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501) Conte de Sinouhé
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Le conte de Sinouhé, également appelé histoire de Sanehat, est l'un des récits les plus populaires du Moyen Empire égyptien qui soit parvenu jusqu'à nous. Des dizaines de fragments d'exemplaires ont été retrouvés, ce qui est inhabituel et en dit long sur la popularité de ce récit au Moyen Empire. Les égyptologues sont divisés sur la part de fiction, certains affirmant qu'il s'agit d'un texte historique, tandis que d'autres prétendent...
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Español
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Ezequiel Kopel conoce como pocos la región más caliente del mundo. Y, lo más importante, se esfuerza por explicarla. En este libro tan profundo como claro, recurre a la historia, el análisis político y su experiencia personal sobre el terreno para desmontar uno a uno los mitos más importantes, discutir verdades que se dan por incontrastables y revelar la endeblez de ciertas interpretaciones. Solo así será posible acceder a una comprensión...
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Travel Tales: Egypt, Morocco & North Africa Is a collection of travel stories of one of the travel world's most mystical sought-after destinations-the top of Africa, also known as the 'Dark Continent.' Certainly among the world's handful of the most eagerly sought out places on Earth to visit, without a doubt, the pyramids in Egypt, the souks of Morocco, and the lure of the Sahara on camelback loom large in the minds of armchair travelers and would-be...
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Clothing was hardly a practical necessity in North Africa and what is today the Middle East. Often a luxury item in these warm, humid climates, it became more essential as people's lives improved socially and economically. But even then, the drapery was light and tended to accent the body's shape rather than conceal it. The first part of this profusely illustrated and scrupulously researched text examines the evolution in apparel worn by Egyptian...
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Traces the genealogy of the Western philosophic concept of the civil state, how that concept was assimilated into Egyptian political thought, and how it affected the 2013 coup against President Mursi.
How is the concept of the civil state understood in Arab countries? In The Battle over a Civil State, Limor Lavie examines how this important concept, which originated in Western philosophy, became incorporated into Arab discourse. The civil state as...
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A vivid story of an astonishing period in ancient Egypt's history, 1550 BC to 1295 BC, that tears away the gold and glamour to reveal how these great pharaohs ruthlessly ruled Egypt for two hundred and fifty years.
For more than two centuries, Egypt was ruled by the most powerful, successful, and richest dynasty of kings in its long end epic history. They included the female king Hatshepsut, the warrior kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, the religious...
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The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt's emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt's Occupation tells for the first time the story of that financial...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Toutânkhamon en moins d'une heure!
Qui ignore encore ce qu'est la malédiction de Toutânkhamon, qui précipitera le décès de certains membres de l'équipe ayant découvert le tombeau du pharaon? Quels merveilleux trésors son tombeau renferme-t-il? Mais surtout, qui était vraiment Toutânkhamon, ce pharaon à la santé fragile décédé prématurément?
Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus...
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"Laura Bier unpacks the complicated dynamics and legacy of an historical moment in which women were understood to be crucial to modern nation-building." -Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin but local in iteration. Drawing connections...
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Transport to the colorful and dangerous court of imperial Rome and into the remarkable lives of two young captives-- the children of Cleopatra, Egypt's most powerful and notorious ruler, and her lover Marc Antony. Taken in chains to Rome as ten-year-olds, twins Selene and Alexander cling to each other, and to the hope of one day returning to their rightful place on the throne of Egypt.
514) Hiding baby Moses
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"A lyrical retelling of the Old Testament story of baby Moses being hidden from Pharaoh, told from the perspective of his protective older sister"--
515) Ancient Egyptian Magic: The Ultimate Guide to Gods, Goddesses, Divination, Amulets, Rituals, and Spe
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Expand your knowledge about the culture of the ancient Egyptians and reveal the magic interwoven within their lives.
Have you always been fascinated by ancient Egyptian culture?
Do you want to learn about the type of magic they practiced?
Do you want to incorporate ancient Egyptian magic into your new-age magic practice?
The practice of magic played an enormous role in ancient Egyptian civilization. By studying how magic was viewed by those who...
516) Clever Ali
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Orchard Books
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2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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When seven-year-old Ali's greedy pet steals cherries from the wicked Sultan for whom his father keeps carrier pigeons, Ali is given three days to find 600 new cherries or his father will be thrown into the deep, dark oubliette. Includes facts about carrier pigeons and the sultan on whom this story is based, as well as an excerpt from "In Praise of Books" by al-Jahiz.
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Kane chronicles (Graphic novels) volume 1
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Disney/Hyperion Books
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2012
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IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharoahs.
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In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed racial and ethnic lines. Fair-skinned Circassian men and women were as vulnerable to enslavement in the Nile Valley as were teenagers from Sudan or Ethiopia. Tell This in My Memory opens up a new window...
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Based on both academic research and the author's own personal experiences and impressions, this delightful and informative book examines the underlying causes of some of the more disturbing social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that characterize Egyptian society in the 1990s. Egypt's crisis of culture and other woes are often attributed to the 'open door policy' (Infitah) initiated under President Sadat in the mid-1970s, and to the large-scale...
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Extrait : "Le ciel est gris, des traînées de brume mélancolique flottent sur les berges, une tache jaunâtre marque par intervalles la place o le soleil devrait briller ; est-ce bien l'Égypte, et qu'a-t-elle fait de sa lumière, depuis treize ans que je l'ai quittée ? On grelotte sur le Nil, et le pont du bateau serait bientt inhabitable, si l'on ne se résignait à endosser un paletot d'hiver."
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