Of mice and manuscripts
For anyone who works on Arabic manuscripts or would like to know how that is done, this new website at Leiden University is a welcome introduction. Check it…
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Kameel Ahmady: British FGM academic ‘jailed in Iran’
Kameel Ahmady: British FGM academic ‘jailed in Iran’ A British-Iranian academic has been sentenced to eight years in prison by a court in Tehran, his lawyer says. Kameel…
British researcher who documented child marriage and female genital mutilation in Iran is jailed for nine years in Tehran for his ‘subversive’ work
British researcher who documented child marriage and female genital mutilation in Iran is jailed for nine years in Tehran for his ‘subversive’ work Ahmady sentenced by Iran’s Revolu…
Iran jails British-Iranian researcher for 9 years for subversion – report
Iran jails British-Iranian researcher for 9 years for subversion – report DUBAI (Reuters) – A court in Iran has handed a nine-year jail sentence to British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel…
British–Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran
British–Iranian academic sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran Kameel Ahmady, who has written books on Iran, found guilty of collaborating with hostile state A British-Iranian anthropolo…
Iran sentences Kameel Ahmady, British-Iranian anthropologist, to prison
Iran sentences Kameel Ahmady, British-Iranian anthropologist, to prison Ahmady, who is ethnically Kurdish, had researched child marriage and female genital mutilation in Iran. Iran has sentenced Bri…
Ryazanov
Writing to a friend I fell down the Stalin rabbit-hole. It started off reasonably for a sunday evening, thinking, because of some translation work I am doing, that…
British-Iranian academic jailed for 9 years in Iran for ‘subversive’ research
British-Iranian academic jailed for 9 years in Iran for ‘subversive’ research A British-Iranian anthropologist has been sentenced to nine years in prison in Iran after he was convicted…
Iran Jails British-Iranian Researcher for 9 Years, Report Says
Iran Jails British-Iranian Researcher for 9 Years, Report Says DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – A court in Iran has handed a nine-year jail sentence to British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel…
British-Iranian academic imprisoned for eight years for ‘promoting homosexuality’
British-Iranian academic imprisoned for eight years for ‘promoting homosexuality’ British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has been sentenced to eight years in prison for “promoting homosexuality…
Helping the British academic imprisoned in Iran is Boris Johnson’s chance to redeem himself
Helping the British academic imprisoned in Iran is Boris Johnson’s chance to redeem himself After failing to protect Iranian-British detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the prime minister now has a…
Iran arrests British-Kurdish academic in Tehran
Iran arrests British-Kurdish academic in Tehran Kameel Ahmady, a British-Kurdish academic originally from the city of Mahabad in Iran, was arrested on Sunday and jailed in the infamous…
Iran jails anthropologist for “subversive research”, “seeking cultural changes” and “promoting homosexuality”
Iran jails anthropologist for “subversive research”, “seeking cultural changes” and “promoting homosexuality” 14 years ago I wrote about his website: Visual ethnogr…
A Tech Workers’ Bill of Rights
One of my life missions is, until my dying breath, to chip away at the capitalist system as much as I can within my capacity as a single…
Stars from the AAA Sections
Last year Anthropology News invited sections to help us highlight some of the outstanding people in our discipline and the exciting, impactful work that they do, whether in…
Black Food Matters Panel Available on YouTube
Jennifer Jo Thompson Like me, you might have missed SAFN’s Black Food Matters Panel at Raising Our Voices—especially, since it was happening right about the same time that…
The scientific entrepreneur as hero: from Arrowsmith to the covid-19 vaccines by Ilana Löwy
Cover Arrowsmith, Pocket Books, 1944 Edition Sinclair Lewis’s novel Arrowsmith, published in 1925 to critical and public acclaim (the book was awarded the Pulitzer prize, although Lewis refus…
Must Conservation and Indigenous Rights Clash?
A group of Baiga tribespeople stand together. The Indian government has evicted thousands of Baiga people to make way for a wildlife reserve. Simon Williams/Ekta Parishad/Wikimedia Commons …
The Post-Ottoman Century: A View from 1917
The last Ottoman sultan, Mehmet VI, leaving his palace in Istanbul in 1922 The Ottoman Empire, firmly established after the conquest of Constantinople cum Istanbul in 1453 lasted…
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Hi all, Happy Friday! Inequality, #AidToo, China, UK Aid & climate change/resilience…lots of big-picture #globaldev stuff in this week’s review; plus great new research articles on TikTok, …
Susana Narotzky: A History of Precariousness in Spain
The EASA report on The Anthropological Career in Europe (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) is an important initiative that offers quantitative evidence about a situation which all of…
Giacomo Loperfido: On Excellence, Precarity, and The Uses of Public Money
Covid19 is producing a crisis – both sanitary and economic – of global structural proportions, threatening the very existence of society as we know it. All precarious segments…
The discomfort surrounding talks on historic and present-day racism in class
Image from a Dutch high school history book. Photo by author. By Sientje Trip When browsing one of the history books of the high school I researched I…