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What Hadrian can teach Obama
Martin Kettle in The Guardian, via Davos Newbies. Bust at the Archaeological Museum in Athens … more »
The Toynbee convector
What Hadrian can teach Obama
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davidderrick wrote 3 days ago: Martin Kettle in The Guardian, via Davos Newbies. Bust at the Archaeological Museum in Athens … more »
Babylon in Berlin
davidderrick wrote 2 weeks ago: Berlin to Baghdad Babylon: Myth and Truth. Pergamon Museum, Museum Island, Berlin until October 5, a … more »
The shot heard round the world 2
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davidderrick wrote 3 weeks ago: The shot heard round the world 1 The latter part of Toynbee’s public lecture at the University of … more »
The shot heard round the world 1
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davidderrick wrote 3 weeks ago: In public lectures delivered at the University of Pennsylvania in spring 1961, Toynbee reminded his … more »
Alexandrias
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davidderrick wrote 3 weeks ago: Some cities founded or renamed by Alexander, or renamed soon after his death: Alexandria Cebrene, a … more »
The Old World’s eastern roundabout
davidderrick wrote 3 weeks ago: I like Toynbee for many things, but not least for passages such as the one I’m about to look at. A … more »
Goodbye to Muscat
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davidderrick wrote 1 month ago: This is the title of an article just published in the UAE newspaper The National by Robin Yassin-Kas … more »
L’italiano in Turchia
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davidderrick wrote 1 month ago: This post is a really a continuation of yesterday’s. A few weeks ago a friend asked: “Are you a … more »
The WEF “on” the Middle East
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davidderrick wrote 1 month ago: The World Economic Forum’s regional meetings used to have names such as The Middle East Economic S … more »
Going home from Greece
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davidderrick wrote 2 months ago: “Well, we’re nearly there, Hermippos. Day after tomorrow, it seems – that’s what the captain … more »
Islam and slavery
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davidderrick wrote 2 months ago: qunfuzcreation on the Zanj Revolt: http://qunfuz.blogspot.com/2008/05/zanj-revolt.html. … more »
Summer in Damascus
davidderrick wrote 3 months ago: Damascus is the UNESCO Arab City of Culture 2008. http://www.damascus.org.sy/index.php and http://qu … more »
Advice to Hamas
davidderrick wrote 3 months ago: qunfuzcreation has a good recent post on the turf wars in Iraq. And another offering advice to Hamas … more »
Iraq and Egypt
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davidderrick wrote 3 months ago: qunfuzcreation, in a post about a visit to Upper Egypt: “It’s hard not to read a fated and apoca … more »
Like Mahmoud Darwish
davidderrick wrote 5 months ago: qunfuzcreation on Arab poetry. I’ve added the links: “In the contemporary Arab world, Bilad ash- … more »
Lost opportunities of the Osmanlis
davidderrick wrote 5 months ago: The ‘Osmanlis’ acquisition of Algeria in A.D. 1512-19 came just too late, and fell just too far … more »
Civil services: 2, Umayyad, Manchu
davidderrick wrote 5 months ago: Civil services: 1, Achaemenid, Ottoman Two examples of civil services taken over by barbarian conque … more »
Tangier 1950 (and other places)
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davidderrick wrote 6 months ago: “To have known Tangier under the Condominium with its French and Spanish sectors, its British pos … more »
Before the deluge
davidderrick wrote 10 months ago: Another, rather bleak, post in this grown-up blog from Oman. Or read his views on Amis. Or Fisk. And … more »
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