Browsing by Subject "Egypt"
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History of mastectomy
(2006)Incidents of breast cancer have been documented back to the early Egyptians. Hippocrates was the first who used the term of cancer "karkinos" or "karkinoma" of the nose, the uterus, the breasts and the neck. He believed ...
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The many lives of New Gourna: alternative histories of a model community and their current significance
(2009)This article uncovers several different and occasionally competing interpretations of Hassan Fathy's famous design of the village of New Gourna: a pilot project of the late 1940s for revitalising rural Egypt. Based on ...
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Proceedings of the International Conference "Egypt and Cyprus in Antiquity": Nicosia, 3-6 April 2003
(Oxbow Books, 2009)
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Reckoning with ‘new’ Turkey: Modes of US reaction to unwanted policy shifts in the Middle East
(Wiley, 2023)This article discusses the changing relations between the United States and Turkey in light of Turkey's contemporary foreign policy that often challenges American interests. More specifically, it adopts a comparative ...
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Wave energy potential in the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin. An integrated 10-year study
(2014)The main characteristics of wave energy potential over Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin, an area of increased interest for energy resources exploration/exploitation, is presented in this work. In particular, an ...
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Article Open Access
Zur Terminologie des Sterbens. Ausdrucksweisen über Tod und Sterben in den griechischen dokumentarischen Papyri
(Verlag Adolf Holzhausens, 2010)Der Befund der griechischen dokumentarischen Papyri zeigt, daß in der gehobenen Umgangssprache die Terminologie über Tod und Sterben reicher und vielfältiger ist, als man auf den ersten Blick annehmen würde. Die große ...