Kilimanjaro: A Purposeful Journey

Kilimanjaro: A Purposeful Journey

An inspiring adventure of six Canadian Grandmothers who, by having climed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, with all its hardships and difficulties are determined to help the African Grandmothers overcome their mountain of adversity, hopelessness and despair to give their children’s children a more healthy and successful life. The Canadians are resolved to create awareness and spread knowledge, around the globe, of the African Grandmother’s mountain, which they must struggle to conquer every day.

The Keli Dowry

The Keli Dowry

The Keli Dowry is a delicious book...I'd give my right ear for your talent. Your characters are so well-drawn. Your descriptions are so evocative...best love scenes I have read...magically tender sensuality. Those who have traveled to Greece should buy it, read it, shut their eyes and they will be transported to the great beaches, the blue seas and the warmth of the sun in the land of Apollo, Diana and Aphrodite. "

- Senator Philippe Gigantes.

Greece, 1973

Political intrigue poisons an American underwater dig and its team in the Gulf of Argos. The fates of a young Irish widow, a Vietnam vet, a German officer from the Occupation, and a local beauty with murky origins are spun together on the brutal wheels of the Junta in Athens. Love and violence in the Aegean. Human freedom, mythic shackles. 

FINAL FLIGHT FROM SANAA

FINAL FLIGHT FROM SANAA

When Tariq Hakim introduced himself to Colin Lawler one night in a quiet pub, he had no idea that this simple gesture would eventually lead him to imprisonment in his homeland of Yemen.  Lawler, a lawyer, has a Libyan client who wishes to deliver much-needed medical equipment to Yemen.  Hakim, a doctor who speaks the language and knows the culture, seems a perfect match to facilitate the transaction.  However, while in Yemen, a favour to an old friend finds him breaking centuries-old social taboos as he is faced with the dilemma of reconciling his responsibilities to a female patient and respecting the culture and people of his youth.  He endures torture at the hands of one his own medical students.  But a one night of passion whith a beautiful Danish women leads to rescue, while a coup d'etat is being planned.

The author Qais Ghanem was born in the British colony of Aden, later part of Yemen.  He graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh.  He is clinical associate professor at the University of Ottawa.