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Facing Troublemakers: Notes on Dealing with Conflict<\/em> is an insightful book that offers intriguing views of conflict. Author Amr Muneer Dahab has written a book that will greatly interest readers.<\/p>\n Facing Troublemakers<\/em>\u00a0details how people can deal with conflict. He offers typical, common-sense advice in chapters like \u201cBefore We Start\u201d: \u201cDealing with conflicts is not a necessity for good people only: everyone needs to manage his conflicts, whether he is the initiator or when someone else pushes him into trouble.\u201d He also dispenses advice on how to be self- reflective to deal with conflict in the \u201cRecurrence of Conflict\u201d chapter: \u201cWhen you face the same conflict again with the same people, scrutinize your mistakes from dealing with the conflict last time.\u201d<\/p>\n While most of the text is about resolving conflict,\u00a0Facing Troublemakers<\/em>\u00a0also touts how conflict isn\u2019t always negative. Dahab explains how struggles between people can actually help people. He details how conflict may be necessary if a person has no other choice. \u201cAt times, you might have no choice other than creating some obstacles when you believe that the conflict is going toward a resolution that is against your interests.\u201d Dahab also writes eloquently about how becoming an ethical troublemaker may be necessary to solve a conflict.<\/p>\n Dahab\u2019s writing is concise and easy to follow. He writes about how a reader can resolve conflict and to use conflict to their advantage. He also writes about how to analyze not only an opponent\u2019s in a conflict, but a person\u2019s own motives.\u00a0Facing Troublemakers<\/em>\u00a0has tactical, easy to implement actions in the text. However, he also writes about how to deal with the psychology of addressing conflict as well.\u00a0Facing Troublemakers<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0is helpfully denoted with bullet points throughout so the helpful advice is easy to digest.<\/p>\n \u00a0Facing Troublemakers<\/em>\u00a0is a unique book which can appeal to readers who like books about peacefully ending conflict and skillfully overcoming adversaries. For readers who want to learn more about how to peacefully resolve conflict like The Four Agreements, this book will be ideal for them. Readers that like classic psychological warfare books like Sun Tzu\u2019s\u00a0The Art of War\u00a0<\/em>can also gain insight about how to use conflict to make gains. \u00a0This book can also help people who need conflict resolutions in their workplaces and even in personal relationships.<\/p>\n Facing Troublemakers<\/em>\u00a0is a compelling book that will help readers learn innovative ways to resolve conflicts. Readers will find a lot of interesting insights in this book.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner el_class=”div-css”][vc_column_inner el_class=”blog-div”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1566212295203{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]<\/p>\n An iconoclastic, thoughtful and thought-provoking read from first page to last, “Damn the Novel: when a Privileged Genre Prevails Over All Forms of Creative Writing” is an extraordinary and inherently fascinating literary argument and one that will be of particular interest to writers and readers in general, as well as everyone and anyone who has ever wanted to write ‘The Great American Novel’ in particular….<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner el_class=”div-css”][vc_column_inner el_class=”blog-div”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1561832299179{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]<\/p>\n An interesting blend of Arabic literary history combined with social commentary is at the core of Amr Muneer Dahab\u2019s provoking work titled Damn the Novel. Fiction has always had a prominent place on the altar of literary society. Critics, historians, and enthusiasts are constantly praising the great masters of literary fiction; indeed, it sometimes seems like we would be lost without it. But this view, according to Dahab, is not only incorrect, but also dangerous. Modern society has for too long\u2026..<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner el_class=”div-css”][vc_column_inner el_class=”blog-div”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1563196006707{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]<\/p>\n In this volume of forty-five short essays of literary criticism, the author, writing from a distinctly Sudanese-Arabic sensibility, asserts his case that the novel has superseded the other, more clearly-superior genres of poetry and the essay based on the greater public exposure novels receive, which virtually guarantees their marketability and profitabilty. The unfortunate commercialization of novels in the form of popular television and cable mini-series adaptations\u2026..<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row gap=”10″][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=”blog-div”][vc_single_image image=”1126″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n By Nasdahab<\/p>\n I am a Sudanese essayist and poet, currently focused on writing critical essays tackling controversial cultural, literary, intellectual, and political issues in the Arab world and worldwide. I have over twenty years\u2019 experience as a columnist in opinion journalism….<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=”blog-div”][vc_single_image image=”1128″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n By Nasdahab<\/p>\n Apart from writing trends affecting the domination of a specific genre at a certain time, the categories of writing within any genre depend on many intervening factors.However, and as the below excerpt from Damn the Novel shows, it is difficult to agree on….<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=”blog-div”][vc_single_image image=”1129″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n By Nasdahab<\/p>\n I have more than twenty books published in Arabic. These books cover studies of Arab and Sudanese national character\/identity, artistic and literary criticism, as well as readings in human knowledge.Ten years after finishing the manuscript, my first piece…<\/p>\nMidwest Book Review of Damn the Novel<\/a><\/h3>\n
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