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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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La différenciation linguistique dans le langage féminin et masculin en Egypte étude sociolinguistique [PDF]
La question de la variation linguistique touche toutes les langues du monde et aucune langue ne peut échapper à cette variation sur le niveau lexical, morphologique et sémantique chez ses locuteurs.
Mohamed Abdelbaki Ahmed
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Taha Hussein ou l’exemple d’une rencontre culturelle entre l’Egypte et la France [PDF]
Kania Chettouh, Taha Hussein ou l’exemple d’une rencontre culturelle entre l’Egypte et la ...
Kania Chettouh
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Le rôle des émigrés orientaux à Constantinople et dans l’Empire (634-843): acquis et perspectives
[fr] Cet article est une tentative pour mesurer les conséquences démographiques, pour l’Empire, de la perte des provinces orientales du fait de la conquête musulmane.
Marie France Auzépy
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