Sunday Reading

Bint Battuta:

• A Gujarati Map and Pilot Book of the Indian Ocean, c.1750
• A Short Guide to Iraq, published by the U.S. War and Navy Departments in 1943
• Basra between Arabs, Turks and Iranians
• Defining the Other: An Intellectual History of Sanskrit Lexicons and Grammars of Persian
• On Nostalgia and Material Culture in the Hijaz
• Cult Pakistan: Forgotten mysteries, bygone strangeness and odd folk
• New York’s First Mosque?
• Stories Never Told: The First Arabic History of the New World
• Towards an Afro-Arab Diasporic Culture: The Translational Practices of David Graham Du Bois
• African restaurants in Hong Kong
• The history of African hair combs
• Open Sesame: The stories of Kuwait's Palestinian exiles, as told through objects
• China Miéville on Palestine
• Soviet nationality policy in Central Asia, and the transformation and suppression of identities
• Documentary on the Encyclopaedia Iranica
• How digitization has transformed manuscript research
• The history of the Korean alphabet
• Pope Paul VI's visit to Bombay, 1964
• A photographic history of South Asians in Britain
• Photos of Lahore

Kitabet:

• The Fate of the Afro-Turks: Nothing Left but the Colour
• Translating for Bigots
• “People used to defend their right to wear green-red-yellow garments to amazed members of the Turkish police force by saying they were fans of Bob Marley, not Ocalan.”
• A Discourse On Brocialism
• Bizarre and Vulgar Illustrations from Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
• Memento Mori
• An Impromptu Uprising: Ethnographic Reflections on the Gezi Park Protests in Turkey
• Syria’s Assault on Doctors: ““Since you are stopping him from dying, you are a terrorist.”
• Vernacular Typography
• “although digitization has distanced researchers from the material text itself, it has simultaneously refocused our attention on the manuscript as a medium worthy of study and respect.”
• 'Turkified': Why I Can Never Be a Proper German
• How Black Girls Die in America
• “Hart Island, the United States’ largest mass grave, has been closed to the public for 35 years.”

Frank Pasquale:

• The Black Bruins.
• Why who you know is determined by what you have.
• A GOP Thanksgiving: “I can hold the hunger — I’m an adult — but she cannot.”
• New controls on the obesity frontier.
• Connecting the last two links: Stuffed & Starved.
• Hunger games for the universities.
• In Cameron’s Britain, rickets makes a comeback.
• Releveraging ponzi finance as a hot potato scheme; deleveraging for the rest.
• Intuitive gait recognition.
• An authority dreams of dealing death; another one delivers.
• CIA-ATT cash nexus.

Nathan Deuel:

• Important Waffle House News: 'The woman, who had been drinking, also tried to wear a cheeseburger as a sandal.'
• Twenty-three of the world's 25 most dangerous cities are in Latin America; two are in the U.S. None are in Europe, Asia, or Africa.
• 'Best-known food writers tend to be noisy boys; her soothing sentences are a balm' 
• "Submitting to journals [with 2,000 subscribers] and having them be like, 'Get lost!' It's good for me." 
• "Better to socialize these utilities and cover operating costs out of public taxation."
• "If, as Aristotle said, happiness is a state of activity, then Vollmann is the happiest man on earth."

Jacob Remes:

• Anthropology and farmworker public health
• Rob Ford and stop-and-frisk
• Rob Ford and everything else
• Renisha McBride and self preservation
• Ray Kelly and campus speech
• "Twelve Years a Slave" and William Lloyd Garrison

ReclaimUC:

• Why black students are avoiding UC Berkeley
• The University of California invests in prisons
• "30-year-old men graduating from the UC system have a 38% chance of financial distress, and women have a 55% chance."
• The public option for higher education
• Beyond tenured allies
• "It’s not Ray Kelly’s right to free speech that’s in danger, it’s [student protesters']."
• 1.2 million K-12 students are homeless
• Shrugging away our shock
• If he can't lie, it's not his revolution: Chris Hedges vs. Emma Goldman
• Anne Lesley Selcer on Frank Ogawa Plaza
• "Students with traditional surnames such as Darcy and Percy have dominated the roll-calls at Oxford and Cambridge Universities since the Norman Conquest"

nathan jurgenson

• "writing nursery rhymes for post-colonial angst"
• "glow in the dark jellyfish ice cream"
• "it’s a false divide to make a we/them: either able-minded, able-bodied, or disabled"
• "I cursed the gendered nature of tech design that has written out women from the group of legitimate users"
• "The billionaire-to-be co-founder of Twitter is a regular at Wisdom 2.0 events and began meditating just over a year ago"
• "The cruel trick is that "the internet sucks" is a self-fulfilling prophecy"
• "everyone who has ever masturbated understands the limitations of the [openness] paradigm"
• "misogyny doesn’t come from the internet, it comes from contemporary culture. It won’t be fixed by the internet & it wont be fixed by women"
• "seeing yourself do something to make yourself become something"
• "defining the line between clothing and tech"
• "the Great Man version of Twitter's history"
• "women who post on “Am I Ugly?” receive an average of 54 replies, while men receive an average of 14"
• "There was a time—early 2012?—when memes were "cool," and "funny""
• "Drafted with care, revenge porn laws won’t trample on the First Amendment"
• "Etsy knocks the government focus on creating good-paying jobs, suggesting they invest more in poorly-paying hobbies"

Kerim Friedman:

• No One is Born Gay (or Straight): Here Are 5 Reasons Why
• Pope Francis: Sexism With a Human Face?
• Who Owns Dead Bodies, Anyway?
• Christie's strategy of wooing key Democrats pays off big
• The Democrats' Original Food-Stamp Sin
• Q&A with Joe Sacco, author of The Great War
• Herbal Supplements Are Often Not What They Seem
• The language barrier that leaves parents and son near-strangers
• Peace is war (Part I)
• Peace is war (Part II)
• The Collapse of the American Middle Class
• A Gujarati Muslim ponders life under Narendra Modi
• Eric Alterman v. Max Blumenthal