perhaps due to a lot of attention Turkey has been getting in the media, concerning not only the Islamization of the government, and it’s slow and tepid response against ISIS, but its own continuedhuman rights violationsthat run smack in the face of the “Friendship Resolutions” that are p...
The gutter/plucker binary is real, but I find it interesting that the workers are divided into two neat categories given that when it comes to sex and gender, too, people prefer neat containers, and it’s always two. “You’re either a man or a woman. Taken or available.” There’s ...
Also, the meaning of ribāṭ itself drifted towards "hermitage," something a little unusual in ʾIslām, where there is no formal monasticism -- or even toward meaning "caravansary" or "hospice." This North African locus, and the changing meanings, may be why the Turkish fighters in ...
Today we visited Selcuk, also called Ephesus V, the fifth and final site of the town of Ephesus. It is named for the Selcuks, who were a tribe from Central Asia, as were the Turks, perhaps from the area now called Turkistan. We got a ride here from one of the guys at the hotel,...
and on days to heading (25 days more than that of spring wheat) of winter wheat genotypes. In general, taller winter wheat genotypes tended to lodge. Meanwhile, it became impossible to avoid the combined effects of heat and drought stresses during anthesis and grain filling periods because the...