Trends in a tumultuous region: Middle East after the Arab Awakening [PDF]
Two years after the start of the Arab uprisings, the Middle East remains as tumultuous as ever. Despite the uncertainty and flux, a number of emerging trends will influence the region in the post-revolutionary period and well into the future.The first ...
Lydia Khalil
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Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract This article examines the making of a political register to denounce mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden. Nationally mandated since 1977, MTI is a state‐sponsored, curriculum‐stipulated subject for minority pupils of over 187 languages other than Swedish.
Scarlett Mannish, Linus Salö
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Boko Haram and the Nigerian State: a Different Perspective
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2015 There exist several religions in Nigeria. Many of them are exploited for political gains. As Samuel Huntington has predicted, given the collapse of communism, the main contention and controversy in the world would revolve around religion.
Osaretin Idahosa
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“Islamic Tradition”: Questioning the Bosnian Model
, 2019 Debates over whether there can be a ‘European Islam’ have not ceased since 1990s when the term was coined by Bassam Tibi. This paper aims to question the idea of a ‘progress towards a liberal Islam’ as being too straightforward by providing historical ...
Hesová, Zora
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New Developments in Aniconic Jaina Iconography [PDF]
, 2010 The article analyses for the first time the phenomenon of burial ad sanctos and of the necropolis in the aniconic Jaina traditions, which in certain respects serves as a functional equivalent of the temple city as the principla pilgrimage site, tīrtha ...
Flügel, Peter
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Affective Possibility: Identity Documents, Checkpoints, Violence and the Law
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article seeks to highlight the unstable relationship between identity documents, checkpoints, violence and the law. To do this the piece uses stories from three Syrians concerning their everyday interactions with the law, primarily at checkpoints but also in other administrative settings.
Marika Sosnowski
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Internet, Inequality, and Regime Stability
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 73, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines the link between income inequality and political instability, focusing on the moderating role of Internet penetration. Using data from over 120 countries (1996–2020), we find a conditional relationship: in low‐Internet countries, higher inequality associates with lower instability, likely due to limited political awareness ...
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan +1 more
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Addressing milk kinship in milk banking: experience from Singapore's first donor human milk bank. [PDF]
Singapore Med J, 2023 Jayagobi PA +5 more
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Understanding the beliefs and attitudes towards mental health problems held by Muslim communities and acceptability of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a treatment: systematic review and thematic synthesis. [PDF]
Discov Ment Health, 2023 alHarbi H, Farrand P, Laidlaw K.
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The concept of Messiah in abrahamic religions: A focused study of the eschatology of Sunni islam. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Alma'itah QS, Haq ZU.
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