Ali Karimi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Karimi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Karimi |
| SIGNATURE | KARIMI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-6601-7006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Persistent Surveillance
The military has long favored occupying high grounds to establish strategic dominance. Maintaining elevated surveillance posts over extended periods has always been a challenge, however. This article examines the rise of the blimp, a secretive technology that has solved that problem by offering persistent surveillance from the air. Originally deployed by the U.S. military in foreign war zones, these blimps have since been introduced on domestic s…
Online engagement of students
There has been limited research on how online teaching competencies and innovative teaching can impact students’ online engagement. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of online teaching competencies and innovative teaching on the online engagement of students. Three hundred and fifty-two data sets were analyzed using the structural equation model. The results revealed that instructors’ online teaching competencies have a dire…
Shirin’s Petition
This article examines the life of an enslaved woman named Shirin, the daughter of Mir Muhammad ʿAzim Big, who was captured during the Afghan state’s war against the Hazaras (1891–1893). While in captivity, Shirin petitioned the Afghan government regarding the circumstances under which her family’s properties were seized. Drawing on documents from the National Archives of Afghanistan, colonial archives, and oral accounts, among other sources, this…
Influencing
Journal Article Influencing: Ephemeral Publics in States of Emergency Get access Ali Karimi Ali Karimi University of Calgary, Canada Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, June 2024, Pages 601–608, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae174 Published: 13 June 2024
Effects of occupational exposures on respiratory health in steel factory workers
Background The steel factory work environment contains various chemical exposures that can affect indoor air quality and have impact on respiratory health of the workers. Aims The objective of this study was to assess potential effects of occupational exposures in steel factory workers in Iran on the respiratory symptoms, occurrence and the lung function levels. Method This was a cross-sectional study of 133 men working in a steel factory forming…
Iran's day-ahead electricity market
Information Control in Afghanistan, 1901–1946
This article examines the history of information control in the first half of the twentieth century in Afghanistan. This was a period of great turmoil. The world fought two devastating wars and Afghanistan went through major political and social transformations that included several violent regime changes. Despite being a neutral state, the Afghan capital attracted European rivals who campaigned for the hearts and minds of Afghans. In addition to…
The Bazaar, the State, and the Struggle for Public Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
Public opinion is formed by the information that the public consumes. The state, whether democratic or authoritarian, employs various media of communication to influence people's opinions and behaviours. In the nineteenth century, Afghan rulers would traditionally use force and religion to gain popular support and strengthen their authority. In the second half of the century, they started to use print technology to build their relationships with …
Street Fights
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 ended the Taliban rule and brought to power a coalition government whose members had spent most of the previous decade fighting each other. After 2001, the rivalry between these groups was mainly pursued in the cultural sphere where each was fighting to shape the narrative of the war. Place names have been one of the main domains in which this ideological conflict has been fought. The contestation over pla…
The Production of Modernization
During the Cold War era, the Middle East was a battleground for a fierce ideological contest between the United States and the USSR.The two nations struggled to win the hearts and minds of the "new nations" of the postcolonial world by providing them with modernization projects.It was a war to entice the emerging nations into two differing versions of modernity.Part of the war was fought through the provision of development aid, but the main riva…
The politics of the encounter
The politics of encounter: urban theory and protest under urbanization, by Andy Mcrrifield, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2013, xxi + 161 pp., US$22.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8203-4530-7 Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), French philosopher of is an unavoidable figure in urban theory and geographical thought. Leaving a paradigm-shifting impact on spatial humanities, he transformed way we think about place, politics, and everyday. In The Politics…
Street Fights
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 ended the Taliban rule and brought to power a coalition government whose members had spent most of the previous decade fighting each other. After 2001, the rivalry between these groups was mainly pursued in the cultural sphere where each was fighting to shape the narrative of the war. Place names have been one of the main domains in which this ideological conflict has been fought. The contestation over pla…
The politics of the encounter
