Afrika - Römerzeit - Historischer Überblick - Verkehrsweg - Stadt/Vicus/Oppidum.
"Im vergangenen Jahr begeisterte er mit der Ausreißergeschichte "Tschick". Jetzt legt Wolfgang Herrndorf einen literarischen Thriller vor: den grandiosen Wüstenroman "Sand" ... Zeit und Ort werden klassisch angelegt. Die Handlung spielt im September 1972. Bei den Olympischen Spi…
Während in München Palästinenser des "Schwarzen September" das Olympische Dorf überfallen, geschehen in der Sahara mysteriöse Dinge. In einer Hippie-Kommune werden vier Menschen ermordet, ein Geldkoffer verschwindet, und ein unterbelichteter Kommissar versucht sich an der Aufklä…
"At the same time as the Palestinian terrorist attacks during the 1972 Munich Olympics, a local man from a North African desert town is accused of breaking into an oasis commune composed largely of hedonistic Western European ex-patriots, and murdering four people. The crime has…
The Middle East and North Africa have become places that almost everyone "knows" something about. Too frequently written off as culturally defined by Islam, strongly anti-Western, and uniquely susceptible to irrational political radicalism, authoritarianism, and terrorism#151;th…
"One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished ancient historian Brent D. Shaw provides a new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of North Africa in Late Ant…
"One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished ancient historian Brent D. Shaw provides a new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of North Africa in Late Ant…
"One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished ancient historian Brent D. Shaw provides a new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of North Africa in Late Ant…
Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.
This volume presents the first direct look at the complex relationship between music and power across a range of musical genres and countries. Discourses of power in the region centre on some of the most contested social issues, most notably in relation to nationhood, gender and…
What is it about the history, geographical position and cultures of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia that has made music such a potent and powerful agent? This volume presents the first direct look at the complex relationship between music and power across a range …
Power and the play of music / Laudan Nooshin -- "The artist of the people in the battle" : Umm Kulthūm's concerts for Egypt in political context / Laura Lohman -- "Abd al-Halim's microphone" / Martin Stokes -- Mediated Qur'anic recitation and the contestation of Islam in contemp…