Sunday Reading

Jacob Remes:

• "Introduction part is precisely explained."
• "How oppression against Palestinians works...cover, conceal, remove, rub out. Build a house, knock down a house, plant a tree, place a wall, place a sticker."
• Bob Geldorf, Ebola, and white saviorism
• James C. Scott and the politics of Katniss Everdeen
• A textbook example of an anti-union boss campaign
• The party that sparked the Quebec student strike is continuing its austerity drive.
• "After decades of deindustrialization, atomization and gentrification, the centrality of proletarian politics has given way to green politics and plenty of green posturing."
• John Luther Adams [radio 26:59]

Bint Battuta:

• Gauhar Jaan, born Eileen Angelina Yeoward, India's first commercial recording artist
• A visit to Calcutta's Jewish cemetery
• Jerusalem's 800-year-old Indian hospice
• Going Global in Mughal India
• The Myth of the Caliphate
• Urvashi Butalia & Sanjay Subrahmanyam on rewriting history
• Wendy Doniger on the magic ring of memory & forgetfulness
• The Curious Case of Sir Gilbert Grace: Policing Karachi, 1947-1958
• Orientalism & non-translation
• Learning Armenian: Frustration, Endurance & Apricots
• The launch of the BBC's Arabic service in 1938
• The literary oeuvres of Saddam Hussein, Khomeini & Qaddafi
• Sending Home for Mom & Dad: The Extended Family Impulse in Mamluk Politics
• Indigeneity, Palestine & the Demands of Civility
• Native Apostles: Black & Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World
• Between Venice & Surat: The Trade in Gold in Safavid Iran
• Phrasebooks for Silk Route Travellers
• To Make A Book (Circa 1960)
• The etymology of "sequin"
• Why "gangster" means "free man" in The Act of Killing

Nathan Deuel:

• "Warlords swapped their fatigues for the suits of political office, then issued an amnesty pardoning themselves
• "I guess I have to be president of the United States…Isn't that what all black boys do when we grow up?" 
• "We are lumbering, slow beasts and we stand no chance at all of catching them."
• Rapping while black
• "[N]o one can deny that Americans and Brits are dead, and the Europeans alive." 
• "Who would want to wear the clothes of a sad, dead man?" 
• @h0d3r has perhaps the most distressing complete twitter account history I've ever seen
• Man saves girl: "He said he always carries the knife — usually for peeling an apple or whittling a piece of alder."
• "Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian poets I know...This all took up two hours." 
• "He drove to Utah from California, defaced the works and drove back..Now in therapy, he likes Banksy's work."
• At the LIRR lost and found, there are yoga mats, high-end camera lenses, a painted bust of Jesus Christ. "He's been here such a long time."

Kitabet:

• “We live in capitalism; its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
• The Passing of the Indians Behind Glass
• Postpolitical Infrastructures
• “The starfish are still dying.”
• The Plague Pits of London
• Virginity Tests, Vile Bodies: Stories from Sisi’s Egypt
• Ground Zero Indicator
• “Almost all of Turkey’s mainstream media outlets are owned by construction and energy conglomerates.”
• The Kurdish Music Industry
• What Kobani Means for Turkey’s Kurds
• “It’s striking how many Eurabia theorists write under pseudonyms when you consider their attacks on Muslim dissimulation.”
• On Marshall G.S. Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam
• A Mesmerizing Short Film About Damascus
• “Also, the idea that Africa needs to be saved in 2014 by washed up C-list pop artists is a perverse example of a messiah complex.”
• Stop Trying to Save the World
• Drunk Tank for Birds

Aaron Bady:

• Reading Ziauddin Sardar’s Mecca: The Sacred City is like watching fifteen hundred years of stop-motion photography.
• “Self-Portrait in Green is a sort of malicious reverie where the real mingles with the imagined, the living with the dead.”
• Where Do I Stuff These Memories? on Africa39.
• What Sofia Samatar said at the World Fantasy Awards
• Mia Couto Reflects On The Civil War That Shaped Him
• The neighbour cries, but are we listening? and an interview with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
• Okwiri Oduor has a new story in “No Tokens,” called "Swear not to look."
• Chris Abani’s The Face: Cartography of the Void
• CBC interview with Ondjaki (audio)
• The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo (documentary)

Kerim Friedman:

• How to Get Away with Uber
• Apartheid Israel
• This Mass Grave Isn’t the Mass Grave You Have Been Looking For
• The Real Lolita
• The Oral History Of The Poop Emoji (Or, How Google Brought Poop To America)
• Is the US the only country where more men are raped than women?
• Dear New York City's Uninsured: Screw You, Love Governor Cuomo
• Why Isn't Academic Research Free to Everyone?
• Film History and Public Memory in Taiwan
• Casual sexism: When a shirt is more than a shirt.
• Is Texas Getting Ready to Kill An Innocent Man?
• Delusions of the Democrats
• The Limits of Alternative Africas
• Why I Left United Airlines
• Chinese characters and eyesight

ReclaimUC:

• "Predictable"
• The University of California's failed funding model
• "The role of managers is to manage. Do not be managed. Stand up, walk out, and disrupt all university activity."
• Framing the short-term strategic landscape of the UC tuition hikes
• A communiqué from the UCSC occupation of Humanities 2
• Some UC occupiers on Ferguson and the state of emergency
• A letter of fire from Egypt
• "Imagine a university where the workers and students who make the place run also get to run the place."
• Sabotaging the brand: what happens when you disrupt a pep rally
• Privatization disproportionately harms the UC's underrepresented communities
• Building times: how lines of care occupied Wheeler Hall (2009)
• The double barricade and the glass floor (2010)
• Free and unequal
• A rape on campus: a brutal assault and struggle for justice at University of Virginia [trigger warning]
• Scabs, scantrons, and strikes at the University of Oregon
• Indicting a system not a man
• No more Missouri compromises
• Inextinguishable fire: Ferguson and beyond