Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, Gaza

Histoire de Gaza, d'une enregistrement de Kristen Brustad, Al-Kitaab li-ta'allum al Arabiyya

Café de Flore, Paris

IMA a une exposition très intéressante sur les universités au moyen âge.

De mon appartement From my apartment

Arabic coffee:  café moulu yéménite, cardamome, clous de giroflée, safran dans l'eau, bouillir 5 minutes.

كافيه الفشاوي Fishawi, Cairo

Manifestations hier pour l'anniversaire de la franchissement du canal de Suez par Sadat. Les frères mus, qui ont assassiné Sadat, ont essayé de manifester leur patriotisme maintenant en essayant de casser, ou bien entrer Meidan Tahrir.  Mais les anti Morsi les ont empêché: 50 morts.

McNamara Ground Operations Coffee Machine, Aéroport métropolitain de Detroit (DTW)

All news foreign and domestic shall be from McNamara Ground Ops Lunch Room Coffee Machine.

Friday il y avait des manifestations des Freres Musulmans au Caire, et dans quelques autres villes.  Al Jazira TV les a montré en directe.  BBC a montré un toute petite nombre de pro-Morsiites qui traversaient le pont pour aller à Maidan Tahrir.

Autre pensee, au sujet du monde méditerranéen au moyen age...réfléchi a ton époque à Gaza, et à son importance comme port de l'encense et, plus tard, du cafe.

Café de Flore, Galanterie (Tamimi Safeway, Jubayl Industrial City)

Flore, Fishawi, Shati, McNamara

All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of

Café Flore, Paris; poetry, under that of Fishawi, Jeddah or Cairo; learning under the title of the Shati Tea-and-Falafel-shop, Gaza; foreign and domestic news, you will have from

McNamara Ground Ops Lunchroom, Detroit; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.

Acheter du cafe arabe, safran, et un mélange

قهوة البايوني...  طريقة التحضير

 اضاف مقدار ٨ ملاعق طعام من القهوة الى لتر واحد

من الماء المقلي 

مع التحريك

ثم غليها

على حرارة خفيفة

وتغلي لمدة دقيقتان

قبل إضافة القهوة بهذه الطريقة

سوف تستهلك نسبة زعفران اقل

ولكن كافية

Cafe Bayouni.... Mode d'emploi

Ajouter 8 quilieres de table de cafe a un litre

d'eau bouillante et remuante 

puis, laisse bouillir 2 minutes sur feu doux

avant d'ajouter au cafe,fait de cette manière, 

un peu, mais  assez de safran.

de mon appartement ...from my apartment

Iliad de Homere de Suliman Bustani. Iliad of Homer translated into Arabic by Suliman Bustani, with his interesting introduction

"What else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment."

Je mange des fruits d'abord, et ne mange que des légumes au repas pour me guérir du fatigue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZyPzs_YaQ4

Some tiny birds standing on one leg, near my apartment near King Abd Al-Aziz road, El Baz Mosque and the Ventura Compound in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

The news from my apartment is that I should be reading the Arabic translation of the Iliad, instead of watching BBC tv.







Flore, Fishawi, Shati, McNamara
All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of
Café Flore, Paris; poetry, under that of Fishawi, Jeddah or Cairo; learning under the title of the Shati Tea-and-Falafel-shop, Gaza; foreign and domestic news, you will have from
McNamara Ground Ops Lunchroom, Detroit; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.

Cafe devant Saad Medical Complex

Aristotle's Poetics...Poetiques d'Aristote

Al-Shati' Tea and Falafel Ship, Gaza

Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, Beach Refugee Camp, Gaza, est un peu au sud de Zikim Beach Hof Ashkelon (sur Google Earth).  L'israélien, Mordecai Vanunu, qui a publie les détails de la bombe nucléaire de Dimona, la force de frappe d'Israel, a eu l'honneur d'être en prison dans le prison triage des jeunes palestiniens de Gaza ou ils sont incarcérée avant d'être transférés aux "oubliettes" de Rafah.

Nouveau livre vient d'être publiée aujourd'hui sur les fouilles importants de Flinders Petrie a Gaza dans les années 1800!!
C'est Flinders Petrie qui a vraiment fondee la science d'archéologie par couches datées par les scarabées avec leur cartouches royales.  Les résultats de ses fouilles a Gaza ont été  rééditée par Cambridge.

