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David Lepeska

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Book review: Aleksandar Hemon's latest story reflects on Eastern European immigrants who struggle with displacement in America

Mar 9, 2013

After four novels, Aleksandar Hemon's fifth book is non-fiction, but it still mines the same territory of Eastern European protagonists struggling with their new lives in America, writes David Lepeska Read article "Book review: Aleksandar Hemon's latest story reflects on Eastern European immigrants who struggle with displacement in America"

Turkey continues to remake Muslim democracy, says author

Jan 26, 2013

As a number of nationalist groups battle for Turkey's soul, the anthropologist Jenny White sees another group of 'new Turks' on the world stage remaking Muslim democracy.Read article "Turkey continues to remake Muslim democracy, says author"

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Khaled Hosseini's new novel captures the Afghan experience at home and abroad

May 18, 2013

The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns deserved to be international best-sellers, but Hosseini's new novel, And the Mountains Echoed, shows him progressing as a writerRead article

Together in electric dreams: competing visions of the robotic future

May 16, 2013

Depending on your assumptions, the rise of the robots could be either liberating or unnerving. But how can we navigate our interactions with artificial helpers?Read article

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Political revamp far off despite bloodshed

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Comment Experts say the outrage in Mumbai is the result of an attack on the symbol of aspirations of the upper-class, while the plight of the poor is steadily ignored.Read article Political revamp far off despite bloodshed

Neighbourhood watch

Feb 25, 2010

The Palestinian director Scandar Copti speaks about the hometown inspiration of his Oscar-nominated movie Ajami.Read article Neighbourhood watch

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Islamic publishing house flourishes in US

Jul 25 , 2011 | 11:15PM GST

Joe Blog

This is a double edge sword. Often in my experience indigenious scholarly contribution, sensitive to the situation of muslim and wider the non muslim society, is pushed aside by giving preference to Saudi backed publication. Often these imported translation unware of the cultural and social make up of the communty at the hand of untrained/unscholarly individual become devisive. Islam is a highly scholastic relegion that takes on board social context in its discourse. The indiginous scholar have voiced this concern many times but it seems the zeal to import a particular Saudi interpretation of Islam seems to cloud the judgement. It would have been better for the donar oranisation to support these scholars which would have encouraged home grown world class scholarship.

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