'm at a hotel I can just plug in an HDMI cable and watch on the big screen.
Tell me about your lawsuit with Amazon over your ebook technology patents.
I started thinking how digital was going to change the way we deliver content. And I asked some engineers, how long would it take to send a book [to a television]? And they said, just seconds. So I started thinking, how could you get it to a readable form? I have the first patents on the electronic book. The problem is, the patent [filing] is dated '94, and they're good for 20 years [from that date], so we're almost running up to the end of it. We can't comment on the lawsuit, [but] we've been defending it. [In mid-November, Amazon settled the lawsuit, in which Discovery had charged that the Kindle and Kindle 2 had infringed on its technology.settlement terms were not disclosed–Ed.]
I designed [a device] about this size [indicates about the size of an iPad]. The problem was battery capacity. Fortunately, I thought about delivering not only through television to the set top beamed out to a device, but also through telephone and then cellular.
Is your legacy important to you?
I think the most rewarding thing is having participated in some effort to improve the human condition in the time we have on the planet. I've had the good fortune of being able to use the power of television to teach and now to experiment with organizing a place where people can come and learn about and touch their world.
Name: John Hendricks
Birthdate: March 29,1952
Position: Chairman of Discovery Communications, which he founded in 1985
Previous position: Founder and president of American Association of University Consultants, which specialized in television distribution, marketing and fundraising for educational programs and services
Education: B.A., history, University of Alabama
Personal: Has a son and daughter with Maureen, his wife of 30 years. Has a pilot's license.
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In a bid to make its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet more popular among consumers, Research in Motion is reportedly working on a special technology that could allow applications designed for Google Android operating systems to run on the PlayBook. Theoretically, nothing can stop RIM from installing the same tech onto its smartphones eventually to expand the choice of apps for its customers.
RIM plans to integrate the technology with the PlayBook operating system, giving customers access to Android's more than 130 thousand programs, reports Bloomberg news-agency citing several sources. The software is developed internally and the company may unveil it in the second half of the year. The tablet itself is based on QNX software technology which RIM acquired last year.
Just like Google Android, QNX utilizes the common POSIX [portable operating system interface for unix] standard that defines application programming interfaces, utilities interfaces, shells and other technologies. Technologically, it should be relatively easy to allow Android applications to run on QNX. Moreover, theoretically, it is possible to make them work on other operating systems.
While the RIM BlackBerry platform for business and enterprise users is successful on its target markets, more and more are looking forward more advanced features, applications and other benefits from their smartphones. As a result, many users of BlackBerry are turning their heads towards Apple iPhone or Google Android platforms, which have better support from software developers. For example, there are 130 thousand apps for Android and only around 20 thousand for RIM's platforms.
In case RIM manages to make apps for Android work flawlessly on its Playbook tablet and eventually on at least some smartphones, it may gain a substantial advantage over all the other mobile platform holders. Potentially, the effort - which is currently kept in secret and may not materialize in case of significant technology issues - may wed ultimate security and best-in-class messaging capabilities of Blackberry with broad set of software designed for various phones and demanded by mass customers.
"It will be a shrewd move to let Android apps run RIM without any performance or user interface hiccups. It will make the RIM platform attractive to consumers as it lacks the strength of the rivals from an apps perspective," said Chetan Sharma, an independent wireless analyst in Issaquah, Washington.
RIM did not comment on the news-story.


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The newish brunch service at 101 Beer Kitchen aptly displays this place's charms. Its hearty and sneakily crafty fare is unabashedly masculine, yet smart, stylish and accessible enough to have broad appeal. Plus, while 101's scratch-made, relatively inexpensive brunch dishes exhibit many down-home Southern and zesty Southwestern influences, there's a decent-enough range of meats, seafoods and sweets to please a wide swath of eaters. No, it's not vegan-accommodating, but the only other thing in super-short supply on 101's succinct brunch menu is effete fussiness.
After being seated in this understatedly attractive and unpretentious place — a decent age cross section of the local population occupies its three distinct spaces (I always head straight for the bar area) — order a "Brunch Cocktail." These range from the unusual grapefruit-soda-like German beer called Stiegl Radler ($6; pleasant, and only 2.5-percent ABV) to the Concord Cocktail ($7; with Hendrick's gin and elderflower liqueur, it's like floral, sweet-restrained grape juice) to a killer Bloody Mary ($8). Garnished with a veritable hors d'oeuvres sampler (a block of fresh mozzarella, salami, olive, pickle and self-immolating chili pepper), 101's Bloody Mary is pulpy, spicy, horseradish-y, thick, acidic … and it packs a buzzy wallop.
The single-page brunch menu also offers lotsa stuff from its regular food document, but I focused on the newer dishes. These include starters like a crunchy-shelled and maple-sweet-kissed Breakfast Scotch Egg ($5), whose just-right, soft-boiled ova was deeply enriched by a morning sausage and cornflake breading. Nice.
In a similar gift-wrapped-and-porcine-enhanced vein are 101's upgraded Pigs in a Blanket ($6). The little swaddled hogs are fashioned with flaky homemade pastry dough and slices of Nueske's smoky/juicy "Bacon Cheddar Bratwurst." What's not to like?
Brunch entrees display a sound tendency to stack synergistic goodies onto a soak-it-up base a la 101's excellent Southern Benedict ($10). That twofer used a duo of fried green tomatoes planted in creamy cheese grits to house thick-cut and charred ham, red-eye gravy, collard greens and poached eggs. It was a salty, sweet, smoky, rich and zingy home run.
Transplanting a similar flavor-bomb aesthetic farther south and west gets you 101's "hurray-and-ole!" version of "Steak & Eggs" ($13). Here, a crispy fried corn tortilla hosted fall-apart-tender pot roast-y short rib meat, pinto beans, spicy and cinnamon-scented mole sauce, a sunny side up egg and garnishes of fresh guacamole and queso fresco.
Homey and comforting quick bread is the ballast for 101's Open-Faced Fried Chicken Biscuit Sandwich ($11.50). Nestled above homemade buttermilkers were several plump and crackly battered and fried chicken tenders doused in sweet "chili honey gravy." Providing welcome contrast was a perky "watermelon salad" with arugula, red onions and cubed and diced fruit.
The hits kept coming with 101's Southwest Style Biscuits & Gravy ($10). Layered on sweet and jalapeno-and-cheddar-punctuated golden cornbread were sunny side uppers, righteously creamy chorizo gravy with a mild bite and a contrapuntal black bean relish. Might want a nap after that one.
Actually, you should stay awake long enough to share the brunch dessert 101 Twinkie ($11) with a deserving partner. Amusingly formed like the endangered junk food favorite — though about four times the size — it's hole-punctured (challah) bread pudding filled with vanilla pastry cream. The crusty log is placed on a sticky-but-delicious lake of mixed berry sauce studded with fruit. We're not done yet, because slices of applewood bacon gild the lily and fill in the missing salty, crunchy and smoky notes. All right, now it's time for that nap.


