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Tag Archives: Middle East
Fifty Early Medieval Things (New Stuff Tuesdays)
Since the semester is winding down — and everyone is remote anyway, this week’s selection is an ebook. All the books in ProQuest Ebook Central have unlimited simultaneous users, so there are no waits or holds and you can read … Continue reading
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Tagged Asia, Europe, Middle Ages, Middle East
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New Stuff Tuesday – March 4, 2014
Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi TX725.M628 O88 2012 Browsing Books, 2nd floor Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi TX801.O88 2011 Browsing Books, 2nd floor Winter blues got you down? Want to daydream … Continue reading
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Tagged cookbooks, cooking, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, vegetarian
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Global Café 10/30: England, Jordan, France
The Fall 2013 Global Café series continues on Wed., Oct. 30th, at 5:30pm with a focus on England, Jordan, and France (location: Andersen Library’s big-screen TV area, near the Food for Thought café). In this series, co-sponsored by the Center … Continue reading
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Tagged books, culture, customs, England, etiquette, Europe, france, global study, Jordan, lectures, Middle East, study abroad, travel, travel study
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Anniversary of partitioning Palestine
On November 29, 1947, the United Nations voted to partition Palestine, creating an independent Jewish state. Both Jews and Arabs had claimed the area, and Jews from all over the world had been immigrating to the area in significant numbers … Continue reading
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Tagged anniveraries, Arab-Israeli Conflict, articles, books, history, Israel, Middle East, nationalism, Palestine, united nations, Zionism
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