From Khartoum To Jerusalem

Author : Rachel Mairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Dragomen
ISBN : 1474255035

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From Khartoum to Jerusalem by Rachel Mairs Pdf

In 2014, a collection of papers was found on eBay: a scrapbook, inside which was written 'Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N. Negima'. The letters pasted into the testimonial book bear recommendations of Negima's services as dragoman - a combination of tourist guide and interpreter - in the Holy Land, from travellers of different nationalities, social classes, religions, genders and races. Using these reference letters, and the first-hand published and unpublished accounts of the travellers themselves, this book tells the stories of several such tourists, including the intrepid Victorian female traveller, Ellen E. Miller, and an African-American minister, Rev. Charles T. Walker, who had been born into slavery. Between the lines of others' letters, Solomon Negima's remarkable life story also emerges: from a German mission school in Jerusalem, to the British army in the Sudan, to a successful career as a dragoman in Palestine and Syria, and finally to comfortable retirement with his son, Aziz, and daughter, Olinda, at a Mormon mission in Jerusalem. The discovery of this unique scrapbook allows us an insight into the lives of individuals whose histories would otherwise be lost to us, and a new perspective on the history of travel in the Middle East.

Author : Rebecca Ruth Gould,Kayvan Tahmasebian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351369831

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism by Rebecca Ruth Gould,Kayvan Tahmasebian Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism provides an accessible, diverse and ground-breaking overview of literary, cultural, and political translation across a range of activist contexts. As the first extended collection to offer perspectives on translation and activism from a global perspective, this handbook includes case studies and histories of oppressed and marginalised people from over twenty different languages. The contributions will make visible the role of translation in promoting and enabling social change, in promoting equality, in fighting discrimination, in supporting human rights, and in challenging autocracy and injustice across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, the US and Europe. With a substantial introduction, thirty-one chapters, and an extensive bibliography, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all activists, translators, students and researchers of translation and activism within translation and interpreting studies.

Author : Rachel Mairs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474255011

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From Khartoum to Jerusalem by Rachel Mairs Pdf

In 2014, a collection of papers was found on eBay: a scrapbook, inside which was written 'Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N. Negima'. The letters pasted into the testimonial book bear recommendations of Negima's services as dragoman – a combination of tourist guide and interpreter – in the Holy Land, from travellers of different nationalities, social classes, religions, genders and races. Using these reference letters, and the first-hand published and unpublished accounts of the travellers themselves, this book tells the stories of several such tourists, including the intrepid Victorian female traveller, Ellen E. Miller, and an African–American minister, Rev. Charles T. Walker, who had been born into slavery. Between the lines of others' letters, Solomon Negima's remarkable life story also emerges: from a German mission school in Jerusalem, to the British army in the Sudan, to a successful career as a dragoman in Palestine and Syria, and finally to comfortable retirement with his son, Aziz, and daughter, Olinda, at a Mormon mission in Jerusalem. The discovery of this unique scrapbook allows us an insight into the lives of individuals whose histories would otherwise be lost to us, and a new perspective on the history of travel in the Middle East.

Author : Jennifer Cromwell,Eitan Grossman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780198768104

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Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period by Jennifer Cromwell,Eitan Grossman Pdf

Volume is outcome of a workshop held in 2009 at the University of Oxford (Beyond free-variation: scribal repertoires in Egypt from the Old Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period).

Author : Gabriel Polley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755643141

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Palestine in the Victorian Age by Gabriel Polley Pdf

Narratives of the modern history of Palestine/Israel often begin with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Britain's arrival in 1917. However, this work argues that the contest over Palestine has its roots deep in the nineteenth century, with Victorians who first cast the Holy Land as an area to be possessed by empire, then began to devise schemes for its settler colonization. The product of historical research among almost forgotten guidebooks, archives and newspaper clippings, this book presents a previously unwritten chapter of Britain's colonial desire, and reveals how indigenous Palestinians began to react against, or accommodate themselves to, the West's fascination with their ancestral land. From the travellers who tried to overturn Jerusalem's holiest sites, to an uprising sparked by a church bell and a missionary's tragic actions, to one Palestinian's eventful visit to the heart of the British Empire, Palestine in the Victorian Age reveals how the events of the nineteenth century have cast a long shadow over the politics of Palestine/Israel ever since.

Author : James Macaulay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Generals
ISBN : OXFORD:590633325

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Gordon anecdotes, a sketch of the career, with illustrations of the character of Charles George Gordon by James Macaulay Pdf

Author : Katherine Blouin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009188487

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The Nile Delta by Katherine Blouin Pdf

This is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. It offers a multidisciplinary approach engaging with varied aspects of the region's long, complex, yet still underappreciated history. Readers will learn of the history of settlement, agriculture and the management of water resources at different periods and in different places, as well as the naming and mapping of the Delta and the roles played by tourism and archaeology. The wide range of backgrounds of the contributors and the broad panoply of methodological and conceptual practices deployed enable new spaces to be opened up for conversations and cross-fertilization across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The result is a potent tribute to the historical significance of this region and the instrumental role it has played in the shaping of past, present and future Afro-Eurasian worlds.

