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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Afghan Refugees in Buffalo [PDF]
, 2015 Afghanistan is a diverse country with many different ethnicities, often differentiated by language or religious beliefs. Many of the groups can also be found in the nations that border Afghanistan: Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan ...
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Hizbollah–Syrian Intelligence Affairs: A Marriage of Convenience
Journal 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
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Iraq bleeds: the remorseless rise of violence and displacement [PDF]
Forced 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
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Et fortsatt stabilt Saudi-Arabia?
Babylon, 2016 Forholdet mellom Saudi-Arabias shi’a-minoritet og staten, representert ved kongefamilien, har til tider vært spent, men stort sett stabilt. Diskriminerende praksiser og sekterisk vold i nabolandet Irak kan true denne stabiliteten.
Nils Lahlum
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Konsep 'Ismah dalam Perspektif Syi'ah Isna 'Asyariyah dan Implikasinya terhadap Kajian Hadis [PDF]
, 2015 This Study is based on two foundamental facts, which are found in the infallibility doctrin of Shi’a Isna ‘Asharia. Firstly, the facts relating to the polemic among Shi’ite factions in understanding the infallibility (‘ismah).
, Dr. Imron Rosyadi M.Ag +2 more
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“Tabula Rasa” planning: creative destruction and building a new urban identity in Tehran [PDF]
, 2017 The concept of Tabula Rasa, as a desire for sweeping renewal and creating a potential site for the construction of utopian dreams, is presupposition of Modern Architecture.
Mehan, Asma
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
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