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...
The Ottoman Age of Exploration
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In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first...
A Faith in Archaeological Science: Reflections on a Life
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This is the first memoir by an internationally known archaeological scientist, and one who has been...
Digital Giza: Visualizing the Pyramids
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The Pyramids on the Giza Plateau represent perhaps the most famous archaeological site in the world,...
Light in the Heavens: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
Al-Qudai Al-Qadi and Tahera Qutbuddin
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The words of Muhammad (d. 11 H/632 AD), God's messenger and prophet of Islam, have a special place...