Time for the obvious statement of the day: technology is difficult to keep up with because it changes so much. Let’s take an iPod for example: I bought my most recent player three years ago, and while it continues to faithfully entertain me with tunes, it has become outrageously outdated by newer iPods. New models [...] Read more »
Archive of posts filed under the Middle Eastern Studies category.
No, Really! There’s an app for that!
Posted by Alyssa on 9 August 2010, 9:54 am
Filed under Cultural Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Religion, Technology.
Tagged Ethics, gary bunt, imuslim, technology
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The Voices of Israeli Government and Israeli Dissent
Posted by Ellen on 8 June 2010, 9:14 am
In his newly released book Zeal for Zion: Christians, Jews, and the Idea of the Promised Land, Shalom Goldman argues that Jewish Zionism was influenced by–and cannot be understood in isolation from–Christian culture generally and Christian Zionist culture specifically. Shedding light on the deep and interrelated roots of Christian-Jewish relations, fraught with tension and ambivalence, [...] Read more »
Filed under Current Events, Middle Eastern Studies, Politics, Religion, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged american jewish organizations, anti-zionist, arab-israeli relations, christian zionism, daily alert, elliot abrams, freedom flotilla, gaza, joe leiberman, michael oren, non-zionist, sean hannity, shalom goldman, west bank, zionism
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Karzai and the Shadow of Diem
Posted by Ellen on 6 April 2010, 6:54 am
“We’re frustrated,” conceded President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, on Monday. The U.S. relationship with Afghan president Hamid Karzai is currently strained, to say the least. Offering some historical perspective on the situation, we welcome a guest post today from Michael H. Hunt, whose most recent book, A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Current Events, Guest Bloggers, History, Michael H. Hunt, Middle Eastern Studies, Military History, Politics, Public Policy.
Tagged barack obama, hamid karzai, john f. kennedy, lyndon johnson, ngo dinh diem, saigon, u.s. afghanistan policy, u.s. vietnam policy
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The Delicate Art of Nuclear Jujutsu
Posted by Ellen on 6 January 2010, 4:54 pm
In this first post of the new year, new decade, as concerns over the nuclear programs of countries such as Iran and North Korea continue to make headlines, we welcome the following commentary from Shane J. Maddock, author of Nuclear Apartheid: The Quest for American Atomic Supremacy from World War II to the Present (forthcoming [...] Read more »
Filed under Asian Studies, Current Events, Guest Bloggers, History, Middle Eastern Studies, Military Studies.
Tagged afghanistan, al qaeda, barack obama, china, george w. bush, india, Iran, mahmoud ahmadinejad, mohammed khatami, new delhi, north korea, nuclear apartheid, nuclear power production, nuclear technology, nuclear threat, nuclear weapons, osama bin laden, pakistan, pyongyang, taliban
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Gary Bunt on the 2009 Iranian presidential elections…
Posted by admin on 22 June 2009, 1:01 pm
Gary R. Bunt, senior lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Wales, was kind enough to share his time and thoughts on the events surrounding the 2009 Iranian presidential election, the protests, and the deeply entrenched tensions between politics and religion. His most recent book, iMuslims, sheds new light on the nature of contemporary [...] Read more »
Filed under Events, Guest Bloggers, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Religion, UNC Press News.
Tagged blogosphere, blogs, community, elections, facebook, Farsi, Flickr, gary bunt, government, Hossein Derakhshan, Hossein Mousavi, identity, iMuslims, international media, internet, internet revolution, Iran, Iranians, islam, Islamic Republic, middle east, muslim, Neda Agha Soltan, online, Politics, presidential election, protests, religon, social networking, technology, texts, tweeting, twitter, YouTube
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Authors speak: interviews, op-eds, and more
Posted by admin on 6 May 2009, 4:10 pm
We’ve got several authors out there making appearances online in various forms. If you’ve missed some of the live appearances in this busy spring, take a moment to follow-up virtually. In history… Russell McClintock, author of Lincoln and the Decision for War, was interviewed recently by Michael Noirot over at This Mighty Scourge. An excerpt [...] Read more »
Filed under African American Studies, American History, Civil War, Cuba, Current Events, History, Interviews, Islamic Studies, Latin American/Caribbean Hist., Middle Eastern Studies, Native American Studies, Politics, Religion, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged amy wood, cocaine, gary bunt, islam, louis perez, lynching, michael noirot, native american religion, paul gootenberg, paul harvey, russell mcclintock, tisa wenger, us-cuba policy
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Fatemeh Keshavarz to appear on Just Peace radio show this evening
Posted by admin on 2 February 2009, 1:13 pm
As Iran celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, a network of individuals and associations inside and outside of Iran known as Iranians for Peace have written to President Obama to encourage direct dialogue with Iranian authorities to find political solutions to nuclear standoffs. They also call for “a nuclear-weapon-free zone for ALL the [...] Read more »
Shoe Throwing: it means what you think it means
Posted by admin on 17 December 2008, 4:27 pm
By now we’ve all seen the clips of the Iraqi journalist throwing his shoes at President Bush during a presser over the weekend. And in the aftermath, of course, the media started asking if we should apply some deeper symbolic meaning to the act, as if it were committed with some non-Western kind of anger, [...] Read more »
Filed under Current Events, Middle Eastern Studies.
Tagged george w. bush, omid safi, president bush dodging shoe, shoe-tossing, throwing shoes
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Insight on the ethics of torture
Posted by admin on 11 July 2008, 9:14 am
Fatemeh Keshavarz, author of Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran, has an article on Counterpunch in which she finds lessons on the ethics of torture in the writings of thirteenth-century Iranian poet Sa’di. //
Filed under Literature, Middle Eastern Studies.
Tagged enhanced interrogation techniques, Ethics, HR-362, Iran, Poetry, Sa'di of Shiraz, sanctions, Taguba report, torture
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