Islamic History 
-
SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/12/2023
Hamline Controversy Shows How Religion and Neoliberal Administration Converge to Reject Expertise
by Alexander Jabbari
An instructive contrast can be drawn from a 1997 controversy over a frieze depicting Muhammad on the wall of the United States Supreme Court. Since then, post-9/11 Islamophobia, a culture of deliberate trolling under the banner of free speech, and the rise of corporate-style university management have drained the capacity for nuance.
-
SOURCE: The Atlantic
10/4/2022
Why the Iranian Revolution Turned So Repressive
by Shadi Hamid
The Iranian revolution consolidated its power, and committed itself to a path of repression, through a fusion of clerical and state power that was unprecedented in the Islamic world.
-
SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/26/2022
After Four Decades, Iranian Women's Frustrations are Erupting
by Kelly J. Shannon
Since the 1990s, Iranian women have been engaged in slowly escalating protest against the restrictions imposed by the Islamic Republic. Have those protests become too large and too public to be contained?
-
SOURCE: Public Books
7/26/2021
What Erotica Reveals about Society: A Conversation with Pernilla Myrne
"Of course this society was male-dominated; it was a patriarchal society, like all other historical societies. But it was possible to talk explicitly about sex, sexual pleasure, sexual desire, for both men and women."
News
- Josh Hawley Earns F in Early American History
- Does Germany's Holocaust Education Give Cover to Nativism?
- "Car Brain" Has Long Normalized Carnage on the Roads
- Hawley's Use of Fake Patrick Henry Quote a Revealing Error
- Health Researchers Show Segregation 100 Years Ago Harmed Black Health, and Effects Continue Today
- Nelson Lichtenstein on a Half Century of Labor History
- Can America Handle a 250th Anniversary?
- New Research Shows British Industrialization Drew Ironworking Methods from Colonized and Enslaved Jamaicans
- The American Revolution Remains a Hotly Contested Symbolic Field
- Untangling Fact and Fiction in the Story of a Nazi-Era Brothel