Case study of an emergency relief programme organised by international organizations (incl. Voluntary organizations, FAO, UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO) in response to the influx of rural area refugees from Uganda in Southern Sudan during the early months of 1982 - covers social characteri…
"In 1977, Israel's Mossad spy agency was given an assignment from former Prime Minister Menachem Begin to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan and "deliver them" in the Jewish state. No stranger to action in enemy countries, the agency established a covert forw…
"In 1977, Israel's Mossad spy agency was given an assignment from former Prime Minister Menachem Begin to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan and "deliver them" in the Jewish state. No stranger to action in enemy countries, the agency established a covert forw…
In 1977, Israel's Mossad spy agency was given an assignment far different from its usual cloak and dagger activities. It was ordered by then Prime Minister Menachem Begin to rescue thousands of Ethopian Jewish refugees in Suda and "deliver them to me" in the Jewish state. No str…
The colonial era in Africa, spanning less than a century, ushered in a more rapid expansion of Islam than at any time during the previous thousand years. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, Brian J. Peterson considers for the first time how and why rural peoples in …
"Although immensely varied, African Islam, Charlotte A. Quinn and Frederick Quinn demonstrate, is defined by three overarching beliefs. First, African Islam is local Islam. There is no ordained clergy, no international body to regulate doctrine, no pope or curia, which accounts …
"Although immensely varied, African Islam, Charlotte A. Quinn and Frederick Quinn demonstrate, is defined by three overarching beliefs. First, African Islam is local Islam. There is no ordained clergy, no international body to regulate doctrine, no pope or curia, which accounts …
Ancient Nubia provides a clear and up-to-date account of the past of Nubia, both in Egypt and in the Sudan, from the earliest human activity known there in old Stone Age times to the coming of Islam in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD. The archaeology and ancient histor…