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U.S. Women Cruise Past China at Grand Prix
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Colorado Springs, Colo. (Aug. 7, 2011) - The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team dominated China 25-20, 25-17, 25-16 on Sunday during the FIVB World Grand Prix's Pool D preliminary weekend held in Luohe, China.
The U.S., ranked second in the FIVB world ranking and defending FIVB World Grand Prix champions in the premier annual international volleyball tournament, improved to 3-0 in the tournament with eight points through the end of the first preliminary round weekend of the FIVB World Grand Prix. The Americans have now won 14 consecutive FIVB World Grand Prix matches counting the final 11 victories in last year's event. China, ranked sixth in the world, dropped to 1-2 in the tournament.
The U.S. returns to FIVB World Grand Prix action next weekend in Pool H held at Komaki, Japan. The Americans will face NORCECA rival Dominican Republic on Aug. 12 at 3 p.m. (11 p.m. Pacific Time on Aug. 11), host Japan on Aug. 13 at 6 p.m. (2 a.m. Pacific Time) and Serbia on Aug. 14 at 3 p.m. (11 p.m. Pacific Time on Aug. 13). The U.S. has already defeated Serbia once in this year's FIVB World Grand Prix, a 25-22, 25-19, 23-25, 20-25, 15-10 victory on Aug. 5.
The U.S. started the opening set with an 8-3 advantage, only to have China rally to tie the set at 9-all. However, the Americans answered with a 8-3 scoring run to establish a 17-12 advantage en route to a 25-20 victory in the first set. Team USA built a 9-1 lead in the second set with four kills and an ace in the first 10 points and stretched the lead to as much as 12 points at 19-7 before closing the set at 25-17. The U.S. started the third set with a 4-0 advantage and reached a double-digit lead at 17-7 and cruised to the 25-16 victory.
"I am happy with our performance today," U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) said. "We improved every match and this is our best game in this round. Now we focus on Japan. We will immediately prepare for the next round in Japan."
Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas) led the U.S. with 18 points with 15 kills on 24 errorless attacks and three blocks. Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.) charted 13 points with seven kills on 13 swings, four blocks and two aces. Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) totaled eight kills, two aces and two blocks for 12 points. Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) contributed eight kills on 12 attacks and two blocks for 10 points. Jordan Larson scored four kills, three aces and a block for eight points. Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) rounded out the scoring with an ace.
Berg provided 17 assists on 54 total attempts leading to a 46.7 team kill percent and .378 hitting efficiency. Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) handed 15 of the team's 43 dig attempts and totaled 10 service reception attempts. Hodge took 22 of the team's 48 service receptions with only one error.
"We have achieved our goal to get better and better each game," U.S. Women's National Team captain Jennifer Tamas. "We did better than Friday and Saturday. We are hoping we can do it as well as here in Japan."
The U.S. held advantages in all three scoring categories with a 42-32 advantage in kills, 12-6 margin in blocks and 8-3 edge in aces. Meanwhile, China converted 33.0 percent of its attacks for points with a .186 hitting efficiency.
To watch Universal Sports' video stream of the Team USA versus China match, click here.
McCutcheon started Hodge and Larson at outside hitter, Akinradewo and Bown at middle blocker, Hooker at opposite and Berg at setter. Davis was the libero for the match. Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii) was a back-row sub in all three sets, while Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.) was a serving sub in the first and third sets.
China substituted liberally in the match with all 12 players starting at least one set. Junjing Yang totaled a team-high nine points, while Linlin Fan added eight points.
In Pool B in Thailand, Cuba (1-2) topped Peru (0-3) 26-24, 25-19, 25-22, while Russia (2-0) faces host Thailand (2-0) in a battle of undefeated teams. In Pool C in Korea, Brazil (3-0) defeated host Korea (1-2) 25-17, 25-20, 25-22 and Japan (2-1) beat Germany (0-3) 25-22, 25-13, 25-19. Later today in Pool D, Serbia (1-1) plays Kazakhstan (0-2) to conclude matches in Luohe, China. Later today in Pool A in Poland, Italy (2-0) plays Poland (1-1) and Dominican Republic (1-1) takes on Argentina (0-2).
Hooker and Hodge connected for back-to-back kills followed by consecutive Akinradewo aces to yield a 5-1 U.S. advantage in the first set. The Americans extended their lead to 7-2 with kills from Larson and Berg. China scored the first six points out of seven points after the first technical timeout to tie the set at 9-all. Team USA broke the run with a Larson kill and Berg ace at 11-9. The U.S. extended the lead to 14-11 with consecutive kills from Akinradewo and Bown causing a China timeout. Out of the break, Hooker connected for a kill at 15-11. The Americans stretched the advantage to 17-12 with a Hooker kill and Akinradewo block. China answered with two quick points to cut the deficit to 17-14. Team USA regained its five-point cushion at 20-15 with a Bown kill and China attack error. The teams traded points through end of the set as Bown hit a slide at 25-20. Hooker scored six points in the opening set, while Bown added five points. The Americans picked up three aces in the opening set.
The U.S. scored the first four points of the second set with consecutive Akinradewo blocks, a Hodge overpass kill and Larson ace leading to a China timeout down 4-0. Out of the break, Hooker added another block and Hodge hammered a kill for a 6-0 American advantage. The U.S. reached the first technical timeout leading 8-1 after consecutive kills from Akinradewo and Hooker. Out of the break, Hodge added a block at 9-1. Hooker and Bown pounded kills to extend the American lead to 11-2. Hodge and Bown connected for consecutive kills to build the lead to double-digits at 13-3, followed by a Bown attack that was not returnable by China at 14-3. China scored two straight points out of the second technical timeout to chip the deficit to 16-7. However, a China service error and attack error followed by a Hooker block led to a 19-7 American lead. China used a 5-1 scoring run to cut the deficit to 21-13. Hodge followed a Hooker kill with an ace to yield a 23-13 advantage. China responded with three straight points to move to 23-16. Akinradewo scored the final point of the set with a kill at 25-17. Hooker scored eight points in the second set, while Akinradewo contributed six points and Bown added five points.
The Americans bolted to a 4-0 lead in the third set with two kills from Hodge, an ace from Larson and block by Akinradewo. Hodge served an ace to provide the U.S. an 8-3 lead at the first technical timeout. China collected consecutive points to close to 9-6. However, Hooker and Akinradewo responded with kills to produce a 11-6 American lead and Chinese timeout. Out of the break, Hooker finished a long rally with a block followed by a kill sending the score to 13-6. Out of China's second timeout, Akinradewo put up a block and China hit long to lift the U.S. in front 15-6 on a 6-0 scoring run. Akinradewo scored a block and Hooker tallied a kill on both sides of the second technical timeout to give the U.S. a double-digit lead at 17-7. However, China notched back-to-back points to narrow the gap to 17-9. Bown followed a Hodge kill with a block to regain a 10-point lead at 19-9. Hodge and Bown turned in consecutive kills to push the margin to 21-10. China scored two straight points to decrease the deficit to 21-12. China inched to 23-15 with back-to-back points. Akinradewo ended the set and match with a kill at 25-16. Hooker and Akinradewo totaled six points each in the third set, while Hodge added five points.
