Like any city, Asmara, a young city even by the standards of young African capitals, is a stage set where the drama of history has unfolded in the most intense and eloquent manner. The territory of Asmara stands at the edge of a space of almost mythical civilisations, ancient religions and proud empires. It is also a natural acropolis in the vastness of Africa, an astoundingly high crest that looks down from above on the coast of the “Eritrean” sea, coming to a halt where the Afar Rift expands and, year after year, rips into the heart of Africa where lions and gnus still roam free. However, in its body, and thus in its history, Asmara is also a fragment of Europe, imported atop the undulating highlands of Hamasien by the presumption of the most fragile and thus most presumptuous of colonial nations: Italy. Less than 130 years later history appears to have intentionally concentrated a host of events, projects, interests, delusions, conflicts and hopes in Asmara that, within the vaster expanses of historical time could have filled dozens of centuries. These metamorphoses were similar to immense waves lapping at a resistant soil, introducing and withdrawing diverse foreign armies, peoples, languages and cultures; and adversities. The results of so much labour have forged the identity of Eritrea, jealously defended for decades, and jealously guarded to this day. Looking carefully in libraries, among printed works dedicated to particular aspects of this identity – numerous and some very important – it is impossible to find a history of Eritrea that is scientifically complete and up to date. This is a serious shortcoming. Yet everything has remained impressed upon the land and, even more eloquently, on the city, on the face and limbs of Asmara. Hence the reconstruction, like that made by the author of this book, of the difficult process of planning the city signifies not only restoring, similar to an animation, the history of the complex growth of an urban organism. Lucio Valerio Barbera UNESCO Chairholder in “Sustainable Urban Qaality and Urban Culture, notably in Africa”, Sapienza Università di Roma At the end of the Thirties, from Naples to Massawa (the ‘Port of Empire’, since 1890 an important commer-cial base and natural access point for anyone wishing to reach Asmara and the Eritrean uplands), the voyage took five days; from the port one could reach the capital of the Colony by train, on an intrepid mountain rail-way, or by a motor road, Road n° 1 from Dogali – Asmara was only 120 km away. If one wanted to make the journey by air, it took three and a half days, thanks to the ‘Empire Line’, which involved taking a seaplane from the Carlo Del Prete base in Ostia to Benghazi in Libya, and then a plane to the Umberto Maddalena Airport in Asmara, with stops at Cairo, Wadi Haifa, Khartoum and Càssala, on the Sudanese border. And right next door to the Airport stood the Teleferica Massawa-Asmara, an extraordinary cableway for transporting goods up on to the plateau, at a height difference of 2,326 metres; the cableway had been built in two years, between 1935 and 1937, and at a length of 75 km, was the longest industrial cableway system in the world. It could move in one day the equivalent of thirty train loads, but it was at its full operational capacity for only a few years: in 1941 it was damaged in the war with the British, and ten years later, when Eritrea became a British Protectorate, it was unexpectedly decided to dismantle it. capital of the new country. These events act as a backdrop and form a solid framework for Tecle Misghina’s research – which is not only meticulous but emotionally involved – of which this book is a well-documented summary. Her research is important in that it reconfigures and puts in order various documents, both known and unpublished, in order to build up a chronology and an armoury of references that are indispensable for anyone wishing to carry out further studies on the Eritrean capital. For a project developed within a Doctoral programme, this is, in my opinion, the most important outcome of her research. Piero Ostilio Rossi, Director of the Department of Architecture and Design, Sapienza Università di Roma

Mimpi-mimpi itu menjelma kembali mengganggu hidupnya. Mimpi yang meresahkan fikiran. Mimpi yang mula menuntut hak untuk berada di hati kecilnya. Puas ditepis dan ditolak, tapi semakin dekat hingga membuatkan dirinya merantau mencari siapakah gerangan yang ingin mendampingi cintanya.

Zuki, the young man who has big dream in the city of Jakarta. Learning the true meaning of love , from the gentle-hearted girl, Asmara. Zuki is in love! Although, at the end he must walk alone to achieve his big dream.

When traumatised aid worker John Cousins arrives in north-east Africa he hopes to find a sense of personal peace among a gentle people rebuilding their lives following a bitter and prolonged war. In Eritrea he begins to forget his own emotional pain and lay to rest the ghosts of his previous mission in Pakistan. Will the work with fellow aid worker and nurse Hannah Johnson help heal the scars? And what is the secret of her own past? Cold Coffee in Asmara is a story of personal loss, redemption and love set against a backdrop of humanitarian work in a remote corner of the world where African, Arab and European influences collide.

City Maps Asmara Eritrea is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun Asmara adventure :)

Jika fakir miskin dipelihara oleh negara, maka siapa yang memelihara fakir asmara? Patah hati? Sudah sering. Jadi badut yang hanya menghibur saja? Pekerjaan sehari-hari. Ditinggal saat lagi sayang-sayangnya? Sudah level dewa. Dalam tiga serial sebelumnya, para mahasiswa dan alumni Kampus UDEL yang menjadi pusat cerita. Maka di judul ke 3.5 ini, dosen mereka yang inspiratif itu yang jadi tokoh utama. Ya! Lira Estrini. Kita akan mendapat suguhan perjalanan asmara, dari sang dokter rekayasa genetika hewan ini. Perjalanan asmara Lira sejak remaja, hingga usia kepala tiga. Sejak ia masih mahasiswa baru di Kampus UDIN, hingga Lira menjadi dosen dan melihat satu per satu mahasiswanya menikah. Pertanyaan itulah yang muncul terus di kepala Lira. Dengan siapa menikah? Kapan sih seharusnya menikah? Atau, perlukah menikah? Akankah Lira, mampu memecahkan teka-teki besar ini, dan menemukan rumus apa itu cinta? Di depan kelas, di laboratorium, ia memang seorang jenius. Tapi di panggung yang satu ini, Lira yang justru perlu belajar pada para mahasiswanya. Serial ini wajib dibaca oleh pelajar SMA, mahasiswa, para orangtua, karyawan, petinggi perusahaan, para pengambil kebijakan di institusi, pendidik, anak start-up, anak muda berkarya, pengemudi ojek online, abang ondel-ondel, hingga Presiden Rusia, karena tiga novel sebelumnya sudah dibaca oleh Presiden Amerika Serikat dan Presiden Korea Utara, agar kita bisa memutuskan fakir asmara harus dipelihara oleh siapa.