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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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Afghanistan’s ambiguous anniversary

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  • Edinburgh University Press
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A Celebratory Issue of ‘The New Americanist’

by Matthew Chambers The text for this blog is taken from the Editor’s Introduction of The New Americanist Vol 2.2. The New Americanist continues a tradition of research publication at the American Studies Center (University of Warsaw)—some iteration of the…

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Roland Barthes’ Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse: Translating Again, Writing Again

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