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Dates: A Global History

Dates: A Global History

Nawal Nasrallah

In Dates, Nawal Nasrallah draws on her experience of growing up in the lands of ancient Mesopotamia, where the date palm was first cultivated, to explore the history behind the fruit.
The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets

The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets

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English translation, with introduction and glossary by Nawal Nasrallah. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2007. Nawal Nasrallah Baked Alaska is a trick dessert that consists of frozen ice cream on a sponge cake base, encased by hot meringue.
Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq's ...

Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq's ...

Nawal Nasrallah

This English translation of al-Warraq’s tenth-century cookbook offers a unique glimpse into the culinary culture of medieval Islam.
Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and History of ...

Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and History of ...

Nawal Nasrallah

This is an abbreviated version of the award-winning and highly acclaimed second edition published in 2013, beautifully illustrated throughout, and displays the diversity of the region's traditional culinary practices, delicious and enduring ...
Beginner's Iraqi Arabic with 2 Audio Cds: An Introduction to ...

Beginner's Iraqi Arabic with 2 Audio Cds: An Introduction to ...

Nawal Nasrallah

Cover painting: Dialog, by Khalid Al-Jadir. Printed courtesy of Dr. Saad Al-Jadir. Cover design by Cynthia Mallard, Cynergie Studio, Raleigh, NC Hippocrene Books 171 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 www.hippocrenebooks.com.
Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The ...

Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The ...

Laura Salah Nasrallah

Laura Nasrallah argues that early Christian literature is best understood when read alongside the archaeological remains of Roman antiquity.
All Things to All Cultures: Paul Among Jews, Greeks, and Romans

All Things to All Cultures: Paul Among Jews, Greeks, and Romans

Mark Harding

See Laura S. Nasrallah, “Empire and Apocalypse in Thessaloniki: Interpreting the Early Christian Rotunda,” JECS 13.4 (2005): 465508; Laura Nasrallah, “Early Christian Interpretation in Image and Word: Canon, Sacred Text, and the Mosaic  ...
The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition

The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition

Nawal El Saadawi

This book explores the causes of the situation through a discussion of the historical role of Arab women in religion and literature.
Two Women in One

Two Women in One

Nawal El Saadawi

Two Women in One is the story of countless women in the Third World, and speaks of their quest for emancipation and dignity. 'An intensely told story .
Critica et philologica:

Critica et philologica:

Frances Margaret Young

The Rhetoric of Conversion and the Construction of Experience: The Case of Justin Martyr Laura S. Nasrallah, Cambridge, Massachusetts Fewer than two years ago, some in the U.S. were dismayed over John Walker Lindh, sometimes called ...
Scriptural Interpretation and Community Self-Definition in ...

Scriptural Interpretation and Community Self-Definition in ...

Susan Wendel

... and the exemplary conduct of Christians as citizens of the Roman Empire.31 From a slightly different perspective, Laura Nasrallah suggests that certain elements of Acts demonstrate that Luke engages in “the Second Sophistic,” a movement ...
The Passenger Has Gone Digital and Mobile: Accessing and ...

The Passenger Has Gone Digital and Mobile: Accessing and ...

Nawal K. Taneja

36 Chris Boudreaux, “How to Develop a Social Media Strategy,” in The Social Media Management Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Get Social Media Working in Your Business edited by Nick Smith and Robert Wollan with ...
Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing

Arab Women's Lives Retold: Exploring Identity Through Writing

Nawar Al-Hassan Golley

Two women writers who have breached the barrier of fear in writing about traumatic experience are Haifa Zangana and Nawal el-Saadawi, writers who draw on and expose their experiences in Iraq and Egypt, respectively, to elucidate a ...
Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy

Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy

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Laura Nasrallah's work, for example, traces conversations in early Christian texts (including texts from the “New Prophecy,” a movement in which women functioned as prophets) about ecstasy and the involvement of the prophet's mind during ...
The Biblical Tour of Hell

The Biblical Tour of Hell

Matthew Ryan Hauge

15 Laura Nasrallah, 'The acts of the apostles, Greek Cities, and Hadrian's Panhellion', JBL 127 (2008): 533–66; also, Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second Century Church amid the Spaces of Empire ( Cambridge: ...
The Urbanism of Exception

The Urbanism of Exception

Martin J. Murray

504–517; Francesco Chiodelli, “The Next Jerusalem: Potential Futures of the Urban Fabric,” Jerusalem Quarterly 53 (2014), pp. 50–60; Wendy Pullan, Philipp Misselwitz, Rami Nasrallah, and Haim Yacobi, “Jerusalem's Road 1: An Inner City ...
An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early ...

An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early ...

Laura Salah Nasrallah

This book clarifies how early Christian arguments about rationality, madness, and the role of spiritual gifts in history are attempt to negotiate authority and to define religious identity in the midst of many competing forms of ...
Studies in Early Christianity

Studies in Early Christianity

François Bovon

English translation by Laura Nasrallah. 12. The Canonical Structure of Gospel and Apostle (Cristianesimo nella Storia 15 [1994] 559-76). English translation by Laura Beth Bugg. 13. Israel in the Theology of the Apostle Paul (Le christianisme  ...
Game: A Global History

Game: A Global History

Paula Young Lee

A Global History Paula Young Lee ... and Alexander Badenoch Cocktails Joseph M. Carlin Curry Colleen TaylorSen DatesNawal Nasrallah Game Paula Young Lee Gin Lesley Jacobs Solmonson Hamburger Andrew F.Smith Herbs GaryAllen  ...
From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonike: Studies in ...

From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonike: Studies in ...

Laura Nasrallah

Photo: guntram Archaeological Museum selçuk, inv. 455. Photo: guntram çuk, inv . 455. Photo: guntram uk, inv. 455. Photo: guntram inv. 455. Photo: guntram inv. 455. Photo: guntram 455. Photo: guntram Koch. Archive of the “Sarkophagcorpus  ...

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