FIVB Event Web Page for 2011 World Grand Prix
U.S. Women's National Team Roster for FIVB World Grand Prix Weekend #1
# - Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 - Kristin Richards (OH, 6-1, Orem, Utah, Stanford)
4 - Lindsey Berg (S, 5-8, Honolulu, Hawaii, Minnesota)
5 - Tamari Miyashiro (L, 5-7, Kaneohe, Hawaii, Washington)
6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
7 - Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)
8 - Alisha Glass (S, 6-0, Leland, Mich., Penn State)
9 - Jennifer Tamas (MB, 6-4, Milpitas, Calif., Pacific)
10 - Kim Glass (OH, 6-2, Lancaster, Pa., Arizona)
11 - Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)
12 - Nancy Metcalf (Opp, 6-1, Hull, Iowa, Nebraska)
13 - Christa Harmotto (MB, 6-2, Hopewell, Pa., Penn State)
16 - Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)
18 - Megan Hodge (OH, 6-3, Durham, N.C., Penn State)
19 - Destinee Hooker (Opp, 6-4, San Antonio, Texas, Texas)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Assistant Coach: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Paula Weishoff (Irvine, Calif.)
Assistant Coach/Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Athletic Trainer/Medical Support: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)
Team Manager: Ken Sullivan
Pool A at Bydgoszsz, Poland (Luczinczka Hall)
Aug. 5: Poland def. Argentina 25-20, 25-17, 25-22
Aug. 5: Italy def. Dominican Republic 25-18, 22-25, 25-18, 25-17
Aug. 6: Dominican Republic def. Poland 21-25, 25-17, 26-24, 2-25, 18-16
Aug. 6: Italy def. Argentina 25-17, 23-25, 25-20, 25-18
Aug. 7: Poland vs. Italy, 3:30 p.m.
Aug. 7: Dominican Republic vs. Argentina, 6 p.m.
Pool B at Nakhonpathom, Thailand (Nakhonpathom Gym)
Aug. 5: Russia def. Cuba 24-26, 25-18, 25-23, 25-20
Aug. 5: Thailand def. Peru 25-20, 25-13, 25-16
Aug. 6: Russia def. Peru 25-12, 25-9, 25-14
Aug. 6: Thailand def. Cuba 23-25, 17-25, 28-26, 25-23, 15-10
Aug. 7: Cuba def. Peru 26-24, 25-19, 25-22
Aug. 7: Russia vs. Thailand, 5:30 p.m.
Pool C at Busan, Korea (Sajik Indoor Gymnasium)
Aug. 5: Brazil def. Japan 25-18, 25-16, 25-21
Aug. 5: Korea def. Germany 25-19, 25-19, 20-25, 25-20
Aug. 6: Japan def. Korea 25-20, 25-21, 25-22
Aug. 6: Brazil def. Germany 25-21, 23-25, 25-15, 25-23
Aug. 7: Brazil def. Korea 25-17, 25-20, 25-22
Aug. 7: Japan def. Germany 25-22, 25-13, 25-19
Pool D at Luohe, China (Luohe Sports Center)
Aug. 5: USA def. Serbia 25-22, 25-19, 23-25, 20-25, 15-10
Aug. 5: China def. Kazakhstan 25-18, 25-23, 25-16
Aug. 6: USA def. Kazakhstan 25-15, 25-21, 25-12
Aug. 6: Serbia def. China 25-21, 23-25, 25-21, 25-18
Aug. 7: USA def. China 25-20, 25-17, 25-16
Aug. 7: Serbia vs. Kazakhstan, 7:30 p.m.
Pool E at Zielona Gora, Poland (Sortowo Widowiskowa Hall)
Aug. 12: Poland vs. Argentina, 4:30 p.m.
Aug. 12: Cuba vs. Korea, 7 p.m.
Aug. 13: Poland vs. Korea, 3:30 p.m.
Aug. 13: Cuba vs. Argentina, 6 p.m.
Aug. 14: Poland vs. Cuba, 3:30 p.m.
Aug. 14: Korea vs. Argentina, 6 p.m.
Pool F at Almaty Kazakhstan (Baluan Sholak Sports Palace)
Aug. 12: Kazakhstan vs. Italy, 3:15 p.m.
Aug. 12: Thailand vs. Brazil, 6 p.m.
Aug. 13: Brazil vs. Kazakhstan, 3:15 p.m.
Aug. 13: Italy vs. Thailand, 6 p.m.
Aug. 14: Kazakhstan vs. Thailand, 3:15 p.m.
Aug. 14: Italy vs. Brazil, 6 p.m.
Pool G at Quanzhou, China (Straits Sports Center Quanzhou)
Aug. 12: Germany vs. Russia, 4 p.m.
Aug. 12: China vs. Peru, 7:30 p.m.
Aug. 13: Peru vs. Russia, 4 p.m.
Aug. 13: China vs. Germany, 7:30 p.m.
Aug. 14: Peru vs. Germany, 4 p.m.
Aug. 14: China vs. Russia, 7:30 p.m.
Pool H at Komaki, Japan (Park Arena Komaki)
Aug. 12: USA vs. Dominican Republic, 3 p.m.
Aug. 12: Japan vs. Serbia, 6 p.m.
Aug. 13: Serbia vs. Dominican Republic, 3 p.m.
Aug. 13: USA vs. Japan, 6 p.m.
Aug. 14: Japan vs. Dominican Republic, 1 p.m.
Aug. 14: USA vs. Serbia, 3 p.m.
Pool I at Hong Kong (Hong Kong Coliseum)
Aug. 19: Kazakhstan vs. Poland, 7 p.m.
Aug. 19: China vs. Dominican Republic, 9:30 p.m.
Aug. 20: Dominican Republic vs. Poland, 3 p.m.
Aug. 20: China vs. Kazakhstan, 9:30 p.m.
Aug. 21: Dominican Republic vs. Kazakhstan, 5:30 p.m.
Aug. 21: China vs. Poland, 8 p.m.
Pool J at Hong Kong (Hong Kong Coliseum)
Aug. 19: Italy vs. Peru, 1 p.m.
Aug. 19: USA vs. Germany, 3 p.m.
Aug. 20: Germany vs. Peru, 1 p.m.
Aug. 20: USA vs. Italy, 7 p.m.
