The Christian kingdom of Alwa in medievel Nubia dominated the region around the confluence of the White and Blue Niles for at least 700 years. The most southerly of the three Nile Basin Nubian kingdoms, Alwa has shown much of the cultural sophistication of its time. The British Institute in Eastern Africa conducted its second campaign of excavations in the capital city, Soba East. The project produced details of artefacts both imported and locally made, and threw further light on buildin...
Beauty in the Age of Empire
by Assistant Professor of History Raja Adal
Ending Empire in the Middle East (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History)
by Simon C. Smith
This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into both British and American archival sources, it covers all the key events of the period, including the withdrawal from Palestine, the Anglo-American coup against the Musaddiq regime in Iran, the Suez Crisis and its aftermath, the Iraqi and Yemeni revolut...
Memories and Diaries of Muhammad Farid, an Egyptian Nationalist Leader (1868-1919)
by Muhammad Farid
The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers. He arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with hills rising to the left and right. The British and Egyptian cavalry were placed on either flank. Al-Taashi's followers, known as Ansar and sometimes...
Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine by whom they were made and how. An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these objects and to...
The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt, 641-1517 (Popes of Egypt)
by Mark N. Swanson
Colonial Land Policies in Palestine 1917-1936 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
by Martin Bunton
In this book, Martin Bunton focuses on the way in which the Palestine Mandate was part of a broader British imperial administration - a fact often masked by Jewish immigration and land purchase in Palestine. His meticulous research reveals clear links to colonial practice in India, Sudan, and Cyprus amongst other places. He argues that land officials' views on sound land management were derived from their own experiences of rural England, and that this was far more influential on the shaping of...
Contested Sudan (Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World)
by Ibrahim Elnur
Ever since the first intrepid European explorers ventured up the Nile, an eclectic crowd of tourists, soldiers, fortune-seekers, tomb-raiders and empire-builders has travelled to Egypt. Whether sparked by its rich history and compelling landscapes, the elusive ruins of a once-magnificent civilisation or the country's strategic importance in world politics, the west's fascination with Egypt has flourished over that past two centuries. In a fast-paced narrative, richly adorned with gossip, anecdot...
Saite and Persian Demotic Cattle.. (American Studies in Papyrology, #26)
by Eugene Cruz-Uribe
River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age, The: Conflict and Cooperation Among the Nile Basin Countries
by Terje Tvedt
Dienstverpflichtung im Alten Agypten Wahrend des Alten und Mittleren Reiches
by Hafeman Ingelore
In this book the author examines corvee labour in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt. Titles, institutions and words used for different categories of the working population are analyzed in context. In the Old Kingdom, the Egyptian king had divine status; for this period there are no signs that people were forced to work. For the Middle Kingdom, harsh punishments for people fleeing state labour are attested, indicating a change in the Egyptian state. German text