(Monclova, 1980): mexicano por nascimento; brasileiro de coração. Professor e diretor do Programa de Português de Macalester College. Muladi desde 1438 A.H.
1 Se acabó la veda electoral y ya podemos hablar de indicadores económicos, sociales y laborales. Creo que muchos de estos, pueden ayudar a algunas personas a entender mejor el resultado de las elecciones del pasado domingo. Empezamos por el salario mínimo:
Dare I say anything that’s not a Native person being forced off their land is a flag upgrade?! Excited to have a new state flag that represents every Minnesotan.😊 https://t.co/cuuOLu7RHs
I finally have a full corrected draft of the travel narrative of Gregorio de Robles who crisscrossed the Atlantic several times from 1688 to 1704. I also made a map. His travels are as crazy as they look. My intention is to publish an English critical edition of it.
Did you know that in Arabic, there are 12 levels of friendship?
For every level of friendship, there is an Arabic word to describe it. From Sadeeq to Khaleel, it is rare to find all 12 levels of friendship in one person.
A thread on the 12 levels of friendship in Arabic…
If you are teaching courses and want to discuss how slavery is represented in museums, check my book Museums and Atlantic Slavery, reviewed here (open access) https://t.co/TeV3VFAr5G and available here https://t.co/Y1lilOtoB5 #slaveryarchive
If you are teaching courses on how slavery is memorialized transnationally, consider my book Slavery in the Age of Memory reviewed below https://t.co/IqXP2I4Owt and available here https://t.co/vSYV2VODjv
Ottoman map of the Americas, ~1840.
Notice that:
Alaska is "Russian America"
Texas is an independent republic
Mexico is spelled مکسقو
Central America is a single republic
Gran Colombia was a single state
Bolivia still reached the sea
and Uruguay is spelled with an ع!
‘Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller’
- Ibn Battuta
The most famous explorer in the Muslim World, Ibn Battuta, travelled more than any other explorer in pre-modern history - around 117,000 km!
A thread on the 14th century explorer Ibn Battuta…
#BoletínUNAM Durante 40 años, María Teresa Cabrero García, #ExpertaUNAM del @iiaunam, ha investigado a los antiguos pobladores del cañón de Bolaños, Jalisco, una cultura mesoamericana poco conocida que sobrevivió por más de mil años > https://t.co/EZZWa9jIKF
#LetrasMexicanas en voz de Verónica Murguía 🎙️. Ambientada en la época medieval ⚔️, “El converso” es la historia de un personaje que, en una situación desesperada, toma una decisión fundamental para su fe 🙌 > https://t.co/tiHdlhoUW4