Aug. 21: USA vs. Peru, 11 a.m.
Aug. 21: Germany vs. Italy, 1 p.m.
Pool K at Bangkok, Thailand (Keelawes 1)
Aug. 19: Cuba vs. Brazil, 2 p.m.
Aug. 19: Thailand vs. Argentina, 5:30 p.m.
Aug. 20: Brazil vs. Argentina, 2 p.m.
Aug. 20: Cuba vs. Thailand, 5:30 p.m.
Aug. 21: Argentina vs. Cuba, 3 p.m.
Aug. 21: Brazil vs. Thailand, 5:30 p.m.
Pool L at Tokyo, Japan (Ariake Coliseum)
Aug. 19: Russia vs. Korea, 3 p.m.
Aug. 19: Japan vs. Serbia, 6 p.m.
Aug. 20: Russia vs. Serbia, 3 p.m.
Aug. 20: Japan vs. Korea, 6 p.m.
Aug. 21: Serbia vs. Korea, 3 p.m.
Aug. 21: Japan vs. Russia, 6 p.m.


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Seven Beach Olympians Set for Poland Main Draw
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 14, 2012) – Seven of the eight U.S. beach volleyball players who participated in the 2012 Olympic Games are already back in action and slated to compete in the Mazury Orlen Grand Slam in Stare Jablonki, Poland.
Joining the Olympians in Poland is the U.S. women's beach volleyball team of Lauren Fendrick (Carlsbad, Ind.) and Brooke Hanson (Ventura, Calif.), which advanced to Wednesday's main draw after winning out of the qualifying bracket.
Jen Kessy (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and April Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.), seeded No. 1 in Poland, are coming off a silver-medal finish at their debut Olympic appearance. Kessy and Ross will face Poland's 32-seeded Agnieszka Pregowska and Renata Bekier in their first round of pool play. Next, they will face the Slovakian team of Natalia Dubovcova and Dominika Nestarcova (No. 17).
Kessy and Ross will conclude pool play on Thursday against Brazil's 16th-seeded Maria Clara Salgado Rufino and Liliane Maestrini.
The first round of single elimination is also set for Thursday.
Kerri Walsh (San Jose, Calif.) and longtime partner Misty May-Treanor (Santa Monica, Calif.) won their third consecutive gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in a fitting conclusion to a historic partnership.
Walsh will compete with Nicole Branagh (Orinda, Calif.) in Wednesday's main draw. The No. 12-seeded duo will face their No. 21-seeded U.S. compatriots Fendrick and Hanson in their first round of pool play. Next, they will face Austria's Barbara Hansel and Magdalena Jirak (No. 28).
Walsh and Branagh will close pool play on Thursday against the Netherlands' fifth-seeded Madelein Meppelink and Sophie van Gestel.
Fendrick and Hanson did not have enough FIVB ranking points to earn automatic entry to the main draw. They competed in Tuesday's qualification bracket, receiving the No. 1 seed.
In the first round of qualifying, Fendrick and Hanson defeated Latvia's No. 32-seeded Monta Strazdina and Alise Pastare 21-4, 21-7 in 25 minutes. Next, they defeated Latvia's 17th-seeded team of Valeri Teufl and Elisabeth Klopf 21-14, 21-13 in 29 minutes.
In Wednesday's main draw, Fendrick and Hanson received the No. 21 seed. After facing Walsh and Branagh in the first match of pool, Fendrick and Hanson will take on the Netherlands' fifth-seeded Madelein Meppelink and Sophie van Gestel.
Fendrick and Hanson will close pool play on Thursday against the Austrian team of Barbara Hansel and Magdalena Jirak (No. 28).
Angie Akers (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Brittany Hochevar (Fowler, Colo.) also competed in Tuesday's qualification bracket. In their first-round match, the seventh-seeded U.S. duo defeated Poland's Sylwia Pilarek and Aneta Gancarczyk (No. 26) 20-22, 21-12, 15-7 in 41 minutes.
In their second-round match, Akers and Hochevar defeated the Netherlands' 10th-seeded Jolien Sinnema and Marloes Wesselink 22-20, 19-21, 18-16 in 50 minutes to earn their main-draw berth.
Akers and Hochevar, seeded No. 27 in the main draw, will face Germany's Katrin Holtwick and Ilka Semmler (No. 6) in their first pool-play match. Their second-round match will pit them against Austria's 11th-seeded Louis Bawden and Tamsin Hinchley.
Akers and Hochevar will close pool play on Thursday against the Swedish team of Isabelle Forrer Anouk Verge-Depre (No. 22).
On the men's side, the Olympic teams of Phil Dalhausser (Ormond Beach, Calif.) and Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.) along with Jake Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Sean Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.) are slated to compete in Thursday's main draw.
Matt Fuerbringer (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Nick Lucena (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) also earned an automatic main-draw berth.
Bradley Keenan (Westminster, Calif.) and John Mayer (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) will kick off play in Wednesday's qualification bracket. Keenan and Mayer, seeded No. 10 in qualifying, will face Poland's 23-seeded team of Michal Makowski and Dawid Popek in their first-round match.
If they win, Keenan and Mayer will advance to face the winner of Austria's seventh-seeded Daniel Mullner and Jorg Wutzl and the Latvian team of Toms Smedins and Aleksandrs Solovejs (No. 26).
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A recent report from market research company NPD Group claims that despite of the fact that modern smartphones come with loads of pre-installed applications with many more available for purchase, games and music remain more popular among end-users.
According to the report, more smartphone owners are playing games than using business related applications on their device. Smartphone usage is still highest for their primary purpose which are the communications features including making and receiving phone calls, and sending and receiving email or text messages. Among iPhone users specifically, the application with the greatest increase in use over the last three months was playing games.
Across all devices, music is yielding the highest average for purchase/download volume ranging between 4.2 and 6.0 purchases/downloads in a typical month. Primary gaming devices skew younger with over 50% falling in the 6-to-18 age range. Portable digital music players (PDMP) skew older with 68% of the owners measured age 19 or older, while 68% of smartphone owners are 35 and older.
Despite the portable nature of all the devices surveyed, the top location for use of each device was in-home, which indicates that these devices may be competing with more stationary entertainment devices for a user's time.
The report also states that at least half of the owners of portable devices are using their devices about the same if not more today than they were three months ago. This is especially pronounced among smartphone owners, with 46% claiming they use their smartphones more.
The report details the features and functions that consumers are most aware of and using on their portable entertainment devices including the PlayStation Portable (PSP), the Nintendo DS, iPods, iPhones, and smartphones by examining feature use and awareness, purchased content, purchase influencers, the frequency of purchases and downloads, as well as the amount of money spent.
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- Teriyaki Sauce:
- 1 cup low-sodium soy sauce
- 1 cup grapefruit juice
- 1/4 cup hoisin sauce
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
- 2 fresh red chiles, halved
- 5 garlic cloves, halved
- 2 -inch piece fresh ginger, whacked open with the flat side of a knife
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- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds, toasted, for garnish
- 1/2 bunch fresh cilantro, chopped, for garnish
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Mernissi, Fatima
Fatima Mernissi 1940-
(Also transliterated as Fatema Mernissi) Moroccan nonfiction writer, memoirist, and editor.
The following entry presents an overview of Mernissi's career through 2001.
An internationally distinguished Moroccan feminist and sociologist, Mernissi has written extensively on the status of women in Islam and the Arab world. In her first work, Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Society (1975), Mernissi examined the differences between traditional Western and Muslim notions of female sexuality, drawing attention to the cultural roots of women's oppression in the Islamic world. In this and subsequent studies, including Le Harem politique: Le Prophete et les femmes (1987; The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam) and Sultanes oubliées: Femmes chefs d'Etat en Islam (1990; The Forgotten Queens of Islam), she has explored the historical links between the religion of Islam, the societal oppression of women, and the suppression of democracy in predominantly Muslim nations. Mernissi's unique feminist perspective is informed by her own upbringing in a traditional harem, an experience recounted in her memoir, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (1994). As a leading advocate for women's rights in the Muslim world, Mernissi is praised for her insightful commentaries on the complex social and political realities of Islamic culture.
Biographical Information
Born in Fez, Morocco, Mernissi belonged to a family of wealthy landowners and agriculturalists. Though raised in privileged surroundings, removed from the poverty experienced by most Moroccans, her childhood was spent in the confines of the harem structure. As a young girl, Mernissi lived in the more formal harem of her home in Fez as well as the rural harem of her maternal grandmother. Contrary to Western notions of the harem as an exotic place in which women are kept for the erotic pleasure of men, Mernissi was raised in a traditional domestic harem, which consists of extended family and is designed to keep women sheltered from men outside of the family and the public sphere in general. At times, this highly circumscribed upbringing prompted feelings of frustrating isolation—at others, the intimate connections fostered among the women created solidarity. Mernissi's upbringing in this environment impacted her later development as a scholar. She received her early education at Koranic schools and, after completing a degree in political science at University Mohammed V, Mernissi was awarded a scholarship to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. She later moved to the United States to attend Brandeis University, where she earned a doctorate in sociology. After completing her education, Mernissi returned to Morocco, where she became a professor of sociology at University Mohammed V in Rabat. Mernissi has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Major Works
In Beyond the Veil, Mernissi examines differences between Western and traditional Muslim conceptions of female sexuality and gender, a subject that she revisits in many of her later works. In stark contrast to traditional Western views of women as inferior and passive, Mernissi argues that many Muslim scholars have historically portrayed women as active and in possession of an aggressive sexuality. She asserts that such traditions as veiling and domestic isolation arose from a desire to control the potential threat posed to the social order by women's sexuality. Mernissi's research for Le Maroc raconte par ses femmes (1984; Doing Daily Battle: Interviews with Moroccan Women) involved conducting extensive interviews with eleven Moroccan women, which she transcribes and edits in the book. Speaking about their daily lives, Mernissi's interviewees discuss the challenges they face in the domestic sphere as well as the sense of empowerment they gain from working to provide for their families, whether as maids or teachers. In The Veil and the Male Elite, Mernissi turned to the Koran and other traditional Islamic texts to examine how the emancipatory aspects of early Islam were overridden or forgotten due to the efforts of Mohammed's critics. Mernissi emphasizes the prominent strategic roles played by Mohammed's wives and other women in the early years of Islam, as well as the property rights and spiritual equality accorded to women during this period. She asserts that the egalitarian potential of Islam at its founding was lost in the face of opposition from the Amale elite, companions of Mohammed who resisted the social change arising from women's new status, preferring that women lead private lives under their veils.
Building on her efforts to recover the vital role of women in early Islam, Mernissi profiles a number of notable women in The Forgotten Queens of Islam—queens, wives, and mothers—from the eighth century to the present who attained considerable political power within predominantly Muslim states. Spurred by opposition to the 1988 democratic election of Benazir Bhutto, a woman, as prime minister of Pakistan, Mernissi documents the lives of these remarkable women and argues strongly against the common misconception that Muslim women have never played meaningful roles in the political arena. Instead, she maintains that the history of women's political participation has been conveniently forgotten by both Muslim and Western scholars, especially as embodied in historian Bernard Lewis's flat contention that "there are no queens in Islam." Mernissi highlights the dual nature—both sacred and secular—of Muslim conceptions of power and advocates for a secular approach to political legitimacy that would acknowledge women's rights in all spheres. Unlike her previous studies, Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World (1992) focuses not only on women's issues, but also addresses the broader issue of the role of democracy in Muslim nations. She draws connections between movements for women's rights and those campaigning for greater democracy by insisting that both face resistance because they pose profound threats to the established social order. For the Muslim world to truly embrace democracy, Mernissi suggests that Muslims must reexamine their values and perspectives on the West—a task that Mernissi herself begins through a deconstruction of Muslim myths and the roots of Islamic fundamentalism.
In contrast to her other works, Dreams of Trespass is a memoir that recounts Mernissi's childhood experiences of harem life. In this autobiographical account, the harem is depicted as a sheltered and dull space that allows few freedoms. Mernissi describes the frustration felt by her mother and other women with the restrictions of harem life as well as her own efforts to subvert them, such as listening to a prohibited radio or venturing across rooftops to avoid the scrutiny of the doorkeeper. Although Mernissi managed to leave the confines of the harem, her memoir reveals the extent to which the early harem experiences impacted her later life and writing. Mernissi returned to her sociological work in her next book, Women's Rebellion and Islamic Memory (1996), in which she argues that the oppression of women by Arab governments is part of a larger effort to suppress democracy. Mernissi urges Middle Eastern nations to support women's rights to education as well as to turn away from the dangers of militarization. As in her earlier works, Mernissi again takes a forceful and compelling tone in advocating for the rights of women and democratic values as a whole. In Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems (2001), Mernissi returns to the theme of the harem and the differences between Western and Muslim views of women, focusing on Western understandings of the harem itself, which tend to emphasize the role of sexual interactions to the exclusion of intellectual exchange. Mernissi argues that the latter is a central feature of Muslim conceptions of the harem and thus reveals how Western relations between the sexes may be no more liberated than those found in the traditional harem. In response, Mernissi calls for greater sensitivity to the importance of cultural differences within feminist analysis and cautions against drawing hasty transcultural assumptions.
