MESA Studies at WLU

Middle East South Asia Studies at Washington and Lee University

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Successful reforesting in Nepal: https://t.co/pdNqW3EOBr

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The full story: https://t.co/MtrsiLxNCy

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Lousy comb found in a pit, ca. 1700 bce

[Christopher W. Jones @cwjones89]

A comb has been discovered from the Middle Bronze levels of Lachish which contains:
1) a dead louse
2) an inscription reading "May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard"
3) It's our earliest complete sentence in written Canaanite.

https://t.co/IkWzu98qv7

[Leena Manimekalai @LeenaManimekali]

This picture of chopped hair hoisted as a flag will be the photograph of this century.

#IranProtests2022

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Come and hear: Emeritus Professor of Religion Richard Marks being interviewed for a podcast on the New Books Network: https://t.co/6Yt4jsCWzw and bravo to Prof. Marks on publishing this wonderful book, which is available in the Religion and Classics Seminar Room (Tucker 205)!

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The NYT story: https://t.co/SN2jePlTQh

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(An image of) the Hindu god Ganesha is going home decades after being looted and trafficked by the notorious antiquities dealer Douglas Latchford. It is part of larger repatriation of artifacts looted during the Khmer Rouge era.

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Nepal is facing a massive surge in COVID-19 cases while vaccines and oxygen are in short supply. WLU has been bringing students to Nepal for study since 2017. Help Nepal save lives during this crisis: https://t.co/dgNFIR23ip @wluglobal @wlunews @Shikha_bas @TimothyLubin

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Casteless Collective profiled today in The Guardian: https://t.co/WVQBcdCBhr

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Casteless Collective, a South Indian indie band named to recall the Tamil for "casteless" that the 19c anti-caste activist C. Iyothee Thass urged Dalits to use on official docs -- check out their video of Magizhchi: https://t.co/6ETUKqjPss to end #caste #discrimination

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Casteless Collective interviewed by The Hindu newspaper:
https://t.co/MuMlzLyE6L

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Excellent Nepali music in a Zoom event at 6 pm PST/9 pm EST to benefit Nepal's response to COVID-19!
https://t.co/VYU4kUgTK5

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A few of the Kronos Quartet's collaborations with South Asian musicians -- a vlog by Hank Dutt, with links to some of the great music included! @kronosquartet
https://t.co/QHZnHqYbmV

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Reem Bassiouney, first female author to win the Naguib Mahfouz Award for the best Egyptian novel and best Arabic novel! (She is also a professor of sociolinguistics at AUC.) via @filibelik @AustinHoya
https://t.co/OKbeNcnX2f

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Tracking references to Indonesian spices in medieval Europe:
https://t.co/cuM8WLDKLT

[(Maybe) Dr. Matt @MilliganMattD]

🚨New Publication 🚨

Ever wondered how impoverished #Buddhist monastics grew their religion into one of the largest and wealthiest institutions in Asia?

I provide an answer.

Monastic Investment Bootstrapping: An Economic Model for the Expansion of Early Buddhism

Open Access!

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What does "medieval" mean history beyond Europe? Here is a careful argument that it makes sense. https://t.co/hFkBaQju7h @siwaratrikalpa @MikkiBrock @filibelik

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And the Islamic collection: https://t.co/hmMbHxbRzD #IslamicArt

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The Met has made its catalogue of art books open-access for download! Here are the South and Southeast Asia offerings. #openaccess @WLUDH #DigitalHumanities https://t.co/RA1QNca1RZ