Susan Sontag’s essay ‘The Aesthetics of Silence’ inAgainst Interpretation(1966) is too well known to summarize, but she was one of the first to sound the ‘postmodern’ note, without using that now current but meaningless term. David Lodge’sThe Modes of Modern Writing – Metaphor, Metony...
overthrown by his brother. In Hamet's court was Sheila D'Arneau, a diploma's daughter, who disguises herself as a dancing girl, and joins the group of eight U. S. Marines and Hamet supporters in their march across the Libyan desert. O'Bannon and Shelia argue all the way to Tripoli...
Desert, Oasis In which we spend time at a small Egyptian desert oasis near to the Libyan border and adventure out into the Sahara desert. → Read More 17 . 04 . 11 Cairo Chaos Our first day in Egypt takes us to the singular remaining ancient wonder of the world. There are many wond...
THE MAGHREB, from the Arabic al-Maghrib (where the sun sets), designates that part of north-west Africa which is bounded by the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, the Sahara and the Libyan desert.Olivier Burckhardt
THE charismatic leader of the Libyan rebel forces who was assassinated last week had been the master of the dramatic entrance. As Colonel Gaddafi's trusted aide, military chief Abdul Fatah Younis was sent to Benghazi in the eastern part of the country at the first sign of a people's uprisi...
Laramie, over South Pass, to Fort Hall, the Humboldt River, then up and over the last hurdle of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. At a point in present-day Nevada, the route deviated into several branches. Those travelers – worn-down by the last few hundred miles through desert, low ...
The House of Vineswhere words grow like leavesMenu escaping the desert of the real01/26/2024· 5 Comments· Over the years I’ve taken plenty of breaks from the internet, announced and otherwise. Three months into my current hiatus I think it’s safe to say that I will not be returning...
Various Libyan honeybee populations in Saharan oases are characterized by novel and unique haplotypes (O4, O5, O5′ and O5″). These might be natural relic populations that became isolated when the North African Sahara desert was still grassland (0.126–0.168Myr ago)....