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This paper aims to expand and investigate the existing intersection parameters of daily life rituals in seven Muslim women's academician public and private spheres by including alternative theoretical perspectives of COVID-19 social isolation phenomena that have not been socially explored before. Autoethnography is the methodology applied to answer how and to what extent these intersections have affected living space, time, and tools. The study has revealed a significant intersection of womenrelated obligations in the public sphere with private sphere responsibilities affected by COVID-19. Moreover, the study re-evaluated the existing literature on the public and private sphere, female gender, especially related to the concepts of discipline, surveillance, and self-censorship. Finally, it has revealed possible intersectionality relations to the metaphors of post-traumatic experiences of these seven Muslim academicians.

This article examined the social relations of Nestorians and Kurds in the period from the 19th century to the First World War. The data used in the study were obtained through semi-structured interviews, which were conducted in Hakkari city. The data obtained from the field research were compared with the historical perspectives of Nestorian-Kurdish relations. Then, the data was analyzed in the context of the principles of narrative theory and Pierre Bourdieu's relational sociology. This study has revealed the social life practices of Nestorians and Kurds, who lived together for centuries, from the perspective of their grandchildren. Although Nestorian and Kurdish religion and language differ, their daily life, tribal formation, traditional customs and cultural lives of the two communities have been generally similar. After thorough analysis, this study indicated that Nestorian-Kurdish relations were based on friendship and neighborliness, which later deteriorated due to the influence of missionaries and foreign state officials. Nestorians and Kurds have shared a common history, culture, values, ideas and thoughts throughout history. However, with the influence of external factors, these values have been replaced and the era of disputes and conflicts had gradually evolved.

This study examines the early multiculturalism of the Abbasid Empire. The purpose is to demonstrate the significance of historical multiculturalism in building a governmental-social system. The analysis of the early Abbasid multiculturalism also integrates Persian and Greco-Roman multicultural models. The study argues that the Abbasid Dynasty, which succeeded the Umayyad Dynasty after a revolution, had introduced a unique multicultural model by establishing a tolerant and libertarian imperial structure. In effect, the Abbasid Dynasty rejected the Umayyad emphasis on the so-called Arab nationalism in its early period . This study employs a comparative analysis of the early multiculturalism of the Abbasid Empire and modern practices of multiculturalism for textual analysis and conclusions. It is significant to demonstrate how the early multiculturalism of the Abbasid Empire could be correlated to modern multicultural practices. In this regard, the policy of support and encouragement of translation activities by the early Abbasid caliphs, rulers and intellectuals had strengthened this multicultural system, which was inclusive regardless of ethnicity, religion, and race.

This study covers the research of the Achaemenid Empire and the early Abbasid period, which are considered as two historical examples of multiculturalism, within the framework of the comparative historical method. It was concluded as a result of the research that both Achaemenid (Persian) Empire and the early period of the Abbasid Empire (750-833) showed similarities in terms of ending oppressive and assimilationist policies of previous civilations, grabing the power with a revolution that broke out against social stratification and applying religious freedom policies despite the driving force of a monotheistic religion. It was also concluded that these characteristics contributed to the transformation of both empires into a multicultural society. In order to compare these two historical examples of multiculturalism, in the study, which was shaped based on the data obtained from the literature review within the framework of the comparative analysis method, it was found that the two empires had various similarities in terms of multiculturalism.