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The Crusades From 1095 to 1291, Christians from the western part of Europe embarked on eight separate attacks against the Muslims in the Middle East. These attacks became known as Crusades and the main goal of the battles were to take the Holy Land and Jerusalem from Muslim rule and give it to the Christians in Europe. While many Crusades were launched against the Muslims, few were actually successful. The First Crusade started because the Muslim group known as the Seljuk Turks took over…

Malcolm X and Willow both decided to convert to the Islamic religion. Willow immersed herself in a different community (Cairo) and faced some consequences due to her ethnicity and distance from home (United States). Similar to Willow, Malcolm X became involved with the Islamic community, but faced some barriers for his distinct beliefs and perspectives from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Unfortunately, Malcolm’s separation from Muhammad endangered his life. Nevertheless, if Willow could have…

This essay is gonna be about three different stories such as cairo: My city, our revolution, reading Lolita in Tehran and persepolis 2: The story of a return ill be starting with cairo: My city, our revolution security vehicles racing to get out of town and all the men leaning over the parapet above us with stones in their hands stopped in mid-throw and yelled `Run! Run!’ and held off the with the stones so they wouldn’t hit us as we skittered through the screeching vehicles to a spot where we…

Utopia is a novel that belongs to the science fiction genre, written in 2008 by Ahmad Khaled Towfik, an Egyptian doctor and writer. The novel is about an imaginary ideal place that predicts the near future of 2020 after the end of petroleum economy in Cairo, Egypt. The author divides the country into two social classes; concentrating mainly on the rich and the poor, while omitting the middle class completely. The rich utopian side as depicted in the novel, is where people live in a luxurious…

present the plight of the Palestinians to a more universal reader. At the same time, he aims to rewrite Palestinian history in mythic terms to combat the claims made by Zionist historiography. One can indeed argue that Darwish’s successive moves to Cairo and then Beirut, as well as the different political pressures exerted upon him, influenced his poetry between the years 1986 and 1993. During this period, Darwish publishes the collection Wardun Aqall (Lesser Roses), a departure from his longer…

"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experiece to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." Roosevelt said. My life did not begin when I came to the earth, my life begun when I learn, think and build a new relationships. Howevere, I did not choose my name but I choose the suitable way to live my life as I want. My grandfather who achieved his goal when he became a warlord at the Egyptian army during the fifties. My grandfather,…

In the Maltese Falcon, Spade is kept from a lot of elements of the plot even though the audience is introduced to them relatively early. For example, we find out Miles was killed prior to Spade and that Cairo is working for Gutman. The normal structure of the narrator omniscience is violated in this film at times by virtue of being a crime film. A crime film must have a plot of “increasing mystery, and often ambiguous resolution” (Corrigan and White).…

Bush’s promotion of global democracy goes hand in hand with his crusading rhetoric, and despite the Iraq War, that was started in 2003 to ‘promote democracy and end tyranny’, being somewhat of a failure, Bush continued to place unflinching emphasis on the worldwide fight between freedom and tyranny – a fight for which the U.S. would and did act unilaterally by declaring war in Iraq. (Shinkman, 2015). There is little doubt that the Bush administration pursued a strand of liberal internationalism…

Naguib Mahfouz’s Zuqāq al-Midaq and Arab Culture Naguib Mahfouz was born on December 11, 1911 in the district of Al-Jamaliyya in Old Cairo and lived with his father, mother, four brothers and two sisters. When he was twelve, his family moved to Al-Abasiyya, a new Cairo suburb. Although Mahfouz had left his earlier district, it remained in his memory to the extent that many of his novels e.g., Midaq Alley and the Trilogy were set in Al-Jamaliyya, the district of his birth. Mahfouz’s life in…

Gertrude Bell’s discoveries and accomplishments serve as a reason for change in the way that women were seen in history during her time as well as in the future. Her undeniable passion and hard work also served as a way for people to know more about the places that they couldn’t travel too. Her important discoveries are what gave people information about faraway places and led to many changes in the way that people thought about the world. Gertrude Bell was born on July 14, 1868 in Durham. Her…