hana - Egypt 1

This Element seeks to characterize the scribal culture in ancient Egypt through its textual acts, which were of prime importance in this culture: writing, list-making, drawing, and copying. Drawing ……続きを見る

A biography of the "Cinderella" of Egyptian cinemaーthe veneration and rumors that surrounded an unparalleled career, and the gendered questions that unsettled Egyptian society. Layla Murad (1918-19……続きを見る

The modern view of the ancient Egyptian world is often through the lens of a scribe: the trained, schooled, literate individual who was present at many levels of Egyptian society, from a local accou……続きを見る

Folk-lore of the Holy Land by J. E. Hanauer Moslem, Christian and Jewish tales from old Palestine. "This entertaining collection of folklore from what is now Israel/Palestine was written at the star……続きを見る

Discusses the Egyptian pyramids, Greek temples, Roman buildings, and megalithic monuments in Britain, the book includes chapters on architecture in Mesoamerica, the early Middle East, and ancient Ch……続きを見る

Sara A. Whaley Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association, 2017 AMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2017 Millions of Egyptian men, women, and children first experienced indust……続きを見る

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transimperial port city, under nominal Ottoman and unofficial British imperial rule. Thousands of European subjects lived, wor……続きを見る

For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise……続きを見る

Könnte es sein, dass vor mehreren Jahrtausenden die alten Ägypter ihre mächtigen Steinkonstruktionen errichteten, um die Geheimnisse ihrer inneren psychischen Struktur zu ergründen? Seit mindestens ……続きを見る