6/29/2023 0 Comments Cairo by Victoria Pitts-Caine![]() ![]() Cairo is considered a World City with a "Beta +" classification according to GaWC. Cairo's historic center was awarded World Heritage Site status in 1979. ![]() ![]() Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Under the Fatimid dynasty, Cairo was founded nearby in 969. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo ( / ˈ k aɪ r oʊ/ KY-roh Arabic: القاهرة, romanized: al-Qāhirah, pronounced ) is the capital of Egypt and the city-state Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, home to 10 million people. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Babylon's Ark by Lawrence Anthony![]() He tells of how he found himself a bed with the fighting troops and tank crews of the US 3rd Infantry Division in the derelict Al-Rashid Hotel, made friends with government officials, allied individual soldiers and rallied foreign mercenaries to his cause. Zoo veterinarian Dr Husham Hussan and two brave zoo staff, coming to work when they could, met him and the rescue commenced.Īnthony recounts his many adventures. Hundreds of animals and birds had died, escaped or had been stolen for food. ![]() ![]() ![]() On his arrival Anthony found that a battle had been fought in the surrounding park and that the zoo had been damaged and severely looted. The book focuses on how in early 2003, during the American led invasion of Iraq, South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony, realizing there would be no one looking after the Baghdad Zoo, the biggest zoo in the Middle East, left his Thula Thula Game Reserve home in Zululand South Africa for war blockaded Kuwait.Īnthony somehow wrangled his way into becoming the first civilian, media excepted, to gain military access to Iraq and then quite unbelievably, drove his hired car (from Kuwait) unarmed and unescorted, right into the violent heart of Baghdad itself, truly the last place on earth any unarmed foreigner would want to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unable to meet her parents' and tutors' demands and secure in the knowledge that her beloved older brother would one day take the kingdom firmly in hand, Adale leaned into the royal layabout aesthetic. Though the Ieflarian royals do have a second child, the now crown princess Adale, she brings in an entirely new set of problems, not because of her assigned sex (magic can take care of that when it comes to procreation) but because of her reputation as both disreputable and utterly useless. ![]() However, three months before their wedding, just as Esofi was embarking on the journey to Ieflaria, Albion died, leaving her without a husband and his parents scrambling for a new heir. Years of letters allowed a close friendship to form between them, and with their shared sense of responsibility and vision for Ieflaria's future, the couple was well matched. ![]() Effie Calvin's The Queen of I eflaria features a bi-normative fantasy world, a high femme dragon fighting princess, and a complex dance of religious, magical, and royal politics taking place in ballrooms and garden parties.Įsofi, a princess of Rhodia and devout follower of Talcia, goddess of magic, has been betrothed to crown prince Albion of Ieflaria since early childhood - and unlike many royals, the two have actually been looking forward to their marriage. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Choosing Theo by Victoria Aveline![]() ![]()
6/29/2023 0 Comments Buried prey by john sandford![]() Maybe so, but this reader had hoped for more. He was getting older, with almost as much gray hair as black at his temples, with the beginnings of what would someday be slashing lines beside his mouth, but right now, on this spring day, he could run five miles in a little less than thirty minutes, even on wet city streets and at home, there were four people who loved him. Is it just me, or has Lucas Davenport lost a little something off his fastball? In Stolen Prey, 22nd in John Sandford’s Prey series, Lucas has to puzzle out the connections between a horrific murder and the theft of millions of dollars. ![]() Stolen Prey by John Sandford Stolen Prey by John Sandford is the 22nd book of the Prey series, an edgy police procedural featuring Lucas Davenport (available May 15, 2012). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Produced by the UK arm of Scott Free, which is run by Ed Rubin, the show is the latest British series from Ridley Scott’s firm, having recently produced Steven Knight’s Tom Hardy-fronted Taboo for BBC One and FX, and lined up Knight’s Charles Dickens adaptation of A Christmas Carol for December 2019. The series could turn into a long-running franchise for the BBC as Blake/Day Lewis wrote 15 books featuring the detective. It is being set up as a series, likely to be five or six episodes, and is set to be exec produced by Nathaniel Parker, the actor known the lead role in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. British Broadcasters Plot Low-Budget Drama Drive As Battle With Global SVODs Rumbles Onĭeadline understands that the BBC adaptation is being written by Gaby Chiappe, who wrote Gemma Arterton feature film Their Finest and has written on a number of British crime dramas including ITV’s The Level and Vera as well as BBC’s Shetland. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Inferno hickman hardcover![]() ![]() You do not have to read everything to appreciate and enjoy Inferno. I’ve been documenting every single X-Men comic since House of X / Powers of X kicked off the era, including mutant appearances in comics outside the X-line. If you want the most complete road to catching up on X-Men comics (and appearances of mutants in the Marvel Universe), then Comic Book Herald’s Hickman X-Men reading order is the absolute best bet. The Road to X-Men Inferno (2021) The Complete Hickman X-Men Reading Order Although the core event is “only” four issues, at 160 pages, it’s a full-sized event series that promises to vigorously shake up X-Men comics in 2022.īelow you’ll find a complete guide to the comics that set the stage for Inferno, including both complete reading orders and fast track guides. Inferno will follow up on the mutant revelations of Moira X, the role of Mystique and Destiny in shaping the mutant-nation of Krakoa, and the threat of Nimrod, among many other X-threats. ![]() After months of speculation, this age of Jonathan Hickman written X-Men comics comes to a fiery conclusion with 2021’s Inferno event! While the sudden departure of Hickman from the X-Office is a bittersweet turn for fans of the X-Men’s new status quo, it’s nonetheless hugely exciting to see an event-sized follow up to the game changing House of X / Powers of X from 2019. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments A Duke by Default by Alyssa Cole![]() ![]() ![]() Tav tries to rebuff his apprentice-and his attraction to her-but when Portia accidentally discovers that he's the secret son of a duke, rough-around-the-edges Tav becomes her newest makeover project. Tavish McKenzie doesn't need a rich, spoiled American telling him how to run his armory.even if she is infuriatingly good at it. ![]() Turns out she excels at aggravating her gruff silver fox boss.when she's not having inappropriate fantasies about his sexy Scottish burr. An apprenticeship with a struggling swordmaker in Scotland is a chance to use her expertise and discover what she's capable of. New York City socialite and perpetual hot mess Portia Hobbs is tired of disappointing her family, friends, and-most importantly-herself. An NPR Best Book of the Year - A Bookish Favorite Book of the Year - A Bookpage Best Romance of the YearĪward-winning author Alyssa Cole's Reluctant Royals series continues with a woman on a quest to be the heroine of her own story and the duke in shining armor she rescues along the way. A Duke by Default (Reluctant Royals, 2) Audio CD Unabridged, Jby Alyssa Cole (Author), Karen Chilton (Narrator) 1,243 ratings Book 2 of 3: Reluctant Royals Editors' pick Best Romance See all formats and editions Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This proved to be a point of contention on the African trip, and it wasn't until past the halfway point that they could finally relax and chill out a bit.įor By Any Means the goal was to reinstate this sense of spontaneity. Aware of the mishaps and problems they'd had on the first journey, Long Way Down had been timetabled and planned to such an extent that a lot of the fun spontaneity of the earlier mission was lost, and the strict timetable meant that Ewan and Charley had to skip interesting areas they were passing in order to hit certain locations at certain times. Having enjoyed Long Way Round when the book and TV series appeared in 2004, I was disappointed with Long Way Down when it appeared. The result is a 20,000-mile odyssey through twenty-five countries. ![]() This time the motorbikes (and previous wingman Ewan McGregor, who was busy filming) have been left behind as Boorman sets out from his childhood home in County Wicklow, Ireland, aiming to get to Sydney, Australia, travelling by any means of transport he can find. Having previously travelled on motorbike from London to New York via Europe, Central Asia, Siberia, Alaska and Canada on Long Way Round, and from John O'Groats to Cape Town on Long Way Down, Charley Boorman sets out on another adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We should locate the origin of reparations in the moment when this violence is not yet a lingua franca and its reversibility is possible: when that which should not have been possible is at the same time that which could not ever have been possible. Bringing the question of reparations back to its origins is necessary in order to address them outside of the vicious circle of imperial violence. The deferral of reparations, though, is not only strategic but part of the imperial onto-epistemological order that makes victims’ descendants who are asking for reparations appear to turn toward the past, while perpetrators’ descendants congratulate themselves on looking forward to the future. ![]() When in May 1969, James Forman interrupted the Sunday morning communion at New York’s Riverside Church in order to read a few demands from the “Black Manifesto,” he ended with a comment on temporality, stating, “Our patience is thin, time is running out we have been slaves too long.” Responses mostly focus on how to quell claimants’ urgency and buy the time necessary for these demands to appear again as if they come after the violence. Every once in a while, like a seasonal phenomenon, responses have to be given about reparations claims, as if they’re a ticking bomb to be defused. ![]() |