Critical Reception
Beyond the Veil has been widely regarded as a pioneering work that opened the way for feminist perspectives on Islam and discussion of women's rights in Muslim societies. Published in 1975, the book has been praised as a timely and significant study and it has remained a key source on its subject. Mernissi's efforts to give voice to Moroccan women in Doing Daily Battle have also won critical praise. Though some reviewers have found Mernissi's transcriptions cumbersome, her insight into the lives of such diverse women has been commended for displaying their poignant strength and dignity. The Veil and the Male Elite, however, has received more mixed criticism than her previous analytical works. While critics have lauded Mernissi for her careful readings of principal Islamic texts, some have objected to her optimistic portrayal of Mohammed's views and practices regarding women. Additionally, some reviewers have noted that Mernissi's claims about the emancipatory efforts of early Muslim women are unsupported by the historical record. Questions concerning Mernissi's use of historical evidence have also been raised by critics of The Forgotten Queens of Islam. While several commentators have acclaimed the provocative nature of Mernissi's arguments concerning the political role of Muslim women, others have suggested that Mernissi's lack of historical training resulted in chronological inaccuracies and superficial assertions about women's history. Reviewers have complimented Islam and Democracy for its forceful argument pronouncing the democratic potential of Islam, as well as Mernissi's courageous advocacy for individual freedom. Yet, many of the same critics have faulted Mernissi's arguments for being politically naive and overly polemical. Women's Rebellion and Islamic Memory has encountered similar criticisms, with reviewers valuing Mernissi's compelling arguments but finding her claims overly general and too homogeneous to fit the diversity of cultures and traditions comprising the Muslim world. Though many reviewers of Scheherazade Goes West have argued that there is nothing new in Mernissi's call for greater attunement to the symbolic harems of every culture, most have nonetheless appreciated her continued effort to draw attention to the importance of cultural difference within feminist analysis. Unlike her historical and analytical works, Mernissi's memoir, Dreams of Trespass, has attracted almost universal praise for its vivid portraits of harem life and the institutionalized oppression of women in the Arab world, itself serving as testimony to Mernissi's complex Islamic perspective and deeply held feminist convictions.
Principal Works
Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Society (nonfiction) 1975; revised edition, 1985
Le Maroc raconte par ses femmes [editor; Doing Daily Battle: Interviews with Moroccan Women] (interviews) 1984
Women in Moslem Paradise (nonfiction) 1986
Le Harem politique: Le Prophete et les femmes [The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam] (nonfiction) 1987
Sultanes oubliées: Femmes chefs d'Etat en Islam [The Forgotten Queens of Islam] (nonfiction) 1990
Can We Women Head a Muslim State? (nonfiction) 1991
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Judith E. Tucker (review date May 1989)
SOURCE: Tucker, Judith E. "The Voice behind the Veil." Women's Review of Books 6, no. 8 (May 1989): 16-17.
[In the following excerpt, Tucker evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Doing Daily Battle.]
Both of these books [Doing Daily Battle and Women of Marrakech, by Leonora Peets] belong to a new and expanding genre in Middle East women's studies in which women writers seek to capture women's daily lives by giving their interviewees a voice in the telling of their stories. This is insurrectionary literature that contests the "pervasive male discourse," as Fatima Mernissi terms it, of Moroccan society. In exploring their ideas about love and...
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Marilyn Booth (review date December 1991)
SOURCE: Booth, Marilyn. "Back to Basics?" Women's Review of Books 9, no. 3 (December 1991): 21-2.
[In the following review, Booth notes that Mernissi's historical interpretations are occasionally narrow-sighted and anachronistic in The Veil and the Male Elite, but still offers a generally positive evaluation of the book.]
Over a century ago, there emerged a tradition of scholarship in the Arab Muslim capitals which came to be labeled "Islamic modernism." In a context of nationalist and anti-colonialist struggle, scholar-activists sought to revive what they saw as their societies' historical strengths, grounded in the events of earliest Islam and the...
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Daniel S. Lev (review date 1992)
SOURCE: Lev, Daniel S. Review of The Veil and the Male Elite, by Fatima Mernissi. Women and Politics 12, no. 1 (1992): 79-81.
[In the following review, Lev asserts that The Veil and the Male Elite is an "impressive exercise in reform exegesis," claiming that Mernissi provides an interesting alternative interpretation of Islamic laws.]
Among the ideological sources of women's disabilities everywhere none is so intractable as religious doctrine, often enough the first and last case for subjugation, evidently unassailable as the will of God. Yet the walls of this eerie fortress can be (and have been) breached by any with the skill, imagination, and...
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Nabila Jaber (review date May 1992)
SOURCE: Jaber, Nabila. Review of Women and Islam, by Fatima Mernissi. Sociology 26, no. 2 (May 1992): 358-59.
[In the following review, Jaber praises Mernissi's knowledge of her subject matter in Women and Islam and judges the work important for those interested in Islam and feminist issues.]
Mernissi is a well known Arab sociologist who has written extensively on the position of women in Islam. For Western readers, the paradox of her position is that, unlike orthodox Islam, she claims compatibility between feminism and 'authentic' Islam. For Mernissi, authentic refers to the canon of Islam as lived and practised during the Prophet's time in the...
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Grace Halsell (review date 1993)
SOURCE: Halsell, Grace. Review of The Forgotten Queens of Islam, by Fatima Mernissi. Middle East Policy 2, no. 3 (1993): 180-82.
[In the following review, Halsell praises Mernissi's examination of the lives and reigns of numerous Islamic women governors, sultanas, and rulers from 1000-1800 A.D. in The Forgotten Queens of Islam, and notes Mernissi's distinction between "political Islamic history" and what she terms Risala Islam—or the true Islam of the Quran.]
When Benazir Bhutto first became prime minister of Pakistan after winning the elections of 1988, all who monopolized the right to speak in the name of Islam raised the cry of blasphemy....
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Martin Kramer (review date 1 March 1993)
SOURCE: Kramer, Martin. "Politics and the Prophet." New Republic 208, no. 9 (1 March 1993): 39-41.
[In the following review, Kramer praises the courage of Mernissi's polemic in Islam and Democracy, but finds her appeal for Western-style liberalization in the Arab world naïve and unrealistic.]
Can Islam and democracy be reconciled? The vexed old question has enjoyed a revival since January of last year, when Algeria's ruling party voided the results of that country's first free parliamentary election. The election gave an overwhelming mandate to the party of Islamic fundamentalism, whose most outspoken leader affirmed that "it is Islam which has been the...
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S. V. R. Nasr (review date spring 1993)
SOURCE: Nasr, S. V. R. Review of Islam and Democracy, by Fatima Mernissi. Political Science Quarterly 108, no. 1 (spring 1993): 205-06.
[In the following review, Nasr asserts that Mernissi attempts to deconstruct longstanding Muslim myths in Islam and Democracy by focusing on the highlights of Islamic history, theology, and law and suggesting ways Muslims can embrace democracy.]
[Islam and Democracy] is a well crafted and well written book on an issue of primary concern for the Muslim world. Mernissi, a prominent Moroccan feminist, has been known for her incisive and iconoclastic critiques of the normative basis of Muslim society and its attitude...
