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Joris Luyendijk

    December 30, 1971

    This author explores the complexities of the Arab world and its culture through compelling and insightful narratives. Their work, often rooted in extensive fieldwork and personal experience, offers a unique anthropological lens on international relations and cultural encounters. The writing is characterized by keen observation and an ability to uncover the human element within geopolitical events, providing readers with a deeper understanding of global issues. They now share their insights from London, analyzing the financial world, with their writing reflecting a diverse background and evolving perspectives.

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    Een goede man slaat soms zijn vrouw
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    Hello Everybody!
    • Hello Everybody!

      • 243 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      4.2(5611)Add rating

      In Hello Everybody! a bestseller in his native Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five yearsas a reporter in the Middle East. Young and inexperienced but fluent in Arabic, he speaks to stone throwers and soldiers, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors chronicling first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation and war. But the more he witnesses, the less he understands and he becomes increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he sees on the ground and what is later reported in the media. As a correspondent he is privy to the multitude of narratives with conflicting implications, yet again and again the media favours those stories that will confirm and reinforce the oversimplified beliefs of the West.Hello Everybody! Is a story of disillusionment and enlightenment, by turns hilarious and despairing, but most importantly it is a powerful wake up call to the way the media gives us a filtered and manipulated version of reality in the Middle East.

      Hello Everybody!
    • Een goede man slaat soms zijn vrouw

      • 232 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.9(2063)Add rating

      Lang voordat integratie van moslims in Nederland een hot issue werd, probeerde Joris Luyendijk het omgekeerde: integreren in een islamitisch land. Hij schreef zich in aan de universiteit van Cairo en leefde een jaar lang tussen Egyptische leeftijdsgenoten. Luyendijk sprak met hen over liefde. islam, het westen, seks, democratie, homo's, joden, fundamentalisme. emancipatie en de zin van het bestaan.

      Een goede man slaat soms zijn vrouw
    • The Yacoubian Building

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.8(10241)Add rating

      This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today. All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Yacoubian Building, a once-elegant temple of Art Deco splendor now slowly decaying in the smog and bustle of downtown Cairo: a fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed "scientist of women"; a sultry, voluptuous siren; a devout young student, feeling the irresistible pull toward fundamentalism; a newspaper editor helplessly in love with a policeman; a corrupt and corpulent politician, twisting the Koran to justify his desires. These disparate lives careen toward an explosive conclusion in Alaa Al Aswany's remarkable international bestseller. Teeming with frank sexuality and heartfelt compassion, this book is an important window on to the experience of loss and love in the Arab world.

      The Yacoubian Building
    • Nedant entre taurons

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      El antropólogo y periodista Joris Luyendijk sabía tanto como cualquier hijo de vecino sobre los misterios de la actividad financiera: apenas un par de tópicos. Los banqueros eran para él unos tiburones que urden siniestras intrigas en un mundo felizmente ajeno al nuestro. Hasta que le encargaron explorar las aguas del dinero. Pertrechado con los instrumentos de las ciencias sociales y el olfato de un sabueso, nuestro audaz investigador se arrojó sin miedo al tanque de los escualos, también conocido como City londinense. Durante dos años de inmersión conversó con ejecutivos y secretarias, con entusiastas y escépticos, con triunfadores y derrotados; interrogó a agentes de bolsa, especuladores, informáticos, contables y relaciones públicas: más de doscientos individuos que (a menudo sin advertirlo) rompieron el código de silencio para sacar a la luz las entrañas de la fiera. Algunos incluso reconocieron que en el año 2008, tras el hundimiento de Lehman Brothers, acopiaron alimentos, compraron oro y prepararon la evacuación de sus hijos al campo. Casi todos coincidieron en que los hábitos no han cambiado. Nadie, en el fondo, entendía nada.

      Nedant entre taurons
    • Kunnen we praten

      • 94 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      Dit boekje is voor iedereen die net als ik het vertrouwen in de traditionele politieke partijen voor een belangrijk deel of zelfs helemaal kwijt is. Ik zou zo graag onze ervaringen op elkaar leggen. Wie weet waar ze overlappen. Doe mee op kunnenwepraten.nl

      Kunnen we praten