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River Dicle from Hasankeyf

Endangered dialects of Aramaic

01 Sep 2008

Current estimates suggest that a language dies every two weeks. Here, Geoffrey Khan describes the documentation of a group of dialects before they...

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Odessa placard celebrating diversity

Cosmopolitan cities of Eurasia

01 May 2008

Research on the changing face of Eurasian cities - formerly famous for cosmopolitanism and now crossroads of migration - hopes to provide an...

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Freud letter

Schnitzler’s hidden manuscripts explored

01 Apr 2007

Research into more than 30,000 unpublished drafts and letters casts new light on the inspirational Austrian novelist and playwright.

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Tour Hassan, Rabat, Morocco

The palatial language of power

01 Apr 2007

By sifting through medieval Arabic chronicles from Islamic Spain and Morocco, a picture emerges of how the evocative, but frequently abandoned...

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Uncovered: The “lost” paper Churchill kept from publication

08 Mar 2007

An article that Winston Churchill wrote but then banned from publication because of its “perverse” messages about the persecution of Jews has been...

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Grand Mufti to speak at Cambridge

02 Nov 2006

Egypt’s highest-ranking Muslim official, the Grand Mufti Dr Ali Goma, will be speaking at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge this...

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Duke of Buckingham’s Letter to the University of Cambridge, 1626

Opening the treasure chest

01 Oct 2006

Cambridge is leading the way in Resource Enhancement projects in the UK, opening up its unique and valuable collections to scholars worldwide, as...

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