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Damascus: Pearl of the Desert

Posted on October 4, 2019 by gantonius

PROFESSOR R. J. ROBINSON Assiut Training College, Assiut, Egypt The Biblical World, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Mar., 1909) Among the Arabs Damascus is known by several picturesque names, each derived from some characteristic of the city itself. Its inhabitants assert that it … Continue reading →

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Perry Anderson on the Left and the ‘Israel lobby’

Posted on April 3, 2013 by gantonius

Perry Anderson, the leading Marxist scholar of the day, confounds the vulgar Marxism that US policy is about “oil” and “profits”, a view that would reduce Nazism to a matter of Russian oil and wheat. These excerpts are followed by … Continue reading →

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