{"id":673,"date":"2023-04-20T08:02:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aabastian.com\/?page_id=673"},"modified":"2023-04-24T18:16:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T18:16:34","slug":"publish-articles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aabastian.com\/publish-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish articles"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Review<\/div>

A Stranger in Baghdad: A Novel<\/h2><\/div>

\"'Take me, too.'
\r\n\r\nThese three words plunge a young white woman named Diane into the world of Baghdad in 1937. A 20-year-old nurse, she falls in love with physician Ibrahim Haddad in London and follows him home to Iraq. Baghdad comes alive in vivid detail as she navigates her interracial marriage to Ibrahim, her in-laws, her high-profile but politically sensitive job as a nanny for the Iraqi royal family, and eventually, her relationship with her own biracial children.\"<\/p><\/div>

Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on June 29, 2023<\/div>
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Argument<\/div>

Okinawa Is in the Crosshairs of China’s Ambitions<\/h2><\/div>
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\"On Dec. 16, 2022, China extended its threats against Taiwan to include a more direct move against Japan\u2014and its treaty ally, the United States. The Liaoning aircraft carrier sailed quietly east between Okinawa and Miyako islands, of Japan\u2019s Okinawa Prefecture, sandwiching the Japanese territory with China\u2019s mainland to the west...\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Foreign Policy<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Apr 7, 2023<\/div>
<\/span>Lead Article for 15 hours<\/div><\/a><\/div>
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Podcast<\/div>

Watersplotch from the Bay of Bengal of Bengal<\/h2><\/div>
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A. A. Bastian navigates the commercial and Christian aspirations of Euro-American trading empires in 19th century Asia, through a Water Splotch from the Bay of Bengal in Levi Savage\u2019s ship diary. Hugging India\u2019s glistening Bay of Bengal, Euro-American ships like the Monsoon and Fire Queen carried goods and peoples to and from India and Burma.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Empire Lines<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Feb 2022<\/div>
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\"Him\u0101laya\"
Review<\/div>

Him\u0101laya: Exploring the Roof of the World<\/h2><\/div>
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\u201cYou\u2019ll pronounce Him\u0101laya properly after reading John Keay\u2019s new book. Keay, known for contextualizing broad sweeps of Asian, in particular South Asian, history, tackles the iconic mountain range in Him\u0101laya<\/em>. His long career writing histories from west to east Asia sets us up comfortably to delve into all the borders of this vast region...<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on December 22, 2022<\/div>
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Argument<\/div>

China Is Stepping Up Its Information War on Taiwan<\/h2><\/div>
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\"As U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan today, rumors and false stories flew around the Chinese language online sphere. Claims that PLA Su-35 fighters had crossed into Taiwanese airspace were promptly dismissed by Taiwan\u2019s Ministry of National Defense. Online assaults, meanwhile, targeted Taiwanese websites....\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Foreign Policy<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Aug 2, 2022<\/div>
<\/span>Editors' Top 5 Picks<\/div><\/a><\/div>
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Argument<\/div>

Threatening Taiwan Gets China More Than Invading It Would<\/h2><\/div>
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\"When responding to threats against Taiwan, U.S. leaders generally assume that Chinese leaders actually want to annex the island\u2014as a recent report by the congressionally mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission concluded. ...But over the last few decades, threatening Taiwan has been advantageous for China, often gotten it what it wanted, and has been more fruitful\u2014and far less costly\u2014than seizing the island by force would have been.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Foreign Policy<\/div>
<\/span>Published on November 30, 2021<\/div>
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\"Doomed
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Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America<\/h2><\/div>
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\"New Hampshire schoolteacher Martha Parker dreamed of taking her place alongside the newest heroines of evangelical Protestant circles. The wives of missionaries in the 1820s suddenly had unparalleled opportunities to promote their progressive values, to travel, and to train others...\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on February 18, 2021<\/div>
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\"Kingdom
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Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of Empire on the American Frontier<\/h2><\/div>
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\"Read this book for a straightforward discussion of Joseph Smith\u2019s polygamy using several largely ignored primary sources. In it, author Benjamin E. Park also draws out the tensions of minority rights versus majority rule in an early American fledgling democracy. Using the Mormon experiment as a case study, he explores boundaries of race, gender, and whiteness....\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Jul 10, 2020<\/div>
<\/span>This review was also featured at LitHub<\/div><\/a><\/div>
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Review<\/div>

Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink<\/h2><\/div>
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\"Every time we saw a report on Hong Kong in the last few months, it was missing something: a deep comparison with the past and an acknowledgement of the region\u2019s long trajectory toward protest. Jeffrey Wasserstrom fills that gap with this fast read. ...You are in good hands in Vigil<\/em><\/a>.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Feb 14, 2020<\/div>
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\"A
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A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma<\/h2><\/div>
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\"The word \u201csavage\u201d wouldn\u2019t have been my preferred choice in a title about a land and its people, especially given the exploitive colonial legacy in this particular country. Having said that, the term doesn\u2019t appear again within the pages, and beyond that, it may not have been the author\u2019s decision in the first place. ...Eimer gets off the path to describe what most recent tourists have not seen, the less-choreographed version of Burma. He then mingles his observations with historical snapshots.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Nov 27, 2019<\/div>
<\/span>This review was also featured at LitHub<\/div><\/a><\/div>
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Peer Reviewed<\/div>

The Other Bayonet: A New Source to Frame the Second Anglo-Burmese War<\/h2><\/div>
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Abstract: A new source reveals Burmese bravery at the Shwedagon pagoda following the hostilities of the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1853. Once buried in the Mormon archives in Salt Lake City a brief journal describing events in and around the Shwedagon Pagoda of that period has surfaced. The journal, written by a man situated in the Shwedagon Pagoda, strengthens postcolonial scholarship focusing on counter narratives to colonial conquest and dominance not easily found in primary sources to date. Destruction or suppression of primary sources served a strategic agenda as another type of bayonet for colonial conquest. Through this new eye witness, we can now glimpse amidst desecration and hostilities into Burmese rebellion against their aggressors.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Journal of Burma Studies<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Jun 1, 2017<\/div>
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\"No
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No Knives in the Kitchens of this City<\/h2><\/div>
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\"Just as curling or fudged, rosy or doomed as our memories swirl through our minds, so Khaled Khalifa wraps us in a story of memories and their power in Aleppo. A mother and her ill-fated children personify the Syrian city as it slowly erodes into chaos and decay under the Assad regime. Memories and reality conflict as the characters encounter delusions of themselves and the world they\u2019ve known.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on May 27, 2017<\/div>
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Review<\/div>

Whitefly: A Novel<\/h2><\/div>
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\"Detective Laafrit is trying to quit. Will sucking lozenges keep him from smoking while he searches for the murderer of four Moroccans washed ashore near Tangier\u2019s coastline? The case takes on international proportions as ties between the murdered men and intrigues in Spain emerge. Whitefly opens with youth protesting illegally for jobs, a parallel to Laafrit\u2019s activist youth. He must defuse the situation to save the students from the retribution of the Moroccan police force, famed for torturing their captured.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Dec 3, 2016 <\/div>
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\"A
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A Rare Blue Bird Flies With Me<\/h2><\/div>
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\"Feel through the darkness with Aziz, who is being held in detention; bits of cloth, a nail, a spattering of blood, a bone. He lies imprisoned in a kitchen awaiting his own death amidst the rot of others who have passed before him. A Rare Blue Bird Flies With Me centers on Aziz\u2019s first-person confrontation with imprisonment, while other characters, also in first person, take turns relaying their encounters with Aziz. This multiple-narrative approach is an Arab literary technique that takes you intimately into the mind of each character.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Nov 11, 2016 <\/div>
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Feature<\/div>

City of Writes<\/h2><\/div>
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\"A literary friend bans the mere mention<\/em> of career and the two-fingered clasp of that must-carry calling card. A self-proclaimed \u201cNew Yorker in exile,\u201d she hosted a dinner party for artists in Washington, DC. She abhors the city\u2019s drabness and its dark-suit-wearing crowd of lawyers who represent a place in which she\u2019s endured far too many so-what-do-you-do\u2019s?<\/p>\r\n

