Sunday Reading

Nathan Deuel:

• "You should have just kept your stupid mouths shut and enjoyed it."
• "The jihadis became the jail masters, turning one wing into a five-star accommodation as well as a command centre."
• "The American government has also barred its employees from riding the bus in light of Wednesday's stabbing." 
• This is a straight-up Cujo dog nightmare scenario
• "You are supposed to wait until the eyes tell you what to do, he said."
• She wears a scarf gifted to her by a Nusra commander as a belt around her thin waist. "No one will forget about me." 
• "We're not going to have panel shows on any more with no women... It's not acceptable."
• "It’s a strange sensation to be alone in the heart of a capital city." The ghost town that is downtown Beirut. 
• Alert from the Nat'l Weather Service that includes the phrase, "The sun, moon and the earth are in proper alignment" 
• ''He did most of the talking,'' she said. ''I didn't have much to say. I'm homeless.'' 

Karen Gregory:

• Why I am not a Maker 
• To Replace or Respect: Futurology as if People Mattered
• Welcome to Business Town
• The Neoliberal Subject of Value
• Squares, Malls, Bridges, and Highways
• Academics, Say Nothing...
• Oh, Captain, My Therapist
• Gender Based Violence, Responsibility, and John McAdams
• It Seems Important to Write
• "Just a Little Easier" 

Kitabet:

• “I wanted to ask: what is taken for granted in the matter of being a man?”
• Damage
• The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic
• Angry Young Shaykhs
• “the conscience pile, where park employees dump the returned rocks…an inadvertent monument to humanity’s complicated relationship with geology”
• In Alabama
• NYC Subway Cars Being Dumped in the Atlantic Ocean
• Infrastructural Urban Canyons: The Axes of Segregation
• The Sonic World of Icebergs
• Mathnet 4-Eva
• “breast cancer requires no particular birth, except, perhaps, an industrial one”
• Guantánamo Diary

Bint Battuta:

• The Ottoman parliament's thoughts in 1910 on US laws regarding Mormon polygamy
• The history of temperance activism in India
• Is there an Indian way of thinking?
• Comparing race & caste
• From South Asia to Southasianism
• Marx on British rule in India (1853)
• The Chinese under Tibetan rule
• The Risâle-i Tatar-i Leh & Muslim Life in 16th-century Poland-Lithuania
• An Andalusi in Fatimid Egypt
• Persians & Shi‘ites in Thailand: From the Ayutthaya Period to the Present
• The distribution of Islamic dirhams in Anglo-Saxon England
• A Karamanli Turkish fragment in the Cairo Genizah
• A Musical Minefield: Composing the Turkish Nation-State
• Orientalism in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail
• The Rejoicing Sailor & the Rotting Hand: Two Formulas in Syriac & Arabic Colophons
• How to ship an elephant (in 1735) - & tiger (in 1855)
• Attiya Gaddis, one of the earliest Egyptian studio photographers
• Kashmiri Ramayana, c. 1940
• Hinduism & Zoroastrianism
• On negative & aggressive prayer

Jacob Remes:

• In defense of the liberal arts
• Bicycles are better than tricycles [radio 19:15]
• History, knowledge, and Serial [radio 10:29]
• War is hell [radio 54:00]
• Winnipeg, where Canada's racism problem is at its worst
• Washington's spatial inequalities

Kerim Friedman:

• The rise of fake engine noise
• Wikipedia Purged a Group of Feminist Editors Because of Gamergate
• Helmand's Golden Age
• Have We Found Alien Life?
• King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia obituary
• Assimilating French Muslims
• Rigoberta Menchú Vindicated
• Heidegger Society Chair Steps Down
• Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel
• When the Terrorists Have White Skin
• Beyond MLK
• When the Opera Acts Like It's Never Seen a Black Person Before
• The March on Washington in Historical Context
• French Mayor Bans Oscar-Nominated Muslim Film
• The Invention of Clumsiness

ReclaimUC:

• The high-flying job of fundraising for UC Berkeley
•  #ReclaimMLK students shut down the San Mateo bridge
• In the wake of the Ferguson uprising, black students are indicting the state violence they face in the US education system
• "Higher education is not the solution to poverty, full stop."
• The hidden costs of free community college
• Occupy the syllabus
• "Violent crime on college campuses is decreasing, but the number of sworn and armed police officers on campuses continues to rise"
• Say nothing if you want an academic job
• "Our history shows us that it is the state who 'disappears' community leaders and activists, and that’s what happened on 26 September.”