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Roxolana: "The Greatest Empresse of the East"
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One of the most legendary women of early modern history, known in Turkey as Hurrem Sultan and in Europe as Roxolana, has always been and still remains a controversial figure. While controversies surrounded other powerful and famous women of her time - such as Catherine de' Medici, Queen Margot, or Queen Elizabeth I - Roxolana's precipitous career from a harem slave to the queen of the Ottoman Empire made her particularly fascinating, yet vulnerable to the judgment of many a historian and writ...
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Roxolana: "The Greatest Empresse of the East"
The Muslim World
; ... he was held in high regard and favored as the next sultan. The news that the Sultan executed his own son and heir sent shock waves ... also relates here Sultan Suleiman's great joy at receiving good news from the Polish sovereign ("that made him so joyous that I cannot ...
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Suleiman the Magnificent: The Man, His Life, His Epoch
Domes
; ... Translated by Matthew J. Reisz London: Saqi Books, 1992. 399 pages, maps. ISBN 0-86356-126-8. $30.00. First published in Paris as Soliman ... issues in Ottoman historiography. The book also includes three maps, sixteen appendices (functioning as brief asides about Ottoman ...
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Hey, heard the one about the firebomb? Is there a comic side to life across the Palestine/Israeli divide? Director Elia Suleiman thinks so, finds Sheila Johnston. He's even made a film about it
The Independent on Sunday
; Few people see the funny side of the turmoil in Jerusalem, but the Palestinian director Elia Suleiman has the extraordinary nerve to turn it into a deadpan absurdist comedy. In his new film Divine Intervention, a suburban garden is firebombed and, minutes later, the owner strolls out with an
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Roxolana's Garden
Pittsburgh City Paper
; THIS YEAR MARKS the 100-year anniversary of one of the boldest moves Pittsburgh ever made off the football field: its annexation of Allegheny City, its neighbor and rival on the north bank of the Allegheny River. Smaller and on the whole wealthier than Pittsburgh, the historic city of Allegheny
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Savory strudel
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; If you are lucky, you might just see Roxolana in her intimate garden, clearing tables or watering flowers to ensure a welcoming atmosphere for diners. Roxolana is a youthful 13 years old, but if you speak to her, or to her brother, Ivan, 13, in English, French or Ukrainian, she'll answer. Perhaps
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A land where boys must be men; For 9-year-old Suleiman, childhood in Tripoli means a disappearing dad and a mom who tells stories that burn his young ears.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book review)
The Christian Science Monitor
; ... his father was kidnapped from Cairo and returned to Tripoli, where he was imprisoned and tortured. The family hasn't heard any news since 1995. Nationalism is as thin as a thread, perhaps that's why many feel it must be anxiously guarded, Suleiman writes years ...
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Suleiman: Air force must focus on advanced training
New Straits Times
; New Straits Times 03-03-2003 Suleiman: Air force must focus on advanced training Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2* Section: Nation PETALING JAYA, Sun. - The air force should give top priority to training in advanced technology, retiring Royal Malaysian Air Force chief Jen Datuk Seri Suleiman Mahmud said
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Suleiman robbed of RM154,000
New Straits Times
; Suleiman robbed of RM154,000 Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2* Section: Nation KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. - Thieves broke into the house of Deputy Health Minister Datuk Seri Suleiman Mohamed in Ampang Hilir early today and fled with RM150,000 worth of jewellery and RM4,000 after seriously injuring a guard. Five
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A Symphony of Absence: Borders and Liminality in Elia Suleiman's Chronicle of a Disappearance
Framework
; ... coastal plain, with cities such as Jaffa, Haifa and Acre, much of Jerusalem, and after 1967, the rest of the country; the various maps drawn by Israel daily, representing possible planned partial withdrawals, excel in drawing tight boundaries around all cities ...
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Amnesia, anamnesis and narrative desire: a dialogue about Susan Rubin Suleiman's Crises of Memory and the Second World War.(DIALOGUE)(Critical essay)
Narrative
; Toward the end of her recent book on individual and collective memory of World War II and the Holocaust, Crises of Memory and the Second World War, Susan Rubin Suleiman writes: I think we need a moratorium, or even a downright taboo, on the use of the word 'unspeakable' in connection with the
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