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www.keanuheydari.com
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| | | | | On 15 October 2021, I delivered a short presentation at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop on "Violence, Witnessing, and Recovering the Archives" entitled, "Nostalgia, Diaspora, and Iranian Neo-Monarchists." My talk focused on the political and cultural functions of nostalgia by a segment of the contemporary Iranian diaspora, particularly in the United States. In thinking here through nationalism and nostalgia in the American case, I hope to explore in my dissertation the ways in which memory was and is utilized, revised, and weaponized by the Iranian diaspora in France. | |
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soundstudiesblog.com
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| | | | | One of my earliest memories of sound recording is one of my earliest memories, period: an isolated image of my own index and middle finger trying to push down the "record" and "play" buttons on my father's portable cassette tape recorder. More prominent than the visual element of this memory is the haptic one: I... | |
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dissidentvoice.org
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| | | | | Faramarz Farbod: You have taught at Princeton University for four decades; you were the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in Israel (2008-2014); and you are the author of numerous books about global issues and international law. In preparation for this conversation, I have been reading your autobiography, Public Intellectual: | |
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www.theverge.com
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| | | A sweeping investigation by 17 media outlets found that NSO Group's Pegasus software was used in hacking attempts on smartphones belonging to human rights activists and journalists. NSO markets its spyware to governments to track potential terrorists and criminals. | ||
