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The Job Search: Dr. Saranaz Barforoush
Dr. Saranaz Barforoush was born in Tehran, Iran in 1982 to a family of educators and dedicated liberals. The country just survived a revolution that ousted a Western-leaning leader, a group of Iranian students had just taken 52 Americans hostage, and the country was suddenly at war with Iraq.
“The Pathways of the Future”: The Synthesis of Histories in the Monument to the National Liberation War and to Ilinden in Kruševo
By Raino Isto Two photographs, taken August 2, 1974, captured Yugoslavian citizens “Trac[ing] the Pathways of the Future,” according to the front-page headline of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia’s principle daily, Nova Makedonija. [1]
It's the Identities, Stupid: Our Civic Responsibility to Engage
By: William Howell In an early-August radio interview, white supremacist Jason Kessler rejected the labels of “white supremacist” and “white nationalist,” instead calling himself a “civil and human rights advocate focusing on the under-represented Caucasian demographic.” Alongside racist assertions about the intelligence of different ethnic groups, Kessler managed to stress that “there's really no place that it's OK for me to speak” about “what interests are important to [white people] as a people.” [1] And, to some limited degree, he has a point.