古埃及亚历山大博物馆

古埃及亚历山大博物馆是埃及亚历山大市的古典知识中心,始建于公元前280年左右,由托勒密二世菲拉德尔费斯和其父托勒密一世索塔尔修造,由多个学院组成,每个学院有一名首席教士负责,聘任学者的工资初由埃及国王继由罗马皇帝支付.270年,博物馆建筑被毁,然而其教育和研究机构的作用一直持续到5世纪.     

埃及女王克娄巴特拉

最近在埃及亚历山大港附近的海底发现了一批古代建筑遗址,其中有托勒密王朝末代女王克娄巴特拉的宫殿。这里向大家介绍几则有关克娄巴特拉的历史故事。     

第一个获得亚历山大大学语言硕士学位的中国留学生

1988年4月19日,上海外国语学院阿拉伯语系青年教师王伟在埃及亚历山大大学文学院以优秀级获得硕士学位.答辩委员会的三位埃及教授对其论文评价甚高,称此论文“观点新颖,方法科学,统计珍贵,结论严谨”,因而一致投“优秀”票. 王伟的硕士论文题目是《论陶菲克·哈基姆哲理剧的句子结构和语言风格特点》.他论文获通过的消息传出后,引起了埃及新闻界的注意和兴趣,埃及《十月周刊》杂志在4月23日发行的第600期上率先对此作了报道,     

亚历山大——东西方文明交融的结晶

亚历山大对历史学家和考古学家来说,永远是一个谜。 尽管亚历山大建于公元前331年,但与埃及古老的法老文明相比,它不仅是一个年轻的城市,而且是希腊、罗马等欧洲文明与古     

浅析埃及神庙在托勒密王朝的地位

托勒密王朝是希腊人在埃及建立的王朝,为了更加有效地统治埃及,统治者积极将希腊元素与埃及元素相结合,依靠埃及祭司神化自己的王权,同时又抑制神庙的特权,使王权凌驾于神权之上,王权与神权之间保持着微妙的关系.     

亚市三骄与城中之国

埃及亚历山大市是世界上少有的历两千余年而不衰的城市。自公元前马其顿亚历山大大帝建此城起,在一千多年期间它一直是埃及的政治中心。亚市今天仍具有重要地位,它的工业占全国三分之一,外贸占三分之二,拥有埃及最大的港口,文化也较发达。笔者曾与亚历山大官方和民间人士广泛接触,发现他们一致引为本市骄傲的有三:最长的海滨大道,最广阔的游泳场和最大的避暑胜地。     

艾因谢姆斯大学简介

座落在开罗宰阿夫朗区的艾因谢姆斯大学,继开罗大学、亚历山大大学之后,排名第三.它初创时的校名是“大伊卜拉欣帕夏大学”. 1950年6月,埃及政府发布93号文件,决定在开罗兴建“大伊卜拉欣帕夏”大学,同“福阿德一世”大学(今开罗大学)和“法鲁克一世”大学(今亚历山大大学)共同执行埃及高等教育的使命,让更多的埃及青年接受高等教育. 1952年7月23日革命时,有人认为大     

阿拉伯文化简讯

一座新型文化宫在亚历山大落成 1988年8月24日,一座拥有剧场、影院、会场、文化艺术交流大厅、艺术展览大厅、音乐沙龙、文化艺术社会科学专业图书馆的综合性新型文化宫在亚历山大落成,埃及总理,文化部长出席了开馆典礼。     

亚历山大灯塔与文化交流

亚历山大灯塔修建于公元前3世纪古埃及托勒密王朝时期,公元前334～前321年,希腊马其顿国王亚历山大占领了埃及,他在尼罗河三角洲西北临近地中海的一渔村,建立了以自己名字命名的城市.后来,亚历山大城变成了繁华的大都市、科学研究的中心和地中海地区最大的港口,为了给往来的船只导航,亚历山大城附近的法罗斯岛上修建了一座高大的灯塔,它被列为世界古代七大奇迹之一.在七大奇迹中,唯有这座灯塔是造福于民的建筑物,其他六个不是帝王的陵墓或花园,就是神像.这座灯塔建成后,在15世纪因强烈地震而倒用,塔身石沉大海,从近代绘制的复原图中,我们大致了解了这座灯塔的形状与结构.灯塔分上、中、下三层.下层是四方形,高约71米,内有房间数百,实际上是一座十几层的高     

阿拉伯电影史话(二)

祖籍巴勒斯坦的拉玛兄弟——伊卜拉欣和白特尔,1925年从南美智利来到埃及定居。他们带回全套摄影器材,准备在埃及建立电影工业。兄弟俩决心导演第一部埃及默片。半年后《沙漠的吻》在亚历山大的穆罕默德·阿里影院首次映出,很受欢迎。15分钟的影片,记录了贝杜因人的服饰、剽悍的马队、阿拉伯的尚     

亚历山大图书馆及其对后世文化的影响

希腊马其顿帝国亚历山大大帝及其继承者和古埃及托勒密王朝的法老们经过一代又一代的努力,在地中海南岸埃及的一个小村庄建起了亚历山大城和亚历山大图书馆。亚历山大城、尤其是亚历山大图书馆像一块巨大的"磁石",吸引了欧洲、非洲、亚洲乃至世界各地的学者,使该城很快成为东西方文化交融地,并对后世文化产生了深刻影响。但同时,亚历山大图书馆的突然消失也给后人留下了诸多未解之谜。     

