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no longer on the move Katılım Eylül 2009
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A new Instagram account exploring the 20th-century connections between the Gulf and South Asia, through the stories of South Asians who lived in the Gulf, and Khaleejis who lived in South Asia: instagram.com/gulfsouthasia/ Please send your photos and stories! [Photo by F. H. Andrus]
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"The narrative being projected is that India must be reimagined as Hindu state and that in order to be a true Hindu and a true Indian, you must speak Hindi." theguardian.com/world/2022/dec…
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"Before modern nationalism, which led to today’s Iran, Persians had an entirely different relation to land, origin and belonging. Prenationalist Persians belonged to many lands, religions, kingdoms, regions, in what is now Iran and far beyond it." aeon.co/essays/when-pe…
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"Malayalam, as rich a language as it is, does not possess the right words to express the trauma of distance, what happens to people when they return from the Gulf after having bartered their youth." foreignaffairs.com/articles/india…
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Documentary about the families of Moroccan soldiers who deserted from the French army during the First Indochina War and joined the Việt Minh youtube.com/watch?v=_Y13tG…
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"How did this Indian mango pickle reach the shawarma sandwich shops of Palestine? That is a long story inextricably linked to the history of British colonialism in two different ways." ajammc.com/2018/10/22/amb…
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"...the term ‘Arab’ and the attendant identities and identity politics that have arisen around it are almost entirely an edifice built by a coterie of ‘Abbasid-era scholars in ninth-century Iraq." marginalia.lareviewofbooks.org/tracing-constr…
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"I knew Eartha wasn’t Turkish, but that didn’t stop me from claiming her. When Eartha rolled the r in “Üsküdar,” when she sang coyly about feeding her lover Turkish sweets from a handkerchief, she was performing home, our true home." theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/0…
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Image from Jami' al-Tawarikh showing early Muslims at the court of the Christian Negus of Abyssinia where they had sought refuge on the advice of Prophet Muhammad. The Quraysh tried to bring them back but the Negus refused to hand over the Muslim refugees exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/record/23140
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"If anything marks Eastern Europe as a place of its own, and not someone else’s periphery, it is this function as gateway and bridge between and among different traditions. The role of Islam in the making of this tapestry has been forgotten or disavowed." lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-silv…
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