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ASTENE NEWS and FORTHCOMING EVENTS:
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OTHER
EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES ETC:
EXHIBITIONS
- Paintings of Sinai by David Risk Kennard
- Bellini and the East: The Image of the Muslim and Christian Mediterranean,
National Gallery, London
- The Road to Byzantium: Luxury Arts of Antiquity, Somerset House, London
- Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church
- Lost Nubia: Photographs of Egypt and Sudan 1905-7
- The Royal Tombs of Ur, Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Saladin and the Crusaders in Oldenburg and Mannheim
- Petra: Lost City of Stone at the Canadian Museum of Civilisation,
Ottawa, 19 April - 3 September
- Harpies, Mermaids and Tulips at the Textile Museum, Washington DC
to 3 September
- Letters to Khartoum, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
- Facing East: Portraiture across Asia at Sackler Gallery, Washington
DC, 1 July-4 September
- Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, V & A, London from 20 July
- The Louvre Theme Tours, Paris
SCHOLARSHIPS
and AWARDS
- The Graduate Article Competition in Islamic and Middle East Studies
2006
- British School of Archaeology in Iraq Appeal
LECTURES
& CONFERENCES
- Oxford University Department of Continuing Education, Rewley House
- St George: Saint and Symbol, Saturday 3 June
- Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, Amman, Jordan, 11-16
June, 2006.
- Two lectures looking at Sir Flinder's Petrie's work, Thursday 4 May
- Tutankhamun Study Day, Saturday 13 May
- Arabia's History in the 19th century
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RESEARCH RESOURCES
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NOTES AND QUERIES
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BOOKS & REVIEWS
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
- Osman's Dream:
The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923
by Caroline Finkel, John Murray, London, 2005, 660 pp. h/b. £30.
ISBN 0 7195 5513 2
- Rethinking Orientalism
by Reina Lewis, I.B. Taurus, London, 2004, p/b 297 pp, ISBN 1 86064
730 8
- Edge of Empire: Conquest
and Collecting in the East 1750-1850 by Maya Jasonoff, London
Fourth Estate, 2005, 406 pp, ills. ISBN 0-00-7-718009-8, £20.00
- Miss Brocklehurst on the Nile:
Diary of a Victorian Traveller in Egypt, Millrace, Disley,
2004, 144 p, line drawings, h/b £15.99, ISBN 1 902173 147
- A Silver Legend: The story of
the Maria Theresa Thaler by Clara Semple, Barzan, London,
2005, 165 pp., fully illustrated, £19.95, ISBN 0- 954901-0-1
- Making Cairo Medieval
edited by Nezar Al Sayyad, Irene Bierman and Nasser Rabbat, Lanham,
Boulder, New York, Toronto, Oxford, Lexington Books, 2005, ISBN 0-7391-0915-4
p/b, $27.95
- Athens and Attica: Journal
of Residence there by Christopher Wordsworth, published
1836, revised 2004, 274 pp, 2 maps, 3 plates, £16.99, Archaeopress,
Oxford; ISBN 0 9539923 3 0
- Antiquity and Photography:
Early Views of ancient Mediterranean Sites by John K. Papadopoulos,
Claire I. Lyons and Lindsey S. Stewart, Thames and Hudson, London 2005,
h/b, 120 ills., 240 pp., £35. ISBN 0 500 54316X
- Re-orienting the Renaissance:
Cultural Exchanges and the East edited by Gerald MacLean
with a Foreword by William Dalrymple, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005, 216
pp. h/b £19.99, ISBN 1403992339
- The Elgin Marbles
by Dorothy King, Hutchinson, London, 2006, h/b xii + 340 pp, 43 pls,
£18.99, ISBN 0 09 180013 7
- The Chains of Heaven: an Ethiopian
Romance by Philip Marsden, Harper Collins, London, 2005
- The Baghdad Air Mail
by Wing Commander Roderic Hill, Nonsuch Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire,
1929, re-issued 2005, 256 pp, p/b, £16.00 ISBN 1-84588-009-9
- A Quest in the Middle East:
Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq by Liora Lukitz,
I.B. Taurus, London, 2006, h/b ix + 306 pp., 8 ills., notes, bibliography
and index. £24.50
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OTHER BOOKS:
- HELP WITH THE WESTERN DESERT
- Description de l'Egypte
ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en
Egypte pendant l'expedition del'armee francaise, Paris:
Imprimerie Imperiale/Royale, 1809 [1810], DVD-Rom. Alexandria: Harpocrates
Publishing, 2005, Eu. 30
- The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammud and the Roots of the Sunni-Shia
Schism by Barnaby Rogerson published by Little Brown, 2006,
h/b £17.99, will be reviewed in the next Bulletin.
- For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies
by Robert Irwin, Allen Lane will be reviewed in the next Bulletin. ISBN
0-713-99415-0
- Beyond the River: Ottoman Transjordan in Original Photographs
by R.S. Abujaber and Felicity Cobbing, with over 200 photographs of
Transjordan from the PEF collection, published for the Palestine Exploration
Fund, Stacey Internat- ional, 2005. h/b 176 pp., £25. ISBN 19009
88 8 28.
- A Decade of Archaeology and History in the Lebanon by
Claude Doumet-Serhal with A. Rabate and A. Resek, previously listed.
£64 plus £8 post & packing, ISBN 2913330347, is available
from The Lebanese British Friends of the Museum, 11 Canning Place, London
W8 5AD.
- Rhodes in Ancient Times and Rhodes
in Modern Times by Cecil Torr, 280 pp, with maps and plates,
each £16.99, The Cyclades or Life among the Insular Greeks
by Theodor Bent, £17.99; Archaeopress, Oxford, 2002-5, ISBN 0
95399236 5; 0 9539923 2; 0 95399231 4
- Archaeopress, Oxford
- Lady Franklin's Revenge, A
True Story of Ambition, Obsession and the Remaking of Arctic History
by Ken McGoogan, Bantam Press, h/b 467 pp, £20
- Saudi Aramco World
- Book Fairs
- Antiquarian, Scarce and Out-of-print
Books on Middle East and related area
- Murrays at the Travellers Club
- ARABIC FOR FOREIGNERS
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ARTICLES
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