John Green

John Green is an american writer born in Indianapolis 24th Agoust in 1977. He launched VlogBrother with his brother. He also has a YouTube channel where he posts videos very often. He is internationnaly known for his last book 'The Fault in Our Stars' which debuted as number one in the New York Times in 2012. The movie adaptation in 2014 revolutioned teenagers.

He graduated in English philology and in religious studies at Indian Springs School. He started working for Booklist magazine. His specialty was reviewing fiction literature and books about Islam and siamese twins.

In 2014 John was included in the 100 most influencial people list in Time magazine.

BOOKS:

·     The Fault In Our Stars

The story is narrated by a sixteen-year-old cancer patient named Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee. The litle is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, /But in ourselves, the we are underlings."

   

·     Paper Towns 

Paper Towns is the third young adult novel by John. It was published on october, 2008. It is based on the story of Quentin Jacobsen who is in love with the same girl, Margo Roth Spiegelman (who's also his neighbor), since he was five years old. They've always been best friends untill high school where she had her own squad. They hardly spoke to each other till one night she came into Quentin's house in the middle of the night to ask him a favor. He inmidiatly said yes. The surprise was that the day after, Margo disapeared. Quentin begins her looking-for with the help of his best firends.
The movie adaptation is coming out on 14th October 2015!!

·     Looking For Alaska

It's his first young adult novel, published in March 2005. In July 2012, more than 7 years after it was published, Looking for Alaska broke into the New York Times best seller list at number ten. It is taught in many high school and college curricula and has been published in more than fifteen languages. The story is about Miles Halter who is fascinated by famous last words–and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.

DIVERGENT

DIVERGENT








Divergent is an American science fiction action film directed by Neil Burger. The movie it is about people who are divided into different factions. When children reach the age of 16, they are subject to a psychological test, then they are allowed to choose any faction. Behati Prior the protagonist, was born in Abnegation. Prior, is warned that she is divergent.  The film was released on March 21, 2014 in the United States and they earn 288 million €. It's a special and interesting film, i recommend it to all the ages.

DORIA SHAFIK

                     DORIA SHAFIK

Doria Shafik was born in Tanta, on 14th December in 1908. She was a feminist, philosopher, poet and editor, and one of the principle leaders of the women’s liberation in Egypt.

Shafik studied in a French mission school, in Paris. At sixteen she became the youngest Egyptian to earn the French baccalaureate degree. After she finished her career she returned to Egypt.

In 1951 she decided to create the first female military unity which brought together 2000 women, to prepare them for the front. Doria was a role model for women to follow.

By Zineb El Haddad and Fatima.

Malala Yousafzai by Iness Bendaoud

  
 Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever, Peace Nobel Prize, in 2014. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pass, Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school.

  In 2012 Malala was victim of an assault by a Taliban gunman as she rode home on a bus after taking an exam in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The masked gunman shouted "Which one of you is Malala? Speak up, otherwise I will shoot you all", and on her being identified, shot at her.

  By then she was already well known in Pakistan because of her blogs, but that one shocking act brought her to international fame. When she was finally recovered, she returned to school again, however she never stopped her campaign and she has taken it around the world. Yousafzai's memoir I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was shot by the Taliban, was published in October 2013.

  Everyone is talking about her achievements and the fact that she stands up for education all over the world. It is a miracle to survive after having been shot in such terrifying circumstances, so I believe that she is fearless and brave to fight for her rights. This girl knows what she wants and she is fighting not only for her dream but for other's dreams, those who don't have the chance to be able to go to school and have an education.

Anousheh Ansari

      Anousheh Ansari was the first female private space explorer. She was born on the 12th of September in 1966. Anousheh immigrated to the United States as a teenager who did not speak English. She got her bachelor's degree in electronics and computer engineering from George Mason University, followed by a master's degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University.

          While Anousheh was in space she wrote a blog that invited readers to share her experience. She described the capsule in which they travelled and also about the everyday activities such as eating and washing up in zero gravity.

         Back on earth, she has been awarded for many times as the honorary doctorate from international Space University. In celebration of her accomplishments, "Anousheh Ansari Day" was proclaimed in the city of Dallas on November 7.

May Ziad

May Ziad was a writer for Arabic newspapers. She was born on 11 February in 1886 in Palestine, Beirut, and she died in 17 October in 1941 in Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt.

May Ziad also wrote a number of poems and books. She was a key figure of the Nahda in the early 20 century Arab literary scene, and is known for being an “early Palestinian feminist” and a pioneer of oriental feminism.

May Ziad never married, but she had a relationship with one of the most weel known Arab poets Khalil Gibran. Between 1928 and 1932, Ziade suffered a series of personal losses.

Hanan Al-Shaykh- Mehaji, Yousr

Hanan Al-Shaykh

Hanan Al-Shaykh was a Lebanese writer. She was born on 12 November, 1945 in Beirut, Lebanon.She finished her primary studies in a muslim school for girls and the she went to university.

She started writing at the age of 16 and she has already published some articles in the Lebanese newspaper, An Nahar, that she reached up to work as a journalist with that newspaper.In 1970, they published her first novel(suicide of a dead), in 1971, her second one(devil horse)… She also wrote some books as the Persian carpet or short stories... 

In 1992, woman sand and myrrh, a novel written by her in London, was one of the best books.