Greenhalgh, Plundered Empire : acquiring antiquities from Ottoman lands (Brill 2019)

Plundered Empire

P. XII

"These describe the trophies from the greatest plunder of all, namely the bloody separation of Greece from Ottoman rule, sold in the West as the liberty gained by innocent Christian Greeks from the cruel and barbarian Muslim yoke. One decisive act was the destruction of Ottoman naval power in 1827 by the navies of Britain, France and Russia at the Battle of Navarino."

                    The Massacre of Chios, Eugene Delacroix, 1824. From Wikimedia Commons

Timothy Mitchell's Rule of Expert (2002) into Arabic (2010)

 

Byzantine Empire in Arabic - YouTube

الامبراطورية البيزنطية - YouTube: 

Some facts about the Roman Army in Arabic- YouTube

حقائق مذهلة عن الجحافل الرومانية - YouTube

History of the Roman Army (exercitus Romanus) in Arabic- YouTube

الحضارة الرومانية والثورة العسكرية التي أحدثتها - YouTube: exercitus Romanus

Roman Empire in Arabic - YouTube

الامبراطورية الرومانية من النشأة الي الانهيار - YouTube

Greek Civilization-Arabic video with English subtitles

الحضارة الإغريقية ( الإمبراطورية اليونانية ) وثائقي - YouTube: 

History of Legal practices in Ptolemaic Egypt-Arabic Audio only

مصادر القانون في العصرين الفرعوني والبطالمي - YouTube: 

The Arab Oedipus: Four Plays from Egypt and Syria

 

edited with an introduction by Marvin Carlson, New York 2005. 

A Special Program in A Special City: Study in Alexandria

[From the Programm announcement in FB here https://www.facebook.com/Achs.bibalex.org/posts/1835825396555452]

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The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies (ACHS) announces the beginning of registration for Diploma and Master’s degrees in Hellenistic Studies from 4 August–15 September 2020.

This Master’s Program is the fruit of a collaboration between ACHS, the Vardinoyannis Foundation, and Alexandria University, and is available in four modules: History; Literature; Art, Archaeology and Architecture; Philosophy and Science.

English is the teaching language.

The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies, in cooperation with the Vardinoyannis Foundation, provides a grant of 75% of the tuition fees to applicants (Terms apply).

Admission requires a BA in Classics, Archaeology or equivalent degrees from an accredited university in Egypt with Good Grade minimum. Those with the aforementioned BAs may apply directly for a Master’s degree. Non-specialized graduates must enroll in a one-year qualifying diploma.

The Center interests itself in the era when Alexandria flourished; namely, from its construction until the end of the Ptolemaic period.

For more information, please contact the Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies:

Tel.: + (203) 4839999, Ext. 1920

E-mail: hellenistic.studies@bibalex.org

Webpage: www.bibalex.org/hellenisticstudies

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/achs.bibalex.org

Database Objects from Coptos

From Papylist messages [13/07/2020]

Dear colleagues,

During several years, Vanessa Desclaux has collected information about more than 1700 objects from the site of Coptos now preserved in various museums, together with their bibliography. We are pleased to announce the publication of this database in its first version:

https://coptos.mom.fr

We hope this tool will be useful for further research. 

With our best wishes,

Laure Pantalacci & Vanessa Desclaux

The Invention and Reinvention of the Egyptian Peasant

The Egyptian Peasant

I wonder if my father has ever read Richard Critchfield's Shahhat: An Egyptian 1978 (in a translated form maybe?), or the colonial eurocentric discourse was so overwhelming, so that he kept reminding me that our village, like any other Egyptian village, barley has a name?

I am more inclined to accept the second guess since he was a government official, first in the village administration council and eventually int he nearby town council,  and most probably had this idea from his predecessors and colleagues, before making it his own motto. Cf. Timothy Mitchell,The Invention and Reinvention of the Egyptian Peasant, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2 (May, 1990), p. 132-133, where he speaks of Critchfield's portrait of Shahhat, a village in Luxor near Kings' valley: 

The Digital Photographic Archive of Professor Garth Fowden FBA

Fowden's Digital Photographic Archive  

[From the website (accessed 09/07/2020)]

The photographic archive he assembled during travels mainly in the Middle East and Greece has been digitized by Cambridge University Library and was published on-line in February 2018:  https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/landscapes/1.

Garth Fowden is a historian of first millennium CE Eurasia, who in pursuit of his interests has travelled extensively in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and North Africa. For the greater part of his career he has lived and worked in Greece. This site presents a digitized version of the photographic archive he developed while conducting research on the landscapes and monuments of these regions.

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From 1977 Fowden began to travel systematically in the Middle East including Turkey, but photography did not become a priority until 1986. The latest items in the archive date from 2007. The main regions covered are Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iran and Yemen, and less extensively Spain, Italy, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt. The strengths of the collection, reflecting Fowden's research and teaching interests at different periods, are: 

- the relationship between settlement and landscape; 

- fortification, and the evolution of the urban tissue, especially in the late Roman period; 

- religious architecture, especially the conversion of holy places, monasticism, and the emergence of Islam; 

- art and epigraphy preserved in architectural or archaeological contexts;

- traditional  domestic architecture. 

Within each site, the photographs are arranged in a sequence designed to convey some sense of a physical visit, sometimes starting and/or ending with more general shots of the surrounding landscape and of the routes that traverse it. Photographs taken on site are occasionally supplemented by items from museums or print publications designed to make the collection more suitable for teaching purposes.

The documentation of Palmyra, Aleppo (where Fowden spent the first half of 1996 as the guest of the Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim), and the Yemen, has particular value and poignancy in the light of recent events. Even more than war, though, it has been urbanization, the construction of dams, and the extensive irrigation of formerly arid areas, that has transformed the region in recent decades. Many of the places recorded will be inaccessible to foreign visitors for the foreseeable future, and are anyway changed beyond recognition.

For a brief introduction to the archive’s background and themes, and a sampling of its contents, click here

Open Access to Classical Papers, the journal of Cairo University's Greek and Latin department

Classical Papers

Vol. I (1991)- XIX (2019)

Classical Papers (CP), the Journal of Cairo University's Department of Greek and Latin (founded by Taha Hussein) is now available online (open-Access: https://preview.tinyurl.com/y83dqdzf ). The volumes doesn't date back to Hussein's pioneering days, but builds upon his Legacy. It is therefore counted as one of the leading journals in Egypt's Classics.

Pronouns in Modern Greek and Arabic: A Comparative Linguistical Study, MA thesis, Beirut 2011

Οι αντωνυμίες ανάμεσα στα Ελληνικά και στα Αραβικά στην σγύχρονη εποχή Συγκριτική μελέτη 

الضمائر بين العربية واليونانية فى العصر الحديث: دراسة تقابلية

It is very interesting to see MA thesis for Beirut Arabic University (BAU). Prof. Ashraf Frag, of Alexandria University, was one of the supervisor. For the content see here.