harem


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Synonyms for harem

women's quarters

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Synonyms for harem

living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household

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The sources went on to say that the fresh clashes between the two rival groups have sparked a wave of fear among the locals in Harem.
Caption: Alix Pearlstein, Harem ROOM-1 (detail), 2016.
Chapter two abruptly turns to the tradition of eunuchs in the Byzantine empire, inaccurately positing that the Ottomans simply adopted the principal Byzantine ruling institutions, up to and including the employment of harem eunuchs.
"The Shogun's Harem"starts at 6pm and Lesley will tell stories of the life, luxury, intrigue and power wielded within the walls of the Women's Palace based on the story of Princess Atsu, the Satsuma girl sent at the age of 20 to be the shogun's bride and the heroine of Lesley's most recent novel,The Shogun's Queen.
Listening to a band like Harem, and long time lead guitarist Pete Lesperance was topnotch.
Victime du tremblement de terre qui a devaste Agadir le 29 fevrier 1960, Harem a ete adopte par une famille belge.
The women in these pictures have become literal odalisques, 'caged' amongst other acquisitions in the 'cabinet of curiosities' of the male dominion, the harem," the artist says.
"So I'm afraid that these two ladies have just made themselves political concubines in Carwyn's harem. What a gruesome prospect that must be."
She comments on the misrepresentation of Arab women and culture in Orientalist art and in the West as she elaborates on the definitions of her basic topoi--the veil, the odalisque, and the harem. She assigns political significance to the participation of her Moroccan models in the creation of her works.
Set in the 16th century, the TV show Magnificent Century, known in the Gulf as Harem Al Sultan, is based on the life of Ottoman Sultan SE-leyman the Magnificent, the longest reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and his wife HE-rrem Sultan, a slave girl who became Sultana.
La defunte, qui s'est interessee au statut de la femme dans l'islam, a ecrit, en langue francaise, plusieurs livres qui ont ete traduits dans plusieurs langues, notamment l'arabe et l'anglais, dont [beaucoup moins que] Le Harem politique [beaucoup plus grand que], [beaucoup moins que] Le Monde n'est pas un harem [beaucoup plus grand que], [beaucoup moins que] Sexe, ideologie et islam [beaucoup plus grand que] et [beaucoup moins que] Chahrazade n'est pas marocaine [beaucoup plus grand que].
It's never easy to call a bull elk away from his harem of cows, but it can be done, and one way to do it is with the new Flextone Bull Rush Glunker" ($17.99).
A s part of the QatarTurkey 2015 Year of Culture activities, Turkey-based Dogus Group and a couple of other Turkish companies have jointly brought to life the splendour of the Ottoman Empire, wrapped up in a show 'Harem Al Sultan: The Exhibition', currently on display at QM Gallery Building 10 in Katara.