Archive for 'Middle Eastern Studies'
The Delicate Art of Nuclear Jujutsu
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 [...]
Posted: January 6th, 2010 under Asian Studies, Current Events, Guest Bloggers, History, Middle Eastern Studies, Military Studies.
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Gary Bunt on the 2009 Iranian presidential elections…
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 [...]
Posted: June 22nd, 2009 under Events, Guest Bloggers, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Religion, UNC Press News.
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Authors speak: interviews, op-eds, and more
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 from Amy Wood’s [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2009 under African American Studies, American History, Civil War, Cuba, Current Events, History, Interviews, Islamic Studies, Latin American / Caribbean History, Middle Eastern Studies, Native American Studies, Politics, Religion, UNC Press Authors.
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Fatemeh Keshavarz to appear on Just Peace radio show this evening
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 [...]
Posted: February 2nd, 2009 under Biography / Autobiography, Current Events, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
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Shoe Throwing: it means what you think it means
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, [...]
Posted: December 17th, 2008 under Current Events, Middle Eastern Studies.
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Insight on the ethics of torture
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.
Posted: July 11th, 2008 under Literature, Middle Eastern Studies.
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