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A Hawaiian man employing the spearfishing techniques described by Fagan, circa 1890.

Built Upon Bounty

Review of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization, by Brian Fagan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
… work, Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization . An Ancient Egyptian portrayal of fishing in the Tomb of Qenamun. Fagan … possible elaborate civilizations such as those in Ancient Egypt, Rome, or the Andes. These societies relied upon dried …
The Cornalvo Dam, near the city of Mérida in Spain.

Top Ten Origins: Dams

… President Jimmy Carter in 1980.  6. The Politics of Dams:  Egypt’s Aswan High Dam Egypt’s President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, observing the … in international politics. The Aswan High Dam in Egypt became not only a way to tame the mighty Nile , but …
View of Tbilisi as seen from Narikala, the city's medieval citadel.

A Postcard from Georgia and Azerbaijan

… served in the Ottoman Empire’s Arab provinces, above all Egypt and Iraq . (I had met Professor Japaridze in Cairo … years earlier; he has served as Georgia’s ambassador to Egypt, Syria, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.) View of … al-Kabir (the Great), a mamluk who was essentially running Egypt when Napoleon invaded in 1798, and who ultimately died …
A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, 2014. UN Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID

Sahelian Arabs and their Role in the Sudan War

… and 2.1 million have fled to neighboring countries such as  Egypt , Chad, South Sudan, and  Uganda .  The warring … of Arab tribes occurred by way of the Sinai desert into Egypt and then into the Sudan.  A significant number of … from whom we learn that the first Arabs to arrive from Egypt in any great numbers were those known as the Juhaina …
Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… autocrats. You saw similar things across the Middle East in Egypt, effectively, Sisi is no better in terms of … the mosque or the Islamic movements. That was the case in Egypt. That was the case across the North Africa. And also … years of an internationalist Civil War, there were 70,000 Egyptian soldiers in Yemen during the 1960s. There were …

Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making

… youth. Most of these students attended military colleges in Egypt and Iraq, while others pursued advanced degrees in … Yemen seemed particularly alarming. During the 1960s, when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser stationed 70,000 Egyptian troops in Yemen in support of the new republic, his …
Tiger

Caged: Humans and Animals at the Zoo

… those animals. In the ancient world, whether we look at Egypt or India or Mesopotamia, or Persia, we see these … over. Emperor Rudy displayed elephants and giant pandas and Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut displayed rhinoceroses and …
Image of Adonis on a red-figure squat lekythos.

Easter: A Season of Renewal

… frustrated in love, returned to life in the spring.  The Egyptians, too, believed that their god Osiris, slain by … for the birth of the universe in the mythology of India and Egypt and, centuries ago, it became a symbol of hope, a …

Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900

… of Tehran eighteen months earlier. As in Tunisia and Egypt, Facebook and Twitter helped spread the word in June … to curb Soviet influence among Arab nationalists like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. Searching for Stability … at Tehran's Mehrabad airport and headed off for exile in Egypt. Two weeks later, the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to …

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville

… such as S.G. Morton to “prove” that the ancient Egyptians had been white, Black Americans claimed a proud … world through an emphasis on the dark skin color of ancient Egyptians and suggestions by black ethnologists that … wrote: “ Black Athena is essentially concerned with the Egyptian and Semitic roles in the formation of Greece in the …
Artifact from Benin

Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation

… objects from the new French Empire, ranging from Italy, Egypt. The old adage goes "to the victors go the spoils". … about six year old daughter, and we were looking at the Egyptian mummies and the information that you get, and I'm … that the museum was not telling me that explained how this Egyptian thing got buried, dug up and then wound up in …
A 1963 photo of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem.

In Bethlehem, Persisting Hope

… tourist hotels. Israel has enjoyed only a cold peace with Egypt since President Anwar Sadat’s courageous visit to … years ago. Nevertheless, the current treaty-based Israeli-Egyptian relationship is infinitely superior to the … resort, on the Gulf of Elat leading into the Red Sea, to Egyptian sovereignty after agonizing negotiations …

What's All Happening at the Zoo?

… wielded power in the ancient world (whether Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, Greek, Roman, Persian, Arab, or … displayed lions, tigers, wolves, leopards and bears; when Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut displayed rhinoceroses, giraffes, … for he only ended up in London after the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt gave him to the British Consul General in exchange for …
A view of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

A Dawn of Peace in Bethlehem?

… Unfortunately,Ê Israel has enjoyed only a cold peace with Egypt since President Anwar Sadat’s courageous visit to … Jerusalem 28 years ago. Nevertheless, the current Israeli-Egyptian relationship is infinitely superior to the … relationship is the reversion of the Taba beach resort to Egyptian sovereignty after decades of agonizing negotiations …
Cover of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster.

Babylon Revisited

Review of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xii, 297)