The Perverse Appeal of Anti-Heroes
Why do some people seek straightforward narratives that present heroes they can admire, while others (like me) are drawn to ambiguous...
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ismailmatthew
- Nov 25, 2022
- 1 min
The Perfect Gift For the Reader in Your Life
Wallis Budge: Magic and Mummies in London and Cairo (Rev. Ed, 2021), was researched and written with readers in mind. I wrote Wallis...
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ismailmatthew
- Oct 27, 2022
- 3 min
Bodmin, Cornwall and E. A. Wallis Budge
When people read that E. A. Wallis Budge was born as the illegitimate son of a country girl in Bodin, Cornwall, in 1857 they don't...
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ismailmatthew
- Aug 23, 2022
- 1 min
Iraqis Who Sold Ancient Tablets to the British Museum
Nadia Ghanem of SOAS recently published a very interesting article about Joseph Svoboda, a 19th and early 20th century Iraqi who made a...
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ismailmatthew
- Aug 15, 2022
- 1 min
"From Bastard to Knight of the Realm: The Spectacular Success Story of Sir Ernest Wallis Budge"
The anthropologist, African traveler, and writer Geoffrey Clarfield recently published an excellent article on Wallis Budge: Magic and...
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ismailmatthew
- Jun 17, 2022
- 17 min
"Forward" to Wallis Budge: Magic and Mummies in London and Cairo
Please enjoy the "Forward" to my biography, Wallis Budge: Magic and Mummies in London and Cairo (Dost Publishing, 2021). On November 28th...
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ismailmatthew
- Apr 27, 2022
- 3 min
Writing Biography: For or Against Budge?
One of the odd questions I often got when writing about E. A. Wallis Budge was, "Are you for or against Budge?" This question always left...
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ismailmatthew
- Apr 18, 2022
- 2 min
Writing Wallis Budge
I wrote Wallis Budge: Magic and Mummies in London and Cairo, in my own time, since I was not an academic and writing books was not part...
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ismailmatthew
- Feb 1, 2022
- 5 min
E. A. Wallis Budge's Victorian Life: Living the Great Novel
For many years, beginning when I was a teenager, I loved to read Victorian novels. I especially liked long and sprawling works in which...
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ismailmatthew
- Jan 17, 2022
- 2 min
Egyptology and Imperialism
While standard histories of Egyptology tend to focus on the development of "scientific" Egyptology and its methods and institutions in...
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ismailmatthew
- Nov 29, 2021
- 6 min
Wallis Budge: A New Edition 10 Years Later
Ten years ago, in 2011, after years of research and writing, I published Wallis Budge: Magic and Mummies in London and Cairo with the...
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