Islam through Western Eyes

“Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles

Islam, religiosity, and immigrant political action in Western Europe.

The issues of migration and immigrant political integration in western democracies have become increasingly intertwined with debates on religion, particularly Islam. To date, however, we have surprisingly little systematic research on how religious beliefs are related to immigrants' political engagement. In this study, we argue that religion has a capacity to mobilize immigrants politically but...

Through the artist's eyes.

TWENTY-FIVE years ago last month Mr Ernest Morrison FRCS kindly asked me to look after a man whose character and courage I came greatly to admire and whose close friendship I was privileged to enjoy during the remaining five years of his life. Zoltan Lewinter-Frankl was born in Hungary in 1894 and the family later moved to Vienna. Such was his love of paintings that by the age of 16 he had alre...

Kashan of Two Era from the Eyes of Two Western Women

So far, the history of Kashan has been viewed through the eyes of many travelers, but these eyes have rarely been eyes of women travelers. Depicting Kashan’s situation in Naseri and Pahlavi era from writings of two women, who came from cultural archeologic families, is an important source of recognizing Kashan, which is analyzed in this article. This critical analysis is conducted with the assu...

Looking Through the Patients’ Eyes

Objective: Patient satisfaction is a personal evaluation of health-care services that is often used as an indicator of quality of care. The aim of this study was to identify aspects of hospital care that affect patient satisfaction by examining the structural and convergent validity of an in-house questionnaire. Methods: The sample consisted of 3320 patients discharged from an Italian public ho...