Author: Georges DorysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sultans
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Private Life of the Sultan of Turkey
Author: Georges Dorys (pseud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The author was the son of an official within Abdul Hamid's court and a journalist. The book is an attack on the personality of the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II. He is portrayed as paranoid, violent, promiscuous, a hard task master, and so forth. The lack of dates for incidents or citations for sources does not allow the text to be easily verified.
The Private Life of the Sultan of Turkey
Author: Georges DorysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sultans
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Neslishah
Author: Murat BardakçiPublisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617978442
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was recorded in the official register of the palace. After all, she was an imperial princess and the granddaughter of Sultan Vahiddedin. But she was the last member of the imperial family to be accorded such honors: in 1922 Vahiddedin was deposed and exiled, replaced as caliph-but not as sultan-by his brother (and Neslishah's other grandfather) Abdülmecid; in 1924 Abdülmecid was also removed from office, and the entire imperial family, including three-year-old Neslishah, were sent into exile. Sixteen years later on her marriage to Prince Abdel Moneim, the son of the last khedive of Egypt, she became a princess of the Egyptian royal family. And when in 1952 her husband was appointed regent for Egypt's infant king, she took her place at the peak of Egyptian society as the country's first lady, until the abolition of the monarchy the following year. Exile followed once more, this time from Egypt, after the royal couple faced charges of treason. Eventually Neslishah was allowed to return to the city of her birth, where she died at the age of 91 in 2012. Based on original documents and extensive personal interviews, this account of one woman's extraordinary life is also the story of the end of two powerful dynasties thirty years apart.
Inside the Seraglio
Author: John FreelyPublisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781784535353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Originally published: London: Viking, 1999.
Pearson's Magazine
Author: The Bookman
Author: The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte
Author: Joseph LeContePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geologists
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Joseph Le Conte (February 26, 1823 - July 6, 1901) was born in Liberty County, Georgia. He received an M.D. degree from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1845. After four years of practicing medicine, he entered Harvard University and studied natural history under Louis Agassiz. After graduating from Harvard, he taught at Oglethorpe University, Franklin College and South Carolina College. In 1869, Le Conte moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he remained the rest of his life, teaching mainly in geology. In 1870 he visited Yosemite Valley and became friends with John Muir. Concerned about resource exploitation, Le Conte and Muir with others founded the Sierra Club in 1892. Le Conte died while visiting Yosemite Valley. Le Conte and his wife Caroline Nisbet, had four children.
Harem Histories
Author: Marilyn BoothPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822348691
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies.
The Private Life of the Sultan of Turkey
Author: Georges DorysMiddle Eastern Television Drama
Author: Christa SalamandraPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000877531
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This monograph explores and investigates key issues facing Middle Eastern societies, including religion and sectarianism, history and collective memory, urban space and socioeconomic difference, policing and securitization, and gender relations. In the Middle East, television drama creators serve as public intellectuals who, with uncanny prescience, tell the world something. As this volume demonstrates, fictional television provides a crucial space for social and political debate in much of the region. Writing from a range disciplines—anthropology, communication, folklore, gender studies, history, and law— contributors include seasoned academics who have dedicated their careers to researching Middle Eastern media and emerging scholars who build on earlier work and introduce fresh perspectives. Together, they provide an invaluable overview of Middle Eastern serial television and their political impact, drawing examples from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Bringing together a diverse range of academic perspectives, this book will be of key interest to students and scholars in media and communication studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and popular culture studies.