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The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity (2025)
Journal Article
Wallach, Y. (2025). The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity. Jewish Culture and History, 1-17. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462169X.2025.2577066

The familiar grouping of Yiddish speaking Jews of Central and Eastern Europe into the single overarching identity of ‘Ashkenazim’, emerged initially in multi-lingual Jewish contexts. This article examines the shaping of the Ashkenazi communal identit... Read More about The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity.

Migration and Development Dynamics in the Horn of Africa: A Mobility Mosaic (2025)
Report
Hammond, L. (2025, October 20). Migration and Development Dynamics in the Horn of Africa: A Mobility Mosaic. SOAS University of London. https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/ref-hornresearch/files/2025/10/Migration-and-Displacement-Dynamics-in-the-Horn-of-Africa-Final.pdf

This document provides a comprehensive analysis of the research done by the Research and Evidence Facility, an 8-year, Eur6.6million project of the EU Trust Fund for Africa, and implemented by SOAS University of London with the University of Manchest... Read More about Migration and Development Dynamics in the Horn of Africa: A Mobility Mosaic.

Tea and the Silk Roads of World Literature (2025)
Book Chapter
Ouyang, W. (2025). Tea and the Silk Roads of World Literature. In S. Mishra, & C. Vandertop (Eds.), Commodities and Literature (pp. 31-46). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009432344.002

As a material and literary world, the Silk Road ‘reorients’ our maps of both global capitalism and world literature. The commodities that circulated along the Silk Road included not only objects such as silks, leather, pottery, spices, silver and pap... Read More about Tea and the Silk Roads of World Literature.

Weaponising sectarian emotions: Iran’s mobilisation strategy during the Syrian conflict (2012–2024) (2025)
Journal Article
Alavi, S. A. (2025). Weaponising sectarian emotions: Iran’s mobilisation strategy during the Syrian conflict (2012–2024). Contemporary Levant, 10(2), 133-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/20581831.2025.2559490

Conventional scholarly explorations into Iran’s involvement in the Syrian turmoil (2012–2024) primarily highlight geopolitical motivations, particularly Tehran’s strategic interest in preserving the Assad regime. Such analyses, while possessing merit... Read More about Weaponising sectarian emotions: Iran’s mobilisation strategy during the Syrian conflict (2012–2024).

Trash or Treasure. The East Asian Sherd as Material and Medium (2025)
Book Chapter
Pierson, S. (2025). Trash or Treasure. The East Asian Sherd as Material and Medium. In S. Ng, & M. Rajguru (Eds.), Dynamics of Modern Asian Design: Material Culture and Social Agency (pp. 17-34). Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dynamics-of-modern-asian-design-9781350427846/

With a view to characterizing what might be called ‘sherd culture’ as a phenomenon with a history and specific modes of consumption, this chapter will introduce various ways in which sherds of East Asian ceramics have been used and consumed in global... Read More about Trash or Treasure. The East Asian Sherd as Material and Medium.

Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure (2025)
Book
Novak, P. (2025). Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18323803

This book offers a fresh perspective on the European migration crisis, chronicling its everyday realities in a central Italian province. Through vivid ethnographic accounts, it reveals how the forces and relations animating this crisis are reproduced... Read More about Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure.

Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna (bilingual). (2024)
Book
Contadini, A. (2024). Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna (bilingual).. SAGEP Editori. https://www.sagep.it/prodotto/conoscenza-e-liberta/

Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna è il catalogo della mostra (dal 20 aprile al 15 settembre 2024) a cura di Anna Contadini. Frutto di un mirato collezionismo, gli oggetti esposti provengono da una vasta fascia d... Read More about Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna (bilingual)..

Export or Exported? Primary and Secondary Transfer in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Chinese Porcelain (2022)
Book Chapter
Pierson, S. (2022). Export or Exported? Primary and Secondary Transfer in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Chinese Porcelain. In S. E. Fraser, M. Wakita, & L. Wang (Eds.), Women Cross Media. East Asian Photography, Prints and Porcelain from the Staatliche Kunstammlungen Dresden (pp. 336-355). Heidelberg University Library and arthistoricum.net. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.995.c13795

Examining English-Only in the EFL Classroom of a Swedish School: A Conversation Analytic Perspective (2015)
Book Chapter
Amir, A. (2015). Examining English-Only in the EFL Classroom of a Swedish School: A Conversation Analytic Perspective. In C. J. Jenks, & P. Seedhouse (Eds.), International Perspectives on ELT Classroom Interaction (pp. 208-218). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137340733_12

There are varying claims about the number of English second-language speakers, with figures between 100 million and 400 million (Crystal 1997). Similarly, the number who have learnt English as a Foreign Language (EFL) also varies, with estimates rang... Read More about Examining English-Only in the EFL Classroom of a Swedish School: A Conversation Analytic Perspective.