Medicine and Morality in Egypt: Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Mia; Architecture and the Arts Bernard Heyberger

Bernard Heyberger

but couldn't shake her fascination with the language or the cultures it had opened up to her

The three-thousand-year-old rock-cut temples at Abu Simbel and the story of their rescue from the rising waters of Lake Nasser in the 1960s are almost as familiar worldwide as the tale of the gold funerary mask and brief life of the boy king Tutankhamun

Cartoon characters and appealing pictures brighten up each page and capture children's attention

the cult of the dead

Medicine and Morality in Egypt: Gender and Sexuality in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Mia; Architecture and the Arts Bernard HeybergerSherry Sayed GadelrabIn Middle Eastern and Islamic societies, the politics of sexual knowledge is a delicate and often controversial subject. Sherry Sayed Gadelrab focuses on nineteenth and early twentieth century Egypt, claiming that during this period there was a perceptible shift in the medical discourse surrounding conceptualizations of sex differences and the construction of sexuality. Medical authorities began to promote theories that suggested