Tag Archives: Artur Obluski
Azazeel
It is just the second time that I write something about a fiction book in this blog. There are, however, a couple of excuses for returning after four years to such an activity – if there is indeed need of … Continue reading
A Newly “discovered” Funerary Stela from Sai Island!
It is the first time that I haven’t written in the blog for so long, but this return does not imply that I will resume frequent blogging. However, it is a statement that medievalsaiproject.wordpress.com is alive and that if an … Continue reading
A week in Cairo between two foreign institutes
Cairo is a city of almost 20 million inhabitants, the largest city in Africa. The size of the population creates a bursting with life urban environment, full of sounds (i.e. noise), smells, distractions and attractions. Among the latter, the monuments … Continue reading
Monasticism in the Nile Valley
This is not the first time that this blog hosts a post about monasticism, either in Egypt or in Nubia. But this is the first time that the post concerns an academic venue especially dedicated to the study of the … Continue reading
Poles on the Nile
Sometimes you wonder why you have not heard for a long time from friends from abroad, how they are doing with their lives, when will you catch up with them and discuss again the projects that you work on together. … Continue reading
A death and a memorial
The previous entry listed Nubiological and Sudanological events of the month of May. We left out a new series of memorial lectures to commemorate the life of Kazimierz Michałowski that our friend and colleague Artur Obluski will inaugurate in the … Continue reading
It happened in Poland…
The last weeks three news came to us from Poland. Three news that in their own particular way each, and in different degrees, mark a significant change in the study of the Christian cultures of the Middle and Lower Nile Valleys, … Continue reading
At the capital of medieval Nubian studies
This entry is about two books, both of which are related to my trip last weekend to Warsaw. I spent three days in the Polish capital, visiting just two places: The residence of Artur Obluski, where together with Dobrochna Zielinska and Katarzyna Danys-Lasek, we had the … Continue reading
Gifts from Warsaw and flowers from Johannesburg…
I am writing this post from my room at The Melville Turret guesthouse in Johannesburg! I am invited here for the Afro-Byzantine and Greco-African Conference organized by the Department of Greek and Latin Studies at the University of Johannesburg. For the program … Continue reading
When Wizz Was in Warsaw
I am writing this post from my room at Fleischer’s Hotel at Voss, the famous sport resort north of Bergen. I am here for the annual seminar of the institute of Archaeology, History, Cultural and Religious Studies at the University of Bergen. … Continue reading
Medieval Sai Project 