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The Hall of a Thousand Columns
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Travels with a Tangerine. Tim presented and co-wrote the major BBC TV series. Travels with a Tangerine. 2007); entitled on other channels, variously,. Camels,Courts,and Concubines: The Adventures of Ibn Battutah. The Man Who Walked Around the World. Shown globally, including on PBS and on the National Geographic Channel, the series has been widely praised :. It has the off-the-cuff feel of Michael Palin at his very best (. Marvellous, memorable television' (. Tim was also co-presenter of the documentary.
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Al-BAB: March 2014
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Impressions of a Middle East - Past and Present. Sunday, March 9, 2014. Canadian journalist, and friend, Adnan Khan, has been covering South Asia and Middle East for over a decade. When not traipsing around Turkey, his home turf, the Maclean's. Correspondent can usually be found in Pakistan or Afghanistan working on his next feature story. The group dubbed their travelling road show "The Rickshaw Circus". You can read all about his amazing journey here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Al-BAB: The Egyptian People
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Impressions of a Middle East - Past and Present. Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Other places in Egypt, are a testament today to this overpopulation. High density streets, noise pollution, miasmic air, more suggestive of a gas chamber than an atmosphere, and a murky Nile all speak to this reality. And yet, a walk through Cairo remains a window onto the unique beauty of the Egyptian people, despite their vast and considerable tribulations. The information you have provided is very unusually good. June 3, 2016 at ...
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Al-BAB: Al-Mu'tasim - Mirrors
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Impressions of a Middle East - Past and Present. Friday, March 29, 2013. He who goes in quest of aid". According to Borges, so begins the tale¨The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim¨, a fantasy story of this lawyer´s descent into iniquity, and from there into realization. He dives deep into confusion, fornicating in the Machua bazaar in Calcutta, and narrating the death of a blind astrologer in Benares, before hitting bottom. Not only are all reflections, dim or strong, of that divine light, but the search is not l...
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Al-BAB: The White Synagogue of Toledo
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Impressions of a Middle East - Past and Present. Tuesday, March 19, 2013. The White Synagogue of Toledo. Today, Western style skyscrapers have spread to the desert of the Gulf and the Pacific coast of China. Once upon a time, Arabic-Islamic architecture also spread from its origins in the Middle East to Spain and other places where Islamic civilization blossomed. This time for a Jewish community. Its space of repeating white 'horseshoe' arches creates a unique sense of serenity and purity. The blog offer...
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Al-BAB: 'The Sufis' by Idries Shah
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Impressions of a Middle East - Past and Present. Wednesday, June 26, 2013. The Sufis' by Idries Shah. Years ago, while living in Cairo, I was invited by some friends to a poor corner of the city to watch a weekly performance of “Sufi musicians”. The no-frills, nighttime shows were set in a dusty, open-air courtyard deep in a maze-like neighbourhood and were frequented mostly by Egyptians. In the appropriately titled, The Sufis. Shah, who was part of a long lineage of savants (he died in 1996), also tried...
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Al-BAB: The Lottery in Babylon
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Impressions of a Middle East - Past and Present. Sunday, August 4, 2013. The Lottery in Babylon. In Ancient Babylon, once upon a time, a lottery helped to create reality. It began simply enough when commoners drew rectangular bones with symbols on them to see who would gain a certain prize. Some won, some lost, but, quickly, people began to lose interest in this simple game. This led to a further rise in popularity of the lottery, but also to demands that it become more accessible to the masses. Unti...
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..: Sand Hills Productions :..
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To view the trailer. New York Times, Feb 13, 2009. Toronto Sun, Feb 20, 2009. Sun Media Review, Feb 6, 2009. Globe and Mail, Feb 5, 2009. National Post, Feb 5, 2009. UAE Interact, July 1, 2009. The Jakarta Post, July 1, 2009. Reuters, Jan 22, 2009. DVDrama, Oct 14, 2009. A Spiritual Imax Experience. Truly spectacular images of the Hajj are presented for the first time on Imax as it was performed in the 14th century and today. It shows how this central pillar of Islamic faith is a celebration of the P...
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Africa – Travel guide at Wikivoyage
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From the dawn of humanity to the first empires. European exploration and early colonialism. Decolonization and the legacy of the colonizers. European influence and development aid. From Asia and the Middle East. Relax on a beach. Giraffes in Maasai Mara National Park. Africa contains the world's longest river the 6,650 km-long (4,100 mi) Nile River running from Burundi. While the Congo River in the DRC. Lake Assal is the second lowest point on Earth, the saltiest lake outside Antarctica. The tropical Atl...
