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Allison Reid January 24, 2021 Allison Reid, a senior from Canton, is majoring in criminal justice, international affairs and sociology with a minor in Portuguese. An internship at the Canton Police Department inspired her studies in international affairs and criminal justice. “My sophomore year, I became very interested in the sociological aspects of criminal justice, so I added the third major to my degree,” she said.(Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski/UGA) During her time at the University of Ge...

Date Time Ab de Jong new academic director of LIAS: ‘Feels like home’ Ab de Jong, professor of Comparative Religion, was appointed as the new the academic director of the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) with effect from 1 September. We asked him about his plans for the future of the LIAS. A familiar place Within the Faculty of Humanities, LIAS is home to both area studies and religious studies. For de Jong, who is familiar with both fields of study, LIAS feels like home. ‘I study...

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US flies B-52 bombers over Middle East, evokes response from Iran Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in a tweet, “If your B-52H “Presence Patrols” are meant to intimidate or warn Iran, you should have spent those $billions on your taxpayers health.” By Hanie Abdul Razak|   Published: 18th January 2021 8:57 pm IST The US flew US B-52H Stratofortress bombers over the Middle East on Sunday. th time in recent months.   CENTCOM said that the manoeuvre was being...

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: The Ustad Who Could Catch the Bustle in A Flower’s Scent The acclaimed Urdu critic, poet and prose master changed the face of Urdu but also what it meant to engage with the literary in all its shapes, glorious or unsightly. Life after him means living with a slew of unfinished conversations, writes Geeta Patel.  Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (September 30, 1935 – December 25, 2020) Photo: Aashima The language of flowers (in homage to Ghalib and Faruqi) You happen upo...

 E-Mail In 2007, an increase in world food prices led to a global rush for land in the form of land grabs or large-scale land acquisitions. Over the last two decades, such acquisitions have resulted in millions of hectares of land changing hands in developing nations. Although such changeover can increase the cultivation of crops needed to feed the worlds growing population and spark new agricultural practices and technologies, it can also lead to environmental degradation, increased carbon em...

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On January 9, Forum for Asian Civilizations and the inauguration ceremony for Zhejiang University Institute of Asian Civilizations were held on Zijingang...

James D. Long and Victor Menaldo 1 POSTS 0 COMMENTS James D. Long is an Associate Professor of Political Science and co-founder of the Political Economy Forum at the University of Washington. He is the host of the Forum’s podcast series, “Neither Free Nor Fair?” about election security and democracy in the 21st century. James is a faculty affiliate at the University of Washington’s Ce...

James D. Long is an Associate Professor of Political Science and co-founder of the Political Economy Forum at the University of Washington. He is the host of the Forum’s podcast series, “Neither Free Nor Fair?” about election security and democracy in the 21st century. James is a faculty affiliate at the University of Washington’s Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), Technology and Social Change Group (TASCHA), African Studies Program, and Near and Middle East Studies ...