BY DORTHE POSSING A report, “Being a Muslim woman in Denmark,” published in March 2009 and commissioned by the former Danish Minister for Gender Equality, Karen Jespersen, concluded that the circulation of “Islamist” discourses on the Internet and Arabic satellite-TV put young Danish Muslim women’s notions of equality and citizenship at risk. The logic was [...]
BY HUGH GUSTERSON In the fall of 2007, I received an interview request from the New York Times journalist David Rohde, who was writing an article about the U.S. Army’s newly announced Human Terrain project – a program to embed anthropologists in military teams in Iraq and Afghanistan and send them out to “map the [...]
BY SOLON SIMMONS There is no part of the world more crucial to the strategic interests of the United States as is the Middle East. While the traditional problems of the regulation of international affairs are at play there, Arab language satellite channels have created a new force in the region, and Al Jazeera is [...]
BY PAULINE E. GINSBERG In systematic study of the effects of globalization on adolescents outside Western Europe and North America, teens are depicted as passive recipients of changes in worldwide socio-political and economic events driven by the behavior of the great economic, technological, and political powerhouses of the United States, the European Community, and technologically advanced [...]
BY LINDSAY IRVINE History, though sometimes preserved in stones, is not static. History is a living organism that changes as we understand and incorporate traumatic events into our lives and our world. The human imagination has commemorated these events in numerous ways across countless generations, but most have been lost in the sands of time. [...]