A diary of a slave written in arabic. Up next, a collection of documents bearing the name of omar ibn said. Ms. Deeb i am mary jane deeb, chief of the african middle east division here at the library of congress. Im here to tell you about this fantastic acquisition the library has made in 2017. It is only now available to the public digitally on our website. We would like to show you the items themselves and talk about them. The core of this collection is the omar ibn said biography. Autobiography, in fact. It is written in arabic. It was a biography written in 1831 by a man who was enslaved a couple of decades earlier. He was asked to write his autobiography, which he did. You asked me to write my life. Im not able to do this because i have much forgotten my own, as well as the arab language. Neither can i write very grammatically or according to the true idiom. So, my brother, i beg you not to blame me because i am a man of weak eyes and a weak body. Ms. Deeb this autobiography has b
Public digitally on our website. We would like to show you the items themselves and talk about them. The core of this collection is the omar ibn said biography. Autobiography, in fact. It is written in arabic. It was a biography written in 1831 by a man who was enslaved a couple of decades earlier. He was asked to write his autobiography, which he did. You asked me to write my life. Im not able to do this because i have much forgotten my own, as well as the arab language. Neither can i write very grammatically or according to the true idiom. So, my brother, i beg you not to blame me because i am a man of weak eyes and a weak body. Ms. Deeb this autobiography has been well known. For the last almost 200 years, its existence has not been known. It is not a mystery. It has been passed on from hand to hand. It has been at certain times owned by people and disappeared from everyones of you and then it reappears. The latest owner was an africanamerican collector of africana and historic docu
Interest in afghanistan and the women there. Hello, im here at the center for new American Security. A washington dc based nonpartisan and bipartisan think tank. I have the most profound strategic challenges confronting the United States is managing the rise of increasingly assertive and powerful china. How to deal with the military power is the reason for todays special event. The 11th and newest book by Peter Navarro is entitled crouching tiger what chinas militarism means for the world. Distinguished scholars from china, Toshi Yoshihara and Benjamin Goldberg team. First, let me say a few words to frame the china debate in the context of todays events. This is december 7, a reminder of both strategic surprise and how a rising asia power might seek expansion of control throughout asia. The concern today is a reemerged nationalistic and increasingly provisional list china is bent on establishing a larger sphere of influence. Seeking to restore china to greatness simultaneously seeking
Among other things, millennials. There are about 80 million of them born between 1980 and 1995, and theyre rapidly taking over from the baby boomers, and their priorities are simple they come first. I believe that they actually think of themselves like merchandise on ebay. If you dont want me, mr. Employer, ill go sell myself down the street. Ill probably get more money, ill definitely get a better experience, and, by the way, theyll adore me. You only like me. [ticking] across the country, thousands of perfectly sound and cozy houses are being torn down. The empty lots then get filled up with the likes of this. How has the average house size expanded since you started building houses . The 8,000squarefoot house, which used to be the extraordinarily large house, is now a 12,000 or 13,000squarefoot house. How many bathrooms in the house . [silence] seven. You had to count . [laughs] yeah. I was thinking five bedrooms, the pool bath, and then the powder bathroom here. Welcome to 60 minut
Among other things, millennials. There are about 80 million of them born between 1980 and 1995, and theyre rapidly taking over from the baby boomers, and their priorities are simple they come first. I believe that they actually think of themselves like merchandise on ebay. If you dont want me, mr. Employer, ill go sell myself down the street. Ill probably get more money, ill definitely get a better experience, and, by the way, theyll adore me. You only like me. [ticking] across the country, thousands of perfectly sound and cozy houses are being torn down. The empty lots then get filled up with the likes of this. How has the average house size expanded since you started building houses . The 8,000squarefoot house, which used to be the extraordinarily large house, is now a 12,000 or 13,000squarefoot house. How many bathrooms in the house . [silence] seven. You had to count . [laughs] yeah. I was thinking five bedrooms, the pool bath, and then the powder bathroom here. Welcome to 60 minut