2905, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Perché il male? : il problema della Mesopotamia antica / Claudio Saporetti ; con un contributo bibliografico di Giovanna Matini. Wissenskultur im Alten Orient Weltanschauung, Wissenschaften, Techniken, Technologien : 4. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 20.-22. Februar 2002, Münster Im Auftrag des Vorstands der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft / unter Mitarbeit von Susanne Paulus [and] Hans Neumann. A manual of Hurrian / by Arnaud Fournet. La collezione orientale

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1505, 2013

Literature – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 15, 2013|Literature|0 comments

Criticism & interpretation Women writing violence : the novel and radical feminist imaginaries / Shreerekha Subramanian. Approaches to teaching The story of the stone (Dream of the red chamber) / edited by Andrew Schonebaum and Tina Lu. 文学革命与”新青年”传播 /陈斯华著 – Wen xue ge ming yu “Xin qing nian” chuan bo / Chen Sihua zhu. 子彈鴉片 : 天安門大屠殺的生死故事 / 廖亦武  – Zi dan ya pian : Tian’anmen da tu sha de

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2504, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 25, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations The Cyrus cylinder: the great Persian edict from Babylon / edited by I.L. Finkel The archive of Mušēzib-Marduk, son of Kiribtu and descendant of Sîn-nāṣir : a landowner and property developer at Uruk in the seventh century BC / Grant Frame. Commerce and colonization in the Mediterranean Bronze Age / Maria Eugenia Aubet. The Philistines and other “sea peoples” in text and archaeology / edited by

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1004, 2013

Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference – live streaming starts today

By David Pearson|April 10, 2013|Gender|0 comments

If you are not already in New York attending the Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference, you may be interested to know that the organisers, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies are streaming the various sessions and keynote speeches. These will also be podcast later. As well as the obvious relevance to those of you studying gender and sexuality, this conference has significant content relating to the SOAS regions and its other subjects, notably

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0804, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 8, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Sacred killing: the archaeology of sacrifice in the ancient Near East / edited by Anne M. Porter and Glenn M. Schwartz Temple building and temple cult:  architecture and cultic paraphernalia of temples in the Levant (2.-1. Mill. B.C.E.) : Proceedings of a conference on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen (28th – 30th of May

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1902, 2013

Open-access texts from the Institut français du Proche-Orient

By Mary Fisk|February 19, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions|0 comments

The prestigious Institut français du Proche-Orient, with offices in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, aims to bring together study and research on all aspects of the ancient and modern civilizations of the Near East (including Libya, Syria, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian territories and Iraq) A large number of IFPO publications are  now available on open-access from http://ifpo.revues.org/   The content is fully searchable and includes books, archaeological reports and the research reports, Les

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2901, 2013

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – January 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 29, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Les vivants et leurs morts : actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 14-15 avril 2010 / éd. par Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer et Jürg Hutzli. Tracing the earliest recorded concepts of international law: the ancient Near East (2500-330 BCE) / by Amnon Altman. Byzantium Road to Manzikert : Byzantine and Islamic warfare, 527-1071 / Brian Todd Carey. Jewish Studies The Miriam

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1712, 2012

Where in the world?

By Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb|December 17, 2012|Politics and International Relations|0 comments

Finding up-to-date and reliable maps that accurately reflect the impact of unrest or natural disaster can be very tricky. Here are a few pointers. UNOSAT‘s* latest satellite map releases shows Al Zaatari Refugee Camp, with ongoing updates likely. Other maps recently produced include the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, floods on the Chad/Cameroon border and a Satellite Analysis of Standing Waters in Rivers State, Nigeria. The UN cartographic section also has general and

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0511, 2012

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 5, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations The arrows of the sun: armed forces in Sippar in the first millennium BC / by John MacGinnnis ; with copies of the cuneiform texts by Cornelia Wunsch New inscriptions and seals relating to the Biblical world / by Meir Lubetski Ancient Aramaic documents from Bactria / edited by Joseph Naveh and Shaul Shaked  Jewish Studies Shoshannat Yaaqov : Jewish and Iranian studies in honor of

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0211, 2012

History – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 2, 2012|History|0 comments

E-books Egypt in the reign of Muhammad Ali / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot [Available from Cambridge Books Online]. Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 / Bruce Vandervort [Available from ebrary] South Africa: a modern history / T.R.H. Davenport and Christopher Saunders; foreword by Desmond Tutu (5th edition) [Available from Dawsonera] Books Representing Israel in modern Egypt: ideas, intellectuals and foreign policy from Nasser to Mubarak / Ewan Stein In

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