African Studies

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Author Claire Mercer talks about her new book and how the suburb and the middle classes construct each other.

Emrah Yıldız discusses the values—religious, political, economic, or social—behind the eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine.