"Amnesty International Report 2008
Amnesty International Report 2008: State of the World’s Human Rights
Source: Amnesty International
From press release:
Advancing Freedom and Democracy Reports, May 2008
Source: U.S. Department of State
Alberto Manguel writes about finding a place to keep his library of some 30,000 books.
found in Perspectiva
Blogs, public intellectuals and the academy
For the millions thousands close relatives who are interested in my musings on the state of public intellectuals in America, you can read a draft of "Public Intellectuals 2.0" which I'll be presenting at a conference later this week at Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. While the dominant trope about public intellectuals is that they ain't what they used to be, I'm relatively bullish. The thesis paragraph:
Nadwi on Maududi: a traditionalist maulvi’s critique of Islamism
Sayyid Abul A’la Maududi (1903-1979)
By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net, May 18, 2008
The late Sayyed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi (or Ali Miyan as he was also known) was one of the leading Indian ulema of modern times. A noted writer, he headed the famous Nadwat ul-Ulema madrasa in Lucknow from 1961 till his death in 1999. He was associated with several other Indian as well as international Islamic organisations, a mark of the high respect that he was accorded among Muslims all over the world.
NYT on May 68
The New York Times has published an op-ed by French journalist Jean-Claude Guillebaud in its Saturday paper entitled France’s Bright Shining Lie:Years of '68
The Western revolutionaries of '68 were often hostile towards supporters of the Warsaw March revolt and indifferent towards the subsequent "anti-Zionist" purges. Yet the events were disastrous for Polish Jews at the time and are still relevant forty years later.What makes a biopolitical space?
The city, says Toni Negri, is where the "political diagonal" intersects the "biopolitical diagram". Yet "soft" forms of activism that create collectivities on micro, neighbourhood levels only go so far, says Negri, who favours rupture and revolution over accumulation and gradual change.
World Health Statistics 2008
Source: World Health Organization
Human Security Brief 2007
Source: Human Security Report Project
JSTOR, get out of the way
Has this ever happened to you? You are hot on the trail of exactly the article you need to complete a thought, a post, perhaps a book, and, oh no!, you hit the red light from JSTOR.Chances are you have. As of June 2007, the JSTORE database contained 729 journal titles and over 165,000 individual journal issues, totaling over 23 million pages of text
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