Pandemics: Today and Yesterday
… claim five million lives, spread throughout Italy, Greece, Egypt, and Asia Minor and was most likely an outbreak of …
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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. …
Famine: A Short History
Review of Famine: A Short History, by Cormac O Grada (Princeton University Press, 2009)
… ranging from the third millennium BC to the present in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, Korea, Russia, Ireland, Western …
Pirates of Puntland, Somalia
… ecosystems and the communities that depend upon them. The Egyptians became alarmed that this and other incidents would …
Cholera and the Roots of Public Health
… anatomist Filippo Pacini in 1854) from cholera patients in Egypt and India in 1883-1884, German physician Robert Koch …
Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice
… were aborting fashions that were circulating in ancient Egypt. Thomas Jefferson talks about it pretty frankly, about …
The Fate of the Kurds
… ; the Alawites and Syria ; ISIS ; Islamic Politics in Egypt ; The Religious Divide in Iraq ; The Sunni-Shi'i Divide ; Feminism in Egypt ; Yemen Civil War ; U.S.-Iraq Relations ; and The U.S. …
Top Ten Origins: Spies, Lies, and Moles: Oh My!
… as an exotic dancer. She performed throughout Europe and in Egypt acquiring a procession of wealthy and influential …
From Harlem to Ferguson: LBJ's War on Crime and America's Prison Crisis
… him with boos and chanted instead for Malcolm X, who was in Egypt. “I’m prepared to be a Tom if it’s the only way I can …
Vietnam Revisited: Forty Years after the Paris Peace Accord
… of countries who helped end the war. Special guests from Egypt, the former Soviet Union, China, Venezuela, Italy, and …
Singapore at Fifty
… saw the United States opposed to the British invasion of Egypt , effectively terminated Britain's imperial desires …
Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum
… fascinated by this idea, by the connections that ancient Egypt in particular might have had to the ancient world and …
Moldova and Romania: A Long and Complicated Relationship
… and Eastern European, Prime Minister Ciucă travelled to Egypt in early February to increase gas transportation …
Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea
… followed by Pakistan, Indonesia, Taiwan, Israel, and Egypt. In time, even European states like West Germany and …
"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent
… increasingly violent after the departure of Tunisia's and Egypt's presidents. Libya descended into civil war that …
Russia and the World
… the Arab world that that would come to terms with Russia. Egypt kicked out the Soviet Union in 1956. All that was left …
Kosovo's Year Zero: Between a Balkan Past and a European Future
… of many non-Albanian refugees (the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities), high levels of permanent …
The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
… Marriage ; Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe ; Feminism in Egypt ; and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan . Listen more: The …
A New Congo Crisis?
… on Africa: Understanding Boko Haram ; Islamist Groups in Egypt ; Africa and China ; Ethiopia and Nile River …
South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid
… Crisis ; Understanding Boko Haram ; Islamist Groups in Egypt ; Africa and China ; Ethiopia and Nile River Tensions …
Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now
… Marriage ; Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe ; Feminism in Egypt ; and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan . Check out a …
Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama
… realized, "We didn't get off to such a great start with Egypt—let's reverse that with Libya." Others in the …
