It was very hard to write a paper about it. I felt like someone who had discovered the meaning of life and couldn’t explain it to anybody else.
Produced by the communities who were at the heart of the events, Syriac sources compel us to reconsider what “conquests” means.
Muriel Debié in Syriac Sources and Sasanian and Arab-Muslim Occupation of the Middle East
Think of what it means that all black bodies are not equally evoked by this all-important symbol of racial oppression, the noose. What then are those who would ameliorate the conditions of black women in society to do?
Shatema Threadcraft in Spectacular Black Death
Emotions shaped Greek culture no less than reason. This is a simple and straightforward message. But, still, the story is full of tensions, contrasts, contradictions, and conflicts.
