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Muslim Voices research

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Posted in Jumbalaya | 3 Comments »

For those interested in the research I've been doing on Muslims (the project is still underway, but partial results from some geographic areas are ready), the following is a poster ... Read more..

Another use for Gmail

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Jumbalaya | No Comments »

Use Gmail to store your papers/journal articles etc. including the notes you may want to make on a particular item you have read/reviewed. Coolomondo. Read more..

LaTeXing in the Humanities

Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Jumbalaya | 5 Comments »

I have to confess, I do like LaTeX. It produces such beautiful looking documents. Would you like to see a sneak peak of a couple of pages of my ... Read more..

Conference on Qur’anic Frameworks for Society: Islam, Multiculturalism, Pluralism and Peace

Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Jumbalaya | 3 Comments »

Seriously miffed I didn't know about this before now, but if anyone in the UK is interested to go along - this looks great!!!!International Academic Conference on Qur'anic Frameworks for ... Read more..

Special journal issue on Islam and cultural politics

Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Jumbalaya | 3 Comments »

Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, has just released issue no. 19 and my friend and fellow postgrad uni student has an article published "'Sodomized by Religion': Fictional Representations of ... Read more..

Categorising Muslims

Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Jumbalaya | 2 Comments »

Categorising Muslims is a little harder than it might first appear. 'Why would you do such a thing Umm Yasmin?' I hear you ask. 'Coz that's what us in the ... Read more..

When other people make your life easier (or, Bookends reference software can connect to databases and import entries)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008 Posted in Jumbalaya | 2 Comments »

I've been experimenting with using Bookends by Sonny Software as a reference manager on my Macbook. One of my joyous discoveries has been the ability to search databases (including my ... Read more..