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The caliph’s counselor
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In digital worlds and on physical stages, directors invite audiences into the story
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Our senses as sources of value
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Muslim women on the minbar
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Rule long and prosper: Advice for the ages, from the Sages
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Get real: On the risks of authenticity
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Norwegian encounters with the world’s music makers
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Home Work: Inside the Lives of Migrant Caregivers in Palestine/Israel
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The Feuding Physician of Ancient Rome
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Baby Talk: Listening to the ‘Little Guy’ in Medieval French Literature
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Tradition and Transformation: Clara Schumann and the Creation of Classical Music
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Antifascist Writers on the Run
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The Secret Scribes of Modernist Lives
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‘A Poetic Processing of New Media Phenomena’: A Look at the 20th-Century German Avant-Gardes
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Progress and Pitfalls in Bolivia’s Natural Gas Bonanza
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Melancholy and the Musician: An Ethnographic Study of Classical Turkish Performers
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The Cunning of Brahmanism: Invisibility Has Its Privileges
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