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Doxa at Large

Passages to Freedom: The Politics of Racial Reconciliation in South Africa

Achille Mbembe
Thirteen years after the formal abolition of apartheid, South Africa is no longer what it used to be. It is coming out of the dark age of white supremacy.

Red Mosque

Faisal Devji
On July 10, 2007, Pakistani soldiers stormed the Red Mosque complex of Islamabad in an assault that killed some two hundred people, thus ending months of aggressive and well-publicized provocations by

American Studies in Tehran

Brian T. Edwards
It’s Friday in February in downtown Tehran. I’m taking advantage of the day off from the seminar I’m teaching to catch up with unfinished work from home.

On Monolingual Fears

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
The Spanish language has been spoken in the United States for nearly two centuries, and it will be widely spoken for the foreseeable future.

Farewell Bil'in

David Shulman
In the bus, conversation turns to the effectiveness of antidotes to tear gas.

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