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Marlene Kanawati (review date August 1993)
SOURCE: Kanawati, Marlene. Review of The Veil and the Male Elite, by Fatima Mernissi. International Journal of Middle East Studies 25, no. 3 (August 1993): 501-03.
[In the following review, Kanawati alleges that there are flaws in several of Mernissi's arguments in The Veil and the Male Elite, but overall provides a favorable evaluation of the book.]
After moving toward emancipation for most of the 20th century, many women in the Islamic countries are returning to the veil and are being sent back to the home. Whether this trend is part of a general Islamic revival or part of the so-called fundamentalist movement, the revival of these two customs has...
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Carla Power (review date 6 August 1993)
SOURCE: Power, Carla. "Unveiled." New Statesman and Society 6, no. 264 (6 August 1993): 40-1.
[In the following review, Power praises the quality of research in The Forgotten Queens of Islam, stating that the book serves as a manifesto for the Islamic world in the 1990s.]
Islam's treatment of women is an easy target for western outrage. Rather like Messrs Bush and Clinton before they bombed Baghdad, we can convince ourselves we have the tools and the clarity of vision to condemn. More resonant than critiques from a western viewpoint, however, are the writings of the Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi.
Mernissi trained at Koranic schools...
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Venetia Porter (review date 21 January 1994)
SOURCE: Porter, Venetia. "Buried in the Sand." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4738 (21 January 1994): 21.
[In the following review, Porter commends Mernissi's passionate and forceful arguments in The Forgotten Queens of Islam and Islam and Democracy, but finds flaws, notably errors of omission and overemphasis, in both books.]
Forgotten Queens of Islam is inspired, partly, by the condemnation by Muslim clerics of Benazir Bhutto's election in Pakistan on the grounds that she is a woman. It also seeks to take issue with the surprisingly ignorant statement by the historian Bernard Lewis that "there are no queens in Islam, and the word queen...
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Mary Ann Tétreault (essay date spring 1994)
SOURCE: Tétreault, Mary Ann. "The Family Romance of Islam." Middle East Journal 48, no. 2 (spring 1994): 357-62.
[In the following essay, Tétreault draws upon the psychoanalytic notion of "family romance" to elucidate Mernissi's analysis of Islamic culture, political organization, and women's oppression in Islam and Democracy.]
Islam and Democracy is an artfully forged argument for the necessity of nations in the Middle East to introduce democratic processes and the readiness of their peoples to participate. It is also an analysis of why governments and religious elites in Middle Eastern states are so opposed to democratization, and how they ally...
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Miriam Cooke (review date May 1994)
SOURCE: Cooke, Miriam. Review of Islam and Democracy, by Fatima Mernissi. International Journal of Middle East Studies 26, no. 2 (May 1994): 356-58.
[In the following review, Cooke evaluates the strengths of Islam and Democracy, but finds minor shortcomings in Mernissi's assertions about Western time and her rhetorical point of view.]
This reinterpretation and re-presentation of Islam [in Islam and Democracy] by the controversial Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi is at once affectionate and angry. She presents a picture of a beautiful, flexible, self-renewing religion in conflict with its despotic and corrupt political superstructure from the...
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Jonathan Yardley (review 29 May 1994)
SOURCE: Yardley, Jonathan. "Behind the Harem Walls." Washington Post Book World (29 May 1994): 3.
[In the following review, Yardley praises the characterizations, messages, and lessons of tolerance and strength presented in Mernissi's memoir Dreams of Trespass.]
Fatima Mernissi was born 54 years ago in Fez, "a ninth-century Moroccan city some five thousand kilometers west of Mecca, and one thousand kilometers south of Madrid." Her father was a member of the fellah, "rich landowners and sophisticated agricultural developers," as a result of which she grew up amid considerable privilege, comfortably isolated from her country's widespread poverty. But...
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Daniel Brumberg (review date September 1994)
SOURCE: Brumberg, Daniel. Review of Islam and Democracy, by Fatima Mernissi. Contemporary Sociology 23, no. 5 (September 1994): 680-81.
[In the following review of Islam and Democracy, Brumberg commends Mernissi's analysis of Islamic culture and political power, but objects to her assertion that the West must enforce democratization in the Arab world.]
Fatima Mernissi is a Moroccan sociologist who has written widely on the role of women in the Arab Islamic world. She is also an Islamic liberal who believes that the values of liberal democracy can be reconciled with those of Islam. In Islam and Democracy, she has brought her interests together in...
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Saideh Pakravan (review date fall 1994)
SOURCE: Pakravan, Saideh. Review of Dreams of Trespass, by Fatima Mernissi. Belles Lettres 10, no. 1 (fall 1994): 80-1.
[In the following review, Pakravan lauds the "compassionate and intelligent" writing in Mernissi's memoir Dreams of Trespass.]
The nonjudgmental, politically correct stance often adopted by some Westerners toward the Islamic fundamentalist resurgence calls for a respectful endorsement of the traditional veiling of women. Some benighted souls actually don the garb (imagine shackling your own feet), presumably out of the same romantic notion that made T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) wear long, loose robes as he trekked Arabian deserts. In...
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Ruth Bernard Yeazell (review date 8 December 1994)
SOURCE: Yeazell, Ruth Bernard. "Ructions in the Seraglio." London Review of Books 16, no. 23 (8 December 1994): 16-17.
[In the following excerpt, Yeazell offers a positive assessment of Mernissi's memoir The Harem Within, published as Dreams of Trespass in the United States.]
In a little-known film of 1985 called Harem, a yuppie female stockbroker (Natassja Kinski) is drugged and kidnapped on the streets of New York, only to wake up in the harem of an enigmatic oil tycoon (Ben Kingsley) in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. Given its wildly implausible plot and clumsy editing—not to mention Kinski's permanently drugged performance—the movie...
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Sasthi Brata (review date 24 February 1995)
SOURCE: Brata, Sasthi. "The Veiled Mind." New Statesman and Society 8, no. 341 (24 February 1995): 54.
[In the following excerpt, Brata praises The Harem Within, but expresses misgivings over Mernissi's privileged perspective.]
The two women who cry their hearts out in these books do not belong to the proletariat, nor to the bourgeoisie as the Marxists understood it. Both come from the upper crust of their respective Islamic societies, Moroccan and Pakistani. Their greatest childhood deprivations were in the realms of diamonds, pearls, chiffons and silks; not food, clothing and shelter.
Mernissi is a respected feminist academic; [Tehmina]...
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Marilyn Booth (review date spring 1995)
SOURCE: Booth, Marilyn. Review of Dreams of Trespass, by Fatima Mernissi. World Literature Today 69, no. 2 (spring 1995): 419.
