On the Edge: the Hidden Art of Fore-Edge Book Painting highlights a special collection of more than 200 high-resolution images of fore-edge paintings housed in the Rare Books Department of the Boston Public Library. A fore-edge painting is where the ...
Scope: On March 20, 2003, the United States initiated offensive military action against Iraq for the stated purpose of deposing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and preventing his use of suspected nuclear weapons (weapons of mass destruction.) British, Australian, Polish, and ...
Celebrate Israel’s 61st Independence Day (Yom Haatzmaut) from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, in Dickinson Amphitheater, with Israeli-style BBQ for purchase, a Bedouin Tent experience complete with Bedouin tea and pita making, carnival games and other attractions. Event T-shirts are ...
Webcast from the Library of Congress: Michael Albin, former chief of the Library’s Anglo-American acquisitions and, until December 2008, anthropologist with the United States military in Iraq, discusses “Iraq: Rural and Urban Social Organization” in a program sponsored by the ...
Webcast from the Library of Congress: Idris Hadi Salih, minister of higher education of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, presents a lecture on education in Iraqi Kurdisan in a program sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division. Access the ...
In this Library of Congress webcast, Brian Wakley, chief executive of CORD, discusses “Waging Peace: Building a New Life in Chad After Conflict for the Victims of Darfur” in a program sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division. Access ...
This Library of Congress webcast features Juan Romero, adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, discussing “The Iraqi Revolution: Why is it Relevant to Modern Iraq?” in a program sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division. ...
This Library of Congress webcast features Nureldin Satti, former UNESCO representative for Africa, discussing “UNESCO’s Role in Building Bridges to Cultural Peace: Case Studies of Somalia, Burundi and Ethiopia” in a program sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division. ...
Halim Barakat, professor emeritus at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, delivered a lecture titled “Exploration Into Exile and Creativity: The Case of Arab-American Writers” in a program sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division. To ...
Ben Kingsley as Schindler’s accountant Itzhak Stern in the 1993 film about the life of Oskar Schindler. Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/Cine Text/Allstar The copy of Oskar Schindler’s list that was given to Thomas Keneally by one of the Polish Jews whom ...