The Taste of Shijo
The idea of professional poet was never part of the Korean tradition. The shijo poets of old Korea were, for the most part, refined and cultivated gentleman, who savored the delights of composition in order to pass leisurely, convivial hours in the company of their friends. ... Read more...  In Articles
Muslims in Australia and the Global War on Terror
The alarming world events since September 2001 are impacting on the daily lives of Muslims. With the increase of political Islam’s aggression against the West, the moderate Australian Muslim minorities are confronted with the question of loyalty and patriotism. Apart from the traditional factor of racial threat, the visibly conspicuous Muslims are at times also considered both a security and a cultural threat. ... Read more...
Kegan Paul to Increase Catalogue of Judaica
Kegan Paul has decided to significantly increase their catalogue of Judaica. ... Read more...
The King's Confectioner
A remarkable source of information about the little known history of Turkish confectionery is an account by a professional confectioner who pursued his investigations in Greece and Turkey in the 1830s. Friedrich Unger was chief confectioner to King Otto I...
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Dietary Culture in Southeast Asia
Eating is one of the most basic of human activities. The places where human beings live form the basis of the dietary culture of their inhabitants. Long-term repetition, transmission and historical development then produce the traditional foods of each region.
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Women, Healthcare and Wellbeing in Medieval Jewish Medical Literature
The end of 12th century witnessed a shift in the production of written literature on women’s healthcare in the West, where a profusion of texts, written in Latin and the vernacular languages, were produced and circulated. This interest seems to have been also shared by the members of the Jewish communities, who translated into Hebrew and wrote in this language their own contributions to the field. Hebrew literature on women’s healthcare seems to have shared and harmonized ideas from different traditions.
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Politics and Agriculture in Burma
The current military government in Burma, in power since 1962, has incarcerated approximately one thousand political prisoners, invalidated the results of the 1990 election (which the National League for Democracy easily won), and committed violence, torture and rape in ethnic regions. ... Read more...
The Potter's Magic
The two Jewish Aramaic sources that we have for the study of Babylonia in the Sasanian period are the Babylonian Talmud and magic bowls. The former is the extraordinary compilation of several centuries of thoughts and discussions of numerous rabbis. The Babylonian Talmud is a literary creation of encyclopaedic proportions that includes, apart from legal and religious law, much information about everyday Mesopotamian life in Late Antiquity. ... Read more...
Toward Recovery in Zimbabwe
Between the peasantry and international capitalism, Zimbabwe's best land has always been a contested resource of survival and violent struggle. ... Read more...
The West's Struggle for the Middle East's Oil
This book recounts the history of the struggle of the world powers for the control of oil in the Gulf. This struggle began at the unfolding of the last century. Although it has taken different forms and has varied in intensity over time, this struggle is still very much with us today. It abates only to flare up again. ... Read more...
European Integration
European integration is one of the cornerstones of today's Europe and it will also most certainly contribute to shape the world of the 21st century. Whereas the European continent was in shambles and became divided between East and West in the wake of the Second World War, it is now heading towards its reunification and prospects for peace, democracy and greater prosperity on a continental scale are shining forth. ... Read more...
Noblesse Oblige in Transylvainia
Péter Apor’s Metamorphosis Transylvaniae is one of half a dozen major autobiographies written in Transylvania towards the end of its 180 or so years of semi-autonomy. ...Read more...
The Control of Oil - New in Arabic
This important work by Dr. Alawi D. Kayal will be published in Arabic in paperback form at the end of June. ... Read more...
Sex in Mediaeval Arabic Literature
From the earliest stirrings of Arabic literature, many of its leading lights have
not been reticent about depicting sexual activity. ... Read more...
ISLAM AND WORLD ORDER AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
The Attack on the U.S.A. by the obliteration of the World Trade Center and a
wing of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 was a monstrous event of unbelievable
proportion. ... Read more...
Saudi Arabia is not Iran
A friend of mine, who happens to be a journalist - I have all kinds of friends - keeps telling me don't expect us to publish reports of stability in Saudi Arabia. That is a very old story. We are looking for new stories. We want reports of instability. One understands the dilemma of the journalists. Who, in these days, wants to read about peace and tranquillity? Yet, one does not understand the burning desire, in some media quarters, to imagine things that are not there, or to blow real things out of all proportion, just to get an 'interesting' story.
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Kenana: Kingdom of Green Gold
London's Commonwealth Club was the scene of a most interesting birthday party May 30, 2001. Twenty-five years ago this November, the foundation stone of the Kenana Sugar Company's factory near Khartoum, Sudan was laid in place by the then-President of Sudan, H.E. Gaafar Mohamed Nimeiri. ... Read more...
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Zen and the Samurai
No figure is more emblematic of Japan and the Japanese than the samurai, the heroic warriors who lived by the code of bushido - the way of the samurai - founded upon loyalty, justice and honour. ... Read more...
Royal Hawaiian Cocktails
The Islands of Hawaii were an independent Kingdom until January 17, 1893, when the Kingdom was overthrown by a cabal of Americans for economic and strategic reasons, in clear violation of the fact that Hawaii's independence had been formally recognized by all the major world powers of the day, including Germany, Japan and England. ... Read more...
The Problem of Translation in Korean Sijo Poetry
It is odd that the sijo is almost unknown outside Korea; it is the only form of poetry which is both rich in tradition and uniquely Korean. ... Read more... In Articles
Pharaoh's Palace
The kings of Egypt were so closely connected with their royal residences that one of the names for the palace, the pr'a, literally the "great house", eventually became the designation for the ruler himself- "pharaoh". ... Read more...
HAN - The Soul of Korean Literature
Korea has a proud and long-established literary tradition, but while it has produced many fine classical and contemporary works - as well as its own unique form of poetry, the Sijo - Korean literature continues undeservedly to be far less well known in the west than that of China and Japan. ... Read more...
Chinese Medicinal Recipes
The Yin-shan Cheng-yao is a medical work, primarily dedicated to the medicinal values of foods, both common and rare. It includes old Chinese ideas and quotations as well as material from the Near East and Central Asia. ... Read more...
Ancient Egyptian Love Poems
When love poems first made their appearance in Egyptian writing during the New Kingdom (1580-1085 BC) they were easily fitted into an existing lyrical form already used for hymns and prayers. ... Read more...
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