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The Many Nationalities of Tamara Khanum: Friendship of the Peoples at Home, Abroad, and Within

open access: yesThe 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

open access: yesBerichte 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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The effect of style in Kurdish poetry

open access: yesالأستاذ, 2018
       This research deals with form, style and language in Kurdish poetry. These elements are considered essential for the construction of the poem. In the current research, we adopted the classical Kurdish style of poetry, which prevailed until the ...
M. Sarod waaly Ismail ALjaf   +1 more
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'Mountain' in Shirkoo Bikas's Poetry: Signification and Symbol

open access: yesپژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2020
Mountain has been regarded as the preserver of identity for Kurds. The Kurdish language and literature are rich in vocabulary regarding mountain, in a way that there are more than 200 words for it in Kurdish language. Living in the mountains from 1985 to
Harem Othman
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Barjeel Art Foundation: Cross‐National Bridge Building and Decolonisation of the History of Art

open access: yesCurator: 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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Aesthetics in The Nationalistic Poems

open access: yesگۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆ, 2017
The term of aesthetics in literary works has been argued within the frame of form, content and structure, and identified in various ways. Nationalistic poems, as they are built on social and political unity of the national ideology and come to the ...
Zülküf Ergün
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“A Place Where Freedom Means Something”: James Baldwin's Global Maroon Geographies

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract Despite his vocal support for the Algerian revolution, Palestinian liberation, and the South African anti‐apartheid struggle, James Baldwin has continued to be regarded as a thinker whose work predominantly revolved around themes of civil rights, cross‐racial dialogue, and integration.
Ida Danewid
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Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
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Foreword

open access: yesActa Linguistica Asiatica, 2017
Yet another year has come to its end. It brought us some new ideas and we have spent several months in preparations to realize them. The greatest change is that we may be expecting the new ALA issue within a month, in January 2018 already.
Nina GOLOB
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Small‐Scale Village Farmers, Farming Imaginaries and Enrichment Value Creation in Ankara, Turkey

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT How are we to understand the continuing importance of small‐scale village farming in a country like Turkey, which is undergoing an expanding process of industrialization and commodification in agriculture? There are two sides to this question: One concerns land use reconfiguration for commercial purposes, contraction of small‐scale farmland ...
Yıldız Atasoy
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