Sunday Reading

by zunguzungu

Kitabet:

• Maps of the End of the World
• “The earthquake that swallowed up the Sodom of the West Indies, and an aftershock that regurgitated one lucky merchant”
• Ebola in (Anthropological) Perspective
• Representation of Kurdish Women Fighters in the Media
• ‘Extremists’ and ‘Moderates’ in Kobani
  The Legendary Piano of Yarmouk
• “There were no homes in Turkey anymore; everything was real estate and everywhere was investment.”
• The Intelligent Life of the City Raccoon
• Making Sense, Black Survivals
• Marriage is an Abduction
• Ethnographic Fiction: The Space Between
• “a simulated English village built in 2003 by the Metropolitan Police”
• Ecologies of Empire: On the New Uses of the Honeybee

Karen Gregory:

• The Dark Market for Personal Data
• Interview on The Black Box Society
• Grooming Students for A Lifetime of Surveillance
• Whisper: The Facts
• The Life of an Uber Driver
• The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It’s Gamergate
• Hack Education Weekly News: Yes, #Gamergate is an Ed-Tech Issue
• Should You Go to College?
• Explaining Tuition Hikes at the University of Michigan
• National Adjunct Walk Out Day
• Them That’s Got Shall Get
• Sex Trafficking and Fast Fashion
• ♫ Roxane ♫
• The Woman Wild
• Reelin’ in the Years

Jacob Remes:

• Paul Farmer on Ebola
• “Managed retreat” in post-Sandy Staten Island[video 12:28]
• Chalmers Johnson and Alfred McCoy on American Empire[radio 53:59]

Internet K-Holes that Jacqui Shine Has Known:

• The story of Cosette Newton, whobuilt a full-size ship in her Dallas backyard
• Rex Humbard, the first televangelist(who prayed with Elvis), builder of Akron, Ohio’s Cathedral of Tomorrow, which was then sold to Ernest Angley, this week the subject of this six-part investigative report.
• And some other things!
• The history of Esquire
• Newly digitized run of SNCC newspaper The Student Voice
• India’s forgotten participation in World War I
• G. Wodehouse’s Love Among the Chickens
• Jack Webb doing a weird spoken-word version of “Try a Little Tenderness”

ReclaimUC:

• Five myths of high tuition/high aid
• Academic civility and its discontents
• Grooming students for a lifetime of surveillance
• Education at the intersection of “zero tolerance” and “school choice”
• Why are police using military-grade weapons in high schools?
• “Broken windows” policing in the classroom
• Fear of a trans college
• “The modern university does a better job of promoting class stratification than
• advancing social mobility.”
• Communiqué from occupied Saint Louis University
• Notes on the school-to-prison pipeline
• Joint statement on Columbia University’s response to police raid in West Harlem
• 43 missing students, state crimes, and resistance in Mexico
• Against carceral feminism
• After Ferguson

Bint Battuta:

• Indian Muslims and Palestinian Awqaf
• Moroccan Jewish bridal customs
• The Hammam Lif synagogue, Tunisia
• The Emergence of the “Arab Jew” in Contemporary Arabic Literature
• Punjabi Parmesan: Europe Through the Looking Glass
• Byron’s Armenian studies at the San Lazzaro monastery in Venice
• Armenian Realpolitik during the Era of the Crusades
• The last saz maker in Sarajevo
• The Formation of Chinese Maritime Networks to Southern Asia, 1200-1450
• Seeking Employment in the British Empire
• Footnotes in History: Being Anglo-Indian
• Writing the Races in the 1896 Berlin Trade Exposition’s Souvenir Album
• Étienne Balibar on cosmopolitanism and secularism
• “Gulf Futurism is not an alternative. It is the present made slightly (and harmlessly) more ridiculous”
• A day in the life of a Moscow Metro station bench
• Destination Bombay (1976)
• Edward Said’s Music: a panel discussion
• Seamus Heaney’s 1995 Nobel Lecture
• How to Translate a Recipe
• The origins of the word “fulan”

Nathan Deuel: 

• “We cannot do more than what we can do.” 
• Newspaper in Saudi offers a helpful info box about “sorcery” and “black magic.” It’s said to be “rampant” 
• “The cop, his name was Calvin, goes ‘Oh my God, I’ve just booked the son of the director of the CIA, I’m in real trouble.’” 
• “It is not unusual for dwarfs to be hired as entertainers at hen and stag parties in Spain” 
• “In a matter of seconds, then, the von Aue-Harati duo has managed to reduce Beirut to ‘not Hezbollah'”  
• “Lebanon saw its Jewish community grow through most of the 1950s..by 1970 [the number] dwindled to fewer than 2,000”
• “Imagine if they make it into Ras Baalbek and crucify a Christian in the central square. It will set Lebanon alight”
• “At his request, I pour the rest of the water on his head and down his shirt.” 
• “They gave me a jolt of encouragement that is going to buoy me for the rest of my writing life.” 
• “This little man did after all have the power to make life difficult if he wanted.” 
• “Within an hour the bird was inside sitting on their coffee table, politely refusing a meal of lettuce.”
• “Marines are once again guarding the U.S. Embassy in Beirut around the clock for the first time since the 1980s.” 
• “Daddy, why are you staring at your phone?”