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• Language

  Forbidden Words, Changed Surnames

  16 January, by SIEDYKH Anna

  Recently, I had an argument with an editor who tried to convince me that I was writing my surname incorrectly.
  He insisted that it should be written differently in Slovak and that it was written non-slovakly in my official documents. He claimed that I should change my Siedykh to Sedychová. For (…)

• Language

  Pakistan: When Gen. Zia imposed Arabic

  4 March 2011, by ASHRAF Masood

  The introduction of Arabic as a second language in Pakistani schools concretized Pakistani identity as inherently Islamic and restructured our desires in Islamist terms.
  The role of national languages in defining and articulating national identities is a hackneyed subject, but, somehow, the (…)

• Language

  With Islamophobia against Homophobia? – On an “elite discourse”

  October 2007, by KLAUDA Georg

  On December 10^th, 2003, the leftist newsweekly Jungle World published a pamphlet by the French journalists Caroline Fourest and Fiammetta Venner, which contained a defensive claim which would go on to have a great career: with their assertion that the term “Islamophobia” was coined in the year (…)