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miriam cooke: Mediterranean Networks — Connecting People, Ideas and Cultures Across Time

On March 4, miriam cooke — Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University, and Director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center —delivered a lecture entitled “Mediterranean Networks: Connecting People, Ideas and Cultures Across Time,” which focused on the transcultural networks of… Read More...
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  • Negar Mottahedeh on Her New Book on the Journey of a Baha'i Visionary
  •  Born in 1844 in Persia (Iran), `Abdu’l-Bahá is best known as the eldest son of Mírzá ?usayn-`Alí Núrí, Bahá’u'lláh (1817-1892), the prophet- founder of the Bahá’í Faith.Born in 1844 in Persia (Iran), `Abdu’l-Bahá is best known as the eldest son of Mírzá ?usayn-`Alí Núrí, Bahá’u'lláh (1817-1892), the prophet- founder of the Bahá’í Faith.   But in a new volume, edited and introduced by Negar Mottahedeh — `Abdu’l-Bahá’s Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity — readers
  • Rebecca Stein: Cameras and networked human rights in the West Bank
  • Today, the proliferation of camera equipment in activist theaters across the globe usually yields a tale of “liberation technology” -- a variant of the digital democracy narrative echoed so frequently in the first months of the Arab revolts, positing new media technologies as naturally suited to progressive grassroots activism. The case of Israel-Palestine, with cameras on all sides of the occupation’s political divides, tells a more complicated story, suggesting the highly variable political functions and futures
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  • Inside Dissident Syria
  • Miriam Cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures and Director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center, is currently teaching at the Alliance of Civilizations Institute of the Fatih Sultan Mehmet University in Istanbul. She is the author of Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official. In this piece she reflects on the current civil war in Syria.
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