661円 In offering this short connected history of my first two explorations in Africa, I must state that I have been urged to do so by friends desirous of knowing what led to the discovery of the source of the Nile. The greater part of it was originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine;' but that lac...

661円 John Hanning Speke was a man of thirty-six, when his Nile Journal appeared. He had entered the army in 1844, and completed ten years of service in India, serving through the Punjab Campaign. Already he had conceived the idea of exploring Africa, before his ten years were up, and on their conclusi...

310円 Dieses eBook: "Historische Romane aus dem alten Ägypten: Kleopatra + Die Nilbraut + Der Kaiser + Eine ägyptische Königstochter + Homo sum + Serapis + Uarda und mehr" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Georg Ebers (1837-18...

6,499円 Every year, in the heart of the Nile Delta, a festival takes place that was for centuries the biggest in the Muslim world: the mulid of al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Badawi of Tanta. Since the thirteenth century millions of believers from neighboring regions and countries have flooded into Tanta, Egypt’s fo...

3,979円 The history of the struggles for control over Egypt's antiquities, and their repercussions, during a period of intense national ferment The sensational discovery in 1922 of Tutankhamun’s tomb, close on the heels of Britain’s declaration of Egyptian independence, accelerated the growth in Egypt of...

7,825円 In this in-depth ethnography, Karin van Nieuwkerk takes the autobiographical narrative of Sayyid Henkish, a musician from a long family tradition of wedding performers in Cairo, as a lens through which to explore changing notions of masculinity in an Egyptian community over the course of a single...

4,509円 Eric Rouleau was one of the most celebrated journalists of his generation, a status he owed to his extraordinary career, which began when Hubert Beuve-Méry, director of Le Monde, charged him with covering the Near and Middle East. In 1963, Rouleau was invited by Gamal Abd al-Nasser to interview h...

7,825円 Self-presentation is the oldest and most common component of ancient Egyptian high culture. It arose in the context of private tomb records, where the character and role of an individualーinvariably a well-to-do non-royal elite official or administratorーwere presented purposefully: published by ...

3,183円 A fascinating account of football culture in Egypt through its ultras groups The history of Cairo’s football fans is one of the most poignant narratives of the 25 January 2011 Egyptian uprising. The Ultras Al-Ahly and the Ultras White Knights fans, belonging to the two main teams, Al-Ahly F.C. an...

595円 The author of A Passage to India offers personal and historical reflections on the Egyptian city of Alexandria in these essays, articles, and poems. As a noncombatant during the First World War, E. M. Forster was stationed with the British Red Cross in Alexandria, Egypt. He fell in love with the ...

451円 "Je suis ce qui fut, ce qui est, ce qui sera. Aucun mortel encore n'a soulevé mon voile." Isis La façon dont nous voyons la nature aujourd'hui, dont nous réagissons aux idées de notre temps, dont nous regardons le monde, il faut en chercher la cause dans l'ancienne Egypte, le pays des pyramides. ...

602円 "Ich bin, das da war, das da ist, das da sein wird. Meinen Schleier hat noch kein Sterblicher gelüftet." Isis So ist die Art, wie wir heute die Natur anschauen, wie wir das, was unsere Zeit hervorbringt, aufnehmen, die Art, wie wir heute die Welt anschauen, im alten Ägypten, dem Lande der Pyramid...