... acknowledge these contributions and am indebted to all, any errors are my own. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Specter and Reality of Corruption in State and Civil Society: Privatizing and Auditing Poor Relief in Turkey Damla Isik...

...Saeed Shafqat Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia Bulletin, volume 10 number 2, (Fall, 1990). Political Culture of Pakistan: A Case of Disharmony between Democratic Creed and Autocratic Reality Saeed Shafqat. Political culture can be defined as a set...

... in the early medieval period. The essay thus uncovers a history of falsity and warring falsities and then correlates the tendencies of figuration that seemed to prove inseparable from the poetic conquest of political reality in Sanskrit. It traces tropes of sadism and sexual abuse and uncovers the threads...

...Ziaul Haque Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1988 South Asia Bulletin, volume 8 (1988) Islamic Processes Realities and Trends Ziaul Haque The systematic political manipulation of Islamic religion to the Quran, Islam is a theological term which means sub...

... , 2013 . Richard Drayton • Federal Utopias and the Realities of Imperial Power 401 riod in African political history as a moment of crats and beguiled by populists. Looking forward real possibilities and meaningful choices. In an in time from...

... reality with different rules and language choices. If the latter case is true, then language may be used as a tool to redefine reality and project different identities. The choice of standard or vernacular will in fact have a discourse function as well as a creative one. Duke University Press 2010...

... without any Muslim or Arab ancestry. Arab Muslim communities and identities in Brazil are formed by very complex articulations between transnational and local interpretations and practices of Islam and Arab identities, which emerge and gain reality within the cultural and sociological framework of each...

... “feminism” and “Islam.” Together, these essays suggest that careful analysis of the languages of justice, forms of social and political life, and embodied realities that belong to particular places and times can unseat the “common sense” of liberal feminist discourse and trouble its universalist claims...

... a structuralist dismissal of issues of agency and culture. Go down-plays the role of the internal politics of metropolitan societies in shaping imperialism, Hyslop argues, and sees colonial societies as more united in their resistance to imperialism than they were in reality. Hyslop’s critique of Go draws...

... the demolished pre-oil town during the first three decades of oil urbanization was more of a spectacle than a lived reality. Although the state exerted much effort and expense between 1951 and 1971 in planning for the development of a capital city to celebrate Kuwait’s newfound prosperity and progress, certain...

... metaphors, too, and thereby reflect the conception of reality dominant in the respective epoch. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 World Metaphor, Metametaphor: Veils in Literature...

... that force the reader to renegotiate the intersection of the personal and political as they are embodied in African women's lives. Modernistic narrative strategies play a key component in recreating the subjective reality of women on the verge, or in the midst, of psychic collapse. Simultaneously...

... of the English community presented by the renegade's translocation of political, cultural and religious loyalties. It is therefore problematic to uncritically read these narratives as accurate depictions of the reality of conversion in North Africa as some previous studies have done: other contextual evidence...

... and civilizational theorists. This alternative perspective is useful to grasp the powerful new social reality in the form of militant Islam that has been unleashed since the end of the Cold War: altering culture, language, social, and political policy, while targeting women in many Muslim-majority societies. I argue...

... (the panoramic establishing shots), arguing that photographers and filmmakers alike have made extensive use of the face and the landscape in order to authenticate the Palestinian reality and fetishize—through remembrance and material replacements—the lost land of Palestine. Duke University Press 2010...

... result in creating a cinematic disquisition about a heterogeneous Arab national identity tested in the homeland by arbitrary postcolonial border, ethnic, racial, and religious divides and reconciled in exile by the reality of alienation and displacement. Duke University Press 2010 Memory...

... at the Margiana and Bactria geographical locations, which were the home to the Sakas Haomavarga people. This analysis argues that the haoma drink was used as a means of transcending the ordinary state of mind in order to connect with the supranatural realms of reality. Therefore haoma was upheld as a sacred...

... together individual histories and creating long-distance connections where they never existed. It is proposed that for a more productive study of Central Asian history, we must do away with the notion of the Silk Road and notice the realities, to consider individual socioeconomic systems...

... the jurisdiction of the state, cannot be divine. Laws and the legal system are contingent on the existing realities; no law is eternal. As for the second part, the faithful, to live faithfully in an urfi and nonreligious political system is not only possible, but it is indeed preferable. The ideological monopoly...

...Pardis Mahdavi Around the world today, we are experiencing what scholars call a “feminization of migration,” which coincides with a global panic about human trafficking and distorts the messy realities of forced labor, migration, and sex work. In the Middle East, Dubayy has become the center...