Jane de Gay discusses what Virginia Woolf really thought about Easter in a series of blog posts throughout Holy Week.
Category: Religion
Jane de Gay discusses what Virginia Woolf really thought about Easter in a series of blog posts throughout Holy Week.
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
7 things you may not know about the history of Muslims in Central Asia
By Galina M. Yemelianova 1) There are both narrow and broad notions of Central Asia. The narrow one relates to…
Since 2005, blogging has become a significant trend amid Egyptian young people. Among the many blog entries published online every…
When we first thought about translating The Sorrowful Muslim’s Guide by Hussein Ahmad Amin, it was not just because the book…
The temptation to look longingly to idealised visions of Islamic cosmopolitanism as the antithesis to the militant communal solidarity associated…
Journey to Poland: Documentary Landscapes of the Holocaust is about the journeys undertaken by survivors, members of the postgeneration, and…
It is a truism to state that Christianity has spread across the world as a result of cross-cultural communication. Between…
This region, North Africa and West Asia, is where Christianity began, nearly 2,000 years ago. Many Christian communities today trace their histories back over the entire period. At the same time, there is no region in the world where Christians are more at risk of extinction, as civil wars, persecution and economic distress have resulted in a massive exodus of the Christian population. This volume documents that exodus while it is underway.
Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe…