Sunday Reading

Karen Gregory:

• Before the Law
• Malls Fill Vacant Stores with Servers
• Frenzied Financialization
• Finance as a New Terrain for Progressive Urban Politics
• Debt
• Discrimination by Database
• How Much of a Difference Did New Voting Restrictions Make
• Faculty Tensions
• Berlin's Digital Exiles

/kaw·re?d?/:

• Mare Nostrum and migrant deaths: the humanitarian paradox at Europe’s frontiers
• “Fanaticism Anxiety” about Muslims has been with us since the Colonial Era 
• Toward a Racial Genealogy of the Great War 
• Recruitment and literacy in World War I: Evidence from colonial Punjab
• ‘Afghan Masculinities': The Construction of the Taliban as Sexually Deviant
• Black history is the black book of capitalism
• "I learned how to be queer from white people"
• The Politics of Postapartheid Housing
• Dehumanisation is a human universal

Jacob Remes:

• A new front in the Canadian government's war on science
• The trouble finding members the least connected or enfranchised quintile
• The classed and raced geography of pedestrian deaths
• Why is there no socialism in the United States?
• "I don't believe you."
• The growing numbers of "Judaizing" people
• A Japanese map of Kowloon Walled City

Bint Battuta:

• Two Kashmiri lives in the Calukya Deccan
• An Indian Ocean Itinerary & Visions of Arab Sainthood, 1737-1929
• Notes on the Earliest Sanskrit Word Known in Chinese
• A tour of some of China's oldest mosques
• Chinese Salafism & the Saudi Connection
• Contemporary Indonesian Pilgrimage to Yemen
• "I could no sooner stop being a Jew than I could stop being Korean"
• Learning to Undo Ashkenormativity
• The relationship between Arabic All?h & Syriac All?h?
• Two Faces of the Qur’?n: Qur’?n & Mu??af
• Life and Death in the Graves of Mecca & Medina
• Karbala in Istanbul: The Ashura Commemorations of Zeynebiye
• Fighting gentrification in Istanbul
• Islamophobia & the extreme right
• Armenians in 1930s Mexico City
• Reflections on Armenian portrait photography
• Recruitment & literacy in World War I: Evidence from colonial Punjab
• The Suppressed Discourse: Arab Victims of National Socialism
• Prison literature from the Arab world
• The demise of professional theatre in Calcutta
• Arabia's Mystery Man Arrives (1948)
• Glubb Pasha Flies Home (1956)

ReclaimUC:

• They want to raise tuition again
• "What are elite college sports except massive fund-raising exercises?"
• Organizing within our changing profession
• Surveilling the classroom
• Education, Inc.
• "The 'policing' of Yale’s Foucault conference was an irony lost on no one"
• White philanthropy for black (mis)education
• "Mexican universities are well known for their militant and radical student movements."

Kitabet:

• The Muslim Undertakers of East London
• “You can't ask an engineer to guarantee that a building will never collapse in an earthquake”
• Karbala in ?stanbul: Scenes from Ashura in Zeynebiye
• Armenians and Armenian Photographers in the Ottoman Empire
• "artificial islands...colossally impractical constructions rendered practical by some byzantine combination of laws and culture"
• The Scholarly Study of Scientology
• The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing
• “‘White men,’ then, refers to what as well as who has already been assembled: a collective body.”
• The Oso Mudslide's First Responders
• MERIP interview with Cairobserver's Mohamed Elshahed 
• “Jahangir's turkey was, ultimately, a harbinger of great changes”
• Notes on the Exotic
• A catalogue of 21 earthquake-related sounds
• “A strip miner told me once that mountaintop removal is like gutting a fish” 
• Sand, an endangered natural resource

Kerim Friedman:

• Why academics feel overworked
• They’re Still Redlining
• Why Anthropologists Should Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions
• Is Korean diverging into two languages?
• Intimate, Familiar and Strange, or Why I Don’t Teach a Class on Sleep
• Racism Drove the Backlash Against Gary Webb
• The original Gone Girl: Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance
• Does microfinance really help poor people?
• Violence Is Currency: A Pacifist Ex-Con's Guide To Prison Weaponry
• Films Stupid People Think Are Clever
• Notes on the Exotic
• Screwball reasons and gloriously simple distinctions
• ‘The New York Times’ Wants Gary Webb to Stay Dead
• 10 Secrets Behind Harry Houdini's Greatest Illusions
• Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world

Nathan Deuel:

• Padded assault gloves to protect hands when punching through windows, taking cover, or tackling culprits 
• "Ever wanted some ice cream but thought, 'The appearance of this dessert might make me vulnerable to sniper attack'?" 
• Front page Nov. 4, 1914: 'U.S. warship arrives at Beirut' 
• The boy's brother, badly cut, flopped onto the ground. "That's what happens every year" said their chain-smoking mother 
• "If nothing else happens at the end of the day, I was happy to be this dude." 
• "No one is afraid here. The party has it under control." 
• "One person dressed up as 'Edward Scissorhands' was also cited after he was seen trimming city trees." 
• “In Lebanon we don’t like the credit card for something as simple as using a taxi." 
• "My four-year old asked, 'Why is he crying for his sandwich?'" 
• "Billboards...don't serve any functional purposes -- so Michal Polacek redesigned them to house the homeless." 
• "It's not bathtub temperature...but it is swimmable on a sunny day." 
• “I don’t know if anything’s connected to anything,” Zervigon said. “I’m still trying to wrap my head around it all.”