Sunday Reading

Kerim Friedman:

• Hollywood and Blake Snyder’s screenwriting book, Save the Cat!
• Unmasked
• Bill and Melinda Gates Are Spending Their Money the Wrong Way
• Let’s all screw the 1 percent
• Altitudes Of Imperialism
• Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir
• Falsely Shouting Fire in a Theater
• How Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in Japan
• Torture, American-style
• NLRB ruling shifts legal ground on faculty unions
• For Tsepey Who Self-Immolated in Tibet
• How to Survive a Cop Coup

Bint Battuta:

• A comparison of Dante’s Inferno and Islamic depictions of the afterlife
• Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran
• Ahmad Sarmast and the Afghanistan National Institute of Music
• Tapan Raychaudhuri on the historical roots of mass poverty in South Asia
• The Discombobulating Hedonism and Exclusivity of a Karachi Club
• Jackals and Pigs: British Government Propaganda in WW2 Iraq
• Gandhi's visit to Egypt in 1931
• A Petition Addressed to Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, A Yemenite Jewish Saint
• Working with Spanish Colonial Records and Archives: Reflections and Practicalities
• Review of Vijay Prashad's "Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity"
• Beauty and the east: allure and exploitation in post-Soviet ruin photography
• Teaching The Camera To See My Skin

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• "If we wear the homeland as our skin, do we need a nation-state to live?"
• Malala, Obama, socialism
• "My gay haven is not a glittered parade in Tel Aviv. It is a liberated Palestine" 
• Astonishing Christmas-themed Mughal miniatures 
• "Mainstream iconography and canonization of the black image has produced a haunting spectacle of the black body"
• Altitudes Of Imperialism
• An Epic Journey From Ottoman to Modern Iraq Through the Eyes of a Family

Reclaim UC:

• Trends we can work with: higher education in 2015
• Insurgency: UC Berkeley African American Studies on #BlackLivesMatter
• On effigies and elegies
• "The rise of modern policing also coincides with the rise of public education."
• A new view of Yeshiva
• "Among recent graduates ages 22 to 27, the jobless rate for blacks last year was 12.4% versus 4.9% for whites"
• A critique of the University of Illinois CAFT report on the Salaita firing
• "[C]onsider…the anti-racist organizing that took place on the campus of the University of Michigan last year, without which none of what is happening in response to Aura [Rosser]’s killing would have been possible."
• Philly students against all forms of state violence
• Privatizing the GED
• How charter operators get rich
• The poor person's defense of riots
• Soundtrack for a police-brutality protest

Jacob Remes:

• "Against The Police"
• What it's like to be a black police officer in New York
• Anti-parks, anti-sanitation, anti-police
• How to survive a police coup
• Police unions and other unions
• "Why do smart cities offer only improvement? Where is the possibility of transgression?"
• The ocean is coming for Miami.
• "Being forced to face up to your ordinariness, your lack of nobility, is so beautiful."
• The DC JCC announces a perpetual run of Fiddler on the Roof.
• The closing of the American Jewish mind
• The Plague of Survivalism
• Daniel Pinkwater and growing up
• Sex in college

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