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Iraq bleeds: the remorseless rise of violence and displacement [PDF]

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2007
“I will never believe in differences between people,” the young man said. “I am a Sunni and my wife is a Shi’a. I received threats to divorce her or be killed. We have left Dora now [a once-mixed, now Sunni-dominated neighbourhood in central Baghdad]. My
Ashraf al-Khalidi, Victor Tanner
doaj  

An accelerated framework for high‐resolution X‐ray holographic reconstruction

open access: yesJournal of Synchrotron Radiation, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 454-466, March 2026.
HiHolo, a high‐performance CUDA‐MPI software framework for X‐ray holographic reconstruction, achieves performance improvement over existing solutions while introducing three enhanced iterative algorithms that effectively reduce artifacts and improve spatial resolution in propagation‐based phase contrast imaging.X‐ray propagation‐based phase contrast ...
Jiarui Hu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hizbollah–Syrian Intelligence Affairs: A Marriage of Convenience

open access: yesJournal of Strategic Security, 2011
Since the 1980s, Hizbollah has emerged as the guardian of Lebanon's Shi'a and a stalking horse for Iran. Syria, though allied with Tehran, seeks to manage Hizbollah's freedom of action in Lebanon and is eyed cautiously in Damascus.
Carl Anthony Wege
doaj  

Investigating Remote Warfare as the Radical Undoing of Life: The Compounding Civilian Harm Effects of US‐Led Coalition Bombings in Iraq

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract The increased reliance on remote warfare by US‐led military coalitions presents us with questions of “what war is” and “how to know about war” in the 21st century. In this article we substantiate calls for an embodied epistemology of war by introducing a transdisciplinary research agenda to investigate the temporal and spatial civilian harm ...
Lauren Gould   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pure‐istan: Gender and Genocide in Pakistan

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ongoing genocidal violence against the Baloch nation. It highlights how the Pakistani state has weaponized Islamic doctrine to construct a vision of a homogenized, “purer, more Islamic state” that excludes and others those deemed incompatible with its vision of purity. This logic of purification is deeply gendered.
Bramsh Khan
wiley   +1 more source

The State of Belief’s Logical and Rational Principles of Twelver Shi’a in Western Studies on Shi’ism [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت معاصر, 2014
Surveying western studies on Shi’ism, this paper seeks to investigate the western scholar’s knowledge about the logical and rational principles of Twelver Shī’a (Adl and Imama).
Maryam Saneapour
doaj  

The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2016
The volume at hand brings together recent advances in and new avenues for the study of both Ithna ‘Ashari and Isma‘ili Shi‘ism in South Asia. As Francis Robinson notes in his introduction, the region’s roughly 60 million Shi‘as were grossly neglected in ...
Philipp Bruckmayr
doaj   +1 more source

British Muslims' perceptions of therapy with non‐Muslim therapists: A qualitative analysis of survey responses

open access: yesPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Volume 99, Issue 1, Page 249-258, March 2026.
Abstract Objectives Accessing psychological therapy presents unique challenges for Muslims, who are underrepresented in primary care mental health services in the United Kingdom. This qualitative study sought the narratives of British Muslims to gain insight into the perceived barriers and facilitators to engagement with therapy.
Hibah Hassan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The FsrA‐Mediated Iron‐Sparing Response Regulates the Biosynthesis of the Epipeptide EPE in Bacillus subtilis

open access: yesMolecular Microbiology, Volume 125, Issue 2, Page 108-122, February 2026.
Under iron‐limited conditions, FsrA base‐pairs with the intergenic region between epeX and epeE, enhancing epeE translation and triggering EPE production. Toxin‐mediated cell lysis releases nutrients, including iron, which can be taken up by surviving cells.
Sarah Miercke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, Hasan Ansari. Muḥammad b. Ya’qūb al-Kulaynī (m. 328 ou 329/939-40 ou 940-41) et son Kitāb al-Kāfī. Une introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This is a comprehensive introduction to the career and contributions of the compiler of the first of the ‘four books’, the four great collections of Twelver Shī‘ī ḥadīṯ completed before the Saljuk conquest of Baghdad in 1055.
Newman, Andrew
core   +1 more source

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