Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-136
Author(s):  
David A. Gerber
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Times Square ◽  
The World ◽  
Big Cities ◽  
International Visitors

Americans have built a global society whose peoples’ origins look much like the world. This is an observation made daily by international visitors for whom such symbolic locations at the crossroad of American diversity as New York City’s Times Square or the multicultural neighborhoods of big cities possess a cosmopolitan dynamism that seems uniquely American. At eye level these exciting manifestations of multicultural America are not easily forgotten, especially by those residing in more homogeneous societies....

scholarly journals Psychiatry Remembered

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 338-340
Author(s):  
M. Valentine
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Heat Wave ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Times Square ◽  
The World

In 1947 Britain had its severest winter since 1881, starving sheep came off the hills looking for sustenance in the towns, and the snow went on until April. That was when I boarded the MV Batory, later renowned or infamous for its espionage traffic, to be decanted into an early heat wave in New York. Times Square was hot and hectic, the steaks were two inches thick instead of two ounces a week, so my wife and I pushed on to our destination in Hartford, Connecticut where I had been appointed psychiatrist after an impressive series of transatlantic cablegrams. Hartford was a dignified and prosperous town, ‘the insurance city of the world.’ The Hartford Retreat had been founded in 1822, one of the earliest American hospitals to be devoted to mental illness; it had undergone a radical change in the 1930s under the entrepreneurial genius of Dr Charles C. Burlingame and was re-named the Institute of Living.

[review of:] Dace Prauliņš. 2012. Latvian. An Essential Grammar

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 240-243
Author(s):  
Nicole Nau
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The World ◽  
Scholarly Contribution

Dace Prauliņš, Latvian. An Essential Grammar. London & New York: Routledge, 2012. ɪsʙɴ 978-0-415-57692-5. Descriptive grammars of Modern Latvian written in English are still something of a rarity, and any such book will be warmly welcomed bylinguists as well as by the growing number of people learning Latvian all over the world. It is for the latter group that Dace Prauliņš wrote this book, and it would be unfair to review it as a scholarly contribution to the analysis of Latvian grammar.

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Janet Klein ◽  
David Romano ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Atakan İnce ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Turkey ◽  
Oxford University Press

Uğur Ümit Üngör, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 352 pp. (ISBN: 9780199603602).Mohammed M. A. Ahmed, Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 294 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-137-03407-6), (paper). Ofra Bengio, The Kurds of Iraq: Building a State within a State. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, xiv + 346 pp., (ISBN 978-1-58826-836-5), (hardcover). Cengiz Gunes, The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey, from Protest to Resistance, London: Routledge, 2012, 256 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415—68047-9). Aygen, Gülşat, Kurmanjî Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 468, München: Lincom Europa, 2007, 92 pp., (ISBN: 9783895860706), (paper).Barzoo Eliassi, Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth, Oxford: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 234 pp. (ISBN: 9781137282071).

Universal Values and Muslim Democracy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Anwar Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
World Today ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Dignified Life

This study deals with Universal Values and Muslim Democracy. This essay draws upon speeches that he gave at the New York Democ- racy Forum in December 2005 and the Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Istanbul in April 2006. The emergence of Muslim democracies is something significant and worthy of our attention. Yet with the clear exceptions of Indonesia and Turkey, the Muslim world today is a place where autocracies and dictatorships of various shades and degrees continue their parasitic hold on the people, gnawing away at their newfound freedoms. It concludes that the human desire to be free and to lead a dignified life is universal. So is the abhorrence of despotism and oppression. These are passions that motivate not only Muslims but people from all civilizations.

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