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Knowledge and the Picturesque: Encountering Syria in the Eighteenth Century
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 365-383, September 2023., 2023 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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EuroChoices, Volume 22, Issue 1, Page 50-57, April 2023., 2023 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
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 789-809, October 2022., 2022 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
Modern Theology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 318-337, April 2022., 2022 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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TAXON, Volume 70, Issue 2, Page 365-428, April 2021., 2021 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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La peste justinienne en Égypte
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2022 Between the 6th and 8th centuries AD, several episodes of bubonic plague struck the Mediterranean and European worlds. This pandemic is described in several ancient texts as the "Justinian plague".
Nicolas Morand
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Tackling the technical history of the textiles of El-Deir, Kharga Oasis, the Western Desert of Egypt [PDF]
, 2020 The site of El-Deir is situated north of Kharga in the “Great Oasis” of the Egyptian Western Desert (fig. 1). The site was occupied between the 6th century BC and the 6th century AD. A complex history emerged with the influence of many cultures: Persian,
Letellier-Willemin, Fleur
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Les Grecs en Égypte d'après les archives de Zénon
Revista de História, 1952 PRÉAUX (Claire). — Les Grecs en Égypte d'après les archives de Zénon. Office de Publicite, S. C., Bruxelles, 1947, 91 págs. (Primeiro Parágrafo do Artigo) Camponeses egípcios, realizando excavações no Faium, em 1914, encontraram enorme quantidade de ...
Pedro Moacyr Campos
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, 2020 Emotions have been extensively studied across disciplines, but are best defined within specific cultural contexts. In ancient Egypt, they are presented both as visceral experiences that may be “contained” within or transmitted from the heart or stomach ...
McDonald, Angela
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Barriers to blood donation on social media: An analysis of Facebook and Twitter posts
Transfusion, Volume 60, Issue 10, Page 2294-2306, October 2020., 2020 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 ...
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