Archive for October, 2010

What We Don’t Know about Sex in the Middle East

Posted By Zócalo On October 24, 2010

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After ten years writing and traveling through the Middle East, John R. Bradley decided to tackle the subject that everyone talks about without saying much: sex. In Behind the Veil of Vice: The Business and Culture of Sex in the Middle East, Bradley reveals the many different ways countries across the region talk about and regulate sex. Below, he chats with Zócalo about legal prostitution in Tunisia, hour-long marriages in Saudi Arabia, and what West and East have in common when it comes to sex.

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The Apple and the Garden that was AOL

Posted By Zócalo On October 24, 2010

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by Andrés Martinez

When AOL merged with Time Warner a decade ago (in what amounted to a well-timed “coloring in” of casino chips by the dial-up Internet behemoth), AOL’s chairman Steve Case explained that the deal would bring together a tech giant …

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Debt

Posted By Zócalo On October 24, 2010

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by J.D. Smith

To say the wolf is at the door
is to admit
knowing little of wolves,

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Robert Putnam

Posted By Zócalo On October 22, 2010

Robert Putnam in the green room at the California Endowment.

Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. He is the author or coauthor of ten previous books, translated into twenty languages, including the bestselling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. He visited Zócalo to chat about his most recent book, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, and took our In The Green Room Q&A before taking the stage.

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Bill Parent

Posted By Zócalo On October 22, 2010

Bill Parent in the green room at the California Endowment

Bill Parent is currently the director of the Center for Civil Society in the UCLA School of Public Affairs. Prior to coming to UCLA 10 years ago, he was at Harvard University’s Kennedy School where he ran the Innovations in American Government program. Twenty years ago, he was executive assistant to then Dean Robert D. Putnam. Before he interviewed Putnam for Zócalo, he sat down for our In The Green Room Q&A.

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Friday, December 3, 2010
How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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