Category Archives: nationalism
Imagining the 1973 War
By Diana Saverin JERUSALEM – This past weekend, I headed to Cairo to see pyramids and ancient ruins. While I did gape at 5,000-year-old artifacts, look into the seemingly boundless Sahara desert, and float down the Nile, my touristy adventure … Continue reading
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Culture and the Cup, Dispatch 4: Paris
By Charlotte Parker PARIS — “Defeated by chaos,” “Disaster,” “Journey to hell and back.” The headlines would be funny if their meaning didn’t carry real implications for France. They reference, of course, the country’s humiliating first-round elimination from the World … Continue reading
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What is the “Muslim or Islamic World”?
by Jennifer Parker What is the “Muslim or Islamic World”? This widely accepted expression presumably implies the collection of countries whose official, dominant, or major religion is Islam. At Yale, a prominent Professor teaches a literature course entitled “Classics: The … Continue reading
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