Misperceptions of reproductive ideals among American husbands and wives

In this paper data from the Michigan Time Use Survey are used to document the extent of misperceptions of reproductive ideals among couples. Perceptual errors of spouses are found to be common and also nonrandom. The errors are influenced by a variety of socioeconomic variables. The paper concludes that research on fertility intentions and contraceptive use-effectiveness, which uses wife-only data, may be flawed. The paper also speculates on the extent and quality of marital communication.This research was supported in part by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.Daniel Seiver is a Professor of Economics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056. He received his Ph.D. from Yale. Dr. Seiver's research interests include financial economics, fertility, and microeconomic theory.Donald Cymrot received his Ph.D. from Brown University. His research interests include labor economics and the economics of pensions. Dr. Cymrot is a researcher for the Center for Naval Analyses, 4401 Ford Avenue, P.O. Box 16268, Alexandria, Virginia 22303-0268.     

The Borda dictionary

Forn candidates, a profile of voters defines a unique Borda election ranking for each of the 2 ⁿ – (n + 1) subsets of two or more candidates. The Borda Dictionary is the set of all of these election listings that occur for any choice of a profile. As such, the dictionary contains all positive features, all flaws, and all paradoxes that can occur with single profile, sincere Borda elections. After the Borda Dictionary is characterized, it is used to show in what ways the Borda Count (BC) is an improvement over other positional voting methods and to derive several new BC properties. These properties include several new characterizations of the BC expressed in terms of axiomatic representations of social choice functions, as well as showing, for example, that the BC ranking ofn candidates can be uniquely determined by the BC rankings of all sets ofk <n candidates for any choice ofk between 2 andn.This research was supported, in part, by NSF grants IRI8415348, IRI-8803505 and a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.     

Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow? Home Futures,An Exhibition by the Design Museum,London in Partnership with IKEA Museum,Almhult – 2018-9

ABSTRACT

Home Futures, the major exhibition at the Design Museum, London, and IKEA Museum Sweden, explores the trajectory of radical domestic visions from the 1960s—but it seems that the future was closer in the 1960s than now.     

The Square of Polish Innocence: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and its symbolic topography

The text refers to the space around the Nathan Rapoport’s Monument to the Fighters and Martyrs of the Ghetto and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN in Warsaw (Poland). The site of death – at the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto – has now become a site overloaded with other symbolic messages. Two main symbolic centers (the 1948 Monument and the 2013 Museum) are today encircled by ten other, additional memorials. The message emerging from the content as well as the proportion of commemorations is that Polish solidarity with the Jews was a fact and it stood the test of terror and death brought by the Germans. Although it does not undermine the veracity of the few and isolated exceptions, such a version of events is drastically different from the actual facts. Both symbolic centers are perceived as emblems of Jewish minority narrative. Additional artefacts are a message formulated by the Polish majority. They constitute a kind of symbolic encirclement, block. Emphasizing the dominant majority’s version of the events in this place is in fact a symbolic pre-emptive action. It is meant to silence the unwanted narrative or suppress even the mere possibility that it might emerge. What turns out to be at stake in the dominant Polish narrative about the Holocaust and Polish-Jewish relations is the image of Poland and the Poles. This shows not only the topographic and symbolic situation but also the socio-cultural context of the functioning of the new Museum.     

The poison is the dose

A comparison of the city development of Munich (Germany) and Birmingham (England) shows the adverse consequences of excluding egalitarian‐minded organizations and perspectives from public decision making. Since the Second World War, Munich has become an economically thriving and beautiful city in which people from all walks of life can feel at home. During the same period of time, Birmingham has struggled economically, socially and aesthetically. Their diverging paths, from quite similar starting positions, can be explained with the help of the argument that in Munich a much more pluralistic policy regime has reigned, whereas in Birmingham egalitarian views have been ignored until very recently. Yet, another attempt at urban revitalization—this time in the multi‐ethnic, impoverished Schilderswijk in The Hague, the Netherlands—illustrates that policy making can also become too egalitarian. An in‐depth study of a municipal attempt to revitalize this neighbourhood reveals that this effort floundered, as it was overly infused with egalitarian concerns and values.     

Book Review

Abstract

Social Work in Rural Communities, 2nd ed., edited by Leon H. Ginsberg. Alexandria, VA: Council on Social Work Education. $13.00 (paper).     

博物馆——城市性格与魅力

博物馆已经逐渐成为城市文明的重要代表之一,通过对我国北京的故宫、英国伦敦的大英博物馆等国内外著名的博物馆的介绍说明人类文明发展史需要其作为载体去展示城市风采。并以南通博物苑、江苏省昆山市锦溪镇的中国民间博物馆之乡等活生生的例子说明,现代城市需要博物馆,有特色的博物馆将充分展现城市的性格与魅力．由此增强城市文化吸引力。     

城市博物馆的民俗陈列研究——以《香港故事》和《京城旧事:老北京民俗展》为例

在城市生活日益向信息化、智能化发展的时代,城市博物馆的民俗陈列,记录了百姓对旧生活的记忆、展示过去的民间生活历史。香港历史博物馆的《香港故事》和首都博物馆的《京城旧事:老北京民俗展》两个展览是城市博物馆民俗展示的典型代表,为国内博物馆界一致认可。本文以这两个展览为例,讨论城市博物馆如何选择民俗陈列的内容和展示手段,并探讨在城市现代化生活背景下民俗陈列的价值和特点。