Ala'a F.AL-Hourani

Academia
Wolfgang G Schwanitz Hourani
So muss Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935) einst auf Jerusalem geschaut haben, dachte ich im November 1992, sah er – wie ich einst dort – das Damaskus-Tor der Altstadt. Auch er logierte im The American Colony Hotel. Als britischer Agent stachelte er
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Albert Hourani Book Award, Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World
Guests of God is a beautifully composed and structured and highly sympathetic treatment of the complexity of contemporary Islam institutionally, transnationally, as a collective identity and as a participant in and generator of “globalization.”
Interview for "E-International Relations"
Theories are there to generate possible explanations that can be verified, modified, or falsified. They are not meant to be preached as catechisms, and followed as religions. https://www.e-ir.info/2024/06/06/interview-andreas-umland/
Letreiro escondido na chamine
Letreiro escondido na chaminé JOSÉ D'ENCARNAÇÃO ARQUEÓLOGO N ão deixa de ser curiosa a história desta árula romana, de 33 centímetros de altura, que o saudoso louletano Leonel Borrela (1955-2017) identificou, quando, em 2003, no n.º 13 do largo……
Table of Contents, S.C. Murray and S. Bernard, Models... (Palgrave 2024)
Review of M. H. Hansen, Political Obligation in Ancient Greece and in the Modern World, in The Classical Review 66.2 (2016)
M. H. Hansen, Political Obligation in Ancient Greece and in the Modern World. (Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 8 vol. 10) Pp. 75. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2015
Ukraine's Local Governance Reform and Territorial Consolidation in 2014-20
This chapter examines the core aspects of the post-2014 decentralization reform: local amalgamation and fiscal decentralization. Taken together, these two policies radically changed the division of responsibilities and finances at substate scales and……
Clay Boat Models from Yavneh-Yam: Towards an Understanding of Their Chronology, Function and Use
This study presents an assemblage of complete and fragmented clay-made boat models uncovered during controlled archaeological excavations from Yavneh-Yam, which is located on the southern coastal plain of Israel. First, the relevant contexts from the……
An Exceptional Late Antique Belt-Buckle Plate from Jaffa: From Metalworking Technology to Cultural Biography
This paper introduces a technological and cultural biography of an exceptional copper-based belt buckle plate from ancient Jaffa. The exploration of intricate metalworking techniques and the cultural significance of this find provide new insights……
The Kremlin's Complicated Carousel
When Vladimir Putin shuffles the deck, it can easily be interpreted as dissatisfaction with the war in Ukraine or with a faltering Russian war economy – or even as a clue to who the president sees as his crown prince. But the closed nature of the……
IN ÓBIDOS, LIGHT IS A PASSION
«Light is a passion which conquered me in 2002. At the time, I realized that cities, in terms of lighting, are far from offering a satisfactory experience to their inhabitants. Rarely are lighting projects included within artistic visions. Light art,……
Review of The Ancient Israelite World, edited by Kyle H. Keimer and George A. Pierce (2023).
In: BASOR 391 (2024), 238-242.
Quatro décadas entre o sonho e a realidade: a Casa da Cultura da Juventude de Beja
Commensality and Political Nurture in the Amarna Letters (final proofs)
In: Studia Mesopotamica 6 (2024): 155-171.
«Пятьдесят на пятьдесят»: не факт, что Каллас заберут в Брюссель, но она нужна Европе на будущее
Возможное назначение Каи Каллас на пост главы европейской дипломатии буквально каждый день комментируют либо авторитетные медиа, либо лидеры ЕС. Rus.Postimees поговорил с немецким политологом о роли Германии в этом сюжете и о том, что изменит Каллас,……
Xi macht den Putin und will von nichts wissen
Moskau und Peking machen Front in dem sich entwickelnden neuen kalten Krieg gegen den Westen. Ein ukrainischer Sieg auf dem Schlachtfeld und die Wiederherstellung der territorialen Integrität der Ukraine sind beste Mittel, um beider Revisionismus……
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The Guimet Museum’s « Kafir » Statues: Imperial Competition and the Politics of Diplomatic Gifts in Early 20th-Century Afghanistan/Les statues dites « kafirs » du musée Guimet : politique des dons et compétitions impériales dans l’Afghanistan du début du XXe siècle
For years, visitors to the Musée Guimet were bound to notice the two wooden statues enthroned in the institution's entrance hall. However, the information label explained their journey from Afghanistan to Paris in a rather elliptical manner. This……
"Sacred" or Profane? Interpreting Late Geometric edifices in proximity to burials in Attica, in A. Tsingarida & I.S. Lemos (eds.), Construction of Social Identities in Early Greece, Études d’Archéologie 12, Bruxelles, CreA-Patrimoine , 43-72
This volume focuses on collective practices, such as religious, feasting and burial rites, reconstructed from material evidence. The aim is to understand how collective practices were employed to articulate distinctive social identities in Early and……
Alexandridou & Mazarakis 2024, Academy before Plato
Tourism and glocalization: "Local" tour guiding
In tourism studies globalization and localization are often conceived of as a binary opposition. The ethnography of an Indonesian group of tour guides presented here illustrates how the global and the local are intimately intertwined through what has……
Was Bakunin a racist? Answer to Zoe Baker
I would like to comment on a video by Zoe BAKER entitled “Bakunin was a racist”1 and the corresponding text which can be found on the Internet2. The video is very interesting and obviously honest in its approach and shows a very good understanding of…
Tracking Local Employees of the British Mandate Department of Antiquities in Palestine
This paper presents the questions and methods that steered our tracking, in the archives, of local employees of the British Mandate Department of Antiquities in Palestine. After reflecting on the causes of a lack of in-depth knowledge of local actors
French Socialisms: From ‘Utopian Socialism’ to ‘Industrial Democracy’
Available in English for the first time, Célestin Bouglé’s (1870-1940) French Socialisms (1932) provides a comprehensive overview of the relevance of Saint-Simonism, Fourierism, and Proudhonism for today. Bouglé, who is sometimes called the
Cultural and Creative tourism in Portugal
Kriegsverbrechen in römischer Zeit. Der Limes 2022/2, 16-23.
Die in der musealen Vermittlung seit Jahren beliebten Reenactment-Events bringen einer interessierten Öffentlichkeit die Faszination des römischen Militärs nahe. Dabei wird aber oft vergessen, dass, abseits von glänzender Ausrüstung und……
War der Faschismus populistisch ? Überlegungen zur Rolle des Populismus in der faschistischen Diktatur in Italien (1922–1943)
The article analyses the relationship between populism and fascism. The author argues that fascism cannot be considered a populist ideology or a populist movement. Nevertheless, populist elements can be found in the fascist political discourse. The