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Posts Tagged ‘Culture’

M. Shahid Alam – How Eurocentric Is Your Day?

By Guest Post • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Education, Features, Maps, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

At the outset of the classes I teach, I always address the question of bias in the social sciences. In one course – on the history of the global economy – this is the central theme. It critiques Eurocentric biases in several leading Western accounts of the rise of the global economy.
This fall, I began [...]



Iqbal Tamimi – The Palestinian Kulthum Odeh (1892 -1965) the first woman to hold the professor title in the Arab world

By Iqbal Tamimi • Oct 4th, 2008 • Category: Biography, Culture and Heritage, Education, Features, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies

The Palestinian woman who married a Russian and imprisoned for criticizing Stalin in public
 
 
Many times I have been reading articles written by Israelis claiming that when Israel was established, the Jews came to a land (Palestine) where there weren’t many people, or there were just a few uncivilized and nomadic groups more like Bedouins, and [...]