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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 …

A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation

… Israel captured the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt , the Golan Heights from Syria , and the West Bank and … Jimmy Carter helped broker the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel. But this agreement did not include … by Arabs, especially Palestinians, as a “sellout.” Indeed, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (PDF File) was soon …
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)

Tribal Militias in Sudan

… back to the colonial period of the Sudan known as the Anglo-Egyptian condominium (1898-1960). Even though the Sudan was under the joint control of Great Britain and Egypt, the latter had no real power. England dictated … the policies of indirect rule imposed during the Anglo-Egyptian condominium. Sudanese governments have had a …
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 …
The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, which was constructed by the Umayyads in the 8th century.

Islamic Imperialism: A History

Review of Islamic Imperialism: A History, by Efraim Karsh (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006)
… Nasser. Nasser skillfully blended the competing demands of Egyptian nationalism and pan-Arabism. Egypt was portrayed as the savior of the Arab world, while … Arab Republic in 1958, a nominal political union between Egypt and Syria, was Nasser's high-water mark. There are …

Humans Have Always Lived in a World of Many Worlds

… also prevailed in other historical locations, from ancient Egypt and imperial China to precolonial India and Hawai’i. … Dead reveals the existence of another reality for ancient Egyptians. In all of these models, immortal beings and … by that particular somewhere, whether it be ancient Egypt, the Amazonian rainforest , or modern Europe. And if …
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 …

Alawites and the Fate of Syria

… began in Tunisia in late 2010 and swept across Libya and Egypt—finally reached Syria, people from various religious … unrest, and experimentation with pan-Arab connections to Egypt. Once they recognized that their future lay within … Sunni conservative religious organization headquartered in Egypt with a large urban Sunni base in Syria. Alawites 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 …
Map of the Gaza Strip in May 2005, a few months prior to the Israeli withdrawal. The major settlement blocs were the blue-shaded regions of this map.

Threads of Hope Glimmer in the Middle East

… 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 Elath leading into the Red Sea, to Egyptian sovereignty after difficult negotiations …
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)
… eighth centuries brought the peoples of western Asia (from Egypt to Lebanon to Iraq) under a single imperial system for … and Euphrates: the Persians ruled from the Hellespont and Egypt in the west to the rugged mountains of Afghanistan in …