The article examines attempts to institutionalize political processes at the township and village level in China and changes to grassroots governance in the era of Xi Jinping.
Keywords:
China; political reforms; governance; institutional reforms; grassroots level; democratization; Xi Jinping; ideology
The article describes the Department of Middle Eastern History at Moscow State University and its place in the development of Russian Oriental studies.
The article analyzes the position of the Muslim Brotherhood in Mauritanian domestic politics and the development of the Tawassul party between 2007 and 2019.
Keywords:
Mauritania; Nouakchott; Muslim Brothers; Tawassul; Maghreb; Sahel; Islam
The article examines religious endowments to Buddhist institutions of the kingdom of Awa from a monk and rulers of Chiang Mai, using two Burmese inscriptions from the fourteenth century.
Using a speech by former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the article examines code-switching between Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and the speaker’s role.
Keywords:
Egypt; diglossia; code-switching; political communication; Modern Standard Arabic; Egyptian Colloquial Arabic
