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...Then Julius Caesar — who had been backed by the oligarch Crassus — crossed the Rubicon river in 49BC, destroyed the republic with his mercenaries and made himself dictator....
...Meat prices have risen roughly threefold since 2019, said Muhammad Ali, a butcher in Beirut’s underprivileged Tariq el-Jedideh neighbourhood....
...I watch a group of five Frenchmen — all swagger, sleeves rolled up, hands in pockets — rolling out of l’Historil, a bar-restaurant, heading for the bright lights of the disco zone....
..., El Deafo is refreshingly unsentimental and lacking in self-pity....
...The Moroccan journalist Ali Anouzla was arrested, jailed and released on bail pending trial on terrorism charges in September for merely providing an online link to an article in the Spanish newspaper El...
...France’s first instinct was to support Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s Tunisian regime. The US lost a vital Arab ally with the fall of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak....
...“The problem was that [the deposed president] Ben Ali and his family had absolutely no interest in art: he just ordered artists to make copies of Orientalist paintings....
...Mohamed El-Erian, Chief executive and co-chief investment officer of Pimco Over the years, I have found Thomas Friedman’s writings to be insightful and influential....
...The Guardian was one of five newspapers (including Le Monde, The New York Times, El Pais and Der Spiegel) that published information from WikiLeaks....
...neglected, such as the anti-fascists Gaetano Salvemini and Giustino Fortunato; conservative German writers Carl Schmitt and Ernst Jünger, and even pro-fascist authors such as Ezra Pound and the Italian Julius...
...(El-Moctar Ichah, head of Trendfield’s Niger subsidiary, dismisses such claims as “speculation”.)...
...Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England, by Anthony Julius, Oxford University Press RRP£25 Julius is especially penetrating on literary anti-Semitism, from Shakespeare to TS Eliot,...
...In a dining room we saw a trompe l’oeil of an unswept floor scattered with chicken legs and fish skeletons. We also enjoyed music and drama laid on for the cruise guests....
...Britain’s first mosque was built in Woking in 1889, designed by British architect W.L. Chambers, who studied books on Islamic architecture, and did a good job....
...Some of the homages here (Picasso’s 1960 take on Manet’s “Le dejeuner sur l’herbe”, for example) seem to lead us no further with this question: they are valid and interesting exercises, but little more....
...THE MESSIAH MYTH: The Near Eastern Rootsof Jesus and Davidby Thomas L....
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