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turn out your love light

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dave

…Upon finishing The Arabian Nights, Richard Francis Burton began to work on a new edition of The Perfumed Garden of the Cheikh Nefzaoui, an Arabic manual on the art of love, a sort of complementary tome to the “literal” eroticism … Continue reading →

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from istanbul: the sequel?

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Dave

Does history repeat itself? To rewrite the history once more of the Ottoman conquest of the Arab peripheral regions; a manifest destiny to tame, pacify, discipline and civilize the Other from what they regard as tribal savagery and ineptitude. Ottomans … Continue reading →