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  • Why family ties in Kūfa mattered for early Islamic politics

    Aliya A Ali explores how kinship and marriage alliances shaped political power and governance in the early Islamic city of Kūfa.

    September 25, 2025
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Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part Five)

In the final part of this five-part series on African American film, Geetha Ramanathan discusses 2017 hit “Get Out” alongside Kathleen Collins’s “The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy” to consider different ways race relations are portrayed on screen. Click here…

  • Helena Heald
  • August 21, 2020

Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part Four)

In part four of this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan uses two examples to consider how African American films of the 1970s and 1980s explored America’s relationship with race. Click here to read part one of the series. Over the course of African…

  • Helena Heald
  • August 20, 2020

Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part Three)

In part three of this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan explores the use of American mythology and folklore in two African American films. Click here to read part one of the series. The great mythology of the US is written on…

  • Helena Heald
  • August 19, 2020

Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part Two)

In part two of this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan considers the use of the “ancestral archive” to discuss gender models and sexuality in African American films. Click here to read part one of this series. Artists from the US, the…

  • Helena Heald
  • August 18, 2020

Visually Speaking: African American Films Past and Present (Part One)

In this five-part series, Geetha Ramanathan, author of Kathleen Collins: The Black Essai Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), explores over a century of African American films and what they tell us about African American history both on and off screen.…

  • Helena Heald
  • August 17, 2020

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