National Museum Prague: A Journey through History
By Shazia Anwer Cheema
Dramatic music, magic night, hundreds of objects – welcome to the Kings of the Sun exhibition! In an exceptional international integrational project that documents the greatest archaeological discoveries of Czech Egyptologists connected with the research of the Egyptian Abusir, an ancient royal burial ground adjacent to Giza in the north and Sakkara in the south.
Take the unique opportunity to see generous loans from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the Great Egyptian Museum in Giza, but also from museums in Berlin, Leipzig, Hanover, Heidelberg, Hildesheim, and Frankfurt and Main. Last but not the least, you will see objects that the National Museum acquired as a Czechoslovak contribution to the finding made by the expedition of Charles University in Abusir. There are treasures from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC, such as the unique royal statue of King Raneferef, one of the four pharaohs buried in Abusir, o
60-Second Syllabus: PSCI 374
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:40 - 11 a.m. on Zoom
There are plenty of Kenyon courses that discuss how to build a more just society and a better world but what about when it all goes wrong? The seminar “Civil Wars and Failed States,” taught remotely this semester by international relations and human rights expert Jackie McAllister, examines how a functioning country can descend into chaos. “It’s an interesting puzzle, because getting people to go kill other people is actually really hard to do,” McAllister said. “How do you break them down enough to do it?”
With case studies ranging from Yugoslavia to Sudan to Iraq, students explore both the conflicts themselves and international responses in the forms of peacekeeping and humanitarian aid. In-class visits by authors of the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency manual provide “not just the academic, but also the practitioner and policymaker perspective in the class,” McAllister said.
Books to read
December 28, 2020
Here are some interesting books. The first one is an autobiography titled Journey Through History by Lt-Gen Zahid Ali Akbar Khan, published by Ferozsons, Lahore. The book details his very interesting career and personal experiences. He has had a chequered career and is well-known in Pakistan as a dashing, go-getter officer who was also chairman Wapda and chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board.
I have known him very well as a person from his association with KRL in its early formative years. After KRL (then Engineering Research Laboratories and renamed by Gen Zia) was established as a separate entity and given into my charge, I requested Gen Zia (then COAS) to give me a team of civil engineers from the army.