A Photographer on the Hajj

A Photographer on the HajjOne of the earliest visual records of the Hajj and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina The diaries of Muhammad Ali Effendi Saudi, a civil servant and accomplished photographer, offer a rare glimpse of the Hajj through Egyptian eyes at the beginning of the twentieth century when the Ottoman Empire was on the wane and the advance of the Hijaz railway threatened to upset vested interests in the old pattern of pilgrimage. Saudi twice accompanied the Amir

Resistant germplasm is often the first line of defence against plant pathogens inducing foliar diseases like Asian soybean rust

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The book also includes more than eighty family archive photographs

In the decades following the USSR’s collapse

This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature

the highly risk-averse European regulatory environment is in danger of severely limiting innovation

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The demand for cassava in Asia is expected to grow in the years to come

One of the best ways to learn a language is by studying the media that native speakers listen to

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dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philosophical

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