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البحر المتوسط

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لقرون كثيرة ظل البحر المتوسط مركزا للحضارة العالمية التي حمل لواءها اليونان ثم الرومان ثم العرب. و البحر المتوسط هو الذي كان أداة وصل بين تمدن الشرق و تمدن الغرب، ولم يخسر هذا البحر مكانه في عالم التجارة الا بعد اكتشاف "رأس الرجاء الصالح" ثم استرد مقامه التجاري بعد حفر قناة "السويس".
و مافتئ الشرق يستهوي "إميل لودفيغ" و يجتذبه، فأنفق عشر سنين في وضع "النيل" و أسبغ على النيل من الروعة و القوة كما أسبغ على الأبطال و العظماء، و لودفيغ قد قضى سنين كثيرة على شواطئ البحر المتوسط التي أحبها، ثم وضع عنه، في ثلاث سنين، هذا السفر الجليل، فيكون اجتمع البحر بعد النهر لدى القارئ

899 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1929

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Emil Ludwig

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Emil Ludwig (originally named Emil Cohn) was born in Breslau, now part of Poland. Ludwig studied law but chose writing as a career. At first he wrote plays and novella, but also worked as a journalist. In 1906, he moved to Switzerland, but, during World War I, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Berliner Tageblatt in Vienna and Istanbul. He became a Swiss citizen in 1932, later emigrating to the United States in 1940.

At the end of the Second World War, he went to Germany as a journalist, and it is to him that we owe the retrieving of Goethe's and Schiller's coffins, which had disappeared from Weimar in 1943/44. He returned to Switzerland after the war and died in 1948, in Moscia, near Ascona.

During the 1920s, he achieved international fame for his popular biographies which combined historical fact and fiction with psychological analysis. After his biography of Goethe was published in 1920, he wrote several similar biographies, including one about Bismarck (1922–24) and another about Jesus (1928). As Ludwig's biographies were popular outside of Germany and were widely translated, he was one of the fortunate émigrés who had an income while living in the United States. His writings were considered particularly dangerous by Goebbels, who mentioned him in his journal.

Ludwig interviewed Benito Mussolini and on December 1, 1929 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. His interview with the founder of the Republic of Turkey appeared in Wiener Freie Presse in March 1930, addressing issues of religion and music. He also interviewed Joseph Stalin in Moscow on December 13, 1931. An excerpt from this interview is included in Stalin's book on Lenin. Ludwig describes this interview in his biography of Stalin. What was originally an omitted section of the interview by Joseph Stalin himself, Professor of Montclair State University Grover Furr had finally published an English version of it.

Ludwig's extended interviews with T.G. Masaryk, founder and longtime president of Czechoslovakia, appeared as Defender of Democracy in 1936.

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A historical survey of the influence the sea had on the civilizations surrounding it. Well written and informative.
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July 16, 2025
كعادة إميل لودفيغ في كتبه الممتعة يأخذك في بانوراما تاريخيّة وجغرافية واجتماعية وعرقية عن البحر المتوسط والشعوب التي عاشت حوله في ٢٠٠٠ عام، يحكي به قصص الأمم والامبراطوريات والملوك والاباطرة والتجار بل والناس العاديين لهم من نصيب من كتابة لودفيغ.

لم يكن البحر المتوسط بحراً عادياً او منعزلاً انما كان لعدة قرون ساحة صراع وتدافع بين الأمم من فرس وفينيقيين ورومان ويونان وطليان وبيزنطيين وترك وعرب وغيرهم، كل يهيمن عليه لفترة من الزمن، حتى تأتي امة تنزع الصدارة فيه لها، لا يكاد يهمل المؤلف أمةً مهمة عاشت على ضفاف البحر المتوسط الا تحدث عنها وعن تفاعلها مع البحر العجيب وتحدث عن مصر في مختلف ادوارها وكذلك الجزائر التي كانت في وقت من الاوقات بلداً مهماً وقاعدة للتجارة والقرصنة على السفن التي تمخر عباب البحر المتوسط.

ملاحظة: المترجم الكبير عادل زعيتر أسلوبه في الترجمة عالي ومتمكن من ادواتها لكن قد يعيبه استخدامه لبعض الجمل المعقدة التي كان بالامكان الاستغناء عنها بأسهل منها.
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Very dense idk how much of it I actually retained
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