Download or read book Asmara an urban history written by Belula Tecle-Misghina and published by Edizioni Nuova Cultura. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like any city, Asmara, a young city even by the standards of young African capitals, is a stage set where the drama of history has unfolded in the most intense and eloquent manner. The territory of Asmara stands at the edge of a space of almost mythical civilisations, ancient religions and proud empires. It is also a natural acropolis in the vastness of Africa, an astoundingly high crest that looks down from above on the coast of the “Eritrean” sea, coming to a halt where the Afar Rift expands and, year after year, rips into the heart of Africa where lions and gnus still roam free. However, in its body, and thus in its history, Asmara is also a fragment of Europe, imported atop the undulating highlands of Hamasien by the presumption of the most fragile and thus most presumptuous of colonial nations: Italy. Less than 130 years later history appears to have intentionally concentrated a host of events, projects, interests, delusions, conflicts and hopes in Asmara that, within the vaster expanses of historical time could have filled dozens of centuries. These metamorphoses were similar to immense waves lapping at a resistant soil, introducing and withdrawing diverse foreign armies, peoples, languages and cultures; and adversities. The results of so much labour have forged the identity of Eritrea, jealously defended for decades, and jealously guarded to this day. Looking carefully in libraries, among printed works dedicated to particular aspects of this identity – numerous and some very important – it is impossible to find a history of Eritrea that is scientifically complete and up to date. This is a serious shortcoming. Yet everything has remained impressed upon the land and, even more eloquently, on the city, on the face and limbs of Asmara. Hence the reconstruction, like that made by the author of this book, of the difficult process of planning the city signifies not only restoring, similar to an animation, the history of the complex growth of an urban organism. Lucio Valerio Barbera UNESCO Chairholder in “Sustainable Urban Qaality and Urban Culture, notably in Africa”, Sapienza Università di Roma At the end of the Thirties, from Naples to Massawa (the ‘Port of Empire’, since 1890 an important commer-cial base and natural access point for anyone wishing to reach Asmara and the Eritrean uplands), the voyage took five days; from the port one could reach the capital of the Colony by train, on an intrepid mountain rail-way, or by a motor road, Road n° 1 from Dogali – Asmara was only 120 km away. If one wanted to make the journey by air, it took three and a half days, thanks to the ‘Empire Line’, which involved taking a seaplane from the Carlo Del Prete base in Ostia to Benghazi in Libya, and then a plane to the Umberto Maddalena Airport in Asmara, with stops at Cairo, Wadi Haifa, Khartoum and Càssala, on the Sudanese border. And right next door to the Airport stood the Teleferica Massawa-Asmara, an extraordinary cableway for transporting goods up on to the plateau, at a height difference of 2,326 metres; the cableway had been built in two years, between 1935 and 1937, and at a length of 75 km, was the longest industrial cableway system in the world. It could move in one day the equivalent of thirty train loads, but it was at its full operational capacity for only a few years: in 1941 it was damaged in the war with the British, and ten years later, when Eritrea became a British Protectorate, it was unexpectedly decided to dismantle it. capital of the new country. These events act as a backdrop and form a solid framework for Tecle Misghina’s research – which is not only meticulous but emotionally involved – of which this book is a well-documented summary. Her research is important in that it reconfigures and puts in order various documents, both known and unpublished, in order to build up a chronology and an armoury of references that are indispensable for anyone wishing to carry out further studies on the Eritrean capital. For a project developed within a Doctoral programme, this is, in my opinion, the most important outcome of her research. Piero Ostilio Rossi, Director of the Department of Architecture and Design, Sapienza Università di Roma

Download or read book To Asmara written by Thomas Keneally and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disillusioned reporter joins three fellow Westerners on a journey of discovery through the raging fires of a brutal East African conflict With his own life in flux, Timothy Darcy, an Australian journalist, finds escape in the ongoing turmoil of Eritrea. Entering the war-torn East African region with three Western strangers on missions of their own—Christine, a young Frenchwoman searching for her lost cinematographer father; Lady Julia, an aging British feminist; and Mark Henry, an American aid worker whose motives are masked in shadow—Darcy is plunged into the center of a twenty-five-year-long conflict between Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie’s army and Eritrean guerillas. Witnessing scenes of brutality, starvation, and oppression as they venture ever deeper into the true heart of darkness, the dispassionate reporter and his companions will never be the same. Based on his own firsthand experiences in Africa, Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed Man Booker Prize–winning author of Schindler’s List, delivers a powerful and profoundly moving novel of war, injustice, commitment, courage, and self-discovery set amid the horrors and tragedy of the vicious Eritrean conflict.

Download or read book Bayu Asmara written by Ilani Mysara and published by Alaf 21. This book was released on 2006 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mimpi-mimpi itu menjelma kembali mengganggu hidupnya. Mimpi yang meresahkan fikiran. Mimpi yang mula menuntut hak untuk berada di hati kecilnya. Puas ditepis dan ditolak, tapi semakin dekat hingga membuatkan dirinya merantau mencari siapakah gerangan yang ingin mendampingi cintanya.

