President Gamal Abdel Nasser was interviewed by Clifton Daniel of the New York Times. The program was a collaboration with National Educational Television. The interview discusses the freedom of navigation of the Suez Canal and the conflict with Israel. Nasser mention the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict were based around partition. There was a Jewish […]
Read More Gamal Abdel Nasser Interview (1969)Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said was the leader of Oman from 1970 until his death in 2020. This will be a major political and cultural change for a country that has known only one sultan for decades. He was a reformer compared to his father whom he deposed. This stamp from 1993 celebrates National […]
Read More Year of The Youth Stamp Featuring Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said (1993)This artifact is a funerary relief bust made of limestone. The subject according to historians was Haliphat who was the daughter of Ogalta and Harimal. This artifact currently resides in the National Gallery of Art in the US capital of Washington D.C. The Funerary relief was from the ancient empire of Palmyra. The location of […]
Read More Funerary Relief Bust of Haliphat (231 CE)This documentary from the International Film Foundation provides a general history of Turkey and the Middle East. The major shift was in 1923 with the rise of Kemal Attaturk who was the founder of modern Turkey. The geography can either be arid or have lust soil. It has been for 3,000 years the heart of […]
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