Devi Mays Livres

"Forging Ties, Forging Passports explores the history of Ottoman Sephardic Jews who emigrated to the Americas-and especially, to Mexico-in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the complex relationships they maintained to legal documentation during their migration and as they settled in new homes. Through the stories of individual women, men, and families who navigated these transitions, Devi Mays considers broader questions of belonging, nationality, and citizenship. In the aftermath of World War I and the Mexican Revolution, migrants navigated new layers of bureaucracy and authority, as borders and political regimes changed around them. In this period of upheaval and possibility, the meanings ascribed to nationality, class, race, and gender were in flux. Mays argues that Ottoman Sephardi migrants in Mexico were caught up in a process of defining citizenship and national belonging: they resisted classification as either Ottoman expatriates or unequivocal Mexicans by maintaining a diasporic consciousness linking them with Sephardim in formerly Ottoman lands, France, Cuba, and the United States. Drawing on these transnational commercial and family networks, Sephardic migrants maintained a geographic and social mobility that challenged the physical borders of the state and the conceptual boundaries of the nation"--

Following the fall of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe is a ticking timebomb of uncontrolled nuclear potential. In a world of simmering political tensions, eyes turn to Russia, seeking to manipulate this unrest. Thus, a black plot is hatched: Operation Alpha Count. Agents from the CIA and Mossad form a potentially lethal pact, recruiting mercenaries and terrorists to smuggle nuclear weapons out of Russia into the Middle East, and possibly into the hands of groups with the intention of doing untold damage. However, their covert operations soon put them on the radar of the ATG, a talented team of CIA contractors led by Andy Gold, who prove to be an unexpected threat to the plot's success. When a devastating loss to the team uncovers a scheme that could lead to the deaths of countless innocents, it is a race against time to catch up with those responsible before it is too late. Will Andy and his team survive the approaching storm of espionage, murder and corruption, or will they be just more casualties of this deadly secret war?