Sunday Reading

Bint Battuta:

• Geology & Neoclassical Aesthetics
• Edward Said & Music, History & Ideology
• The Storyteller of Jerusalem
• The Barber of Damascus & 18th-Century Literacy
• India and the Circulation of Ideas in the 18th Century
• On designing a new library for Baghdad
• The Rabat Genizah Project
• Jewish Iraqis & the Iraqi Communist Party
• Policing the Ghetto: Jewish East London, 1880-1920
• The history of the East London Mosque
• How "ghetto" lost its original meaning
• The Chinese cemeteries of Tangra, Calcutta
• Yemenis in India
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• Indian Heritage Sites in Aden
• Aden Protectorate Levies, 1960
• South Arabian languages of Oman & Yemen
• Persian connections in German-Soviet relations
• Armenian involvement in early 20th-century revolutions
• The Tower of Silence, a Zoroastrian detective story
• Tricksters & hawkers around Old Delhi's Jama Masjid
• The Kerala Soap Institute, the viceroy’s soap supplier
• Alexandria, 1963

Nathan Deuel:

• "It's a good thing [authorities] have nothing better to do than spend time investigating famous people"
• Germany, Israel 1952: The delegations entered the room by different doors and the ceremony was carried out in silence.
• Today we subscribe to This Old House; slaveholders had De Bow’s Review, with tips for wringing profits from slaves.
• From Sweden; oddly mesmeric: "all posters except posters about posters being prohibited are prohibited" 
• What it's like to work for the $13 billion mystery angels: 
• "In one survey by Golf Digest, 74 percent of golfers said they should be willing to play on brown grass during times of low rainfall...In another month, all of this will be brown...We're going to sacrifice some fairways."
• "Everyone should have a museum dedicated to the worst day of their life and be forced to attend it..."
• "There was no middle ground, only unknowable extremes. And that’s what ex management feels like all of the time."
• "I approached these works in as hopeful a state as I could muster."
• "Millions of small fish that swam into the marina en masse, used up all the available oxygen, suffocated and died."

/kaw·re?d?/:

• The Ottoman Scramble for Africa
• The mysterious images of the Mecca flood
• A People’s History of Muslims in the United States
• James Baldwin in Istanbul
• Brutal gender crackdown in Egypt: The tomorrows that never came
• Behind Islamophobia, Fascism and Complicit Antifascism
• Popular Orientalism(s) #2: Sonic Alterity – Race, Orientalism and Popular Music
• On the madness and charm of crushes
• Selfie Militarism

Kerim Friedman:

• Masculinity, Violence, and Bandaid Solutions
• These Housekeepers Asked Sheryl Sandberg to Lean In with Them. What Happened Next Will Not Amaze You.
• The book rustlers of Timbuktu: how Mali's ancient manuscripts were saved
• The Problem with Mixed-Income Housing
• All 3 generations of godzilla suit wearers walking down the street together.
• Nicholas Wade and race: building a scientific façade
• On the Origin of White Power
• The Troublesome Ignorance of Nicholas Wade 
• Dad Rule: The Hatred of Students
• On Robert Birgeneau and free speech
• Taiwanese convenience stores Offer Dinner Out, Dry Cleaning, Suckling Pig To-Go; Mascot Begets a Musical
• Should Your Driverless Car Kill You to Save Two Other People?
• Don’t cry for Condi! Why students were right to scuttle her commencement address
• American kids have to be protected from chopsticks
• Import.io Turns Web Pages Into a Useable Data Table
• Things to Know When Talking About Race and Genetics
• "They proposed that we genetically engineer a species of cat that changes color in the presence of radiation"
• The NYPL will save its stacks but keep them empty
• The Genes Made Us Do It

Jacob Remes:

• "Collective self-defense," Abe's remilitarization gambit
• When working-class women lean in
• What Are the Humanities Good for?
• The intertwined histories of police surveillance and US empire
• Cecily McMillan's Lenient Sentence Is Punishment too Much

Jacqui Shine:

• (ARCHIVE, 2004) Excerpts from the Village Voice's annual Gay Life issue
• Photos documenting the construction of dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History
• Souvenirs that upset Harper Lee
• An interview with Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, from a 2011 episode of Michel Martin's freshly-canceled NPR show Tell Me More
• ·         SEX MACHINES (This is not a metaphor) (NSFW, what, yes, some people ARE on the Man's clock on Sunday)
• "Marriage Will Never Set Us Free" 

ReclaimUC:

• Why college rape survivors don't go to the police
• Student debt grows faster at universities with highest-paid leaders
• The one percent at state U
• A history from below of the University of Toledo
• Workers at NYU's Abu Dhabi site faced harsh conditions
• Dad rule: The hatred of students
• "Once public university tuition goes up, it rarely, if ever, goes down."
• "[S]ome [UC Berkeley] administrators view the presence of veterans and the military as a way of expanding 'diversity' on campus."
• Theoretical language is not the problem in academia
• Clickbait dissertations
• As court fees rise, the poor are paying the price