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March 21, 2006
'Aqoul Books & Media, Guest Author, etc.
Now that the bloodletting has abated somewhat, I thought it would be a good time to formally launch 'Aqoul Books & Media. This new "sub-blog" replaces the Select Bibliography page (which used to be manually updated, or sadly neglected, by yours truly) and has a number of useful features, including the ability to pull product information directly from Amazon. Raf* and Tamerlane are the editors, so please direct all whiny complaints to them.
Also (and I do hate to bring this up but I will have to pay for another year's hosting very soon), making purchases via 'Aqoul will generate a little bit of referral revenue for us. Not that there is any expectation to do so, mind you. Books & Media is primarily a resource for 'Aqoul readers who wish to learn more about a MENA/Islam-related topic, but have no idea where to start.
In other news, guest author Shaheen will be publishing an entry very shortly on the enigma that is MEMRI.
Oh yes, we're going there.
Posted by eerie at March 21, 2006 06:52 PM
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Eerie, correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand you have nerdish tendencies. Why don't you host the blog yourself on a DSL connection? I mean, you pay for one right? (don't tell me you're still on neanderthal POTS). So why not simply use it? A Linux server and you're up, full steam.
Posted by: Shaheen at March 21, 2006 08:33 PM
Well first, my ISP caps the max upload speed. Not helpful if you're running a website. Also, it'd be a real headache securing the rest of my network if part of it had to be exposed that way. Too paranoid for that.
It's a lot easier to simply outsource security/backup/support. I already spend too much time on menial webmaster tasks, being a sysadmin would be even more tedious.
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at March 21, 2006 08:48 PM
THANKS for the books section!
A research request: Do any of you have recommendations for a good general history of the Fatimid era in Egypt?
Posted by: Anna in Cairo at March 22, 2006 01:52 AM
this seems to be the right place to say "great job" to all the authors of 'Aqoul ... for their entries, and now, for this book review section. keep it up.
Posted by: Lazarus at March 22, 2006 02:38 AM
Nice! Good luck!
Posted by: Ibn ad Dunya at March 22, 2006 05:43 AM
Why don't you host the blog yourself on a DSL connection? I mean, you pay for one right? (don't tell me you're still on neanderthal POTS). So why not simply use it? A Linux server and you're up, full steam.
E: Well first, my ISP caps the max upload speed.
I love it when the comments are in foreign languages.
Posted by: matthew hogan at March 22, 2006 06:19 AM
I love it when the comments are in foreign languages
And there I was thinking that eerie was talking dirty..
Posted by: Bint at March 22, 2006 11:29 AM
Aside from speed issues, which would be severe, self-hosting over a DSL connection is far less reliable than hosting with a provider. It also requires a static IP, which may or may not be provided depending on the ISP. Web-site hosting costs are pretty low, unless you require serious bandwidth.
Posted by: duaneg at March 22, 2006 11:58 AM
A research request: Do any of you have recommendations for a good general history of the Fatimid era in Egypt?
Tamerlane might have some recommendations. I'm sure he'll wander over here any minute now.
Posted by: eerie at March 22, 2006 01:32 PM
A research request: Do any of you have recommendations for a good general history of the Fatimid era in Egypt?
Tamerlane might have some recommendations.
Sadly, I do not - a gaping hole in my collection ( actually I have more than a few ). However if it is any consolation, I'm now inspired to pick up this one :) :
It seems recent, it's reasonably priced and a brief poking about shows the author to have published a number of Isma'ili oriented works, so he has some background.
The few other volumes I turned up were mostly out of print ( even the recentish ones ), hideously expensive, or both.
Posted by: Tamerlane at March 22, 2006 05:22 PM
Tamerlane, Thanks. I will check the AUC bookstore for it. If I read it, I will send a review to you guys.
Posted by: Anna in Cairo at March 23, 2006 12:46 AM
