Sunday Reading

Karen Gregory:

• WitchTales: An Interview with Silvia Federici
• Theorizing the Web 2015: Livestreams 
• Preternatural Machines
• Gawker is Making Unionizing Look Easy 
• Report of the Independent Investigator into Allegations of Labor and Compliance Issues During the Construction of NYU, Abu Dhabi
• Uber, the Gig Economy, and Labor
• What if You Could Crowdsource a Loan? 
• Table Flip
• Access Denied, Internet Dark: Technology, Education, Prison 
• Why LGBTQ People Need to Care about the Gender Pay Gap
• The Number of Adjuncts on Public Assistance is Startling 
• Wall Street Bonuses
• Cuba and Hip Hop

Bint Battuta:

• The Ottoman "Discovery" of the Indian Ocean in the 16th Century: The Age of Exploration from an Islamic Perspective
• The Qur'an and the Syriac Bible
• Hebrew Bible Quotations in Arabic Transcription in Safavid Iran
• Andalusi Crete and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier in the Early Medieval Mediterranean
• An abbot between two cultures: Maiolus of Cluny considers the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet
• Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad
• Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hinduism and Islam in British India
• Madrassah Education in Pre-colonial and Colonial South Asia
• Parsi Mumbai: The Legacy of Zoroastrianism in India’s Urban Fabric
• Archives and Origins: The Material and Vernacular Cultures of Photography in India
• Che in Gaza: Searching for the Story Behind the Image
• "Make the Desert Bloom": Manufacturing the Israeli Territory/Narrative
• Muhammad Iqbal: Writer Against Colonialism
• Being black in brown space
• A Grim New Phase in Yemen’s Migration History
• "Sectarianism has certainly raised its ugly head in recent years – but a lot of people have worked hard to make that happen"
• Arabic Manual: A Colloquial Handbook in the Syrian Dialect for the Use of Visitors to Syria and Palestine (1901)
• Vintage Arab Maths Questions

Kerim Friedman:

• Language is a complex tapestry of trade, conquest and culture
• Can ‘They’ Be Accepted as a Singular Pronoun?
• Islamic State Files ShowStructure of Islamist Terror Group
• Surviving a Bear/Police Encounter
  Encounter killings: Middle-class India doesn't care about either blue-collar workers or Muslims
• Trapped Inside a Tom Waits Song
• The Inspirational Backstory of China’s ‘Feminist Five’
• Hillary Clinton's Fake Populism Is a Hit
• Sally Mann’s Exposure
• Walter Scott, Thomas Slager, and the Myth of Police Reform
• Germany’s Namibian Legacy
• Narendra Modi's War on the Environment
• Talal Asad: Why do I support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement?

Reclaim UC:

• Who will benefit from University of California's new "global campus"?
• The average peer-reviewed academic journal article is read by no more than 10 people
• "Schools are one of the biggest differentiators of value in the suburbs…How valuable will a house be in Scarsdale when it isn't clear that Scarsdale schools are doing any better than the rest of Westchester or even the state? Opting out of tests only robs parents of that crucial data."
• "In reality, privatization forces the mission creep of multiplying activities, 'businesses,' funding streams, capital projects and other debt-funded investments, which increase all sorts of non-educational costs and also administration."
• "...a process of internal reorganization to produce the transparent cash flow metrics that were required to service the [university's] rapidly growing real estate debt."
• Grit, privilege, and American education's obsession with novelty
• Professor manager
• "My research shows that black parents homeschool their children due to white racism."
• The new Somali studies
• Counter-terrorism officials helped track Black Lives Matter protesters in Oakland
• On Galeano's supposed disavowal

Kitabet:

• “It’s this, the hidden life of buildings, that makes climbing seem a reasonable wager, to bet your safety against the promise of beauty.”
• Container Spotting
• Which This Margin is Too Small to Contain
• "Wonderfully but unsurprisingly, the mechanism used to study [fault] creep is called a creepmeter." 
• Cities of the Dead (in Kyrgyzstan)
• Slow Violence, Cold Violence (in East Jerusalem)
• Why Medieval Arab Scholars Thought It Was Classier Not to Cite Sources, and Other Stylistic Choices
• “I have a cat whose foot-pads I dye with henna/ before I put henna on my own newborns.”
• Blackness in Brown Spaces
• States of Camouflage
• “the city's first acknowledgement on a sign designed for public reading that in the 1700s New York had an official location for buying, selling, and renting human beings.”
• Making Black Lives Expensive
• Centuries of Italian History Are Unearthed in Quest to Fix Toilet
• “The middlemen who deceive and defraud workers are therefore not just flaws in the system, but the hidden levers that set it in motion.”
• Reading Racist Literature
• Things I’ve Learned about Heterosexual Female Desire from Decades of Reading
• “‘Isis’ has been removed from the official list of names of future hurricanes”
• Walkdog