Roundup: Turkey, Iran gear up to boost bilateral ties 5 janvier 2014
Posted by Acturca in Economy / Economie, Energy / Energie, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: bilateral relations, diplomacy, foreign policy, Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Syria
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Xinhua – News Agency (China)
Sunday, January 5, 2014, Ankara
The exchange of high level visits between Turkey and Iran is expected to give further momentum on improving bilateral ties, with new joint-cabinet meeting being considered. (suite…)
Is it 1914 all over again? 5 janvier 2014
Posted by Acturca in Books / Livres, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Austro-Hungarian Empire, China, conflicts, Germany, Margaret MacMillan, War, World War I
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Independent on Sunday (UK) Sunday, January 5, 2014, p. 24
Ian Johnston
We are in danger of repeating the mistakes that started the Great War, says a leading historian. Ian Johnston reports (suite…)
A Ramshackle Modernity 5 janvier 2014
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, Books / Livres, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Alexander Dawe, Book Review, literature, Martin Riker, Maureen Freely
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The New York Times (USA) Sunday, January 5, 2014, p. BR 11
Book Review
By Martin Riker *
We’re having a particularly good season for literary discoveries from the past, with recent publications of Volumes 1 and 2 of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq’s « Leg Over Leg » (1855), the marathon translation of Giacomo Leopardi’s 2,600-page « Zibaldone » (1898) and now « The Time Regulation Institute » (1962), the second great novel from Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. (suite…)
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