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… the music that is often associated with Greece around the world is an early 20th-century urban popular style known as rebetika (e.g. Zorba’s … musicians put Greece ‘on the map’ for the rest of the world, they were not completely embedded in the music making …

… Compendiums of Wonder and Rarity Islamic compendiums of wonders wedded an interest in geography, astrology, … of jinn, angels, and strange creatures at the edges of the world. Demon possession and sex magic could leap out of one … writings on natural marvels well into the nineteenth century. Travis Zadeh is Associate Professor in the …

… A pan-university center, with links also all over the world. And I just stepped down at the end of February from … capacity to really be have a transformative impact on the world with the research that we support at the Center. All of … is a shared interest in, those particular regions of the world and a commitment, I think, to understanding those …

… the panel was to reflect on the efforts over the past half century by nations, international organizations, companies, … these issues historically and in our contemporary world, with attention to the issue of reparations to Black … of society, and discussed how Reconstruction and the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were an early, though …

… But every now and again, when there’s especially good news, it’s hard not to boast just a little. And so we report … Snyder’s 2017 book “On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century” holds the number-one spot for paperback nonfiction, … messages from readers of “On Tyranny” from around the world. He finds it heartening, he says, that “books do seem …

… Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, for “A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate … and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century” (The University of Chicago Press, 2016); and Anna … Rai, Assistant Professor of History, for  Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir …

… the forced assimilation of Uyghurs and other Turkic and Muslim-majority peoples based on their ethnicity and … Human Rights Watch , the Uyghur Human Rights Project , and World Uyghur Congress – have been monitoring, documenting, …

… the royal coffers, until by the end of the seventeenth century Europeans would start gaining a foothold along the … who imposed a strict form of Islam and alienated his non-Muslim subjects. Dara, by contrast, is mythologized as a poet …

… in annual meeting at Buffalo, July 11th, 12th and 13th, 1905, congratulate the Negro-Americans on certain … are relics of that unreasoning human savagery of which the world is and ought to be thoroughly ashamed. “Jim Crow” Cars: … is wrong, unchristian and disgraceful to the twentieth century civilization. Agitation: Of the above grievances we …

… from the battle which marked Spain’s final defeat of the Muslim kingdom of Granada, he saw—or, more accurately, … the lens of their wars with Muslims, Europeans in the New World engaged in a new version of their very old Crusades, a … well as an enemy on the battlefield. Throughout the 17th century and into the 18th, Europe remained far more concerned …