* The authors wish to acknowledge the significant contributions made by their undergraduate student collaborators: Mark Lehtman, Elizabeth Lundholm, and Ryan Potempa. Introduction Beginning with Charles Darwin ( 1872/2009 ), researchers have been curious about how the body’s many adaptive

Solidarity is each one of us opening a wound in their body and sharing its open space with another. Adham Hafez 1 Introduction The eighteen days of demonstrations in Egypt that led to the overthrow of Mubarak in 2011 were, first and foremost, an uprising of

two divergent understandings of God’s role in sports and offer critique where needed. Neither writer looks closely at how the body, a pivotal element of all sport, fits in with transcendence. I will argue, then, that if sport is a form of play that is embodied, that our bodies are unified in body and

In 1915, the Ottoman Turkish Navy Magazine ran an article in its regular sports column entitled ‘What is a Beautiful Body?’ ( Donanma Mecmuası 1915: 81). In the opening paragraph, the author established that the article would ‘analyze beauty from the perspective of a physical training

The largest body of commentaries that has come down to us prior to the third century CE is from Philo of Alexandria. 1 The Jewish commentator wrote twelve scrolls for the Quaestiones et solutiones in Genesin et in Exodum , 2 at least thirty-two treatises for his magnum opus that we call the

elections the result of which will shape a new constitution, the fracas around a frontal nude photograph of a 20-year old woman posted online strikes me as misplaced, or at least misdirected. At the same time, the polemic raises important questions about the role of the body in contentious politics. To my