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Anna's House JERUSALEM'S AMERICAN Colony Hotel, the former local headquarters for Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair, for many years a favorite watering hole for foreign journalists, spies and p...
Read moreعودة رئيس الوزراء الليبي في العهد الملكي قال رئيس وزراء ليبيا في العهد الملكي (1954-1957) مصطفى بن حليم إنه كان من الأجدى محاكمة العقيد الليبي الراحل معمر القذافي على تدمير البلاد طيلة فترة حكمه، ...
Read moreTaking to the Skies Book by British journalist takes a look at aviation history in Middle East. Cyprus had served as an escape for people working in Iraq and the Gulf as early as 1832, a newly pu...
Read moreFlight to Progress The citizens of the world take air travel for granted. Businessmen and women, families, school and university pupils, tourists, shoppers attending festivals take to the air as a...
Read moreFrom Famagusta to Vienna Presentation of a new book by Greek Cypriot author Niki Marangou at the Naci Talat Peace and Guest House in Nicosia on November 29, 2011 at 19:00 hrs. The presentation was ...
Read moreTraditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution With roots thousands of years old, Palestinian costume is a rich tradition that evolved over time to form through color and pattern a visu...
Read moreThreads of Identity by Widad Kamel Kawar is a most fascinating compendium of the heritage of Palestine through costumes and fabrics. The author is one of the foremost authorities on the subject and...
Read moreJerusalemites Love for Jerusalem and devotion to the cause of justice and the human rights of the Palestinians are dominant features of this autobiography written by a distinguished man born in t...
Read moreMemories of the American Colony The American Colony, now East Jerusalem's most luxurious and expensive hotel, has a long, conflicted history that illuminates what has happened in Palestine over th...
Read moreThreads of Identity There’s something just so wonderful about ‘Threads of Identity’ – an intelligent, visually delicious compendium of women’s traditional costumes and life stories that have been c...
Read moreAnna’s House THE ROYAL NORWEGIAN EMBASSY, Tel Aviv - Anna’s House by Norwegian Author Odd Karsten Tveit Anna's House, a book about the American Colony Hotel through the eyes of its founder Anna Sp...
Read morePalestinian Embroidery Motifs Last year when we were working on the posters for Israeli Apartheid Week: Beirut we were researching symbolic references to Palestine, and came across this amazing bo...
Read moreAn Irishman's Diary As evening shadows were beginning to lengthen over the British empire towards the middle of the last century, Egypt continued to bask in imperial sunshine. While never formally ...
Read moreBook Acknowledgement Mrs. Widad Kamel Kawar is a member on the Board of Trustees of the Jordan Museum. Her continuous efforts and support towards the Museum are extremely valued and appreciated. We...
Read moreThreads of Identity One of the leading authorities on Palestinian costume, Widad Kamel Kawar takes a unique approach to the topic in her latest book, Threads of Identity. While this handsomely-illu...
Read moreAhmed Masoud: Was I switched at birth? After Ahmed Masoud was born in Gaza, the hospital was bombed. His father rushed to the special care unit – but did he take home the right baby? I had a very...
Read moreLife at the Crossroads This is a comprehensive yet concise chronicle of Gaza's history from ancient times to the end of the 2008-2009 Israeli war against the territory's Hamas-led administration...
Read moreLIBRARY BOOKWACTH - Reviewer's Choice Threads of Identity: Preserving Palestinian Costume and Heritage is the culmination of years of research and documentation of Arab costumes, textiles, and arti...
Read moreThreads of Identity In this spectacular volume Widad Kamel Kawar has created a work of art -- through photography, narrative and oral history -- as valuable as the women's legacy she describes. St...
Read moreWomen in the Orient PARIS — The vivid neon lights act like beacons, leading past ancient artifacts carved out of wood and stone, toward an explosion of vivid color on elaborate robes. The trian...
Read morePlaying with Words It's Cyprus in the 1920s and a young man travels from his small town home in Famagusta to study medicine in Vienna. Dazzled by the opulent culture of the big city, George falls ...
Read moreThreads of Identity…Beauty Illustrates Steadfastness The author Widad Kawar held a book-signing ceremony at the Orthodox Club in Amman for her English-language book Threads of Identity, which ill...
Read moreBook of the Month A small country like Palestine has a great variety of traditional costumes, and it took me a long time to publish the material I have collected on them because I wanted my researc...
Read moreParadise Found Shirley Kay is full of passion for life. But that's not what makes her unique. Personal passion is something we all possess in one way or another; Shirley, however, likes to take thi...
Read moreسهيل بولس يطلق كتابه طلقت منشورات رمال في حفل إصدار كتاب "شارع المكسيك وقصص أخرى" لسهيل بولس، وذلك في مطعم المولينو في سنتر مارينيان في الحمراء، فوق مسرح بابل، يوم امس الأربعاء.والكتاب، باللغة الإن...
Read moreGaza’s Ancient Treasures Threatened GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Few outside of Gaza would consider its history much beyond the decades of Israeli occupation. But Gaza is a historical tr...
Read moreA Must-Have Book A must-have book for residents and visitors. Author Shirley Kay lives in a sympathetically restored old house in Anogyra; as the massive front door opens from the street, the view...
Read moreBook Review of Olives & Lemons This is the sort of book visitors who have more than the sun-sea-sand-and-sex interest in Cyprus buy to take home, and one that we residents always have on the b...
Read moreBeware of Small States Beware of small states," the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin warned a friend in 1870. In an age when small-state nationalism shook the politics of Europe from Belgium to th...
Read moreLife at the Crossroads A Long Experience of War': Gaza in Historical Perspective Before Israel’s blitz on the Gaza Strip in late-2008/early-2009, one might have found individuals around the world w...
Read moreمنشورات الرمال.. الحنين إلى غزَة منشورات الرمال القبرصية تديرها امرأة فلسطينية تدعى نوره الشوا وحين سألناها عن سر تسمية الدار بهذا الاسم وبخاصة أنها تنشر من قبرص قالت: سميت الدار بهذا الاسم نسبة إ...
Read moreA Feast for the Eyes A rainbow of colour, a wealth of information, centuries of traditions and skill, but above all, a precious point of reference for any serious ethnologist or historian - all in ...
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