{"id":6261,"date":"2024-05-02T00:46:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T20:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/?p=6261"},"modified":"2024-08-02T00:50:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:50:30","slug":"lecture-at-abu-dhabi-international-bookfair-1st-may-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/lecture-at-abu-dhabi-international-bookfair-1st-may-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture at Abu Dhabi International Bookfair 1st May 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic1-1024x804.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic1-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic1-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic1-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic1-1536x1207.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic1-2048x1609.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic5-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic5-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/ADNEC-Bookfair-2014-pic5-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 May 2024 &#8211; I gave a lecture entitled \u201cA Thousand and One Fossils: A Lecture on the History of Abu Dhabi\u201d at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, held at the Abu Dhabi International Exhibition Centre. The event was part of the Inspire: Cultural Programme \u2013 Venue: Lifestyle Corner \u2013 Hall 9; Wednesday 1st May 2024 at 5:00 pm. This was linked to the publication of the book:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1001-Fossils-en.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1001-Fossils-en-1024x774.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1001-Fossils-en-1024x774.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1001-Fossils-en-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1001-Fossils-en-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1001-Fossils-en-1536x1161.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1001-Fossils-en.jpg 1654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bibi, F., A. Hill and M. Beech. 2017. <em>A Thousand and One Fossils \u2013 Discoveries in the Desert at Al Gharbia<\/em>. Yale University Publications in Anthropology and Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority. ISBN 978-1933789071.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/book\/9781933789071\/thousand-and-one-fossils\">http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/book\/9781933789071\/thousand-and-one-fossils<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 May 2024 &#8211; I gave a lecture entitled \u201cA Thousand and One Fossils: A Lecture on the History of Abu Dhabi\u201d at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, held at the Abu Dhabi International Exhibition Centre. The event was part of the Inspire: Cultural Programme \u2013 Venue: Lifestyle Corner \u2013 Hall 9; Wednesday 1st &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/lecture-at-abu-dhabi-international-bookfair-1st-may-2024\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lecture at Abu Dhabi International Bookfair 1st May 2024<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6263,"href":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions\/6263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markbeech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}