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U.S. Embassy Switzerland / AP On December 7, 2019, an American graduate student named Xiyue Wang was freed after 40 months in an Iranian prison. His captors roused him in his cell early that morning and put him on a plane to Zurich. The Swiss had offered to mediate a trade for Masoud Soleimani, an Iranian scientist arrested by the United States for violating sanctions against Iran. At the airport, the Iranian ambassador to Switzerland exchanged a few words with Wang in Persian and told him, “Well, at least you learned Persian in prison.” Wang, who considers his treatment by the Iranians t...

Systemic Racism in the United States Scaffolding as Social Construction Presents an historical overview of racial discrimination in the United States Discusses the institutional and social scaffolding mechanisms that perpetuate racism Offers methods of deconstructing racism through social justicesee more benefits Buy this book Immediate eBook download after purchase Hardcover $99.99 Institutional customers should get in touch with their account manager Softcover $69.99 Institutional customers should get in touch with thei...

Mark K. George is Professor of Bible and Ancient Systems of Thought. He works primarily with the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and, within that corpus, the Pentateuch and narrative texts. The focus of his work is ancient systems of thought operating within this literature and the societies that produced it, whether they be social systems and structures expressed through the practices and conceptions of space, or the creation of particular subjectivities and the ways in which individuals govern or conduct their lives. George teaches courses on the Hebrew Bible and the Bible more broadly. These in...

Older adults who want to maintain their mobility should know that all movement, not just moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, counts,'' said senior author Andrea LaCroix, professor and chief of the Division of Epidemiology at Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health. "We found that, among older women, light-intensity physical activity preserves mobility later in life.'' Researchers observed 5,735 women age 63 and older living in the United States and enrolled in a study by the Women's Health Initiative. Participants wore a research-grade accelerometer for seven days to obtain accurate meas...

Beyond the elite: Taking protest and public opinion seriously in the Kurdistan Region February 24, 2021 Share In early December 2020, at least eight people were killed and hundreds of others were injured during violent protests in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) sparked by deteriorating economic conditions and the government’s failure to pay public sector salaries. Seven of the dead, including a 13-year-old boy, were killed when security forces opened fire on demonstrators. The offices of parties from across the political spectrum were torched in towns outside the major cities and ...