Word: easternism
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After arriving at Harvard, Plokhii is slated to teach a course on early modern eastern Europe and a course on European identities in Russia and Ukraine...
...could say that it was necessary that he 'slept' in these centuries so that he could be rediscovered." The most impressive gathering ever of his work, "Piero della Francesca and the Italian Courts," runs from March 31 through July 22. Appropriately, it is taking place in the far eastern corner of Tuscany, at Arezzo's State Museum of Medieval and Modern Art and in the surrounding area, which offers a chance to see works on loan alongside some of his best-known frescoes on permanent display in his home region...
...born painter Domenico Veneziano. Later, he was commissioned by Pope Nicolas V and Pope Pius II to paint several frescoes in the palaces of the Vatican. Much of Piero's best output - or at least the best that remains - can be found in the midsized cities of central and eastern Italy, where he was a favorite of the major noblemen who ruled the towns of Urbino, Ferrara and Rimini...
...diplomatic fluttering about? What's going on? Part of it is the Bush Administration's desperate desire to wring good news from the mess it has caused in the region. But there is also a new twist on a familiar Middle Eastern dance: the collision between a grand geostrategic scheme and implacable tribal realities. The novelty is that the grand scheme has been proposed by the Saudis, not imposed by outsiders, and it is appealing to the Administration: it holds the prospect of an alliance of moderate Arab states, and Israel, against the growing influence of Iran. "The world...
...travel agent had assured me Bishaq was his best driver for my planned journey through the Darfur refugee camps of eastern Chad, but things did not start well. We'd arranged a 5 a.m. start in the hope of crossing the 614 miles of unpaved road to the eastern town of Abeche by nightfall. Bishaq was not only five and a half hours late, but come 5 p.m., as we passed a dust-blown town called Mongo, he suddenly swerved through some metal gates, pulled up in a dusty courtyard, stepped out and ambled away with the word: "Hotel...