Ibn Batoutta was one of the Moslem world’s great travellers, making historic journeys throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia centuries before many Europeans made similar journeys and discoveries.
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The Roman empire spanned more than a million square miles and owed its existence to its military might. By promising citizenship to those without it, the Roman army – the West’s first modern, professional fighting force – also became an engine for creating citizens, offering a better life for soldiers who survived their service.
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The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BC occupied a small pocket of land on the southern coast, between modern day Tel Aviv and Gaza.
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Otherwise known as the Achaemenid Empire, the First Persian Empire was founded by ruler Cyrus the Great in the 6th Century BC. The Empire gradually expanded into the largest empire the world had seen at the time, controlling regions as far as the Indus River to the East and the Balkans and Macedonia to the west.
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Before the Revolution, Alexandria’s coffee houses and patisseries were the hub of bourgeois society. Artists, writers and socialites mingled in the city’s coffee shops like the Athineos, The Trianon and Pastroudis.
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