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Interactions between religious minorities and the Zoroastrian fire temple in the light of new clay sealings from Taḵt-e Solaymān (2023)
Book Chapter
Moradi, Y., & Hintze, A. (2023). Interactions between religious minorities and the Zoroastrian fire temple in the light of new clay sealings from Taḵt-e Solaymān. In R. Gyselen (Ed.), Reflets d'époques sassanide et post-sassanide (224-760) (153-176). Groupe pour l'étude de la civilisation du Moyen-Orient

This article addresses, for the first time, seal impressions of four bullae, discovered by Yousef Moradi at the World Heritage site of Taḵt-e Solaymān, showing Jewish and Christian iconography in the context of the economic and administrative activit... Read More about Interactions between religious minorities and the Zoroastrian fire temple in the light of new clay sealings from Taḵt-e Solaymān.

‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity (2022)
Journal Article
Savage, P. (2022). ‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity. Art History, 45(5), 1078-1100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12692

This essay traces the histories and reverberations of the socialist scholarship programmes which brought art and graphic design students from Africa to the USSR during the 1980s. Drawing on the accounts and archives of art students and cultural worke... Read More about ‘The New Life’: Mozambican Art Students in the USSR, and the Aesthetic Epistemologies of Anticolonial Solidarity.

Kevin Bahun-Wilson Transcript (2021)
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Rofe, J. S., & Krasnoff, L. S. (2021). Kevin Bahun-Wilson Transcript. London

The FIBA Foundation is the social and legacy arm of FIBA that addresses the role of sports and particularly basketball in society, preserving and promoting basketball’s values and its cultural heritage. The FIBA Foundation believes that basketball ha... Read More about Kevin Bahun-Wilson Transcript.

Issac Robert Kwapong Transcript (2021)
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Rofe, J. S., & Krasnoff, L. S. (2021). Issac Robert Kwapong Transcript. London

The FIBA Foundation is the social and legacy arm of FIBA that addresses the role of sports and particularly basketball in society, preserving and promoting basketball’s values and its cultural heritage. The FIBA Foundation believes that basketball ha... Read More about Issac Robert Kwapong Transcript.

Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental (2020)
Book Chapter
George, N. (2020). Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental. In L. Guirguis (Ed.), The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s–1970s (127-147). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474454261-011

It is hard to imagine language more alarming to European and American imperialists and their allies than the terms Mehdi Ben Barka used to describe the conference he was organising. In May 1965, the Afro-Asian People‘s Solidarity Organisation elected... Read More about Travelling Theorist: Mehdi Ben Barka and Morocco from Anti-Colonial Nationalism to the Tricontinental.

Refashioning the Ethiopian monarchy in the twentieth century: An intellectual history (2020)
Journal Article
Marzagora, S. (2022). Refashioning the Ethiopian monarchy in the twentieth century: An intellectual history. Global Intellectual History, 7(3), 533-557. https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2020.1796237

This article traces the shift in the Ethiopian monarchical ideology from lineage as symbolic Christian filiation to dynasty as a political genealogy of sovereign power. From the end of the nineteenth century, and more prominently under Haylä Səllase,... Read More about Refashioning the Ethiopian monarchy in the twentieth century: An intellectual history.

América Latina – África del Norte – España: lazos culturales, intelectuales y literarios del colonialismo español al antiimperialismo tercermundista. (2020)
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Fleischmann, S., & Nenadovic, A. (Eds.). (2020). América Latina – África del Norte – España: lazos culturales, intelectuales y literarios del colonialismo español al antiimperialismo tercermundista. Iberoamericana Vervuert

Este libro investiga los lazos culturales, intelectuales y literarios entre América Latina, el norte de África y España desde los estudios culturales, la crítica literaria y la historiografía global. Se centra en la circulación de imaginarios y discu... Read More about América Latina – África del Norte – España: lazos culturales, intelectuales y literarios del colonialismo español al antiimperialismo tercermundista..

Presentación (2020)
Book Chapter
Nenadovic, A. (2020). Presentación. In S. Fleischmann, & A. Nenadovic (Eds.), América Latina – África del Norte – España. Lazos culturales, intelectuales y literarios del colonialismo español al antiimperialismo tercermundista (7-24). Iberoamericana Vervuert

Ethiopian Intellectual History and the Global: Käbbädä Mikael’s Geographies of Belonging (2019)
Journal Article
Marzagora, S. (2019). Ethiopian Intellectual History and the Global: Käbbädä Mikael’s Geographies of Belonging. Journal of World Literature, 4(1), 107-128. https://doi.org/10.1163/24056480-00401006

Through the literary and historiographical works written by Ethiopian intellectual Käbbädä Mikael in the 1940s and 1950s, this article problematizes the concept of the “world” in world literature. In some theories of world literature, the world is pr... Read More about Ethiopian Intellectual History and the Global: Käbbädä Mikael’s Geographies of Belonging.

The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa (2019)
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Amoah, M. (2019). The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781838600501

Nationalism and the nation state, globalization and Pan-Africanism are leading international relations concepts which have a particular relevance for Africa as an emerging economic power. This book examines the concept of nationalism, the nationalist... Read More about The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa.

Boko Haram (2018)
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Kendhammer, B., & McCain, C. (2018). Boko Haram. Ohio University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv224tpdz

From its small-time origins in the early 2000s to its transformation into one of the world’s most-recognized terrorist groups, this remarkable short book tells the story of Boko Haram’s bloody, decade-long war in northeastern Nigeria. Going beyond th... Read More about Boko Haram.

The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City (2017)
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El-Kazaz, S., Mazur, K., Reynolds, N., Crane, S., & Menoret, P. (2017). The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City. Hoboken, NJ

This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de-exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a gene... Read More about The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City.

Book Review: The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State by Iza R. Hussin (2016)
Journal Article
Hamzić, V. Book Review: The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State by Iza R. Hussin. LSE Review of Books,

In The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State, Iza R. Hussin traces a riveting history of Islamic law as it encounters, and is inevitably transformed by, British colonialism in Malaya, Egypt and I... Read More about Book Review: The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State by Iza R. Hussin.

Slavery: West Africa (2016)
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Rodet, M. (2016). Slavery: West Africa. Leiden

Despite the scarcity of sources, the history of African slavery has fostered vivid debates over the nature of the institution and the ways in which gender produced different experiences of slavery. Studying the diversity of women’s experiences of sla... Read More about Slavery: West Africa.