...Abigail Judge Kret The Peoples’ Friendship University was opened in Moscow in 1960 to educate young people from Asia, Africa, and Latin America in medicine, agriculture, engineering, mathematics and science, and law. In addition to being a unique site of Second World-Third World encounter...

...Kabir Tambar Abstract This essay examines “professions of friendship”: efforts by populations who are targeted as enemies of the state to proclaim their historical fidelity to the state's foundation and preservation. Such declarations often reinscribe a rigid and often violently statist narrative...

...—over life times and spaces. The need for care and rejuvenation lead to creating new forms of community and unexpected friendships in cities, with village households a fallback. In the process of seeking aspirations, refuge, belonging, and a final resting place, it is likely that hierarchies based...

.... However, the film poignantly underscores the gap between the official viewpoint of friendship between the two communities, on the one hand, and the deep-seated prejudice and mistrust that govern their daily lives, on the other. Despite its shortcomings, the film opens up a public space for debate where...

... and the emergence of South Asian Muslims as a minority community? It engages this question through the example of intra-Muslim debates and contestations on the boundaries of friendship between Muslims and non-Muslims in modern South Asia, with a focus on the thought of certain prominent traditionalist ‘ulama...

... . Boston : Beacon , 2008 . Gandhi Leela . Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2006 . ———. “ The Pauper’s Gift: Postcolonial Theory and the New Democratic Dispensation .” Public...

... friendship between Sarkar and Sardesai was cru- reading the letters before I left for this trip. I don’t cial to their work, not only because they would con- know why I didn’t mention it in an earlier letter...

... or a brother, he said that a brother who is also a friend is best.   Eleventh-­century nasīhatnāmah (advice literature), ‘Uns.ur al-­Ma‘ālī, Qābūsnāmah n Persian advice literature, the stakes of friendship were not acquisitive; they were existential. Before...

... of female same-sex relationships. Third, driven by her ethnographic material, Dankwa deliberately uses the prisms of friendship and kinship to study what might otherwise be settled all too quickly under the rubric of sexuality. Yet rather than collapsing the two, the book shows women using the language...

... on small and symbolic supplies likely reflects their restricted access to resources rather than staff members' own choices, per se. With their state-assigned budget and directives, they were not in the business of significant material aid. Rather, they could give small gifts as tokens of friendship...

... sexuality at the center of her analysis, instead emphasizing how the relations between “knowing women” are embedded in complex dynamics involving love, power, friendship, and the erotic. Over the last two decades, scholars from various disciplines have begun to throw into relief the issue of same-sex...

... correspondences, photographs, and remembrances as narrated in travelogues, memoirs, and autobiographical writing. 10 I follow Leela Gandhi's suggestion to explore the role of friendship and intellectual affinities in forging “affective communities” transcending national and cultural boundaries. 11 I begin...

... Identities , edited by Matebeni Zethu , 61 – 66 . Athlone, South Africa : Modjaji Books , 2014 . Nyeck S. N. “ Autobiography of Things Left Undone: Politics of Literature, Hyphenation and Queered Friendship in Africa .” Trans-Scripts 1 ( 2011 ): 172 – 200 . Odoi Amanda...

... Tafawa Balewa (1960-1966), a northern Muslim, said, Uneasy Friendship? Attitudes of Muslim Nige- “We admire the American way of life, and we re- rian Elites toward the United States spect the people of the United States for their love of freedom.”6...

... and suggestions. Unless otherwise noted, all trans- Nations, chap. 2; and Tillett, Great Friendship. lations are my own. 1. D’iakov, “Indian National Congress,” 11  –  ​12; Ershov, “Bourgeois Pseudo-­ D e m o c r a c y , ” 3  –  ​7...

... history, the epistolary relationship between Sarkar and Sardesai, and the centrality of intellectual friendship to the social life of his- tory. Others respond to Chakrabarty’s writing on positivism and scientific history by asking whether...

... entering a competition to design the House sections of his coverage, especially his account of Turko-­German Friendship to be erected in the of Istanbul’s great mosques, in the journal Esprit capital city. Taut’s 1916 sketch of this projected Nouveau and in his books published in English as building...

... resources to African affairs. In the peak years of African decolonization that followed these very different votes, the Soviet government founded the Africa Institute (Institut Afriki), to increase specialized knowledge of the continent, and the People's Friendship University (Universitet druzhby narodov...

... of the cultural, political, and social implications of performance (for listener as well as performer) in Western music. One of his last published essays (again in The Nation) was on Beethoven’s late style. His long friendship with the Is- raeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim not only yielded...

... and Kurds in Turkey to Dalits in India and Shi'a intellectuals in Iran. For instance, Kabir Tambar focuses on Armenians and Kurds in Turkey to show how the very act of proclaiming friendship itself could signify a reassertion of social belonging in the face of state violence and marginalization. Meanwhile...