
EI Weekly Listen—Fantasy in Middle Eastern nation-making by Nathan Shachar
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Gothicism in the Middle East
During sweden's short century as a european super power, scientists at upsala university proved that the swedes were the descendants of the biblical noah. Gothicism kept appearing in swedish thought and poetry well into the nineteenth century. The leading nationalist spanish historian of the twentieth century saw modern spaniards as romanized goths who hibernated through the many moslem centuries.
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