Sunday Reading

Linda Rodriguez:

• "Would I be able to catch at least a glimpse of Cervantes’s mind as I listened to his prose and began to live with his characters, and would I be able to keep that image intact as I searched for equivalent voices in English?"
• Religious Symbolism in Cuban Political Performance
• "It’s an interesting approach to optimism, where you always see the glass half-full because the glass itself is a precious gift."
• Why is son clave so awesome?
• Moreno Fraginals on the Collapse of Cuban Slavery

Karen Gregory:

• "The academic value of free..." 
• #EconomicViolence 
• "The contract became the yardstick of all human relations..."
• Wages for Facebook
• "If this is a crisis, then, a crisis for whom?" 
• "Freedom Industries..." 
• We're in this together... 
• Academic Kindness 
• "Her empathy seemed to transcend her body"

Frank Pasquale:

• Don't take the City's money; the Laptop Army will take it back.
• Every Norwegian is a millionaire; Australia could be the same but for Gina.
• What's wind? Trees sneezing.
• Ethics of dronefare.
• Another billion dollar bank fine bla bla bla.
• Google just joined ALEC, which is anti-solar energy.
• Congressional majority: millionaires.
• Hungry, kid? Feel ashamed, too.
• West Virginia's dry 300,000: #EconomicViolence, #SlowViolence., #StructuralViolence.
• Algocracy.

Nathan Deuel:

• The worst-case scenario in Lebanon.
• In Beirut, a billboard advertises 3M Co.’s blast protection film for windows.
• "I see frozen feet everywhere in the camps...The cold is killing us."
• "Inside, iron-wrought patterned balustrades from the balconies lay in a messy pile on the floor."
• “Sometimes I think about moving to Cali..Life in France isn’t easy; our expenses are high. Life there seems easier.”
• "Al-Qaeda..while dangerous, won’t disrupt your flow of touch screens and high fructose corn syrup anytime soon." 
• "It would be wrong and cruel for anyone to suggest that Jahi McMath is alive..Nothing could bring her back."
• "The man did not realize he had made a mistake until he began freezing."
• He also asked to see potentially controversial posts on Twitter 
• "Never ask what you did. It's better not to know," said O'Toole. "I loved the drinking, and waking up in the morning to find I was in Mexico...It was part and parcel of being an idiot."
• "I had participated in the creation of something that was far superior to anything I would ever write."

Kerim Friedman:

• Does Immigration Mean 'France Is Over'?
• What's the matter with Kansas schools?
• Pussy Riot members after release: They’re launching a prisoners’ rights movement.
• Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe
• America's Health Care System Is Killing You
• Defending Zionism under the cloak of academic freedom
• Savage Minds 2013 Year in review
• Humanities scholarship is incredibly relevant, and that makes people sad.
• What all the fancy code in movie computer sequences actually mean

Kitabet:

• The Haiti Memory Project: oral histories of the January 12, 2010 earthquake
• The State of Haiti Four Years After the Quake
•  “In the video the young men rap below the archways of Istanbul’s ancient walls, threatened by the development project, and in front of the crushed frames of former homes.”
• Words Without Borders’ Kurdish Literature issue
•  “The curious publication history of The Inconvenient Indian serves as a window into the wide differences in the way mainstream Americans and Canadians view the Native peoples in their midst.” 
• On Alaa
• On a new translation of Ahmet Hamdi Tanp?nar’s “The Time Regulation Institute”
• How Corpses Helped Shape the London Underground
•  “My wife’s first master was her father, and her mother his slave, and the latter is still the slave of his widow.”
• Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet
•  “It is clear, of course, that a rather biased and selective understanding of the Muslim past and Islamic theology underlines the violence and fear widely on display in Pakistan”
• Is It Ethical to Live Alone?
• The Many Lives of Albayrak
• “Today, the building is on the brink of another transformation; 2014 may be remembered as the year that decided Hagia Sophia’s fate.”
• Syria’s Conflict Told Through a Caustic Wit (on Kafranbel)
• Native American Worldviews and the Environment
• “I did, after all, become a paramedic knowing it would stack my inner shelves with a library of human tragicomedy.”

Jacob Remes:

• The Trouble with Francis: Three Things that Worry Me
• Understanding the Canadian Senate scandal [radio 59:00]
• Canada turns foreign aid into business development.
• "No-one strikes recreationally. Certainly not in New Brunswick in January."
• Whose "academic freedom" counts, and whose doesn't
• The academic job market is like a rigged lottery where losers get a punch in the face and winners get a sack of coal,
• The relevance of the humanities
• Destroying archives in North Carolina
• Historic poop and the history of cholera
• The gender of cats

Bint Battuta:

• The Dutch Hindoestanen
• The East African Baloch
• Armenian Christmas in Kolkata
• The Russian Orthodox archimandrite Andronicus in India
• Is My Baha’i Faith Compatible with Feminism?
• Mapping my Judaic Studies Career in China
• A site of Hindu pilgrimage in Balochistan
• On the salvation of non-Muslims
• Check Your Caste Privilege
• Two Parsi travelogues, and Parsi attitudes towards Iran
• The influence of Turkic languages in India
• The history of Algiers' Casbah
• A ticket from the Hejaz Railway (Constantinople - Haifa - Medina)
• The role of African and Arab sailors in the Royal Navy 1841-1941
• The varieties of Yemeni honey (including "only for married" and "genius honey")
• Black Sea "Crazy Honey", which causes hallucinations
• The history of paan
• The woman feeding Arab students in Bangalore
• Lawrence Durrell interviewed by Swiss radio in 1960