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Knowledge and the Picturesque: Encountering Syria in the Eighteenth Century
Abstract This essay looks at the West's engagement with Syria in the eighteenth century, through the writings of travellers and through the history of the publications they brought back from their travels. It argues that these publications provoked a rethinking of various tropes in the description of the Levant, helping to define attitudes to ruins as ...
Alexis Tadié
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Summary The agricultural sector in the EU Southern Neighbourhood Partners (SNP) is struggling to respond to sustainability challenges. It needs stronger policies to deliver balanced sustainability outcomes in economic, social and environmental terms. Based on recent information and a structured assessment of the impacts of prevailing public policies on
Samir Mili, Kyösti Arovuori
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Revolutionary Landscapes and Kitchens of Refusal: Tomato Sauce and Sovereignty in Egypt
Abstract This article presents a cultural history of tasbika, a tomato‐based cooking technique, as a window into transformations of sovereignty in colonial and postcolonial Egypt. It draws on cookbooks, popular magazines and oral histories to argue that tasbika’s relatively recent emergence as one of the country's most ubiquitous home cooking methods ...
Anny Gaul
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Why Did the Origenist Controversy Begin? Re‐thinking the Standard Narratives
Abstract The Origenist controversy at the end of the fourth century was largely played out within a monastic context, and had, moreover, an immediate and extensive impact on the movement. In spite of this, studies of the controversy and its causes have mainly focused on the dogmatic issues foregrounded in the controversy, neglecting the more ...
Samuel Rubenson
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Abstract In 1814, A.W. Roth received a herbarium collection of some 1500 plants from Benjamin Heyne. Most of these specimens came from southern India where Heyne had worked as a doctor and naturalist since 1792. Roth wrote up the material in his book Novae plantarum, which was published in 1821.
I.M. Turner
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Barriers to blood donation on social media: An analysis of Facebook and Twitter posts
Abstract Background To better understand donor behavior and ensure a safe and sufficient blood supply, various observational studies have examined barriers to blood donation. This study used Facebook and Twitter data to enhance existing research on donation barriers and associated emotions communicated on social media by both donors and non‐donors ...
Steven Ramondt +3 more
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Abstract Aim Domestic animals first appeared in the archaeological record in northern Africa c. 9000 years before present and subsequently spread southwards throughout the continent. This geographic expansion is well studied and can broadly be explained in terms of the movement of pastoralist populations due to climate change.
Leanne N. Phelps +10 more
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LE ROMAN D’UN SPAHI : UN RACIALISME DÉGUISÉ EN EXOTISME ? [PDF]
Officier de marine, Pierre Loti publie un grand nombre d’œuvres telles Aziyadé, Rarahu et Madame Chrysanthème qui évoquent, pour la plupart, le thème de l’évasion vers les pays lointains fascinants. Or, dans Le Roman d’un spahi, Loti avance une situation
Riham EL KHAMISSY
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Le colloque « Figurines féminines nues. Proche-Orient, Égypte, Nubie, Méditerranée, Asie centrale (Néolithique - iiie siècle apr. J.-C.). Approche contextuelle et comparative », organisé par Sylvie Donnat (UMR 7044-Archimède, université de Strasbourg ...
Sylvie Donnat
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La phraséologie du discours juridique français. Étude de cas : les arrêts de la Cour de cassation [PDF]
Appréhender un texte spécialisé, c’est essayer de connaître ses caractéristiques linguistiques. La présente recherche a pour but de réinterroger l’importance de l’outil lexicométrique dans l’extraction des structures phraséologiques du discours juridique
Rania A. Khalifa
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