The politics of encounter: urban theory and protest under urbanization, by Andy Mcrrifield, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2013, xxi + 161 pp., US$22.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8203-4530-7 Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), French philosopher of is an unavoidable figure in urban theory and geographical thought. Leaving a paradigm-shifting impact on spatial humanities, he transformed way we think about place, politics, and everyday. In The Politics…
The Bazaar, the State, and the Struggle for Public Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
Public opinion is formed by the information that the public consumes. The state, whether democratic or authoritarian, employs various media of communication to influence people's opinions and behaviours. In the nineteenth century, Afghan rulers would traditionally use force and religion to gain popular support and strengthen their authority. In the second half of the century, they started to use print technology to build their relationships with …
The Production of Modernization
During the Cold War era, the Middle East was a battleground for a fierce ideological contest between the United States and the USSR.The two nations struggled to win the hearts and minds of the "new nations" of the postcolonial world by providing them with modernization projects.It was a war to entice the emerging nations into two differing versions of modernity.Part of the war was fought through the provision of development aid, but the main riva…
The politics of the encounter
The politics of encounter: urban theory and protest under urbanization, by Andy Mcrrifield, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2013, xxi + 161 pp., US$22.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8203-4530-7 Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991), French philosopher of is an unavoidable figure in urban theory and geographical thought. Leaving a paradigm-shifting impact on spatial humanities, he transformed way we think about place, politics, and everyday. In The Politics…
Street Fights
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 ended the Taliban rule and brought to power a coalition government whose members had spent most of the previous decade fighting each other. After 2001, the rivalry between these groups was mainly pursued in the cultural sphere where each was fighting to shape the narrative of the war. Place names have been one of the main domains in which this ideological conflict has been fought. The contestation over pla…
The Bazaar, the State, and the Struggle for Public Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
Public opinion is formed by the information that the public consumes. The state, whether democratic or authoritarian, employs various media of communication to influence people's opinions and behaviours. In the nineteenth century, Afghan rulers would traditionally use force and religion to gain popular support and strengthen their authority. In the second half of the century, they started to use print technology to build their relationships with …
Iran's day-ahead electricity market
Information Control in Afghanistan, 1901–1946
This article examines the history of information control in the first half of the twentieth century in Afghanistan. This was a period of great turmoil. The world fought two devastating wars and Afghanistan went through major political and social transformations that included several violent regime changes. Despite being a neutral state, the Afghan capital attracted European rivals who campaigned for the hearts and minds of Afghans. In addition to…
Effects of occupational exposures on respiratory health in steel factory workers
Background The steel factory work environment contains various chemical exposures that can affect indoor air quality and have impact on respiratory health of the workers. Aims The objective of this study was to assess potential effects of occupational exposures in steel factory workers in Iran on the respiratory symptoms, occurrence and the lung function levels. Method This was a cross-sectional study of 133 men working in a steel factory forming…
Influencing
Journal Article Influencing: Ephemeral Publics in States of Emergency Get access Ali Karimi Ali Karimi University of Calgary, Canada Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, June 2024, Pages 601–608, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae174 Published: 13 June 2024
Online engagement of students
There has been limited research on how online teaching competencies and innovative teaching can impact students’ online engagement. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of online teaching competencies and innovative teaching on the online engagement of students. Three hundred and fifty-two data sets were analyzed using the structural equation model. The results revealed that instructors’ online teaching competencies have a dire…
Shirin’s Petition
This article examines the life of an enslaved woman named Shirin, the daughter of Mir Muhammad ʿAzim Big, who was captured during the Afghan state’s war against the Hazaras (1891–1893). While in captivity, Shirin petitioned the Afghan government regarding the circumstances under which her family’s properties were seized. Drawing on documents from the National Archives of Afghanistan, colonial archives, and oral accounts, among other sources, this…
Persistent Surveillance
The military has long favored occupying high grounds to establish strategic dominance. Maintaining elevated surveillance posts over extended periods has always been a challenge, however. This article examines the rise of the blimp, a secretive technology that has solved that problem by offering persistent surveillance from the air. Originally deployed by the U.S. military in foreign war zones, these blimps have since been introduced on domestic s…
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