Current Research in Egyptology 2019 presents the papers
and posters from the twentieth meeting of the prestigious
international student Egyptology conference, on this occasion held
at the University ...of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. The
conference took place 17-21 June 2019 at the Major College of San
Ildefonso, the historic centre of the University of Alcalá, with
almost 200 participants from various countries and institutions all
over the world. The conference addressed a wide range of topics
including all periods of ancient Egyptian History and different
aspects of its material culture, archaeology, history, society,
religion and language. Fifteen wide-ranging papers are published
here with wider information on the scientific and cultural
programme of the conference.
The Streets Are Talking to Me MARIA FREDERIKA MALMSTRÖM
MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World,
11/2019
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This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical insights into the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, into life and politics in the aftermath ...of these events. Focusing on the qualities of the sensory world, Maria Frederika Malmström explores the dramatic differences after the Egyptian revolution and their implications for society-the lack of sound in the floating landscape of Cairo after the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, the role of material things in the sit-ins of 2013, the military evocation of masculinities (and the destruction of alternative ones), and how people experience pain, rage, disgust, euphoria, and passion in the body. While focused primarily on changes unfolding in Egypt, this study also investigates how materiality and affect provide new possibilities for examining societies in transition. A book of rare honesty and vulnerability,The Streets Are Talking to Me is a brilliant, unconventional, and self-conscious ethnography of the space where affect, material life, violence, political crisis, and masculinities meet one another.
This volume presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pharmacy and Medicine in Ancient Egypt (Barcelona, October 2018) showcasing the most recent pharmaceutical and medical ...studies on human remains and organic and plant material from ancient Egypt, together with discussions on textual and iconographical evidence.
Why is the 1798 Napoleonic invasion of Egypt routinely accepted as a watershed moment between premodern and modern in general histories on the Middle East? Although decades of scholarship, ...most-notably Edward Said's Orientalism, have critiqued traditional binaries of developed and undeveloped in Arab studies, the narrative of 1798 symbolizing the coming of the modern west to the rescue of the static east endures. Peter Gran's The Persistence of Orientalism is the first book to take stock of this dominant paradigm, interrogating its origins and the ways in which scholarship is produced to perpetuate it. Gran surveys the history of American studies of Modern Egypt, examining three central issues: the periodization of modern professional knowledge in the US in the 1890s, the contemporary identity of orientalism and its critique, and the close connection between Oriental Despotism and the dominant formulation of American identity found in American Studies and in American life. Reinvigorating the conversation on the historiography of modern Egypt, this volume will influence a new generation of scholars studying the Middle East and beyond.
The article focuses on the work of an Egyptian novelist, essayist and literary critic from Alexandria, Idwar al-Kharrat. This outstanding contemporary writer deeply involved with both Egyptian ...locality and Christianity, and widely known throughout the Arab world, was born in a place where the Coptic Patriarchate was historically established. Al-Kharrat in his formally modern works evokes the image of Egypt as multicultural, open country, deeply rooted in Mediterranean culture. Al-Kharrat’s novels, as well as his essays, show his concern regarding the mission of the modern writer; the author ponders upon his own complex, multilevel Arab-Egyptian-Coptic identity. The collection of essays entitled Muhajama al-Mustahel. Maqati min sira dhatiyya li-al-kitaba (1996, Facing the Impossible. Excerpts from the Autobiography of a Writer), and not yet translated into Polish or English, is a vital point of reference to the author of this paper.
Hamlet’s Arab journey Litvin, Margaret; Litvin, Margaret
2011., 20111003, 2011, 2012-01-01, Letnik:
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For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab ...Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. Explaining the Arab Hamlet tradition, Margaret Litvin also illuminates the "to be or not to be" politics that have turned Shakespeare's tragedy into the essential Arab political text, cited by Arab liberals, nationalists, and Islamists alike.
Jewish life in medieval Egypt, hitherto an obscure and understudied theme, is revealed in this volume in all its complexity and richness. This book offers the most recent scholarship on the communal, ...judicial, economic, lingual, familial, and spiritual aspects of Jewish life medieval Islamic Egypt.
As a result of the June 1967 war, Israel conquered the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. The line separating the two sides became the Suez Canal. Israel to secure its state of affairs and to protect itself ...from the new war built a system of fortifications called Bar-Lev Line on the east bank of the Channel. The Egyptian army wanted to recapture the lost area and had to work out plans to overtake the Suez Canal, thus taking into account the specificity of the channel construction, the hydrographic conditions and the system developed by the Israelis. In this sand barrier, the fire on the Canal. The Egyptians also had to devise ways of crossing the corps of engineers, infantry, and tanks. All issues included a plan developed by S. Shazly called Operation Badr, and the effectiveness of planning was confirmed on October 6, 1973, at the start of the October war. // W wyniku wojny czerwcowej z 1967 r. Izrael opanował egipski Półwysep Synaj. Linią rozdzielającą obie strony stał się Kanał Sueski. Izrael, aby zabezpieczyć swój stan posiadania i uchronić się przed nową wojną, wybudował na wschodnim brzegu Kanału system fortyfikacji zwany linią Bar-Leva. Armia egipska, chcąc odzyskać utracony obszar, musiała opracować plany przekroczenia Kanału Sueskiego, a co za tym idzie – uwzględnić specyfikę budowy Kanału, warunki hydrograficzne i system opracowany przez Izraelczyków, w tym bariery z piasku, zagrożenie wywołane pożarem na Kanale. Egipcjanie musieli również opracować sposób przeprawienia się wojsk korpusu inżynieryjnego, piechoty, a następnie czołgów. Wszystkie kwestie zawierał plan opracowany przez S. Shazlyego zwany operacją „Badr”, a skuteczność planowania potwierdzona została 6 października 1973 r., w dniu rozpoczęcia wojny październikowej.
Environment and Religion in Ancient and Coptic Egypt: Sensing
the Cosmos through the Eyes of the Divine presents the
proceedings of a conference held in Athens between 1st-3rd February
2017. The ...Hellenic Institute of Egyptology, in close collaboration
with the Writing & Scripts Centre of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
and the University of Alexandria, organized the conference
concerning the ancient Egyptian religion, Coptic Christianity and
Environment. Thus, the endeavour was to sense the Cosmos, through a
virtual Einfahlung, as a manifestation of the Divine and
the manifestations of the Divine in the environmental, cosmic and
societal spheres. Egyptians were particularly pious and they
considered their surroundings and the Universe itself as a creation
and a direct immanence of the Divine, being also convinced that
they were congenital parts of the Cosmos and adoring their
divinities, who were also personifications of environmental and/or
cosmic aspects and forces. There are many examples (epigraphic,
textual, monumental, & c.) corroborating these relations and
that ancient Egyptian piety was rooted on the bi-faceted texture of
the ancient Egyptian religion, containing a solar and an astral
component: the former was related to Rec, while the latter was
related to Osiris. The conference took place with participations of
a pleiade of Egyptologists, archaeologists, archaeoastronomers,
theologians, historians and other scholars from more than 15
countries all over the world. In this unique volume are published
most of the contributions of the delegates who sent their papers
for peer-reviewing, enriching the bibliographic resources with
original and interesting articles. This publication of more than
580 pages containing 34 fresh and original papers (plus 2
abstracts) on the ancient Egyptian religion, Environment and the
Cosmos, fruitfully connects many interdisciplinary approaches and
Egyptology, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, geography, botany,
zoology, ornithology, theology and history.
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