in this article, i tried to study the influence of sasanid simurgh on the islamic and western art. the immigration of this mystic (simurgh) started from the sasanid period and continued after the fall of sasanid by the arabic invasion. this deportation happened through the cultural and commercial exchanges, and the imperial presents sent to the other empires by sasanid kings. sasanid simurgh is...

research about persian painting (generally, all objects of art), has its own difficulties. one of these difficulties, of course, is that, how was its creation. the creation of any object of art, is a twisted problem, deals with several factors, some apparent some stealth, but never a fixed number of them existed that could act like variables. in this paper, we tried, with help of some obvious c...

Thank you very much. It’s a pleasure to be here. I would like to describe to you an alternate career. It might seem strange. Why would a professed molecular biologist, who has spent an entire career studying the basic mechanisms of HIV pathogenesis, be talking to you today about global health? Well, let me tell you a story. This story begins with Merle Sande (Figure 1), who was Chief of Medicin...

While only some can claim to be physician/artists, like neurosurgeon Roger Melvill whose paintings featured frequently on the covers of CME, we can surely all claim to be physician/connoisseurs of the arts. This piece is sparked by the art of Dorothy Kay, an acclaimed portrait painter, whose paintings of surgeons and anaesthetists at work in Port Elizabeth in the late 1930s we feature in this e...

Judging by commentators’ reactions, Smallpox 2002 — Silent Weapon, screened by the BBC in the UK but to be shown in many countries, was an outstanding success in provoking fear and loathing over an epidemic triggered by a terrorist releasing the virus. One reviewer said that this was the programme to watch “if you want to be scared – and even made paranoid about everybody you meet in the street...

How does violent military coercion work alongside liberal democratic values in contemporary iterations of imperialism? This article shows how the less-than-lethal paradigm occludes death and perpetuates extreme forms both deadly not-deadly Iraq. Key to 2003 invasion subsequent counterinsurgency Iraq, extends across doctrine US popular discourse. Based on idea that killing is an undesirable way ...

uring a recent excavation of a common grave on the outskirts of el-Qantir, Egypt, a human skeleton, mummified cat and vase from the First Intermediate Period of the Eleventh Dynasty were discovered. Based on similar findings in the surrounding area, the human skeleton was surmised to be a mummy, decomposing because of water from a nearby irrigation system. Carbon dating concluded the archaeolog...

Photo by Glen E. Friedman [E]ven though it seems like Minor Threat looks kind of normal in its clothing, sitting on the front porch our last record, Salad Days, […] that was shocking. That revolutionary within punk scene, to be dressing down. -Jeff Nelson Punk upended music and fashion when burst onto popular culture landscape mid-1970s. Its provocative visual aesthetic—from album artwork fanzi...

In Norway, there was considerable overlap between the poor house, workhouse, and correctional facilities. An assemblage of human skeletal remains from Oslo's House Correction cemetery, largely comprised individuals disturbed during municipal development in 1989, consists c. 314 who died as inmates or residents; many were disabled elderly. Although names recorded at death, cemetery lacked grave ...

In an era of mass extinction, who gets a life jacket, is left to drown or swim—and on what basis? This article addresses these questions by analyzing how tropes and practices responsibility are variously enacted, reworked, contested, refused across the global nexus orangutan conservation. Drawing multisited, collaborative ethnography, we trace mutually constitutive relation between multiple fig...