Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves
This book is not so much about how Kurds imagine their nation and construct their identities as members of it, but more about how the nation-states where Kurds live mould the national identities to...
This book is not so much about how Kurds imagine their nation and construct their identities as members of it, but more about how the nation-states where Kurds live mould the national identities to...
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Patrick McGhee to step up to the role in February 2010. Melanie Newman reports
A study of the reported dreams of many of the best-known al-Qaeda and Taleban leaders carried out by Iain Edgar, a social anthropologist at Durham University, has found that many use the dreams they...
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe MRC is providing about £7 million to establish three regional hubs that will give UK researchers access to high-throughput DNA sequencing machines. The cutting-edge...
An academic is to travel to the Eurovision Song Contest as an expert commentator. Phil Jackson, a senior lecturer in media at Edge Hill University, has been selected by the BBC to attend the contest...
Tom Gallagher searches in vain for independent thought in the complacent academy and media of devolved Scotland
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ARTS AND DESIGN- The Cultural Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century PorcelainEdited by Alden Cavanaugh, associate professor of art history, Indiana State University; and Michael E. Yonan, assistant...
The Bologna Process covers 46 countries and 30 million students, but fundamental issues remain, says Anne Corbett
While the mass killings of the Armenians in 1915, which claimed more than 1 million lives, have been recognised as a genocide by many historians and more than 20 governments around the world, there...
Never judge a book by its cover. In this case, the cover shows us a veiled woman on a Syrian street, ignoring a painting of a youthful Hafiz al-Asad, who looks here almost like Omar Sharif. The...
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDY- Management Theory in ActionBy Eric H. Kessler, senior professor of management, Pace University. Palgrave Macmillan, £58.50. ISBN 9780230607583Drawing on the accounts of...
The word "genocide" was coined by the Polish-born Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1943. Taking its roots from Greek and Latin, it describes the targeted and intentional killing or destruction of a...
Warning that internal divisions are weakening the sector's response to cuts. Melanie Newman writes