My review of “Orientalism” (1978) by Edward W. Said (lemmy.ml)
When I asked my friend how she found the book to be, she described it as “a jumble of thoughts that felt familiar.”...
The Historical Awareness of Khairy Al-Zahaby's “The Trap of Names” (2009) (lemmy.ml)
Disclaimer: there is no English translation of this book...
A Review of Eduardo Galeano's “Soccer in Sun and Shadow” (2013) (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/10484701...
“United in diversity” :3 (lemmy.ml)
Surviving fragment of a 1513 Ottoman world map depicting the new world [449x599] (Original file is 1,964x2,619 pixels). (lemmy.ml)
The map is known by the name of its author, admiral Piri Reis. Only half of the original map survives today....
The Oppression of Unjust Law: A Review of Al-Hakim's Diary of a Country Prosecutor (lemmy.ml)
Short but thrilling. We started this year with a bang! Quite literally. A prosecutor wakes up in the middle of the night to the voice of an officer reporting to him the shooting of a villager, marking the beginning of a thrilling and mysterious crime investigation amidst the perturbation of the administration. As the title of...
Betrayers of the Truth : Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science | My Review (lemmy.ml)
(available on libgen ;)...
