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China: Human Rights Watch accuses Beijing of closing and destroying mosques

China: Human Rights Watch accuses Beijing of closing and destroying mosques
Nov 22,2023 12:51 am

... About 1,300 mosques in Ningxia have been closed or converted since 2020, Hannah Theaker, A Scholar on Chinese Muslims, told the BBC...

The mysteries of a mass graveyard of early Indians

The mysteries of a mass graveyard of early Indians
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... The grave pit was often filled with pottery offerings before the coffin was lowered into it, according to Jonathan Mark Kenoyer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is A Scholar of the Indus Valley civilisation...

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... " Muslims of Bengali origin have become a soft target of politics, " says Dr Hafiz Ahmed, A Scholar who works with the community...

Hong Kong cardinal Joseph Zen arrested under China's security law

Hong Kong cardinal Joseph Zen arrested under China's security law
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... Dr Hui, A Scholar with Hong Kong s Lingnan University, was arrested at the airport as he tried to fly to Europe to take up an academic posting, Hong Kong Free Press reports, citing two legal sources...

Should body paid donors to be? The heavy toll of US, kidney deficiency

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... A Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Washington-based think tank, has an intense personal interest in the topic...

Yang Hengjun: Australia criticises China for detainment of 'democracy peddler'

Yang Hengjun: Australia criticises China for detainment of 'democracy peddler'
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... Mr Yang, A Scholar and novelist based in New York, was detained when he travelled to China in January with his wife Yuan Ruijuan and her child...

Mexico ambush: As an American Mormon family ended up dead

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... Cristina Rosetti, A Scholar of Mormon fundamentalism, with its headquarters in Salt Lake City...

Bangor University: when you start on Welsh identity in Wales?

Bangor University: when you start on Welsh identity in Wales?
Feb 16,2020 7:19 am

... What...

Bangor University: when you start on Welsh identity in Wales?

Feb 16,2020 7:19 am

A medieval historian to investigate "Welshness" and where it came from

daffodils, the hymn sing and the dragons - seen them all, as symbols of "Welshness".

But what is Welshness and where it comes from?

Medieval historian Dr. Rebecca Thomas , a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for the research of the development of the Welsh identity in the Middle Ages .

you will be looking at The First Wales-and Welsh-references in the early literature, and why it exists

"I'm not only interested in if the Welsh said to himself, as a people, but why is that so," Dr. Thomas.

It is generally agreed by historians that the sense of Welsh identity to exist, the by the 12. To find a century, and Dr. Thomas turning to the medieval Latin Chronicles and histories, with evidence, how the identity was constructed.

division of world

she said, The Ninth and 10. Centuries were the "key time" in the construction of identities.

"When the division of The World into different peoples and locating the origins of these peoples," Dr. Thomas says: - The Chronicles and stories, written during this time, you are busy.

There is more to Wales than Welshcakes

Medieval authors claimed that the Welsh originally came from Troy , an idea that is popular in the European continent, with the franc also see themselves as descended from the Trojans.

"And so the Welsh writers were said, the development of a much broader phenomenon," Dr Thomas.

"It seems likely, also, that you are very much aware of the texts produced in other parts of the UK were at the beginning of the speech of England and the English.

"I would like to ask, how important is the contact with The World was, in the shaping of Welsh identity in this time, and consider what they thought the Welsh writer, set the Welshman apart from the other Nations.

"What

When Asher, A Scholar of St. David's, wrote in 893, that king Offa had built a dyke between Mercia and Britannia, from sea to sea - for him the Britannia Wales, Dr. Thomas, has said.

And when Vortigern, a from The Ninth century scholars of Gwynned, contain the names of places in English and Welsh in his Latin text, he referred to the Welsh as "our language".

Dr. Thomas is one of only 53, early career researchers, the community, and the second from Bangor University to receive the award.



bangor university, wales culture, welsh language

Source of news: bbc.com

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