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Sherene Seikaly and Maya Mikdashi
Let's Talk About Sex
![[Jordanian police women control a protester, near the Israeli Embassy in Amman, Jordan, June, 4, 2010. Image by Nader Daoud/AP Photo.]](/content_images/3/sm_sex2.jpg "[Jordanian police women control a protester, near the Israeli Embassy in Amman, Jordan, June, 4, 2010. Image by Nader Daoud/AP Photo.]")
This week Foreign Policy published a “Sex Issue.” They explained their decision to feature a special issue with these words Foreign Policy's first-ever Sex Issue…is dedicated…to the consideration of how and why sex—in all the various meanings of the word—matters in shaping the world's politics. Why? In Foreign Policy, the magazine and the subject, sex is too often the missing part of the equation—the part that the policymakers and journalists talk about with ...
Keep Reading »"Have a Nice Day, Buddy:" What The Actions of a Few US Marines Say About Us All
![[Left: US Marines urinating on dead Afghans. Image from AFP. Right: Afghan civilian dead on the road. Image from unknown archive]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2012-01-12at4.54.26PM.png "[Left: US Marines urinating on dead Afghans. Image from AFP. Right: Afghan civilian dead on the road. Image from unknown archive]")
Golden, like a shower, said one of the US marines as he urinated, along with three of his fellow officers, on three dead Afghans. Over the last forty-eight hours this grizzly spectacle has resuscitated the horrific images of US soldiers’ torturing and sexually humiliating men from Abu Ghraib prison to Guantanamo Bay. Then as now, brown bodies are the raw material through and upon which US soldiers realize their darkest fantasies and their deepest secrets. The pornography ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Sherene Seikaly is Assistant Professor of History at the American University in Cairo and co-Editor of the Arab Studies Journal. She was the Qatar Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University (2007-2008) and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Middle East in Europe Program at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2008-2009). Sherene is co-founder of Jadaliyya Ezine.
Maya Mikdashi is a PhD candidate at Columbia University's Department of Anthropology and Co-Director of the documentary film About Baghdad. She is co-founder of Jadaliyya Ezine.
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