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Spain 2018: The Spanish Spring and the Migration Crisis

Finally, after years of delay, the last few months have brought something like a Spanish Spring, complete with surprising changes but also with political “volatility and instability,” as ...
On September 17, 2018 / By John McClure
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Close distance

“Close distance” is a term I coined in 2015 when I was writing a novel as part of my studies in Lancaster University’s Creative Writing Programme. When writers ...
On September 17, 2018 / By Mastura Alatas
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The Art of the High-Born: A Look Back at Bahman Farmanara’s Shazdeh Ehtejab

I was moved to re-watch Bahman Farmanara’s Prince Ehtejab (1974) after seeing the profusely televised royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Apart from the fact that ...
On September 17, 2018 / By Pardis Dabashi
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Global Finance in the Streets of Dublin

In 1986, the Irish parliament passed the Urban Renewal Act, setting up the Custom House Docks Development Authority, and paving the way for the establishment of the Irish ...
On September 17, 2018 / By Liam Lanigan
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Rewriting Finance’s Fiction

De Boever, Arne. Finance Fictions: Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis. New York: Fordham UP, 2018. On April 23rd, 2013, the Associated Press Twitter account ...
On May 28, 2018 / By Phillip R. Polefrone
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Fugitive/Narrative: Some Starting Points

1. In 1979, in the newspaper La Stampa, Primo Levi published a short story entitled “The Fugitive.” Given Levi’s own experience, it was not, as might have been ...
On May 28, 2018 / By Stephen Clingman
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The Soul of Man Under Neoliberalism: Walter Benn Michaels and the Salvation of Modernist Art

Romances, maudlin dramas, shallow homilies, which trifle with so-called (though falsely so) noble sentiments, but in fact make the heart enervated, insensitive to the stern precepts of duty, ...
On May 28, 2018 / By Sean McCann
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Finance Politics

Paul Krugman’s recent column in the Times illuminates the central forces and salient features of late capitalism, not just the digital kind. He doesn’t acknowledge that these forces and ...
On May 28, 2018 / By James Livingston
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How Not to Write on Cosmopolitan Alexandria

The message in Lawrence Durrell’s massive Alexandria Quartet is easy to make simplistic. The city, he might have said, is a whore. Cities, of course, especially when they ...
On May 28, 2018 / By May Hawas
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Palestine and the Recomposition of the Normal

Zawya Cinema is located in downtown Cairo and promotes “the work of young Egyptian and Arab filmmakers …. [giving] special attention to the concept of Education and Cinema”. ...
On May 28, 2018 / By Sarah Hawas