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...One of the most difficult aspects of the reconstruction process would be rebuilding historical centres such as Antakya, capital of Hatay province and a city that in biblical times was known as Antioch....
...Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, by Peter Heather, Allen Lane £35, 736 pages Jane Shaw is professor of the history of religion at the University of Oxford Join our online book group on Facebook...
...The Roman mosaics in the city’s museums depict olives and grapes grown in the rich red soil and verdant hills around Antioch, as it was known in biblical times....
...Antioch is about 20 miles south-west of Kenosha....
...“It feels like a threshold has been crossed,” said Joe Lowndes, a political science professor at University of Oregon who studies rightwing politics....
...Listed on the outside walls of library of exile are the names of other destroyed libraries, from Antioch to Alexandria to Timbuktu, a 2,000-year history of book-burning....
...And then Susan Philipsz, the Scottish artist, winner of the Turner Prize, creator of haunting sound sculpturHomepagee, now a professor in the Dresden University of Fine Arts, stands up and sings the folk...
...We stop outside St Margaret of Antioch and give it a proper examination: “There is the sense that there is going to be a story....
...Those principles underlie McDonough School of Business, which is based at Georgetown University, America’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher learning, founded in 1789....
...Fr Holman, who heads the University of London’s Heythrop College, points to two other pillars of Jesuit vocation with wider application....
...Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea (AD 30-325), by Geza Vermes, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 272 pages Over the course of his long, distinguished career, Geza Vermes, the first professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford university...
...They then proceeded to help the nascent Kingdom of Jerusalem conquer the entire coast of Palestine from Ashkelon up to Antioch....
...Yasser, a keen swimmer and medical student at university in the northern city of Aleppo, had died exactly two months and four days ago, he said; he couldn’t remember the date, only the time without his son...
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