[In the following review, Booth praises Mernissi's stark honesty and unique perspective in Dreams of Trespass.]
The word harem—like veil—has long served to enclose Arab and other predominantly Muslim societies in Euro-American stereotyping. Although recent scholarship has attempted the dispassionate analysis of "the harem" within specific historical and discursive contexts, popularly the word still connotes a vision of "the East" as exotica and erotica. Now the Moroccan feminist and sociologist Fatima Mernissi...
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Haleh Afshar (review date autumn 1995)
SOURCE: Afshar, Haleh. Review of The Forgotten Queens of Islam, by Fatima Mernissi. Signs 21, no. 1 (autumn 1995): 205-08.
[In the following excerpt, Afshar compliments Mernissi's analysis of Islamic history in The Forgotten Queens of Islam.]
These volumes [Mernissi's The Forgotten Queens of Islam and Julie Marcus's A World of Difference] represent two very distinct approaches to understanding Islam and gender hierarchy. They both attempt to explain the apparent absence of Muslim women from the public sphere and the historical construction of unequal gender relations. But whereas Fatima Mernissi blames the veil and the "architecture" of...
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Carole Hillenbrand (review date July 1997)
SOURCE: Hillenbrand, Carole. Review of The Forgotten Queens of Islam, by Fatima Mernissi. History 82, no. 267 (July 1997): 463-64.
[In the following review, Hillenbrand commends Mernissi's passionate denunciation of Muslim misogyny in The Forgotten Queens of Islam, but asserts that the arguments are undermined by factual errors and abrasive rhetoric.]
Fatima Mernissi is one of the best-known female intellectuals in the Arab world. This book [The Forgotten Queens of Islam] arose in response to the claims made in some circles in Pakistan when Benazir Bhutto became prime minister that 'no Muslim state has ever been governed by a woman'. Mernissi...
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Mary Ann Fay (review date August 1999)
SOURCE: Fay, Mary Ann. Review of The Forgotten Queens of Islam, by Fatima Mernissi. International Journal of Middle East Studies 31, no. 3 (August 1999): 453-55.
[In the following review, Fay compliments Mernissi's perspective in The Forgotten Queens of Islam, but considers the book marred by numerous historical inaccuracies.]
Fatima Mernissi's The Forgotten Queens of Islam is a flawed but provocative and, at times, insightful study of the nature of power in Islamic history and contemporary Islamic society. Ostensibly, Mernissi is conducting a historical investigation into the question of whether women were ever heads of state. However, she uses...
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Pamela K. Crossley (review date spring 2000)
SOURCE: Crossley, Pamela K. Review of The Forgotten Queens of Islam, by Fatima Mernissi. Journal of World History 2, no. 1 (spring 2000): 122.
[In the following review, Crossley recommends The Forgotten Queens of Islam as a valuable introductory work for students of Islamic history, but believes that advanced scholars will find shortcomings in the book's generalizations and omissions.]
In The Forgotten Queens of Islam, a short and very readable volume, Fatima Mernissi, perhaps the best known writer on women and Islam, establishes a historical foundation for women's political independence and their legitimacy as rulers in the Muslim world. In the...
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Lisa Suhair Majaj (review date July 2001)
SOURCE: Majaj, Lisa Suhair. "West Side Stories." Women's Review of Books 18, nos. 10-11 (July 2001): 25.
[In the following review, Majaj comments on Mernissi's observations and tactics in Scheherazade Goes West, lauding the author for raising important questions about the ways women are marginalized and controlled in both Eastern and Western societies.]
In her 1994 memoir, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi recalled her upbringing in a Moroccan harem. Although the women in the harem had limited physical mobility, they could go anywhere their imaginations could take them. Storytelling occupied a central...
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Further Reading
Amirrezvani, Anita. Review of Beyond the Veil, by Fatima Mernissi. Whole Earth Review, no. 75 (summer 1992): 73.
Amirrezvani offers a positive assessment of the revised edition of Beyond the Veil.
Burchard, Hank. "Out of the Harem into Feminism." Washington Post (26 November 1993): N74.
Burchard discusses Mernissi's feminist perspective and her mixed-media collaboration with Ruth Ward and Mansoora Hassan.
D'Erasmo, Stacey. "Behind the Veil." Newsday (17 July 1994): 39.
D'Erasmo evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Dreams of Trespass....
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Tags: Blossoms, Pink, Spring, Trees, Cherries, Cherry Trees, Cherry Blossoms
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cherry bossoms in springby kathleen stephens
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- Photography
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- Cherry blossoms in the spring time.
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- ohio, usa
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- Kathleen has degrees in Graphics and Technical Writing. She spent a number of years working in advertising as both a layout artist and web designer. She fell in love with New Mexico at a very young age and eventually found her self living in the Taos-Santa Fe area where she spent a large ...


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NFL Ruling was Predictable: With League Statement
The NFL issued a predictable statement on Tuesday concerning the end of the NFL game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers. Predictable because if the league overturned the decision, then there would be anarchy. The league had to back the referees. For those who were sleeping and have no idea what happened, this is it in a nutshell: Seattle was trailing by five points with eight seconds left. Quarterback Russell Wilson threw a pass into the end… Read More »


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(609) 278-7137
TRENTON, N.J.—Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes reminded residents today of several ways to beat the heat during the upcoming summer months. "Mercer County offers many outstanding programs and services to help residents beat the summer heat," said Hughes; these include hotlines for assistance, helpful literature on staying cool, and a summer home cooling program for low-income senior citizens and individuals with disabilities.
Summer Cooling Sites are designated locations throughout Mercer County, and include municipal senior centers, neighborhood community centers and the nine Mercer County Library System Branches.
Seniors, especially those without air conditioning in their homes, are encouraged to use these sites during the day to alleviate the negative health effects of the oppressive summer heat. A heat safety tips flyer has also been created for mass distribution at all Mercer County Congregate Nutrition sites, senior centers, and Cooling Sites. An electronic version will also be posted on the Mercer County web site.
The Medi-Cool program is facilitated by the United Way, Catholic Charities, and Princeton Senior Resource Center, via the use of County funding provided by the Office on Aging. Income qualified seniors aged 60 and older with a documented health condition can receive a voucher that entitles them to a free air-conditioner.
In addition to making cool sites and home cooling appliances available, the County also offers a "Warmline" via the Office on Aging. During daytime hours, residents can call (609) 989-6661 or toll-free (877) 222-3737 for assistance in coping with the heat. During non-business hours, residents are encouraged to call 911 if they experience heat-related problems.
The County also offers literature on keeping cool during heat waves; residents can access these brochures via the County website or pick up hard copies at municipal senior centers and branches of the Mercer County Library System. Depending on driver availability, TRADE may be able to assist with transportation to and from these sites. Residents are encouraged to call (609) 530-1971 if they anticipate requiring transportation assistance.