Vol 5#4 Women of Power
Continuation of Ottoman Empire Issue 5#3:
Available in Adobe PDF on CD-ROM ONLY no longer available in print
Harem: The Forbidden City
Rise and Fall of the "Reign of Favored Women": when women's wiles...
and astute political minds... ruled the (Ottoman) world.
Ottoman Women of Power: Hurrem Sultana (Roxalena, a Russian) / Nur Banu Sultana (Cecelia Baffo-Venier, Venetian) / Kosem Sultana (Greek) / Nakeshedil Sultana (Aimee debucq de Rivery, French)
Profiles of the women who rose from hareem slavery to wield absolute power and their struggles and stratagies to keep it.
Ottoman Empire in Egypt
The Ottomans ruled in Egypt from 1517 when Selim the Grim conquered the Mamluks until Napoleon's invasion in 1798.
PURE: Dance of Power, Dance of Peace by Jezibell
The PURE project: Public Urban Ritual Experiment
An account of one of the most exceptional expressions of compassion, healing
and humanity through World/Middle Eastern Dance idioms in New York City;
a changing application in a changed world since the 9/11 tragedy.
