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Archival photograph on the back cover of “Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq” (UC Press, 2025) by Mona Damluji
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Centuries of misguided policy, politics and prejudice have primed the land for the unprecedented infernos that wildland firefighters now face every year.
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Illustration by Ishtar Bäcklund Dakhil for Mona Damluji's “I Want You to Know."
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Book cover art for “It Rhymes with Takei,” illustrated by Harmony Becker
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Author Louis Bayard is adapting his novel "The Wildes," which explores Oscar Wilde’s family life, for a staged reading at UCSB’s LAUNCH PAD Summer Series on July 10.
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Artist and professor Kip Fulbeck creates spaces for people to define themselves and be seen as they are.
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A scuba diver pictured with a colony of soft corals in Fiji, 2020
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