Author : Robert Ruby
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466885165

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Jericho by Robert Ruby Pdf

It is a place both mythic and all too real, a place thought to be the site of one of our oldest human settlements and known to be a center of ancient cultures and annihilating conflicts. It sits at the bottom of a malarial valley, the lowest place on the surfact of the earth--"the overheated, earthen basement of the world," as Robert Ruby describes it. And yet, long before the world's modern religions began scrapping over its bones, Jericho was home to waves of colonization and floods of destruction. Fought over by the succeeding epochs of ancestors, the place we call Jericho is as old as the first remnants dated at 9,000 B.C.--and as current as the daily headlines. In this unorthodox biography of the first eleven thousand years in the life of a legend, Robert Ruby takes us back through time to those early settlements, then forward to the often crude but ultimately successful latter-day attempts to locate Jericho, to unearth and map and catalog its history. Beginning with the geography of place, he weaves together his own intimate knowledge of modern-day Jericho with stories of the lives and work of those explorers and archaeologists of the past whose courage often bordered on madness and whose dedication sometimes seemed the purest kind of human folly. Soldiers, scholars, engineers, adventurers--dilettantes and professionals alike, they were all dreamers drawn to this parched and dusty spot where so much of human history took place. Matching biblical accounts to araeological evidence, sifting myth from science, phantoms from reality, Robert Ruby teases out the complex strata of the past, helping us to make sense of what exists today. With the flair of a novelist and the enthusiasm of an amateur archaeologist, he offers a tale that is part detection, part epic adventure. Above all, he gives us a work of great literary panache: witty, fact-filled, and uterly, subversively compelling.

Author : Laura S. Schor
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815654841

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Sophie Halaby in Jerusalem by Laura S. Schor Pdf

A pioneer among Palestinian artists, Sophie Halaby was the first Arab woman to study art in Paris, subsequently living independently as a professional painter in Jerusalem throughout her life. She was born in 1906 in Kiev to a Russian mother and a Christian Arab father. Her family fled to Jerusalem in 1917 in the wake of the Russian Revolution. Her life was marked by violence and war, including the Arab Revolt from 1936 to 1939, the Nakba in 1948, and the Six-Day War in 1967. In response, Halaby drew a series of political cartoons criticizing British rule and Zionist goals; later in life, she followed the work of younger artists who supported the Palestine liberation movement. However, the political turmoil of her times is largely not depicted in her art. Instead, her work is a tribute to the enduring beauty of the landscape and flora of Jerusalem, often sketched in pen and ink or red and black chalk, and painted with egg tempera, oils, and watercolors. Schor’s compelling biography shines new light on this little-known artist and enriches our understanding of modern Palestinian history.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435063628820

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

Author : Janice Boddy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0691123055

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Civilizing Women by Janice Boddy Pdf

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Author : Wendy Pullan,Maximilian Sternberg,Lefkos Kyriacou,Craig Larkin,Michael Dumper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317975557

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The Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places by Wendy Pullan,Maximilian Sternberg,Lefkos Kyriacou,Craig Larkin,Michael Dumper Pdf

The Struggle for Jerusalem’s Holy Places investigates the role of architecture and urban identity in relation to the political economy of the city and its wider state context seen through the lens of the holy places. Reflecting the broad disciplinary backgrounds of the authors, this book provides perspectives from architecture, urbanism, and politics, and provides in-depth investigations of historical, ethnographic and policy-related case studies. The research is substantiated by fieldwork carried out in Jerusalem over the past ten years as part of the ESRC Large Grants project ‘Conflict in Cities’. By analysing new dynamics of radicalisation through land seizure, the politicisation of parklands and tourism, the strategic manipulation of archaeological and historical narratives and material culture, and through examination of general appropriation of Jerusalem’s varied rituals, memories and symbolism for factional uses, the book reveals how possibilities of co- existence are seriously threatened in Jerusalem. Shedding new light on the key role played by everyday urban life and its spatial settings for any future political agreements about the city and its religious sites, this book is a useful reference work for students and scholars of Middle East Studies, Architecture, Religion and Urban Studies.

Author : Clive Jones,Tore T. Petersen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199330669

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Israel's Clandestine Diplomacies by Clive Jones,Tore T. Petersen Pdf

Originally papers presented at the conference "From the Centre to the Periphery: Israel, Clandestine Diplomacy and the Modern Middle East" held at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, between 9 and 10 May 2011.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : United States
ISBN : OSU:32437121071613

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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Jens Hanssen,Amal N. Ghazal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191652790

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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African History by Jens Hanssen,Amal N. Ghazal Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History critically examines the defining processes and structures of historical developments in North Africa and the Middle East over the past two centuries. The Handbook pays particular attention to countries that have leapt out of the political shadows of dominant and better-studied neighbours in the course of the unfolding uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. These dramatic and interconnected developments have exposed the dearth of informative analysis available in surveys and textbooks, particularly on Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria.