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Professor Louise Cainkar led a talk yesterday on her new work “Homeland Insecurity: The Arab-American Experience after 9/11” as part of a series of “Islam in the West?? seminars organized by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies here at Harvard. This effort is one of the reasons that led the Center for Middle Eastern Studies to expand and build an interdisciplinary study of the Muslim culture, said Jocelyne Cesari, director of the Islam in the West Institute, a part of the Center. Harvard students and other affiliates have...
...notoriety. Recognized by the few familiar with the artist as “Dat Kid from Cleveland,” Kid Cudi has been amassing a small following over the past few years, releasing mixtapes and appearing on—as well as contributing songwriting to—Kanye West??s “808s and Heartbreak.” With a talent for balancing the serious and the laughable, Kid Cudi sings and raps about not only the universal experience of heartbreak and regret, but also about the joys of getting really stoned and playing video games...
...read Kanye West??s blog for any reason beyond pure entertainment or comedy, then you may have heard of Blind Man’s Colour. If you wait around for a couple more years, the band will be a household name amongst hipsters and beachgoers alike. The band—hailing from St. Petersburg, Florida and led by Kyle Wyss and Orhan Chettri—released their debut LP this summer after six months of steady hype brought on by Kanye and others blogging about their music. “Season Dreaming” is the product...
...Examined Life,” points towards the days of Socrates, not only in its opening lines—Socrates’ famous defense “The unexamined life is not worth living” reaffirmed millennia later by the booming voice of Cornel West??but in its recreation of a world where philosophers wandered regularly among market places and stone forums. Eight of today’s most prominent thinkers are set loose from their offices and classrooms by director Astra Taylor to roam the sites of daily life—airports, parks, Fifth Avenue. While...
...balls! Strike up a conversation with that standout in section, and you might find yourself discussing Dante over dinner. Gemini Snagging that summer internship may seem harder than pulling a fast one on Widener security guy, but remember the world beyond BoA. Load up a rucksack and head West??worked for Kerouac! Cancer Admit it—your G-mail inbox is more crowded than Noch’s on a Saturday night. But don’t miss those gems in your spam folder: why not “learn the perfect trick of lovemaking?...