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The Many Nationalities of Tamara Khanum: Friendship of the Peoples at Home, Abroad, and Within
The Russian Review, Volume 82, Issue 3, Page 433-452, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Inspired by scholarship on empire and historical biography, this article examines the life of Soviet entertainer Tamara Khanum (1906–91) and her formation as a socialist intermediary. First, it considers how an ethnic Armenian born in the Uzbek SSR came to represent an image of liberated Eastern femininity to domestic audiences.
Charles D. Shaw
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From Cosmopolitan to Vernacular in the Language Sciences: A Global History Perspective
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 18-37, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Sheldon Pollock's justly famous work on cosmopolitan orders and processes of vernacularization in the worlds of Latinity and Sanskrit invites questions of a comparative and global‐historical character. I will raise such questions in the context of the Persianate cosmopolitan order, especially as exemplified by the early modern Ottoman Empire ...
Michiel Leezenberg
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Barjeel Art Foundation: Cross‐National Bridge Building and Decolonisation of the History of Art
Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 59-83, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This article focuses on the Barjeel Art Foundation based in Sharjah, UAE. Using a case study approach the work demonstrates how art, art exhibitions and museum spaces are positioned as influencers in the formation of an inclusive space within the History of Art for scholarship on modern and contemporary art from the Middle East and North ...
Mary Kelly
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Poetics of modernity and nationalism: Revisiting the emergence of modern Kurdish poetry
Literature Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2022., 2022 Abstract The emergence of modern Kurdish poetry marks a period of great significance in the history of Kurdish literature since it witnessed the advent of modernity, the rise of Kurdish nationalism, the fall of the Persian and Ottoman Empires, and the creation of the Middle East with no country for Kurds.
Farangis Ghaderi
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 737-759, July 2022., 2022 Abstract Twelve historians and social scientists reflect on Miroslav Hroch's contributions to the field of nationalism studies. There are essays on his pioneering comparative historical studies of ‘small nation’ national movements and his distinction between nationalism and national movements. Other essays focus on concepts such as those of protagonist,
Elisabeth Bakke +11 more
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The irony of sectarianism: Sectarianizing by desectarianizing in Syria
Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 131-150, Spring 2022., 2022 Abstract The study seeks to resolve a conundrum in Syrian politics: the ruling regime has always claimed and celebrated a harmonious social fabric, national unity, and a long‐standing tradition of coexistence despite the prevalence of an opposite grim reality marked by sectarian divisions and factionalism which the regime itself mainly created or ...
Mustafa Menshawy
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Contemporary art and the geopolitics of extractivism in Turkey's Kurdistan
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 929-943, December 2021., 2021 Challenging the Eurocentrism of aesthetics and/or the neoliberal post‐political paradigm remain important indicators of art's critical (geo)political potential. However, a fuller appraisal of the criticality in question also requires asking if and to what extent such challenges redistribute agency vis‐à‐vis power relations grounded in extractivism as a
Eray Çaylı
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The analysis of Iran universities’ 2003-2004 entrance examination to detect biased items [PDF]
, 2009 Item bias or differential item function (DIF) refers to the situation in which the probability of correct responses to an item for examinees with equal ability measured by test but belong to different groups are not equal.
Abdul Ghafar, Mohamed Najib +1 more
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Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2022 The symbolic doctrine was established since the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century on several intellectual and linguistic foundations that differ in terms of concept and symbolic employment from the classical ...
Shrmen Ibrahim Azeez +1 more
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The Feature in Radio – the Elusiveness of the Genre’s Determinants. Notes on the Prix Europa Festival in the Years 2012 and 2013 in the Context of Literary Genetics [PDF]
, 2016 The goal of the article is to answer the question: what do radio broadcasters in the West understand to be a ‘feature’? A lack of clarity in terminology in this respect was especially visible during the Prix Europa 2012 and 2013 festivals.
Bachura-Wojtasik, Joanna +1 more
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