Egypt
Jadaliyya
- The Unread Masterpiece Of Evliya Çelebi
Saudi Aramco World A slightly tenuous link with Egypt, but Evliya Çelebi did visit Cairo on his travels, and this is mentioned in the article. I'm including it mainly, however, because it is a very good read! This year marks the 400th anniversary...
- New Book: Obelisk: A History
PennState Live Brian A. Curran, associate professor of art history at Penn State, is a co-author of "Obelisk: A History," published in April 2009 by MIT Press. The illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks -- giant standing stones...
- Tacoma Art Museum Presents Oasis: Western Dreams Of The Ottoman Empire
artdaily.org Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Art features a survey of nineteenth-century Western artists’ responses to the diverse cultures of the former Ottoman Empire. The exhibition...
- Book Review: Persian Responses: Political And Cultural Interactions With(in) The Achaemenid Empire
Bryn Mawr Classical Review Kat, light of my blogging life, I'd be lost without you. Thanks again. Christopher Tuplin (ed.), Persian Responses: Political and Cultural Interactions with(in) the Achaemenid Empire. Swansea: The University of Wales Press,...
- Unbroken Story Of Human Progress
Al-Ahram Book Review: A History of Egypt: From earliest times to the present, Jason Thompson, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008. pp383, 2 maps, 80 b/w photos Here's an extract from Jill Kamil 's review: With his new book, Jason...
Egypt
New Book: Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt (interview)
Jadaliyya
Alan Mikhail, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Jadaliyya: What made you write this book?
Alan Mikhail: In the most general sense, I wrote this book because I wanted to understand the period of Ottoman rule in the Arab World. The Ottomans were in Egypt for over 350 years, so they clearly must have had a fundamental role in shaping its history, politics, culture, and economy. I wondered why so many historians of the Middle East work on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries rather than on the earlier period. Thus, I wanted to write a book that would help us understand the complex dynamics of the relationship between Egypt and the rest of the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I wanted it both to attend to local conditions in Egypt and to larger imperial processes of governance, economics, and ecology.
- The Unread Masterpiece Of Evliya Çelebi
Saudi Aramco World A slightly tenuous link with Egypt, but Evliya Çelebi did visit Cairo on his travels, and this is mentioned in the article. I'm including it mainly, however, because it is a very good read! This year marks the 400th anniversary...
- New Book: Obelisk: A History
PennState Live Brian A. Curran, associate professor of art history at Penn State, is a co-author of "Obelisk: A History," published in April 2009 by MIT Press. The illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks -- giant standing stones...
- Tacoma Art Museum Presents Oasis: Western Dreams Of The Ottoman Empire
artdaily.org Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Art features a survey of nineteenth-century Western artists’ responses to the diverse cultures of the former Ottoman Empire. The exhibition...
- Book Review: Persian Responses: Political And Cultural Interactions With(in) The Achaemenid Empire
Bryn Mawr Classical Review Kat, light of my blogging life, I'd be lost without you. Thanks again. Christopher Tuplin (ed.), Persian Responses: Political and Cultural Interactions with(in) the Achaemenid Empire. Swansea: The University of Wales Press,...
- Unbroken Story Of Human Progress
Al-Ahram Book Review: A History of Egypt: From earliest times to the present, Jason Thompson, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2008. pp383, 2 maps, 80 b/w photos Here's an extract from Jill Kamil 's review: With his new book, Jason...