We continue the tour of world Egyptological collections in the run-up to the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum with a visit to the Egyptian Museum in Turin.
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A Paris exhibition is looking at how French anthropologists collected African heritage in the European colonial period, writes David Tresilian
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Morocco was the guest of honour at this year’s Paris Book Fair.
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Egypt’s mediaeval Mameluke rulers are the subject of this year’s summer exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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A new exhibition is revisiting the life and afterlife of the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra at the Arab World Institute in Paris.
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Two films on the life of the Martinican psychiatrist and Algerian independence activist Frantz Fanon are competing for audiences in France.
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The Library of Arabic Literature has published English versions of a mediaeval Arabic treatise on logic and a set of Abbasid hunting poems.
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This year’s Maghreb Book Fair in Paris saw Algeria as the guest of honour.
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The destruction and safeguarding of Gaza’s cultural heritage are the themes of a new exhibition that opened in Paris earlier this month.
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A new exhibition is celebrating the contributions of African and African Diaspora artists to the Paris art scene from the 1950s until the present day, writes David Tresilian
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The crowds turned out in force this year for the Paris African Book Fair, where Cameroon and African Brazil were the guests of honour.
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Originating in the Horn of Africa and first cultivated in the Arabian Peninsula, coffee has been providing the world with refreshment for at least 500 years.
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A London exhibition is exploring the relationship between the 19th-century British designer William Morris and Islamic art
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No fewer than seven Queen Cleopatras ruled ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, as a new book explains.
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This year’s Arab History Days at the Institut du Monde arabe in Paris focused on Arab heroism.
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This year’s UK Banipal Prize for Arabic Translation shows the range and variety of the Arabic literary work now being published by Western publishers.
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A new book traces 13 centuries of the Arab presence in Paris.
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Unexpected meetings lead to unusual revelations in Leslie Croxford’s new collection of short stories, writes David Tresilian
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Ahram Weekly continues tour of world Egyptological collections after the soft opening of Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum with a visit to the Neues Museum in Berlin
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A new biography gives the fullest portrait yet of the Palestinian-Lebanese writer May Ziadé, who presided over a famous literary salon in 20th-century Cairo, writes David Tresilian
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