April 2012
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Iranians Count 2010 →
The results from the 2010 US census have been released, and if you’re interested in downloading the report, click the link above.
According to the Census Bureau, a total of 289,465 responded to the question of race in the 2010 Census by marking “x” in the “Some Other Race” box and writing Iranian/Persian alone or in a combination. The majority of the write-in...
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Friend: Why did the weekend have to end?
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UCLA,
You were such a blessing.
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Friend: i have had so many spontaneous solo dance parties tonight
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Send me positive thesising vibes please. I’ve lost all focus.
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So, I wear a scarf. Can I be included in a spread for Gap, Madewell, JCrew, or some other clothing company that brands itself as being American?
I realize that diversity is often interpreted as racial diversity, especially in fashion spreads. That’s great, but diversity means more that. Diversity is recognizing that people not only look different, but that they might dress differently too....
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راعي بقر
raa-ee baqar (more commonly pronounced raa-ee ba’ar)
“cowboy” in Arabic
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Middle Eastern Studies Resources →
If you have any online resources you’d like to see added, message me!
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An Overview of Tsarist Policy on Islamic Courts in... →
A reminder to myself to read this paper by Paolo Sartori.
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I hate napping and then waking up to a headache. Not dealing with a headache was the whole point of the nap.
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Addendum to B&M's Summer Book Club
Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order edited by Brian Spooner and William L. Hanaway
Iran’s Epic and America’s Empire: a handbook for a generation in limbo by Mahmoud Omidsalar
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Friend: I don't say YOLO I say Yallah
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عشق
eshgh
“love” in Persian
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Play me, I'm yours →
On the delightful street pianos installed around the world.
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Fatima is Fatima →
In his book Fatima is Fatima, Ali Shariati engages the portrayal of Fatima al-Zahra in Islamic historiography and presents his own model for understanding her life. Shariati highlights the common dependence on her family in earlier literature, and while he doesn’t reject these readings, Shariati aims to show that Fatima’s importance extends beyond her prophetic lineage. His reading of...
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Premature nostalgia is misleading.
Me: I have a confession to make
Me: I think...I think Texas has a special place in my heart.
Friend: Texas?
Friend: no
Friend: I don't think so.
Friend: I highly doubt you'd be feeling this way if you weren't moving away in a couple of months.
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"The Tiger Hunter" →
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Friend #1: get off tumblr and get back to studying.
Friend #2: do you even know what I'm doing?
Friend #2: I'm looking at "100 Amazing Hairstyles."
Friend #2: I know that's not important to you
Friend #2: but not all of us are hijabis.
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I keep thinking it's Friday. And then I keep...
I just want to stay home and work on my thesis.
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On Iranian family names, from a lecture by...
In 1924 and 1925, the Iranian government passed two laws that modernized naming practices completely. First, the abolition of titles stripped the elites of their honorifics. Second, the mandate for family names created a new system identification that had not existed in Iran before.
My notes on Chehabi’s lecture are extensive, but for now I’ll focus on this question:
How did people...
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xwaršēd ud māh ud stārag pad āsmān hēnd.
The sun and the moon and the stars were in the sky.
(translation from Middle Persian)
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On this date in 1930, BBC Radio reported, "There...
mentalflossr:
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How do I convince an institution to invite me to...
Yes, there is always a productive way for me to procrastinate my thesis.
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“But by far the most lovely thing I saw in Isfahan, one of those things where...”
– Vita Sackville-West, on the madrasseh of the Imam Mosque (formerly the Shah Mosque) in Isfahan, Iran, from Passenger to Teheran
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Hijabi: I want to dye my hair pink.
Friend: ooooooo that way you don't have to wear a scarf and you'll just tie your hair under your chin and no one will ever knooowwwwwwww
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“Victor Hugo would write naked and tell his valet...
leftish:
Source: “What we can Learn from Procrastination.” via Instapaper, The New Yorker
[NOTE* from Leftish: HUH? Victor Hugo had a fucking VALET?]…
...[P.S. Wait a minute…he could afford a valet but only one set of clothes?]
Note: if thesis desperation hits.
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guidance in the purest form: Anonymous asked: cant... →
wewanttobe:
You really have no idea, do you? How hard it is for so many of us. For us to deal with putting on that scarf which at once gives us a mono-identity in the eyes of so many people.
Let’s just start with non-Muslims shall we? One of my sisters had a brick thrown at her head, others have been called terrorists, have been asked, “do you have a bomb under there?” As though it’s one...
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“Generally, the middle and lower [classes] of Russian, in so far as [I] have...”
– Mirza Mohammad Hosayn Farahani in one of the more colorful passages from his travelogue. This section was written while he was traveling through Baku, present day Azerbaijan.
Farahani, Mirza Mohammad Hosayn Farahani, A Shi’ite Pilgrimage to Mecca (1885-1886), trans. Hafez Farmayan (Austin:...
Anonymous asked: why a time machine? what is it you wish you could change?
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birthday wish list
a time machine
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B&M's future
Post Book Club plans:
Co-teach a course, co-author articles, co-take students on tours abroad, co-do post docs. Essentially, co-it-up.
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encyclopedia titanic-passenger list →
I flipped through the third class passengers. Check it out—you might be surprised. Some Mohammads and Alis and Ahmeds were on the boat, too.
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stuffrumineversaid:
jasminniemouse19:
What if you had a roomie named Rumi?
Legitimate question. Once I lived with three other people, and one of them decided to call everyone “roomie.” Most annoying year of my life.
