goes, has an affair with Catherine of Russia, joins a harem briefly because he is hiding from someone,-- >>Interviewer: Jennifer Egan: and so he is dressed up as a girl and then, wouldn't you know it, the sultan picks him to spend the night with.Jennifer Egan: I mean, there is just such a great adventure story and but it’s also very modern.
And I'm looking for some evidence of this thing that Ann seems to be writing about. So Sultana doesn't go to school anymore.
bottle caps and pieces of foam cigarette lighters I mean bottle caps are a big problem that's one of the reasons we're supporting sultanas bill to make a leash law to keep the bottle caps leashed to the model just like we have beer tabs pop tops leash to the can because if you
day. Now um on top of that we also have this other case which was just last year in Telis Sultan in uh southern Gaza where the UN did a lot to um publicize what exactly had happened here where 15 um paramedics but also a UN worker were
And if I zoom in on what I know the best, Abu Dhabi and the UAE, when you see Barjeel, the collection of Sultan Al Qassemi, who's a great collector and a great scholar, he has a fantastic way of representing and witnessing this-- showcasing this vitality of the Arab world and the Middle East, not only of the Middle Eastern arts and a few decades ago,
first minister for AI. His name is Omar Sultan Al Olama. He is the UAE's minister for artificial intelligence.
But that, as you know, it takes place as a storytelling scene in bed. So the sultan is killing all the women in his country, because he believes that all women are perfidious, treacherous adulteresses, so he's decided to murder them all.
Scheherazade tells many, many varied stories across a gamut of very terrifying situations, to the sultan , and the ultimate aim is that he should see the error of his ways, that he should see that there were other ways of responding to adultery than cutting off the heads of all women.
is the translator. And the Turkish word for this kind of translator is "dragoman." And there's a lovely bit in one of their letters where the sultan writes-- Elizabeth has written a letter to Sultan Murad III. And he writes back, "Thank you, Monarch, for demonstrating your subservience and devotion to me."
video. The greatest guitar solo, period. live performance of Sultans of Swing. For me, Brothers in Arms, these kind of- - Great - ... soulful, mournful type of
And after college, after finishing my masters, I had done a module kind of on statistics and stuff. And Marty from The Sultans used to have a fanzine at the time called "No More Plastic Pitches," which was a football fanzine, and we decided to put a questionnaire that I designed-- because I was so mad about myself.
of . In his pocket was a piece of a blue diamond that had once belonged, so I was told, to European royalty, as well as to the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. After entering Israel, the young man took a bus to Tel Aviv.
So not only do we have the artworks that you can zoom in forever and ever, but we also have exhibitions. So if someone says, Sultan , what did you show in Tehran in 2016? I don't know what were the works that were in your exhibition, I tell them, go on Google, and you will see the exhibition, the works that were shown.
Now my next example is from back in the 16th century. And who we have here is the Ottoman sultan in Constantinople, Sultan Murad III, and we have Queen Elizabeth I of England.
hallway what's wrong with your throat he was choking me let me see who was choking you Nar the leader of the cult of the demon Sultan aatha Gilman there are bruises on your neck what happened I think I'm in
And there may be many reasons. on flute, Sultan Khan on sarangi, Rais Khan on sitar.
So there's my sister there confirming that story. And then I suppose it was just-- Marty from The Sultans taught me how to play drums. I played drums very badly.
And I'm looking for some evidence of this thing that Ann seems to be writing about. And right now, Sultana is in the United States doing research with one of the top physicists at MIT.
the industry as well and it was time for his performance appraisal and he swaggers into my room collar is raised could never do not once but twice which is why he called Sultan of Multan he scored those
video. The greatest guitar solo, period. His improvisation, like the live performances of Sultans of Swing that's been actually going like somewhat viral around recently, his pretty old
talking about. So this is what this aunt of his, born in Damascus, who had met the Turkish sultan Abdul Hamid, and who got this blue diamond from him, from the Turkish sultan , she says that to her beloved nephew in Tel Aviv when he's a child. She says, "'I always tell you everything that happened, Menashe, because you are a very sweet boy.
Because when I was reading the Arabian Nights very intensively, it was the beginning of the war in Syria. And it was clear-- Assad kept coming up in my mind as I read about this sultan who was so extreme and violent. And of course we know that however many stories we tell Assad, he doesn't change his views.
I need to put it into language in a way that is going to be acceptable in the community I'm putting it into language for. So the general point I want to take from this Elizabeth I and Sultan Murad instance is that translation's always got an element of diplomacy in it.
Reminded me of the golden tickets in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." And so he told me the Sultan of Johor had bought one.
"Just make a wish," I said helpfully, "And I could have a meal fit for a sultan brought in to you.
used primarily for chariot racing and imperial ceremony, and today survives in Istanbul's Sultanahmet district.
He's called Menashe. And I think that this summarizes quite well all that I was just talking about. So this is what this aunt of his, born in Damascus, who had met the Turkish sultan Abdul Hamid, and who got this blue diamond from him, from the Turkish sultan , she says that to her beloved nephew in Tel Aviv when he's a child.
He has told us how it happened, what happened. So when you look at the painting, you're like, ah, Sultan is just talking shit. It's a painting of a man sitting down on the ground.
And they were an administrative marvel, until they decided that the technological developments happening threaten their power base vis-a-vis the sultan .
happens. And the first way is the divine right of kings and there was a point in time where everybody in the world was basically governed by some king, sultan , whatever Khan, whatever it was
video. The greatest guitar solo, period. - Yes. And I did have Mark Knopfler on my list, Sultans of Swing.
Before school, I had a really good friend, Philip Kennedy, who had a really good taste in music. And another friend of ours was a guy called Marty McCarthy, who's the drummer in the Sultans of Ping. And then we used to hang around with Frank Walters as well.