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Another Silent Spring

… supply , usually because of its own population stress. An Egyptian hieroglyphic painting showing an early instance of …

A New World Order? Africa and China

… including Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Jamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and King Hasan of … about who we’re moral about. … We supported Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia—huge human-rights violators—because we …
Cover of Caesar A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke.

A Man for All Seasons

Review of Caesar: A Life in Western Culture, by Maria Wyke (Chicago 2008)
… civil war.  The next chapter follows Caesar's time spent in Egypt (48-47 B.C.) with Cleopatra, interpreted variously …
Antichristus, a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder: the pope depicted as the Antichrist, using his temporal power to grant authority to a generously contributing ruler.

The Bible as a Political Tool

… seal for the new Republic. Their design represented the Egyptians drowning in the Red Sea as Moses was leading the …
A shopkeeper sits outside his store in the Cardo waiting for tourists and residents to stop in.

A Postcard from Jerusalem

… since 4th century CE. Then, in the 18th century, an Egyptian Coptic monk with his eight slaves came to take the …
A tank destroyed during Operation Iraqi Freedom

Why We Should Leave Iraq Now

… terrorists of Hamas. Militants also did well in the recent Egyptian elections. Yet our leaders greeted the Iraqi …
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.

A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404

… since agricultural city-states emerged in Mesopotamia and Egypt in the 4th millennium BCE, human societies had been …
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.

A Postcard from Solovki

… mention the pyramids and Valley of the Kings and Queens in Egypt, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, and any number of sites in …

Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… claim five million lives, spread throughout Italy, Greece, Egypt, and Asia Minor and was most likely an outbreak of …
Cover of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire by Giusto Traina.

The End of the World as They Knew It

Review of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire, by Giusto Traina (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xix, 203. Trans. by Allan Cameron)
… begins its return to the east through Spain, Africa and Egypt. His final stop within the Roman world is Palestine. …