#Orientalist

Luddite womanhood

gothhabiba

I'm surprised by the cover image you've chosen here. My primary question--perhaps an overly generous one, since it assumes that the problem is merely ignorance--is "what has to happen in

Sandstone

quartzen

I often read older science fiction and fantasy, for several reasons: because I'm interested in the development of the genre, I liked an author's current books and wanted to seek

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elliotsang

i didn't realize it then, but the reality is that jimin is one of the most underappreciated, dismissed, misunderstood artists in the world. his status as a vocalist who is

Maitreya Bhakal

MaitreyaBhakal

Thread on a certain class of people I describe as "self-hating Chinese".Similar to "self-hating Jew":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hating_JewUsed to describe Chinese diaspora in the West (mostly journalists) whose hatred for

رها رفیعی گربه نیست

RahaRafii

Had a great time talking about strategies and challenges of teaching Islamic law on the wonderful panel "Teaching Legal History in the 21st Century" at #ASLH2019. Some points I brought

Safiya z ⵣ

safifesse

Some of my favorite North-African painters, a ThreadRamhani Abdelilah, a contemporary Moroccan artist from Tangiers whose subjects of choice are traditional costumes (including these intricately decorated caftans) and traditional objects

Kiki ا

UrbanXpat

THE CONCEPT OF #UMMAH IN ISLAM:Ummah is an Arabic word that is usually translated into English as nation. Thus, when someone from an English-speaking background hears the word Ummah, they

me fui de vacaciones⁷ 🇩🇴🇨🇳

elliotsang

TW. i want to address an issue that's resurfaced a bit. in september i wrote a piece about suga that made casual mention of how people perceive other members of

Dr. Stephennie Mulder

stephenniem

Oops! Looks like someone hasn't read the UNESCO 1970 convention. Manuscripts are in fact explicitly protected, as are *cough* incunabula. Let's have a thread about provenance, UNESCO, and the priciest

Guillermo Rojas Hernandez

guillermokrh

@timnitGebru identified a huge problem w/artificial intelligence today: English text generators (language models) are built using online text from sources like Twitter. But there's so much abuse towards women, people

Joshua Luna

Joshua_Luna

I've been quarantine-binging vampire shows & wondered why Asian guys are rarely vampires. Then I realized that since modern vampires are “heroes” meant to uphold whiteness, we don't fit that

TALHA

Talhawaqas98

THREAD:SLAVERY in ISLAMMany critics of Islam point out that Islam endorses enslaving people to become slaves and allows to abuse them. This is far from reality. Islam encourages good treatment

Aslisho Qurboniev

aslishahqurbani

I am reading Ahmed El Shamsy’s recent book on the impact of #printing on modern discourses on #Islamic scholarship. Like his previous book, it is extremely readable and insightful. I

Dr. Javad T Hashmi

DrJavadTHashmi

It is certainly true that modern Muslims are split on the issue of Ḥadīth. Nineteenth-century Islamic modernists, such as Sir Sayyid & Cherāgh ʿAlī, pioneered Ḥadīth skepticism, with none other

Haris Durrani

hdernity

Do you think #Dune is a white savior narrative? Well, you're wrong.To accept that interpretation is to reinscribe an account of the novel promulgated by adolescent white boys since the

Danielle Scarlett

daniellesb_

Why did I bother emailing my dad evidence that the US press is lying about China when I had little faith he wouldn't do exactly as he's doing now: willfully