What Did You Do in the Great War, Grandfather?: The Life and Times of an Edwardian Horse Artillery Officer
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Part history, part social documentary, part love story, this is a grandson's search for what his...
Radical: My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awakening
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Born and raised in Essex, Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager....
Dodging the Devil
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On the 21st August 1914, George Martindale, along with many of his peers, enlisted for the war in...
Fiddlers and Whores: The Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in Nelson's Fleet
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'A country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels', Nelson's famous description of Naples, was...
Marcus Simaika Pasha: Father of Coptic Archaeology
Samir Simaika and Nevine Henein
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Marcus Pasha Simaika (1864-1944) was born to a prominent Coptic family on the eve of the...
Akhenaten and the Origins of Monotheism
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Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth century B.C.E, is one of the...
Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz
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Collecting has a long tradition in the Middle East but the museum as a public institution is...
The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today
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Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity....
The Storm Before the Calm
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Something happened in early 2011 that hasn't happened in decades, perhaps centuries - and we didn't...
The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy Benevolence
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American food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible-and most popular-means of providing...