Egypt
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- A Walk Through The Institut D'egypte Wreckage
Egypt Independent (Ola El-Saket) With photos. Since the Institut d'Egypte burned down in December during clashes resulting from a sit-in by the cabinet being violently dispersed by police, people have been concerned about the national treasures of...
- Feature: Dominique Vivant-denon
New York Review of Books Blog (Peter Brooks) Dominique-Vivant Denon, the subject of my piece in the November 19, 2009 issue of the New York Review of Books, is known above all as the first Director of the Louvre—which, under his guidance, became the...
- Arcade, A New Shared Catalog, Positions Three Major New York City Art Museum Libraries
Art Daily More than 800,000 records representing the holdings of The Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art are now accessible via Arcade, a new catalog developed with the support of the Andrew...
- Museum Books New Titles
http://www.museumbooks.demon.co.uk The latest newsletter from Museum Books has just hit my inbox. Museum Books sell both new and second hand books via the web, post or telephone, internationally: "After the summer break, List 15 includes a final selection...
- Stranger In The Valley Of Kings
Ahmed Osman Paladin Grafton Books London 1987 ISBN: 0-586-08784-2 This 1987 book is a study of the mummy of Yuya discovered in 1905 in the Valley of Kings and the biblical figure of the Patriarch Joseph. This short book requires no knowledge of the...
Egypt
Books on contemporary Egypt
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Further to a much earlier post that I published during the Egyptian crisis ("Useful Books on Contemporary Egypt"), here are two more books about modern Egypt that might be of interest:
The National has just run my joint review of two interesting new Egypt books. One is Alaa Al Aswany's On the State of Egypt -- a collection of his newspaper columns from the year and a half or so preceding the revolution, which is a good introduction to both the tenor and substance of many of the big cultural/political debates preceding (and in some cases laying the groundwork for) the uprising. . . .
The other book I discuss is David Sims' original, measured and hugely informative reference on Cairo, Understanding Cairo: The Logic of a City Out of Control.
- A Walk Through The Institut D'egypte Wreckage
Egypt Independent (Ola El-Saket) With photos. Since the Institut d'Egypte burned down in December during clashes resulting from a sit-in by the cabinet being violently dispersed by police, people have been concerned about the national treasures of...
- Feature: Dominique Vivant-denon
New York Review of Books Blog (Peter Brooks) Dominique-Vivant Denon, the subject of my piece in the November 19, 2009 issue of the New York Review of Books, is known above all as the first Director of the Louvre—which, under his guidance, became the...
- Arcade, A New Shared Catalog, Positions Three Major New York City Art Museum Libraries
Art Daily More than 800,000 records representing the holdings of The Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art are now accessible via Arcade, a new catalog developed with the support of the Andrew...
- Museum Books New Titles
http://www.museumbooks.demon.co.uk The latest newsletter from Museum Books has just hit my inbox. Museum Books sell both new and second hand books via the web, post or telephone, internationally: "After the summer break, List 15 includes a final selection...
- Stranger In The Valley Of Kings
Ahmed Osman Paladin Grafton Books London 1987 ISBN: 0-586-08784-2 This 1987 book is a study of the mummy of Yuya discovered in 1905 in the Valley of Kings and the biblical figure of the Patriarch Joseph. This short book requires no knowledge of the...