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A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity (Volume 56) (Transformation of the Classical Heritage)

by Richard E. Payne

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The Architect's Apprentice

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The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing by Joshua Hammer

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There Are Rivers in the Sky

by Elif Shafak

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“Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

tags: bulgakov, destiny, fate, free-will

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“تسلق جواد الجدار فشعر بالتعب، لكن المشهد كان يستحقّ المجازفة. لقد نظر الفنان إلى عمله شبه مكتمل للمرة الأولى، وكانت تلك هي النظرة الأخيرة أيضاً، ففي الصباح التالي أصيب بالذبحة ﭐلَّتي أودت به.”
― Inaam Kachachi, ‫لورنا: سنواتها مع جواد سليم‬

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“Clarice, the glorious city, has a tormented history. Several times it decayed, then burgeoned again, always keeping the first Clarice as an unparalleled model of every splendor, compared to which the city’s present state can only cause more sighs at every fading of the stars.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

tags: cairo, cities, invisible

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