En bas la description de l'importance de ces fouilles, sur le site de Blackwell's Bookshop, en anglais.

Ancient Gaza Volume 1

Published 1931-4, these four excavation reports, reissued here in two volumes, cover the fruitful archaeological work at Tell el-Ajjul.

(Tel el-Ajjul est a 30 minutes de marche a pied de la ville de Gaza, un peu au sud des orangers palestiniens autour de l'ancien 1984 kibbuz de Netzarim quand les colons et soldats israéliens étaient la dans la bande de Gaza jusqu'a 2005. Voire Google Earth 31' 28,6541 N 34' 24,0801 E altitude 14,917 ft)
cf. also, Tel el-Far'a, north of Nablus 32, 17,2259 N 35' 20,2540 E

A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. Now reissued in two volumes are the four excavation reports, published between 1931 and 1934, covering his extensive dig at Tell el-Ajjul in Palestine. The reports scrupulously record the finds of artefacts dating from the Copper Age and extending to the Hyksos period. Descriptions of the working party's struggles against malaria and the elements highlight Petrie's devotion to his work. Volume 1 combines the first two reports, first published in 1931 and 1932, and includes descriptions of various cemeteries, tombs, palaces and horse burials. Each report features a section of photographs and sketches of tombs, pottery, weapons and jewellery. Petrie wrote prolifically throughout his long career, and a great many of his Egyptological publications - for both specialists and non-specialists - are also reissued in this series.


Photos:  Beach Refugee Camp, Gaza

Labelled Labyrinthine Street in Beach Refugee Camp, Gaza (photo by Harry Fear on Google Earth, panoramio)

Café Liwan, Huwailaat Golfe Persique et Méditerranée

Ici, j'ai appris que le safran du café arabe vient de l'Iran.

McNamare Ground Ops Coffee Machine

Toute nouvelle étrangère ou locale viendra ce cafe and l'aérodrome de Detroit, maintenant desservie
 non par Northwest, mais par Delta, partenaire toujours de KLM.

J'ai trop sommeil apres le vol de Detroit a Amsterdam pour penser, mais mes pensees sont avec l'Iran, tellement mis en cause par le gouvernement USA, France, et Angleterre.  On dira que le vouloir des etats unis a

Café de Flore - BBC Arabic élégance et galantrie Egypte contre les pro-Morsi

L'analyse du BBC par la section arabe du BBC a été d'une élégance et d'une clarté digne du Café de Flore, Paris. Impossible de mettre des enregistrements mp3 dans blogger, maintenant!! Je m'excuse de ne pas pouvoir facilement mettre l'enregistrement du BBC en anglais ici, mais c'était très bien, expliquant que les Egyptiens avaient choisi Morsi et les islamistes parcequ'ils ont passe par le socialisme, etc.

 photo-vue depuis la terasse du Flore, Brasserie Lipp en face

Video de la vue du TGV

From my apartment

photo, not precisely of my apartment, but from a snack table at Dammam Airport after my Taxi had taken me from my apartment to my flight to Paris, August 2, 2013

All other comments shall be from my apartment...after a pleasant drive to the KLM office near the Meridien Hotel and back, I listened to the balanced coverage of the events in Cairo on BBC and CNN. They give too much credence to the Muslim Brotherhood, who have set about attacking government buildings and continuing to get themselves killed instead of reconciling themselves with the exiting times advancing the role of the Egyptian people finding space in politics that was heralded in by the huge, 19 million demonstrations of June 30.

Here is the not so surprising defense of the bad, rather violent and provocative protests the Muslim Brotherhood misguides (and hence sacrifices its followers) into, given by Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan on the BBC TV news tonight  Click here Since this is private on Sound Cloud, I'll just summarize some of the craziness of his argument, which is also typical of the Muslim Brotherhood spokesmen, and most current orientalist scholarship, which is quite openly serious about religion, and still tied into the study of the collapse of the caliphate with the rise of the colonial revolutions.  I believe that the Muslim Bretheren want the return of the authentic caliphate, which makes them, as a consequence, serious study for academics interested in "The Sleeping Giant," which was the Ottoman Empire before and after World War 1.  Anyway, Tariq Ramadan gives the typical complaint about the breakup of the peaceful sit-ins, and chastises Obama for not cutting off military aid to such a country that is "not part of our democratic tradition," with this military "coup."  It is exactly what the spokespeople for the Muslim Bretheren are saying.

