It seems to be endlessly repeated throughout civilisations".
A carefully-managed Manama conference on the "dialogue of civilisations" included Christian and Jewish delegations but excluded mainstream Shia or opposition clerics.
If it is good that civilisations compete to promote new syntheses, it is monstrous that they devour one another".
The hasta is a unit of measurement devised by the Harappan (the most ancient of India's urban civilisations along the Indus) and akin to the cubit used in Sumeria (the most ancient urban culture of Iraq) and ancient Egypt.
"There's a shared sense of belonging to ancient civilisations that has helped lay the foundations for what we are seeing now," says Mercouris who has organised several groundbreaking shows in China as Greece's pre-eminent curator of exhibitions.
In the row about the alleged Islamisation of Birmingham schools, rumours about children tutored in extremism were bound to grip a man with "clash of civilisations" tendencies.
A strong proponent of a dialogue rather than a clash of civilisations, Anwar recently defended the use of the word "Allah" by Malaysia's Christian community, an issue that has inflamed tensions between the country's Muslims and Christians.
And why have such civilisations come to birth at all?
For those given to hyperbole, Sulaimaan Samuel's job could be seen as being on the frontline of a clash of civilisations.
And who would want it, in these circumstances?" "I reflect on how wrong I was to assume that foreign ministers were a lot full of lively interest in the cultures and civilisations of the planet, scholars of statecraft, apostles of diplomacy".
Later, as rheumatoid arthritis took over the joints of her hands, print and collage techniques allowed her to create paper friezes and murals, many of them epic in both scale and ambition, and typically featuring a multitude of images of women – from the art of ancient civilisations to the mass-media image-world of the present.
