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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 329–344.
Published: 01 August 2020
... that they constituted divine signs, al-Suyuti chronicled 130 earthquakes that occurred in the Muslim world. Curiously, Zalzala reemerged more than three centuries later in the modern world of colonial expansions. In the aftermath of the 1927 earthquake in Palestine, American seismologist and Stanford professor Bailey...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 468–473.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Lâle Can; Aimee M. Genell Abstract Were Ottoman autonomous provinces nation-states in the making or signs of a semicolonial and irredeemably weak empire? Or, were they evidence of alternative arrangements of imperial sovereignty? By taking a long view of Ottoman history and examining “exceptional...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 142–148.
Published: 01 May 2017
... methods in universities, and distorted admissions policies that disadvantage the humanities. The dismal failure to encourage Egyptian university students to consider Egyptology as a major and the depressing state of the country's museums and archives are cited as particularly poignant signs of the crisis...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 195–213.
Published: 01 May 2012
... with his dismissal as the Iranian minister counselor in Paris in 1934 — shows him as a mature politician, no longer idealistic but still hoping to contribute to Iran’s sociopolitical development under Reza Shah Pahlavi’s new regime. It is in this phase that he signs the Anglo-Iranian oil agreement of 1933...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 9–23.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and offering a close reading of Hints for Self-Culture , Elam argues that the writer offers an insurgent political theory of utopia heralded under the sign of anticolonial critique. In the case of Hints for Self-Culture , this takes the form of a radical self-making process toward the creation of a future...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 365–376.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Ravinder Kaur At the turn of the second millennium, the sign of the South underwent a dramatic reconfiguration. It no longer stands for just debt, deprivation, and dystopia in the eyes of the world. It is also seen as an emerging market—a place of hope, optimism, and possibilities, even the future...
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Public Performances of Identity Negotiation in the Iranian Diaspora: The New York Persian Day Parade
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 388–410.
Published: 01 August 2011
... to Middle Eastern immigrants. Through interviews and visual analysis of the New York Persian Day Parade, one of more than 180 annual ethnic parades in Manhattan, I track, analyze, and compare the use of space, signs, and performance to argue that Iranian American public events such as the parade offer...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 46–52.
Published: 01 May 2011
... symbol of the Iranian national sovereignty, under the fundamentalist formulation of the “governance of the canonist” ( velayat-e faqih ). This new state manifesting itself through specific signs, symbols, slogans, discourses, and behaviors, as well as by appropriation of modern means of ideological...
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in The Surplus of Death: Asylum Management and the Affective Atmosphere of Complicity
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 2. Abandoned building in the area of Lepida, formerly used to host psychiatric patients. The signs “Fight for your Freedom” and “Hurriya” (meaning freedom/liberty in Arabic) were written by refugees of the hot spot opposite this building. Photo by the author, July 2017.
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in The Surplus of Death: Asylum Management and the Affective Atmosphere of Complicity
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. Abandoned building in the area of Lepida, formerly used to host psychiatric patients. The sign “Η ɛλɛυθɛρία ɛίναι θɛραπɛυτική” (Freedom is therapetic) was written by the psychiatric patients in the 1980s, a period that marked the beginning of the psychiatric reforms as well
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 1b. Predicted changes in precipitation (in %) over the twenty-first century under a high climate-forcing scenario (RCP8.5). Stippling indicates where the model predictions are robust, in the sense of agreeing on the sign of the change; otherwise, the models do not agree. Hatching indicates
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 528–542.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Commission on Scientific Signs in the Quran and the Sunnah, founded by the Muslim World League in Saudi Arabia, has been its most visible advocate, organizing conferences that bring together Muslim scholars from around the world. 2 Although some critics have condemned the idea of scientific miracles...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 156–168.
Published: 01 May 2012
... that even though the
schools, since the practice violated the tradition education minister had banned “ostentatious
of secular education in France.” In a published religious signs,” schools may not suspend pupils
Comparative interview...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 130–146.
Published: 01 May 2012
... — in print media most particularly — the myriad representations of the veil in
contemporary art unequivocally delineate complex views of the sign, both as a garment and as
a representational strategy, that have yet to be properly studied...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 11710885.
Published: 22 January 2025
..., such as barb ers hop signs, popular fashion trends, Igbo Insibidi visual sign lang uage, Congolese Mangbetu head alteration practices (and metal design works), as well as the lip disc modifica tion pract ices of the Mursi/Mun ethn ic group of Ethiopia. By exploring and drawing inspir ation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000) 20 (1-2): 138–152.
Published: 01 August 2000
..., Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan
and industry journals, mass media and intelligence and Turkmenistan to sign a package of legal frame-
reports. Yet, at the expense of being repetitive at work agreements in Istanbul in 1999 under American
times and in the light of recent developments around auspices...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 434–443.
Published: 01 December 2020
... whether or not a final Naga peace agreement is signed. But in the prevailing political atmosphere with heightened nationalist sentiment in the country—a product of the ruling party's own relentless ideological campaigns—the government in New Delhi can hardly afford to formally acknowledge this ground...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 101–115.
Published: 01 August 2004
... of the ages has come … But among all these of religious, if not military, superiority, among Chris-
signs that cruel beast, I mean the sect of the Turks, tians. It was reflected in several early modern German
should cause great attention.”49 A later text, Bar- literary genres. Print culture was bound from...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 206–220.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Figure 2. Abandoned building in the area of Lepida, formerly used to host psychiatric patients. The signs “Fight for your Freedom” and “Hurriya” (meaning freedom/liberty in Arabic) were written by refugees of the hot spot opposite this building. Photo by the author, July 2017. ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 131–135.
Published: 01 August 1991
... near the State capital.
made by Guntaben and her husband Hanabhai were Though the Commission found that these officials were
prepared and they were coerced into signing them by implicated no ignominy has attached to them. On the
the local police station officer at Sagbara in the contrary...
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