Baher moved a market to tears and sealed a new future for his family
Five months after fleeing his home in Gaza, Baher Skaik sat behind a piano in Melbourne's Preston Markets. He was there to play for strangers as part of the ABC series The Piano. It brought unexpected and life-changing rewards for his young family.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-19/gaza-refugee-baher-skaik-the-piano/105522398
https://www.europesays.com/2178327/ They want India forgotten—and dead – Firstpost #Academia #Bangladesh #CivilisationalState #clash #conflict #Conflicts #CulturalAppropriation #CulturalIdentity #ErasureOfIndia #Hindus #HistoricalHeritage #HistoricalIdentity #IdentityPolitics #India #IndiaAndWest #IndiaPakistan #IndiaPakistanClash #IndiaPakistanConflict #IndiaPakistanWar #indian #IndianCivilization #IndianCulture #IndianDiaspora #NationalIdentity #pakistan #SouthAsia #war #WesternMedia
New blog post: Of Kings, Constitutions, and Parades
https://michaelmitchell.blog/of-kings-constitutions-and-parades?pk_campaign=rss-feed
#Sharkey #NationalIdentity #CivicReflection #WeekendThoughts #Commentary
The battle for Poland isn’t over https://www.byteseu.com/1078521/ #Europe #MAGA #NationalIdentity #Poland #Politics #Russia #Ukraine
https://www.europesays.com/2138952/ The battle for Poland isn’t over #Aktualności #Europe #maga #NationalIdentity #poland #Politics #polska #Russia #Ukraine
Forging National Music on Both Sides of the Aegean in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. New book by Cüneyt-Ersin Mihci on Music and National Identity in Greece and Turkey. Open access here: 
https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de//heibooks/catalog/book/1255
#Greece #Turkey #NationalIdentity #Music #OpenAccess
3/ Fear-mongering around cultural and racial diversity is another common thread. Both Trump and Hitler built their platforms by framing certain groups as a direct threat to national identity. It’s about creating fear, not solutions. #RacialDiversity #NationalIdentity #FearMongering
State Legislatures Need to Block Creation of Nightmarish #NationalIdentity System
>The supposed lack of a national #ID is in name only. There is national standard as to what each #stateID must look like. The only real diff is the state logo. All the data may not be in a single DB. But all the state DB are interconnected, & can be reached with a single inquiry #privacy
Highlight from our electronic #collection:
Framing #Refugees. How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92543/1/9780198904724.pdf
In this book, the authors argue that governments' refugee #policies and #opposition parties' stances are largely shaped by how they frame both their country's collective #identity and the identity of refugees.
There's something so satisfying about this Irish man’s refusal to take the bait when asked the typical leading questions on migration. He just calmly & straightforwardly responds with fair, no nonsense answers.
