Sunday Reading

ReclaimUC:

• March Madness makers and takers
• Students strike back in Montreal
• What can Quebec teach us? A preliminary analysis of the university as a site of struggle (2012)
• On #rhodesmustfall and #cadaanstudies
• How to make sense of the #GarissaAttack in Kenya
• The road to Garissa

Jacob Remes:

• Is the pope Catholic?
• Does the Jew belong in the United States?
• The Apple Watch and time-work discipline
• Ancient folk remedies that work
• Taunting students with unaffordable college tuition
• Subcontracted, contingent academic labor, coming to the UK
• How much does your commute cost?
• What Exactly Was Joseph Mitchell Doing All Those Years at the New Yorker?

Kitabet:

• Methodolatry and the Art of Measure
• What to Expect When Campus Watch Smears You
• “In her extraordinary late poems Bishop was not only a defining poet; she was also a radical one.”
• Christ in Yarmouk
• Studying Up
• "Hirsi Ali is like a bad Wikipedia entry: the less you know, the more you’re persuaded."
• One Out of Nine
• The Perils of Ruin Porn
• “Jindal, whose state is the top recipient of hazard mitigation grants, has already spoken out against the new requirement.”
• Gens: a Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capitalism
• USAID dollars at work: building substandard houses in post-quake Haiti

Karen Gregory:

Bint Battuta:

• Toshihiko Izutsu's Qur'an scholarship, Islam as abstract expressionism, and Kuwait's Sulaibikhat cemetery
• Translating the Qur'an
• Reading the Qur'an
• Linguistic Reflections on the Theonym Allah
• "India, that is Bharat…": One Country, Two Names
• Syriac Manuscripts in India, Syriac Manuscripts from India
• On Richard Eaton and the study of South Asian vernacular literary traditions
• The Legal Aspects of Religious Diversity in Iran
• Omani Fatwas and Zanzibari Cosmopolitanism
• Musical Journeys to Oman, Qatar and Kuwait
• Asian and Islamic crossings: Malay writing in nineteenth-century Sri Lanka
• A Persian anatomical image in a Gujarati manuscript
• Connections Across Time and Space: Alfrid Bustanov’s Documentary "The Legacy of Siberian Muslims"
• The Used-Book Trade in the Roman World
• Arson and Poisoning in the Ottoman Empire
• Customer Service in Ancient Mesopotamia
• The Curious Case of Bandra’s Cross Crusaders
• "At 109, she is looking for her older brother"

Kerim Friedman:

• What Exactly is Neoliberalism?
• The Podemos revolution: how a small group of radical academics changed European politics
• The Anthropocene Myth
• Gender policies in Afghanistan are part of the post 9/11 humanitarian carnival
• Gluten Free Museum
• Claw machines are rigged — here's why it's so hard to grab that stuffed animal
• Warwick Uni to outsource hourly paid academics to subsidiary
• The Indiana foeticide case: why Purvi Patel's Indianness matters
• The Road to Garissa
• Afghanistan`s daring, taboo-smashing feminist TV drama