Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay WorldThis stimulating new reading of constructions of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore is an important contribution to understanding the powerful linkages between ethnicity, identity and nationalism in multi ethnic Southeast Asia. The narrative of Malay identity devised by Malay nationalists, writers and filmmakers in the late colonial period associated Malayness with the village or kampung, envisaged as static, ethnically homogenous, classless,

He prophesied that those third world countries used merely as capitalist labour would have no choice but to join the Communist revolution in Russia

the poet bids himself and his readers a poignant farewell

Days later — the night before New Year’s Eve — the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary

“There are two maps of Palestine that politicians will never manage to forfeit: the one kept in the memories of Palestinian refugees

becomes transfigured

Timely and provocative

addresses Darwish’s enduring legacy following his death in 2008

It is no surprise that many who passionately believe in social justice came to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride in their identity to resist injustice

In the hot and humid urban center

democratic

As relevant now as ever before

Before they become mothers