She\u2019s not the only disgruntled literary New Yorker I\u2019ve met in DC, but I can\u2019t relate.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Oct 12, 2016<\/div>
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\"The
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The Televangelist: A Novel<\/h2><\/div>
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\"Ibrahim Essa\u2019s new novel, The Televangelist, is a powerful commentary on Islam in modern Egypt with deep insight for Westerners. Nothing is what it seems. The last few pages of the book will surprise you so much you\u2019ll want to read them again to see how it all plays out.<\/p>\r\n

Sheik Hatem is a televangelist for a popular call-in show based in Cairo. When he is tasked with turning a high-profile leader\u2019s son back from his conversion to Christianity, he finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes mission that risks his position with the state in its tight control over religious media.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Sep 27, 2016 <\/div>
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Review<\/div>

The Castaway\u2019s War: One Man\u2019s Battle Against Imperial Japan<\/h2><\/div>
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\"Feel the depth charges pummeling the bodies of Hugh Barr Miller Jr. and his fellows as they reach for a floater net, a life raft, or a scrap of wreckage buoyant enough to separate them from the sea floor. Historian Stephen Harding continues his stream of gripping naval battle accounts with The Castaway's War,<\/em> set in and around the Solomon Islands of the Pacific. It\u2019s a World War II survival tale taken from official sources and personal diaries.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Aug 9, 2016<\/div>
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Review<\/div>

Meet the Press: May 2016 Hoopoe Specializes in Stories from the Middle East and North Africa<\/h2><\/div>
\"Discover the Arab world\u2019s most dynamic novels now available in English thanks to Hoopoe \u2014 from the American University in Cairo (AUC) Press \u2014 a new imprint spotlighting Arab novels, the kind that already top the stacks on nightstands across the Middle East.\r\n\r\nThe genres offered fit into familiar niches in the West, yet not quite: historical fiction, thrillers, crime fiction, dystopian, noir, but all are set in the deserts, watering holes, mountains, farms, or cities of a diverse region. Bringing to the United States these pieces of fiction offers the warm welcome of an Arab hello, Al-Salaamu Alikum<\/em>, yet these stories are just non-conformist enough to spur you on to the next unpredictable page.\"<\/div>
Washington Independent Review of Books<\/div>
<\/span>Published on May 16, 2016 <\/div>
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Guest Post<\/div>

Mormon Man Creates Controversy<\/h2><\/div>
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\"My boyfriend is 47 and lives in the 1850s. Nerdy writers understand those late nights, at least I\u2019m hoping. Explaining my book to people living in the twenty first century, though, takes a bit of finesse. Researching a Mormon man, deceased as he is, shouldn\u2019t stir any controversy. Not until he\u2019s published, at least\u2026.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

By Common Consent<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Sep 8, 2014<\/div>
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Academic Guest Post<\/div>

From Siamese Prison to Mormon Memory<\/h2><\/div>
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\"A day after Elam Luddington baptized his first and only convert in Siam, Captain James Trail, the King of Siam thrust the convert into a debtor\u2019s prison without food. The captain\u2019s crime was misunderstanding a command and firing a salute from his ship in the rhodes of Singapore. With only one baptism, is it possible that Luddington's apparent failure washed him from our collective Mormon memories?\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Juvenile Instructor<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Jun 28, 2013<\/div>
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Feature<\/div>

Double Facebook Profile: Egyptian Women Online<\/h2><\/div>
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\"If we down play the role of Facebook in the overthrow of the Egyptian president, we ignore the voices of young conservative women whose main contribution is through Facebook. Before the recent uprisings, Egypt had more than 2 million male Facebook users and almost 2 million female users from a population of 77 million, totaling roughly 3 percent of the population. The 1.5 percent of Egyptian female users reached unprecedented audiences. Worood, for example, is a prolific Facebook user.\"<\/p>\r\n<\/div>

Eurasia Review<\/div>
<\/span>Published on Apr 5, 2011<\/div>
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