Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
15 - 21 April 1999
Issue No. 425
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Index of issues This week's issue

Fayoum Palm city revisited
In the "city of a million palms" Zeinab Abul-Gheit found markets, waterwheels and mosques surrounded by verdant countryside
Lane
A man at one with the people
Edward William Lane was the first Westerner to immerse himself totally in the lives of people of an alien culture. Jill Kamil writes about the great scholar, who wrote a book widely hailed as the most thorough description of a people ever produced
Book
Tradition preserved
The Coptic Orthodox Liturgy of St. Basil (with complete musical transcription), compiled by Ragheb Moftah. American University in Cairo Press, 1998

 
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