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June 29, 2009

Human Trafficking Report / Siddharth Kara

Earlier this month, the State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which assesses more than 170 countries on what efforts their governments are taking to stop human trafficking. The release of the report was reported on the Foreign...

June 25, 2009

Guobin Yang on Online Activism in China and Iran

In a recent article on Yale Global Online, Guobin Yang, author of the recently published The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, examines the similarities and differences among Internet activists in Iran and China. While Iranian protesters...

June 24, 2009

Iran: This Is Not a Revolution, by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

In an essay for the Monthly Review Web site MRZine, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, author of Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic, argues that what we are witnessing in Iran is not a revolution so much as a...

June 23, 2009

Richard Bulliet on Iran

Prominent Middle Eastern historian Richard Bulliet, author of the just-published Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History, recently wrote an op-ed in the New York Times on the crisis in Iran. In the op-ed,...

June 22, 2009

Interview with Charles Hirschkind, Author of The Ethical Soundscape

In The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (now available in paper), Charles Hirschkind explores how a popular Islamic media form—the cassette sermon—has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades. The following...

June 19, 2009

Interivew with Dana Kaplan, Author of Contemporary American Judaism

In the following interview Dana Kaplan discusses his new book Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal. In the book, Kaplan focuses on the creative responses to contemporary spiritual trends that have made a Jewish religious renaissance possible. He argues that...

June 18, 2009

Stephen Phillips Discusses His New Book "Yoga, Karma, Rebirth"

In the following video, Stephen Phillips discusses his new book Yoga, Karma, Rebirth: A Brief History and Philosophy. For more on the book, you can also read an interview with Stephen Phillips or read an excerpt from the book.

June 17, 2009

Gastropolis Goes to Governor's Island

On Sunday, June 21st at 1:00, the editors of and some of the contributors to Gastropolis: Food and New York City head out to Governor’s Island to read from and discuss their personal and historical perspectives on food and New...

June 16, 2009

Celebrate Bloomsday with Marilyn Monroe

The image of Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses is from the cover to James Joyce: A Critical Guide, by Lee Spinks and since it is Bloomsday today, we thought we would point out a few Joyce-related titles from our list. In...

June 15, 2009

Is Ted Striphas a Distribution Nerd?

The headline to this post refers to a suggestion made by Steven Poole in his Guardian review of Ted Striphas’s new book, The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. Poole remarks on Striphas’s nerd-like fascination...

June 12, 2009

Recommended Reading: Iran