Even as strides toward gender equality have been made in the last century, the notion that gender is a binary divided between those who determine the social world – men – and those who need to be determined – women…
Scottish Muslims’ lives are dressed up in tartan and play the music of Islam. The Scottish ‘Muslim community’ is made up of people of various ages, ethnicities and social classes. But what they have in common is that they identify…
When considering the definition of Scottish fashion and what constitutes the Scottish fashion industry, most of us probably think immediately of traditional textiles. Indeed, when searching for information on “Scottish fashion” using Google I am immediately met with the websites…
By Tom Angier Does ethics need religion? Do we need to believe in God to be good? These are standard questions in moral philosophy. Strangely, however, they are not asked about (arguably) the greatest philosopher in the Western tradition: namely,…
Read on and explore the ideas behind writing Performing Ethics through Film Style book by Edward Lamberti. Levinas’s ethics in a nutshell The notion of ‘Otherness’ is other people’s differences from me and my sort of person. This can be…
The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women contains the life stories of more than 1,000 women who shaped Scotland’s history. With fascinating lives on every page, the concise entries illustrate the lives of Scottish women from the distant past to…
When I first proposed to write about the Persians in Egypt, in a seminar at the University of Michigan, my professor laughed. She laughed because it was a well-known fact among Egyptologists that there was little evidence for this period…
Once known primarily as the author of ‘twee’ children’s books about fastidious mice and naughty rabbits, Beatrix Potter has gained recognition in recent years for her wide-ranging accomplishments as a conservationist, mycologist and scientific illustrator. In the 1890s, before embarking…
From recycling to creating huge anthologies, Konrad HIrschler looks at some innovative ways that book lovers created their medieval Arabic manuscripts.
Audrey Murfin explores Robert Louis Stevenson and his methods of Character Creation