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WATCH: Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha recites his new poem “Right or Left,” as he discusses his family and friends who have died in the war.

I’d like to know more specifics about JD Vance’s view that London doesn’t feel like England anymore. Is it the Indian community that he’s concerned about or do Indian immigrants feel English to him? Maybe it’s something else entirely like the food has gotten too good?

Coffee plant was initially named Jasminum arabicum because its white flowers are similar to those of jasmine. In 1737, Linnaeus reclassified it as Coffea.

From Mahim (Mumbai) to England: Oxford copy of al-Mahāʼimī’s Qur’an commentary, from the library of John Selden (1584-1654). The manuscript was studied by the Cambridge orientalist Abraham Wheelock (1593-1653), who added indices at the beginning. Bodleian, ms Arch. Seld. A. 13

I just thought of a *much* better title for my book… alas, a decade too late 🤷🏽‍♂️

🤣🤣🤣 Bro instead of doing a parody and buying into the system’s strategy to turn our people against one another why not ask for a collab where we can unite the proud heritage of our peoples to make our ancestors proud?…Disappointed bro vm.tiktok.com/ZGdFX5XcV/ 😂👏🏽

Just bought this and fascinating introduction by Rajeev Kinra looking forward to learning more ROLI

New from Empire Podcast To coincide with the acclaimed Mughal Exhibition: Art, Architecture and Opulence V&A we are today embarking on a major new series on The Great Mughals, telling the story of the lives, courts, writings, battles, art and architecture of the first six

Agree with the general point here, but as a parent of three teenagers, I think this is a bit unfair to 15-year-olds

a rather beautiful drawing in imperial hotel, Delhi of the cenotaph chamber of Mumtaz Mahal

Just read Rajeev Kinra's introduction to the The Great Mughal exhibition catalogue and thought it was utterly brilliant. Such a difficult thing to do in a short essay and pulled off so superbly well

Reminder! The Humanities in Translation (HiT!) prize competition is still open! nupress.northwestern.edu/humanities-in-…

New issue of the journal Asiática: Miscelánea de Orientes (Asiática: Miscelánea de orientes) just dropped, w/ a Spanish translation of my article "Revisiting the History and Historiography of Mughal Pluralism" ("Revisión de la historia y la historiografía del pluralismo en el Imperio Mogol")!

image: A portrait of Ghalib that was found by the British among Bahadur Shah's possessions after the Rebellion; it has been dated to 1856. #Ghalib #birth anniversary

Hahaha this dumbass *almost* figured it out

I’m generally distrustful of the police (personal experience), but I also spend a lot of time on America’s highways stuck behind people like this dummy he pulled over, so this *particular* cop is a goddamn hero in my book

Just out: special issue Global Intellectual History, 'New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones', edited by ian stewart and me, with essays by Rajeev Kinra, asheeshksi.bsky.social, Jessica Patterson, and Kapil Raj, as well as us tandfonline.com/toc/rgih20/10/2

1/9 A thread on our recent special issue (10.2), "New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones [1746-1794]", guested edited by Joshua Ehrlich (University of Macau) & ian stewart (UCL) who underscore the import of this reassessment in their introduction tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Jessica Patterson Cambridge University Joshua Ehrlich University of Macau EHESS 6/9 Following this, Rajeev Kinra (Northwestern) offers a brief examination of the role of early modern Indo-Persian (especially Mughal) philology & other scholarship in shaping Jones’s early career as an orientalist tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…