More Noted Things
Elizabeth Grant at AHA Today calls attention to MIT's OpenCourseWare site. Here are the History Department's offerings, 2003-2005: syllabi, bibliographies, and more.
Rayyan Al-Shawaf,"Modernity, Middle Eastern-Style," Books & Culture, September/October, reviews Jean Said Makdisi's Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women.
Abu Aardvark's Marc Lynch and other blogging Middle East experts, including Juan Cole, have launched a collaborative effort, Qahwa Sada.
In"Numbers Game," the controversy over the Lancet study of civilian casualties in Iraq leads Tim Burke to discuss his approach to quantitative studies in history.
Cliopatria's contributing editor, Thomas G. Palaima, objects to Nike's new commercial,"Football is Everything." Thanks to Doug Lederman at Inside Higher Ed for the tip.
Finally, Reject the Koolaid points out that our colleague, Hugo Schwyzer, is #2 on RateMyProfessor's"hotness scale" – so hot that no other history professor comes even close. But Hugo has his detractors and they've been stealing his chili peppers. Leave Hugo's chili peppers alone!