Download or read book Terkena Asmara Di Jakarta English written by Andi Sulistiadi and published by Anthesianz. This book was released on 2022-03-19 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zuki, the young man who has big dream in the city of Jakarta. Learning the true meaning of love , from the gentle-hearted girl, Asmara. Zuki is in love! Although, at the end he must walk alone to achieve his big dream.

Download or read book Cold Coffee in Asmara written by Andrew Goss and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When traumatised aid worker John Cousins arrives in north-east Africa he hopes to find a sense of personal peace among a gentle people rebuilding their lives following a bitter and prolonged war. In Eritrea he begins to forget his own emotional pain and lay to rest the ghosts of his previous mission in Pakistan. Will the work with fellow aid worker and nurse Hannah Johnson help heal the scars? And what is the secret of her own past? Cold Coffee in Asmara is a story of personal loss, redemption and love set against a backdrop of humanitarian work in a remote corner of the world where African, Arab and European influences collide.

Download or read book From Asmara to the Yarra written by Ibrahim Hajj and published by Australian Self Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kami Bukan Fakir Asmara Unedited Version written by J.S. Khairen and published by J.S. Khairen. This book was released on 2021-09-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jika fakir miskin dipelihara oleh negara, maka siapa yang memelihara fakir asmara? Patah hati? Sudah sering. Jadi badut yang hanya menghibur saja? Pekerjaan sehari-hari. Ditinggal saat lagi sayang-sayangnya? Sudah level dewa. Dalam tiga serial sebelumnya, para mahasiswa dan alumni Kampus UDEL yang menjadi pusat cerita. Maka di judul ke 3.5 ini, dosen mereka yang inspiratif itu yang jadi tokoh utama. Ya! Lira Estrini. Kita akan mendapat suguhan perjalanan asmara, dari sang dokter rekayasa genetika hewan ini. Perjalanan asmara Lira sejak remaja, hingga usia kepala tiga. Sejak ia masih mahasiswa baru di Kampus UDIN, hingga Lira menjadi dosen dan melihat satu per satu mahasiswanya menikah. Pertanyaan itulah yang muncul terus di kepala Lira. Dengan siapa menikah? Kapan sih seharusnya menikah? Atau, perlukah menikah? Akankah Lira, mampu memecahkan teka-teki besar ini, dan menemukan rumus apa itu cinta? Di depan kelas, di laboratorium, ia memang seorang jenius. Tapi di panggung yang satu ini, Lira yang justru perlu belajar pada para mahasiswanya. Serial ini wajib dibaca oleh pelajar SMA, mahasiswa, para orangtua, karyawan, petinggi perusahaan, para pengambil kebijakan di institusi, pendidik, anak start-up, anak muda berkarya, pengemudi ojek online, abang ondel-ondel, hingga Presiden Rusia, karena tiga novel sebelumnya sudah dibaca oleh Presiden Amerika Serikat dan Presiden Korea Utara, agar kita bisa memutuskan fakir asmara harus dipelihara oleh siapa.

Download or read book Asmara s Summer written by Andaleeb Wajid and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a month, I’m going to be living a lie.' Seventeen-year-old Asmara is popular, funny and pretty, but has a secret that could destroy her street cred in college: her grandparents live on Tannery Road, an area known for its lower-middle-class Muslim population—an area she’s always ensured she’s avoided. And now, to her horror, she discovers that she must spend her entire summer vacation there. Will it be a nightmare, or a lesson in self-discovery? Or both? Will Asmara find herself in the bylanes of Tannery Road?

Download or read book Asmara written by Edward Denison and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asmara, the capital of the small East African country of Eritrea, bordering the Red Sea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural 'discoveries' of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, who transformed it into a hotbed of radical architectural innovation, Asmara has one of the highest concentrations of Modernist architecture anywhere in the world. This superb building-by-building survey, illustrated with previously unpublished archival material and specially commissioned photography, chronicles the colonial past and remarkable survival of a city that has evocatively been described as "the Miami of Africa."

Download or read book Asmara written by Edward Denison and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, is one of the most exciting architectural `discoveries' of recent years: built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, it became a prime location for architectural innovation. This groundbreaking and superbly illustrated study reveals the full extent of Asmara's remarkable survival and confirms its status as one of the world's finest Modernist cities.

Download or read book Asmara Walks written by Walter Machts and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Towards Asmara written by Thomas Keneally and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Eritrean struggle for independence from Ethiopia, four Westerners travel under Eritrean rebel escort through a land of savage beauty and bitter drought towards the ancient capital of Asmara. Each is on a personal mission, all are irrevocably changed as they bear witness to the devastation of war as well as to the Eritreans' courage and humanity in the face of constant attack.

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