Historia

***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to disaster or catastrophe - lays ba...

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In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking cu...

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Kultur på dessa sidor handlar om vardagsfrågor: hur man hälsar, umgås och lever i Sverige. Det är viktigt att de normala skillnader som finns mellan människor, och de konflikter som kan uppstå när människor kommer till ett nytt land, inte beskrivs...

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I samband med att staten Israel bildades 1948 utbröt krig mellan den nya staten och omgivande arabländer. FN sände den svenske greven Folke Bernadotte för att medla och utarbeta en plan för konfliktens fredliga lösning. Vissa av hans förslag väckt...

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What happened in the four reactor at Chernobyl Station on the evening of the twenty -fifth of April in the year one thousand nine hundred and eighty -six? How did it cause a slight mistake in a nuclear disaster that almost erased the entire humani...

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An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogues everything known to exist from the perspective of a 14th-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and 30 vol...

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The life of UsA mah ibn-Munqidh epitomized the height of Arab civilization as it flourished in the period of the early Crusades. His memoirs present an uncommon non-European perspective and understanding of the military and cultural contact betwee...

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A Palestinian prisoners memoir of thirty years captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the witness of what it said and did Nasser Abu Srour grew up in a refugee ...

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The second part, the book of the hadith Wednesday, the biography of Ibn Hisham, the most prominent, registration, history, Islam, the first source, and the most comprehensive, the biography of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, re...

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The twentieth century is the most rich in important historical events; During less than half a century, two world warfares were green and dry, and ate the flower of the youth of millions, and the first atomic bomb was thrown to annihilate thousand...

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Al -Akkad offers pages in the history of the leader of the nation, Saad Zaghloul; That steel farmer who worked in the judiciary and teach the value of justice and the bitterness of injustice. He felt the oppression of his country by a brutal occup...

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The emergence of the Gulf States as important players on the world stage has been one of the most significant historical economic events of the modern era, and among the Gulf States the development of the State of Bahrain in this century is truly ...

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Al-Junayd (d. 910) was one of the most significant figures of the formative period of Islamic mystical thought and practice in the third to ninth centuries. This volume contains an account of his life, personality and writings; his doctrine; and b...

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***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to ?disaster? or ?catastrophe? - lay...

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***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to ?disaster? or ?catastrophe? - lay...

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The Arabic culinary tradition burst onto the scene in the middle of the tenth century, when al-Warraq compiled a culinary treatise titled al-Kitab al-Tabikh (The Book of Dishes), containing over 600 recipes. However, it would take another three ce...

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At the outbreak of civil war in 1975, Mahmoud Khalil Saab realised that Lebanon would be changed forever. A man with a deep love for his country, he immediately set about recording eye-witness accounts of terrible events as they unfolded, as well ...

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The Exiles Cookbook brings together 480 recipes, including roasts and stews, breads, condiments, preserves, sweetmeats, and even hand-washing soaps. It offers a fascinating insight into the cuisine of Muslim Spain and North Africa in the period it...

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The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Part Three) opens to the reader new doors towards the history of the middle state, its cities, and its close relations with Sudan and Asian and Arab countries. The journey of the researcher in the history of anci...

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The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Part V) The reader offers an exciting exploration journey to the era of global sovereignty and monotheism in ancient Egypt. This journey is similar to the adventure of the tourist who exceeds one galaxy one by on...

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The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Part thirteenth) takes us on an exceptional journey through the covenants of history, from the Persian era to the entry of Alexander the Great. This journey includes sprawling wings, where the eyes of the valleys...

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The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Part Fourteen) will complete our journey in the depth of history, as we witness the era of Alexander the Great and the bright start of the rule of Ptolemies in the land of Egypt. The researcher in the history of ...

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The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Part Fifth) takes us on a journey through the unique corridors of history to Egypt, from the end of the reign of Ptolemy II to the end of the reign of Ptolemy IV. The researcher in the history of the ancient Egyp...

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The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Part Eighteen) deals with the depth of ancient Egyptian literature, reviewing in its pages the genius of poetry and its arts, and plays that tell unforgettable stories. The book embodies the journey of the resear...

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In this exciting book, the writer takes us on a journey through the corners of a woman''s life, starting from prehistoric times and extending until the middle of the twentieth century, as it highlights her experiences in the face of her freedom an...

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