Turkey's deepening divides
A SOCIOLOGIST acquaintance at Boghazi University tells me a contemporary Turkish joke: "Our country's application for entrance to the European Union continues to be denied, but now at least Istanbul...
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Fellowships
National Humanities Center, North Carolina Robert Segal, reader in theory of religion at the University of Lancaster, has been awarded a fellowship. The Leverhulme Trust Fellowships have been awarded...
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Shephard raid that went wrong
I recently heard Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, on the BBC World Service attempting to justify a reduction of school funding and the resulting deterioration of the teacher/pupil...
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Beards only on Kabul campus
KABUL University has reopened for an uncertain academic year short of cash, stationery and women students. The Taliban Movement closed the university indefinitely when it swept into the Afghan...
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Battle to keep colleges black
Supporters of black colleges and universities in the United States have leapt to their defence after a series of scandals and financial mishaps hit their credibility. Black colleges were once the...
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Peeping in people's houses
Encyclopedia of the Vernacular Architecture of the World
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Principles and pastiche in Islam
An Architecture for People - The Mosque and the Modern World
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk. EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www2.echo.lu IT(esprit) Contact:...
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Cooperative society
The International Islamic University of Malaysia is far from the intolerant institution portrayed in a recent THES article, says Subki Bin Ahmad Shabbir Akhtar made several allegations against the...
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Swanning around on the river
Julia Hinde meets the warden of the Queen's swans, Christopher Perrins Swanning around on the river. The Queen's swan warden is rather looking forward to the next week. Surrounded by publishers'...
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Spinning out of control
The Global Age - Globalisation in Question
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Speaking Volumes: Mimesis
John Fuegi on Erich Auerbach's Mimesis . It seems madly improbable that Mimesis should have been written at all. Its author was a German-Jewish intellectual and it was written in German in Istanbul...
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Chronicle of a death untold
Conspiracy theories about the death in a plane crash of a leading Indian nationalist at the end of the second world war will persist until the British Foreign Office releases papers on the incident....
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You've come a long way
The Scottish renaissance of the 18th century was a remarkable development. Its original contributions to modern thought deserve the attention they have received. What is less well known is that the...
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Turbines turn on British white heat of technology
Materials scientists in Cambridge and Wales are designing high-performance materials that could give British aeroengine makers the edge over competitors abroad. Project leader Colin Humphreys of...