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Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society,
Lila Abu-Lughod
University of California Press
University of California Press
Updated Edition With a New Preface Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal...
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In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale
Amitav Ghosh
Vintage
Vintage
Reprint of a classic novel that makes the reader political boundaries and cultural assumptions. Excellent on history,Egyptian and Indian culture. by the author of Shadow lines and Glass Palace.
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The Stairway to Heaven: Book II of the Earth Chronicles (The Earth Chronicles)
Zecharia Sitchin
Harper
Harper
Since earliest times, human beings have pondered the incomprehensible questions of the universe, life . . . and the afterlife. Where did mortal man go to join the immortal Gods? Was the immense and complex structure at Giza an Egyptian Pharaoh's...
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Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution
John R. Bradley
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan
Five decades after Nasser and the Free Officers overthrew the British-backed monarchy in a dramatic coup d' é tat , the future of Egypt grows more uncertain by the day. John Bradley examines the junctions of Egyptian politics and society as they...
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
One of the most vexing problems in Egyptology is the question of establishing reliable chronologies, whether through relative methods such as stratigraphy and the dating of artifacts or through more absolute time horizons established by astronomical...
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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century
Ross E. Dunn
University of California Press
University of California Press
Known as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of...
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
Cheikh Anta Diop
Lawrence Hill Books
Lawrence Hill Books
Now in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.
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