The Medieval Nile

The Medieval NileThis book presents a ground breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval Egypt. It charts the changing geography of the Nile waterways from the eve of Islam to the early modern period. It then presents a new perspective on the Nile, drawing on traveler accounts and environmental data to portray the river as a uniquely challenging and sometimes dangerous navigational environment. Finally, it looks at how the main Delta and Red

The strengths of the Roman collection are its glass

they do in their meanings and functions express fundamental values and principles

highlighting its contemporary relevance

discussing its place in the general curriculum – possibly as a discrete subject – and secondly it examines different approaches to its teaching

This dictionary-novel of dictatorship is a thrilling personal journey behind the Iron Curtain – and like nothing you have read before

both above and belowground

is described

and onto mastery of the language

Galal Amin now takes a further bemused look at the changes that have taken place in Egyptian society over the past half century

Disgruntled by the treatment of Black soldiers in the military

This volume includes new data and major syntheses of the Paleolithic prehistory of the region

A timeless meditation on the intersection of place