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Ahmad Mohammed Hassanein Bey (1889-1946)
BOOKS & REVIEWS
Dr Edwin Aiken is the Reviews Editor of the Bulletin. Please send catalogues,
books to review or reviews to him at 1 Ulster Avenue, Annalong, Co. Down,
BT
- An Account
of Palmyra and Zenobia with Travels and Adventures in Bashan and the
Desert by Rev.Dr. William Wright D.D. (London, 1895) recently
re-published by Darf Publishers, London (ISBN 185077155), £32.00
- Five Years in Damascus by J.L. Porter, London, 1855. (Copies of the first edition of this work now sell for more than $1100/£550 per pair of volumes. Adamant Media has republished the second edition of 1870 in one volume in the Elibron Classics series (ISBN 9781402193699) for $18.99
- No Place for Ladies by Helen Rappaport, Aurum, London, 2007. 272 pp, biblio, index, ills, map. ISBN-13 978 1 84513 220 0, £18.99
- The Sphinx Revealed: A Forgotten Record of Pioneering Excavations by Patricia Usick and Deborah Manley, British Museum Research Publication 164, British Museum Press, 2007, ISBN 13:978 086 159 1640; ISBN 10: 086 159 164 X; ISSN 0142 4815, 80 pp large format p/b with 79 illustrations and fold-out, £25.
- Lucie Duff
Gordon: A Passage to Egypt by Katherine Frank was re-issued
this February by I.B. Tauris in paperback. ISBN 13.978 1 84511 331 5,
416 pp, £11.99
- Nurse Sarah Anne: with Florence Nightingale at Scutari by Sarah Anne Terrot, edited by Robert G. Richardson, John Murray, London, 1977; ISBN 0 7195 3385 6, £4.95 (now about £20).
RESEARCH RESOURCES
The articles in this section only appear in the Bulletin pages for our members and are not entered on the website.
- John Smith in his own words
- Yanni's Collection at Gournu, 1826
- Facing the Plague in Baghdad
- Merriment in Aleppo
- A Spectacle in Malta
- Past Behaviour at Palmyra