ASTENE NEWS and FORTHCOMING EVENTS:
- Visits to the V & A and RGS
- Pilgrims and Travellers to
Mount Sinai and St Catherine's Convent
- Travellers and the Haj
- Obituary: Dr David Dixon
St Catherine's Convent, Sinai
from Carsten Niebuhr's account of his travels, German edition, 1734
OTHER
FORTHCOMING EVENTS AND NEWS
EXHIBITIONS
- Petra: Lost City of Stone at Glenbow Museum, Calgary until 20 February 2006
- The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York September - 15 January, 2006
- Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia at the British Museum from 8 September, 2005
- The Golden Age of Arab Science at Institut du Moderne Arabe, Paris, 25 October through March 2006
- Lawrence of Arabia: The life, the legend Imperial War Museum, London, 14 October, 2005 - 17 April, 2006
- Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900, Manchester Art Gallery, 1 October-8 January; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 28 January - 2 April
- Pilgrimage - The Sacred Journey at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 11 January to 2 April, 2006
- Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre and anniversary London show
- The Egyptian Cultural Bureau
- Red Sea Project Phase 3: Cultural Connections of the Red Sea
- COURSES IN CAMBRIDGE AND EAST ANGLIA
BOOKS & REVIEWS
Who, that has been taught to relish at all the pleasures of reading, can refrain from enquiring after almost every new book of travels, the publication of which is announced?
Preface by Robert Heron, translator of Carsten Niebuhr's Travels, 1792.
For two years Edwin Aiken of Queen's University Belfast has done a splendid job as the Bulletin Reviews Editor. Sadly he has decided to step down with this issue. However, most fortunately Thomas Rees has agreed to take over his role with the next Bulletin.
We would like to thank Edwin for his service and to hope that he will
continue to provide the knowledgeable and sensitive reviews we have come
to expect from him.
Please send information about books the Bulletin might review to Reviews
Editor: Thomas Rees, The Old Manor House, Bridgewater, Stanwell, Somerset
TA7 9AE: E-mail: tbrees@btinternet.com
- A Passion
for Egypt: A Biography of Arthur Weighall
by Julie Hankey, London/New York: I.B.
Taurus, 2001. Pp. 390; Pls. 21 + drgs. 15. £22.50 h/b. ISBN 1-
86064 - 566 - 6
- The Monuments of Historic Cairo by Nicholas Warner, AUC, Cairo, 2004, ISBN 977 424 841 4
- The Orientalists: Western Artists in Arabia, The Sahara, Persia and India by Kristian Davies, 303 pp. 300 illustrations, Laynfaroh, New York, 2005, h/b $70 - £40, ISBN 9759763-0-6
- Les Voyages dans le Hawran (Syrie de Sud) de William John Bankes (1816 et 1818) by Professor Annie Sartre-Fauriat, published as a cooperative work by the Institut Francais du Proche-Orient and the Universite Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux, Bordeaux and Amman, 2004
- William Bankes and the Making of an English Country House by Anne Sebba, John Murray, London, 2004;, 308 pp, 14 colour ills., h/b £22.50; p/b £8.99 ISBN 0-7195-6328-3
- From Empire to Orient: Travellers to the Middle East 1830-1926, Geoffrey Nash, I.B. Taurus, London, pp. 252 , £24.50, ISBN 1-85043-767-X
- The Tano Family and Gifts from the Nile, by Robert S. Merilles, Moufflon Publications, Nicosia, 2003, no price given, ISBN 9963-642-11-X
- Flora of Egypt, Vol. 4, Monocotyledons by Loutfy Boulos, 617 pp, 129 plates of line drawings, 61 pp. colour plates (2-4 per page), Cairo, Al-Hadara Publishing, h/b, no price given, ISBN 977-5429-41-2
- Meetings with Remarkable Muslims: a collection of travel writing, edited by Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring, 312 pp, London, Eland Publishing Ltd. h/b £18.99, 2005, ISBN 978 0 907871 64 4
- Corsairville: the lost domain
of the flying boat by Graham Carter, London, Viking, 2000,
£12.99
This splendid book will be reviewed in the next issue of the Bulletin, but we recommend you to look at it. - "Beyond the Clash of Civilisations: Missionaries, Conversion and Tolerance in the Ottoman Empire" - biannual publication of Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum, 2005
- Egypt: How a Lost Civilisation was Rediscovered, by Joyce Tildesley, BBC Books, 2005, £17.99, ISBN 0 563 52257 7
- Egypt and Austria : Proceedings of the Symposium, edited by Johanna Holaubek and Hana Navratilova, 170 pp, b/w ills., Czech Institute of Egyptology/Oxbow, £15.00, ISBN 80-86277-43-7
- A Silver Legend: The Story of the Maria Theresa Thaler
by Clara Semple, Barzan, London, 2005, 165 pp., fully illustrated, £19.95,
ISBN 0-9549701-0-1
Clara Semple's book will be reviewed in the next Bulletin.
RESEARCH RESOURCES