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| Url: | http://richardjnewman.com/about/ |
| Author(s): | Facebook User |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | literature and social justice, poetry and sex, writing and feminism |
| Description: | What I have to say, in no particular order, about literature and social justice; poetry and sex; translation and masculinity; Jewish identity and teaching; gender and Iran; writing and feminism--because it is, all of it, connected. |
| Ratings |  (3 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 17 Followers |
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Fantasy On Trial (Again) | CarnalNation
| Fantasy On Trial (Again) | CarnalNationRead this post; it’s scary. Here’s an excerpt:The prosecution tried to get me to say that most people who fantasize are sick, which I wouldn’t. They tried to ...more |
2009-12-19
Why I Hate Grading Papers — Part 2
| One word: plagiarism. I spend a great deal of time at the beginning of the semester, on the first day actually, talking about it, explaining it and making sure my students understand my policy, whi...more |
2009-12-18
Why I Hate Grading Papers
| Edited because of privacy issues.According to one of my students, in a paper he wrote meant to talk about the different approaches to history in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Island, edited ...more |
2009-12-17
Translating Classical Iranian Poetry: Farid al-Din Attar
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The only things we know for sure about the life of Farid al-Din Attar are that he was a pharmacist and a native of Nishapur, Iran, where a monument1 to him that was built over his tomb at the end o...more |
2009-12-13
Maziar Bahari on The Daily Show
| Maziar Bahari, a Newsweek journalist, was held in prison for 118 days in Iran after the contested elections in June. His appearance on The Daily Show is worth watching:The Daily Show With Jon Stewa...more |
2009-12-11
The Opposition in Iran is Still Protesting
| I wish I had the time to do more than link to this post on The Lede blog over at The New York Times because there is a lot to say and think about in terms of what is happening in Iran, what the opp...more |
2009-12-08
A New Covenant
| They say it’s a shame we didn’t do itwhen we should have, that probably you’ll need itlater in life, when it’s more complicated,more painful and, worse, you’ll remember it.They say women won’t want...more |
2009-12-06
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran denounces Oxford scholarship
| So, as I said, I have been feeling guilty about not posting about the goings on Iran of late, and I am beginning to formulate some posts I’d like to write, but this news article caught my eye. No m...more |
2009-11-11
Life Imitates Art: Iran’s Opposition and Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh (The Story of Zahhak and Kaveh) â€
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I’ve been feeling guilty that I haven’t posted about the recent goings on in Iran. People were out in the streets protesting again, and the basij were there to try to beat them back, and it’s impor...more |
2009-11-10
Where I’ve Been and Where I’m Going, Part 1
| I’m not sure what I feel like writing about tonight, just that I feel like writing. It was a hectic day. I woke up early to get a little bit of work done on my Shahnameh introduction–nothing new, m...more |
2009-11-09
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