Tag Archives: Ottoman Empire

Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s Arabesk trilogy 

El Iskandriya sits at the Delta as she has done for thousands of years, a city of great wealth, staggering poverty, intrigue, indolence, and, because she is technically a free city open to the currents of influence from the lands … Continue reading

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Dana Sajdi’s Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure  and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century 

I have enough interest in the Ottoman Empire to motivate me to check out almost any book, fiction or non-fiction, that focuses on some aspect of said. So I was more than happy to review Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee when offered the … Continue reading

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