The French novelist Pierre Loti (1850-1923) is noted for his picturesque romances, abounding in descriptions of the exotic spots he visited in a lifetime of travel. Pierre Loti was born Julien Viaud at Rochefort on Jan. 14, 1850, to Protestant parents. D...
Pierre Loti was the most popular travel writer of his day. From the lands he visited during his career as a naval officer, which took him to virtually every corner of the globe, he quarried a large body of novels, short stories, and travelogues. The exot...
La genese de l'expedition franco-britannique de 1956 en Egypte, by Jean-Yves Bernard. Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2003. 414 pp. 25,00 Euros (cloth). Following Israel's attack on Egypt in October 1956, British and French military forces intervened in the conflict with the declared...
Français, de et avec Luc Moullet, Antonietta Pizzorno, Bernard Eisenschitz, Bernadette Lafont. Voici un film piège : à l'évidence raté, sans ambition, mais signé Luc Moullet. Et puis vient à l'esprit, en cours de projection : il l'a fait exprès. Ce n'est pas...
Area: 997,739 sq km (385,229 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 72,034,000Capital: Cairo Chief of state: President Hosni Mubarak Head of government: Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif In 2006 Ayman Nour, the leader of Egypt 's al-Ghad ("Tomorrow") Party, who had been incarcerated on Dec. 5, 2005, continued...
Egyptian police sealed Gaza's border with huge metal spikes and shipping containers Sunday, restoring a tight blockade after a breach that allowed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to cross freely for 12 days.Gaza's Hamas rulers are demanding new border arrangements that would give it a...
