![]() Alice als ideale heldin voor hedendaagse feministes (essay, ISBN 9051880227) ![]() 1988 – Het perpetuum mobile van de liefde.In September 2017 Dorrestein publicly announced that she was suffering from esophageal cancer. A lot of Dorrestein's books were translated, and they were sold in 14 countries. ![]() Dorrestein won the Annie Romein prize in 1993 for her complete body of work. Her sister's suicide had a great influence on her books. Dorrestein published her first novel ( Buitenstaanders) in 1983. During the period 1977 - 1982 she published in Het Parool, Viva, Onkruid and Opzij. She started working as a junior journalist for the Dutch magazines Libelle and Panorama. ![]() Renate Maria Dorrestein (25 January 1954 – ) was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He can't tell his new wife, Olivia, about the sightings or his secret fear that he's losing his mind. Could she still be alive? But it was Bentz who identified Jennifer's body after her horrible car wreck, and there had been no question in his mind that it was her crumpled form behind the wheel, her clothes, her wedding ring. ![]() Once out of the hospital, Bentz begins to see Jennifer everywhere. Then Jennifer blows him a kiss and disappears. Opening his eyes in the hospital room where he's recovering from an accident, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz sees her standing in the doorway. The scent is unmistakable - gardenias, sweet and delicate, the same perfume that his beautiful first wife, Jennifer, always wore. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether you’re Jamie or you’re Claire, you want to be in that sort of loving relationship, that’s just 100 per cent loyal. There are a number of reasons, but I believe it’s because at the very heart of it, it’s about a relationship that people aspire to. ‘Outlander’ is about to go into its sixth season, and the audience keeps growing. ![]() “I think there’s a romanticism and a certain mystique around the Highlanders and the Scots.” (Picture: Supplied) It’s always windy there, it’s always cold and it’s a very, very sombre place. It’s a mass grave and you can really feel a sense of that. I first went there seven years ago in preparation for Outlander because I knew it was a big part of our story. Can you describe what it felt like when you and Graham travelled there and stood on the land? The first few seasons of ‘Outlander’ were based around Culloden and the famous battle there. A little way into it, when I realised what we had, I went out to a couple of publishers just to see if anyone would be interested. ![]() I was looking to create a show based around Scotland and the clans. “Whether you’re Jamie or you’re Claire, you want to be in that sort of loving relationship.” (Picture: ‘Outlander’)Īlong with your ‘Outlander’ co-star Graham McTavish, you travelled around Scotland, made a docu-series about it called Men in Kilts, and have now written a book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ibn Hisham, Ibn Ishaq’s editor, omits the passage, but it is preserved as a quotation from al-Tabari, in Guillaume’s translation of Ibn Ishaq ( Ishaq 165-166. 768 CE), (Muhammad Abu ‘Abdullah Ibn Umar) al-Waqidi (747-822 CE), (Muhammad Ibn Muslim Ibn Shihab) al-Zuhri (d.741 CE), Muhammad Ibn Sa’d (d. The tradition goes on to say that the verses were later withdrawn and denounced as “satanic.”īut the historicity of the incident is disputed by some of the early Muslim historians, especially (Muhammad ben Yasar) Ibn Ishaq (d. ![]() ( Note on the translation of these verses.) The verses comprising this sentence are said to have been added to the 53rd sura of the Qur’an entitled Surat-annajm, The Star (53:19ff)in order to acknowledge the validity of the goddesses Lat, Manat, and ‘Uzza. The “satanic verses” are, in transliteration from Arabic, tilk al-gharaniq al-‘ula wa inna shafa’ata-hunna la-turtaja, and translate into English as “these are exalted females whose intercession is to be desired” ( Satanic Verses p. ![]() The title of the novel refers to an incident which is on the disputed terrain between fiction and fact. One of the most controversial topics in the Satanic Verses “affair” is the question of the “satanic verses” themselves. The “Satanic Verses” Note by Joel Kuortti ![]() ![]() ![]() His journeys took him through the country districts, where he observed the hardships imposed on the working class of people by the wealthy landowners who lived in the towns or cities in the midst of comparative luxury. When his produce was ready for market, he went to the towns and villages of Israel. He made his living by raising sheep and taking care of sycamore trees. The punishment will be nothing short of captivity by a foreign power and the end of Israel's national existence.Īmos was a shepherd who lived in the region of Tekoa, not many miles from the city of Jerusalem. ![]() Along with this protest is the warning that Yahweh will surely punish the nation for violating the demands of justice. ![]() The theme that runs through all of the material is one of protest against the social injustices that prevailed in northern Israel during the reign of Jeroboam II. Whether Amos' words constitute a series of speeches or belong to one single address is unknown. Editors and copyists added comments to the prophet's original oracles that they deemed appropriate in light of events that occurred after his death. Not all of the material found in these chapters came from Amos himself. The Book of Amos, which is the earliest of the prophetic writings to be preserved in book form, consists of nine chapters. ![]() ![]()
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