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  • Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan. It's a tale set in 5th-century Egypt and the Levant, following a coptic monk’s journey amidst the theological controversies of the early Christian curch. Apart from the protagonist (and his devilish visitor) I think all the characters are historically real as well as for the events. It's a very interesting period during which Christians, Jews and Atheists coexisted, although perturbently.

  • lemmy.ml meta @lemmy.ml

    Federation with Hexbear?

  • Thank you for your input! I read your review and I appreciate the fact that you mentioned History, that “great disorderly Tangle of Lines.” I refrained from tackling it mainly because of a quote that I am still struggling to wrap my head around:

    As Savages commemorate their great Hunts with Dancing, so History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ, and how we have far’d. If it is undeniably so that he rose from the Dead, then the Event is taken into History, and History is redeem’d from the service of Darkness,— with all the secular Consequences, flowing from that one Event, design’d and will’d to occur. (Ch. 7, p. 75)

  • Also, I can't get past how relatable M. is:

    Mason gapes in despair. He’ll be days late thinking up any reply to speech as sophisticated as this.

    In the hidden Journal that he gets to so seldom it should be styl’d a “Monthly”

  • Books @lemmy.ml

    A review of Thomas Pynchon's “Mason & Dixon” (NO spoilers)

  • Hezbollah has political allies (including christians) which together amount(ed) to a majority.

    See: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hezbollah-allies-win-62-seats-lebanon-parliament-losing-2018-majority-reuters-2022-05-17/

    And it's not Hamas which holds elections, but rather the Palestinian authority, presided by the leader of Fatah (opponent of Hamas) who has been impeding elections since 2006 because his party is losing popularity.

    See: https://archive.ph/Jn4KJ

    Edit: I do not mean to offend anyone but I beg you (anyone reading this) please be more aware about what you write and say, especially if you haven't looked into the issue in depth.

  • Pop!_OS (Linux) @lemmy.world

    ...

    Privacy @lemmy.ml

    Updates to LinkedIn's Terms of Service

    Literature @beehaw.org

    Witches, zombies, vampires in Ottoman Empire through narrative of traveler Evliya Çelebi

    Books @lemmy.ml

    A Review of Jessica Whyte's “The Morals of the Market” (2019)

    Books @lemmy.ml

    Why is Soviet literature so obscure? (or, a mini feedback on Bulgakov's Master and Margarita)

    • Musical theme: Kahlil Gibran wrote an eloquent essay on music, though good luck finding it.
    • Outside your comfort zone: Capitalism as Civilisation by Ntina Tzouvala, a theoretical work which examines how western legal scholars categorized non-western polities based on a racist standard of civilisation and justified colonising them.
    • Book from a different cultural background: the Cairo Trilogy by the Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, a chronicle of a wealthy family witnessing the instability of the 1930s in British-occupied Egypt.
  • Books @lemmy.ml

    My review of “Orientalism” (1978) by Edward W. Said

    Books @lemmy.ml

    The Historical Awareness of Khairy Al-Zahaby's “The Trap of Names” (2009)

    Books @lemmy.ml

    A Review of Eduardo Galeano's “Soccer in Sun and Shadow” (2013)

    Open Source @lemmy.ml

    Open source Android video editor, built with Media3 and Jetpack Compose.

    Literature @beehaw.org

    Deleuze on Palestine: "The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat" and "Stones"

    Open Source @lemmy.ml

    Openreads is looking for funding for IOS development.

    Movies and TV Shows @lemmy.film

    Depictions of and by the Other

    Movies and TV Shows @lemmy.film

    Socially Conscious Movies

    Open Source @lemmy.ml

    Muer: An open-source front-end for Youtube Music

    Memes @lemmy.ml

    “United in diversity” :3

    Books @lemmy.ml

    Ancient historical fiction?

    Literature @beehaw.org

    Ancient historical fiction?

    Open Source @lemmy.ml

    There's a promising start for an anti-goodreads subreddit, we should take this opportunity to direct them to open source alternatives