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The Culinary Cuisine & Crossoads Culture of Marseille

Tristan Rutherford & Rebecca Marshall in AramcoWorld in  March/April 2018 ………………………………………….. https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/March-2018/Marseille-s-Migrant-Cuisine Five hundred years later the Mediterranean became Rome’s nexus of trade and empire, and Marseille became one of its maritime centers. Now, mucem exhibits olive-oil amphorae from Anatolia, soapmaking paraphernalia from … Continue reading

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Enhancing Protection in the Face of Pandemics

Dr. Laleen Jayamanne:** in The Island, 19 October 2022, where the title reads thus: “An Insider’s Guide to Pandemics and Biosecurity” “June Twenty Second Sixteen Thirty-three A momentous day for you and me Of all the days that was the … Continue reading

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Lankan Grandmothers for the Roost

Capt Elmo Jayawardena  … whose preferred title for this tongue-in-cheek essay is “Rata Yana Grandmothers” Remember the bygone years! Daughters got married and became pregnant a few rounds more than the current rate. The average production line extended to a … Continue reading

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False Claims of Aboriginality in Australia …. NOW a Problem

 Catherine Overington, in The Australian, 2 July 2021, where the title runs thus: “Harmful: warning to ‘race shifters’,” …. with underlining imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi In the US they are known as “race-shifters”; in Canada they are “Pretendians”; and … Continue reading

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John Pilger’s Overview of the Deeper History of Western Intervention in Afghanistan

John Pilger  in Consortium News, Volume 26, Number 240, 28 August 2021, with this title ““The Great Game of Smashing Nations” More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the U.S., Britain and their “allies” destroyed. Outside the gate … Continue reading

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The Early History of Sociology at the University of Ceylon

H.L. Seneviratne,** Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, USA, in Social Affairs: A Journal for the Social Sciences, ISSN 2478-107X (online) …. http://www.socialaffairsjournal.com This paper is an account of the Department of Sociology of the University of Ceylon in approximately … Continue reading

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A Celebration of Qadri Ismail’s Career by Academia

From the Department of English, University of Minnesota, 5 November 2021   It’s been amazing reading the tributes to Qadri, reading about his impact and his generosity. Our family was able to keep up with his exploits during his early career … Continue reading

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The Sri Lankan Government and the Media within the Crossroads of War 2006-09

Palitha Kohona ,in The Sunday Observer, 28 June 2020, with this title “Managing the media on the road to Nandikadal – Part 1″ ….http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2020/06/28/news-features/managing-media-road-nandikadal-part-1 The conflict with the terrorist LTTE dragged on for over two decades causing widespread death and … Continue reading

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A Chilling and Terrifying Word-Picture of USA Today

David Kilcullen, in The Inquirer, 30 May 2020 and the Australian, 4 June 2020, with this title “Home of the hateful, fearful, heavily armed” ….. Coronavirus is threatening to ignite a tinderbox of grievances in the US. The growing parallels … Continue reading

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Amarasingham’s Study of Sri Lankan Tamil Activism in Canada

  Pain, Pride, and Politics: Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada …. As a product of Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series) Paperback – September 15, 2015

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