Ibn Tulun

Ibn TulunIbn Tulun (83584), the son of a Turkic slave, became the founder of the first independent state in Egypt since antiquity, and builder of Egypts short lived third capital of the Islamic era, al Qatai and its great congregational mosque. After recounting the story of Ibn Tulun and his successors, architectural historian Tarek Swelim presents a topographic survey of al Qatai, a city lost since its complete destruction in 905. He then provides a detailed

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Bucharest and Hong Kong

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An analysis of the factors at play in journalistic coverage of complex and highly contested political campaigns

Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University

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An appeal to the international community to take serious note of human poverty in the midst of which we all live