McNamara Ground Ops Coffee Machine -- improved in Amsterdam

Foreign and domestic new you shall have from the coffee machines at the Detroit Airport.  What better theme for today's blog than this picture of the "Mediterranean Sandwich Bar" on the Europe side of the KLM terminal at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.

Next to the Mediterranean Sandwich Bar is "le Grand Cafe," picture below:

Here is a little "MOV" of what it is like to be in the KLM City Hopper from Nice to Amsterdam, leaving at 6:25:

Fishawi, Cairo Poetry

Flore, Fishawi, Shati, McNamara

All accounts of gallantry, pleasure, and entertainment, shall be under the article of

Café Flore, Paris; poetry, under that of Fishawi, Jeddah or Cairo; learning under the title of the Shati Tea-and-Falafel-shop, Gaza; foreign and domestic news, you will have from

McNamara Ground Ops Lunchroom, Detroit; and what else I shall on any other subject offer, shall be dated from my own apartment.

The western commentators and hard line Islamicists can't see the poetry of the dismantling of the Rab'a Al-Adawiyya Mosque sit-in,

Poetic justice.  Fishawi is closed under curfew tonight, but, then, the evenings in Hussein were as wonderful as usual this Ramadan, I'm sure.

Café de flore, Café St. Germain, Paris

Une ile dans Paris, une ile de culture, donnant envie d'écrire ... comme tous les intellectuels parisiens, et comme Hemmingway.
Café crème, tartine 6 euros 90

Uni Cafe, SprachLehrinsitut

Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg.   Near this nice little cafe, always full of people in the summer, is the "UniMuseum," where I learned that Freiburg Univ. was found in 1457, run by Jesuits, then played a role in the Enlightenment under Maria Theresa and Joseph II.  It opened to women a bit before WW II.  Heidigger was president, and Hannah Arendt, as well as many Nobel laureate were there.  The SprachLerninstitut helps teach languages.  They use an Amer. Univ. in Cairo book for Arabic.

Must find out about this French play about women, flowers? and the Quran, by a certain Schmidt.

McNamara Ground Ops Coffee machine- vigilantiism

A little bit of American history to understand the outrage over the Zimmerman Aquittal.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution outlawed slavery, made it the law of the land that all men could vote, and granted power to the federal government to take action against Ku Klux Klanners and other vigilante thugs who employed lynchings and mob violence against the social progress of Radical Reconstruction. Anti-vigilante laws were adopted in many areas of the country. The abolitionists and their allies who dominated the Congress sent federal troops to the South to defend freed Blacks and their allies.
1877 withdrawal of Federal troops and the end of 40 acres and a mule (Radical Reconstruction)
But with the 1877 withdrawal of federal troops from the South and other counterrevolutionary moves by the Northern rulers, the reactionary forces were given free rein and were ultimately successful in dealing the greatest blows ever inflicted on the working class in the U.S., a body blow that included the imposition of Jim Crow segregation.
Supreme court overturns 1876 New Orleans court conviction of 100 Colfax, Louisiana vigilantes
In 1873 some 150 heavily armed vigilantes attacked and murdered an equal number of out-gunned African-Americans, many members of the city’s militia, who were defending the county courthouse in Colfax, La. The U.S. Attorney in New Orleans indicted nearly 100 of the attackers under the enforcement provisions of the 14th Amendment, affording equal protection of the laws to all. When the case reached the Supreme Court, the justices unanimously overturned the convictions in 1876, ruling the amendment only applied to actions carried out by state governments. This notorious ruling — still the law of the land — was a milestone blow to the fight against vigilantism and racist violence.

facts quoted from the Militant

Uni Cafe, Freiburg am Briesgau

Pres de cette ancienne université ou Heidigger et Hanna Arandt ont vécu:

Reisenzentrum Bahnhof Café, Freiburg am Breisgau

J'ai envoyé de jolies cartes achetées a Gallimard a Paris, aux 5 Cubanos (maintenant les quatre qui sont toujours en prison) aux USA.

Pensant a l'importance de la traduction faite par Pathfinder des 2 déclarations de Havane en arabe.  Il y a des rapporteurs de notre journal préférée qui sont maintenant au Caire.

Je pense aussi a l'importance des chercheur allemands, comme Brockelmann, ici dans cette ville universitaire allemande.

Quelques photos du quartier universitaire dans la ville médiéval: