I wrote this book because it was a book I wanted to read. I came of age during a time when the images and discussions of Muslim women revolved around a trope of victimhood, and the urgency of international intervention in the region was a regular news headline...
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Repairing America’s Broken Foreign Policy
US foreign policy is a danger to the United States and to the world, and it has been for some time. As President Dwight Eisenhower famously foretold in his farewell address of January 1961, the Military-Industrial Complex (..
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Scholars Pledge to Boycott UIUC Over the Firing of Steven Salaita
On 6 August, Inside Higher Ed reported that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) had rescinded a job offer to Steven G. Salaita, who was set to b..
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Beirut Art Center's Exposure 2013
Exposure 2013
November 2013 - January 2014
Beirut Art Center, Beirut
Exposure is Beirut Art Center`s ..
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She Who Tells a Story
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 27 August 2013 – 12 January 2014.
On view this fall at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is..
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Sadegh Tirafkan: All That Remains Is His Art
The last time I saw Iranian artist Sadegh Tirafkan was in the fall of 2011 at Art Abu Dhabi. Sadegh was there to soak it all in and to attend an opening of his art at Etemad Gallery in Dubai. As I stood in line to board a bus..
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A Who's Who of Fighters in Gaza
[The following report was issued by IRIN , a service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, on 15 April 2013.]
This month, tensions have escalat..
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Petition Against Firing of Barbara Van Dyck (Catholic University of Leuven)
[The following petition has been circulating on various academic listserves. Click here to sign the petition.]
On Friday June 3th 2011, the Catholic University of Leuven sacked researcher Barbara Van Dyck because of her public suppor..