Michael Haag

First edition published 4 June 1924. In their lifetimes books pass through many hands.  Sometimes it is possible, and ...

Two young Slovene women in Alexandria. In his film Aleksandrinke , Metod Pevec, a Slovenian documentary filmmaker, has told the moving s...

The view from the Athineos Café across Alexandria's Eastern Harbour towards Fort Qayt Bey, built on the site of the a...

I was prompted to write the above letter to The New York Times after reading Jeanette Winterson's review of Renegade: Henry M...

The designers at Profile Books have been coming up with cover designs for The Tragedy of the Templars .    This cover artwork is the favo...

The following is a letter written by Michael Haag immediately after taking part in the Liquid Continent programme at the Bibliotheca (see h...

To Alexandria with Eve Durrell by Michael Haag first appeared in Deus Loci , the Lawrence Durrell Journal, NS11 2008-2009. I met Eve Durr...

Camille Fox is a painter in Sydney, Australia, but as she says 'I come from an ancient land'. She was born in Alexandria when it w...

The following resume of the life of Ahmed Hassanein is from the Introduction by Michael Haag to the American University in Cairo Press...

Michael Haag: 'Uno storico, vorrei aggiungere, dotato di una penna dalle notevoli capacità letterarie. La città di parole è infatti una ...

The secret tunnel of the Templars at Acre ran beneath their fortress and the city and out into the sea. After the fall of Acre in 1291 th...