The University of Texas said a threat was received from a man “with a Middle Eastern accent” at 08:35 (13:35 GMT).
I’ll show you a Middle Eastern accent.
I bought this book when really, I just need coffee.
Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East by Ralph Hattox.
In the late 19th century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed racial and ethnic lines. Fair-skinned Circassian men and women were as vulnerable to enslavement in the Nile Valley as were teenagers from Sudan or Ethiopia.
Tell This in My Memory opens up a new window in the study of slavery in the modern Middle East, taking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners to shed light on the anxieties and intimacies of personal experience. The framework of racial identity constructed through these stories proves instrumental in explaining how countries later confronted—or not—the legacy of the slave trade. Today, these vocabularies of slavery live on for contemporary refugees whose forced migrations often replicate the journeys and stigmas faced by slaves in the 19th century.
It amazes me that someone who is critical of the Iranian community is immediately cast as an outsider.
Why get angry with the people who identify problems within our community? And why call them “outsiders?” Are “true Iranians” too blinded by lies and exaggerations to be critical of our country, culture, and community?
It’s funny—the same person who privileges ancient Iranian history but slanders Jewish Iranians forgets that it’s the Jewish Iranian community that kept the memory of Cyrus the Great and other Achaemenid kings alive. Without them, you’d know a lot less about that empire.
PS I have to add—calling me Jewish in an attempt to insult me is so weak.
Celebrating the 1295/1878 Persian New Year in Qajar Iran. It’s amazing how some lasting some traditions are.
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Shireen Mahdavi, “The Structure and Function of the Household of a Qajar Merchant,” Iranian Studies 32, no. 4 (1999) 570.
In wealthier Qajar homes, houses were spacious and organized by function.
The andaruni (C) were parts of the home devoted to women and their close male relatives (their mahram). The biruni (A) were public spaces for men and their guests—members of the upper classes were big on hosting parties and such back then, too. The husaynia (B) was an area primarily for hosting services commemorating Ashura.
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Shireen Mahdavi, “The Structure and Function of the Household of a Qajar Merchant,” Iranian Studies 32, no. 4 (1999) 561.
Shah of Persia Succumbs After Long Struggle
Muzaffar-ed-din Dies in his Palace in Teheran in the Height of His Career
GAVE CONSTITUTION TO HIS COUNTRY
Popular Sovereign Who Thrice Visited Europe and Was Used to Modern Ways
LIFE ATTEMPTED IN PARIS
Succeeded by His Son, Mohammad Ali Mirza, Who Has Shown Himself Favorable to Great Britain
Muzaffar al-Din Shah’s obituary in the New York Herald, Wednesday, January 9, 1907. Although the Herald remembered him for the Constitutional Revolution of 1906, the success of the revolution was short-lived. Upon rising to the throne, Mohammad Ali Shah dissolved parliament and abolished the constitution. He did so with Great Britain (and Russia’s) help.
I have used computer technology as a kind of time machine to update my family album, to lend it more color and life, to renovate and revive it.
By the use of anachronisms such as collaging modern stamps on the clothes of some of my ancestors, and by inventing backgrounds that are obviously out of context with them, my aim was to see them in a new light and to transplant them into a different time, a different place.
How obnoxious is this link?? But it’s just that good.
Ahh my tumblr famous followers (and my not so famous followers)
Ajam Media Collective launched its tumblr a couple weeks ago—can y’all help me get the word out? Follow them, reblog them, anything! Just so that people can learn about this really awesome resource on the net.
The Ajam Media Collective is an online space devoted to documenting and analyzing cultural, social, and political trends in the diverse Iranian, Central Asian, and diaspora communities. We unite authors from various backgrounds and disciplines to promote diverse critical views of the region and seek to emphasize the region’s importance as a thriving cultural center whose multiple realities are too often obscured by the popular Western and global media.
