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Sunday, April 26, 2009
PIRACY IN SOMALIA – FROM GABINIAN TO UN LAW
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The word piracy comes to us from the Latin pirata , which has its own root in the Greek word for attack, peirao . Until the recent prominenc...
The Simurgh and the Nightingale (Part 17)
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Ergi Kapi - The Crooked Gate Chapter 30 Constantinople. 11th November 1637 It had become almost a ritual for Catherine, after returning f...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The Simurgh and the Nightingale (Part 16)
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Chapter 28 Palais Cardinalle, Paris. 7th July 1637 The far corner of the room was dark for the evening light filtering through the tall wi...
Saturday, April 11, 2009
The Simurgh and the Nightingale (Part 15)
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Chapter 26 Constantinople. April 10th 1637 Catherine was annoyed by the summons to the reception rooms at the far end of the hospital but ...
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Rihla (Journey 4): Alamut – A Valley of Beauty and Death
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Rihla (The Journey) – was the short title of a 14th Century (1355) book written in Fez by the Islamic legal scholar Ibn Jazayy al-Kalbi of...
Sunday, March 29, 2009
The Simurgh and the Nightingale (Part 14)
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Chapter 24 Venice. 10th December 1634 The night was unusually mild for early December and the breeze coming through some of the half-open w...
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