Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daily Princetonian | 28 April 2005 The following email messages were sent between Stanley Katz, former CJL board president and Wilson School professor; Arlene Pedovitch ’80, interim CJL director; and Henry Farber, current CJL board president and economics professor; regarding comments made by Pedovitch to The Daily Princetonian. Copies of the messages were obtained
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubman | Haaretz | 26 April 2005 Haifa University President Aharon Ben-Ze’ev called on Dr. Ilan Pappe, a staff member who supports the academic boycott on Israeli universities, to tender his resignation. “It is fitting for someone who calls for a boycott of his university to apply the boycott himself,” Ben-Ze’ev said yesterday.
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Scott Jaschik | Inside Higher Ed News | 25 April 2005 A prominent professor of Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University is up for a professorship at Princeton University — and the controversy over his work and his views could follow him. Rashid Khalidi is currently the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and
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Bahia Shehab During the Egyptian revolution, art sublimated violence and translated emotions. Music, theatre, video art, graffiti and cartoons were just a few examples of media of protest that overtook the streets and cyberspace. Strong emotions brought about intense creativity, and in the process artists and laymen alike provided us with exceptional examples of how to express dissidence and solidarity
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Tahia Abdel Nasser The poetry recited in 2011 in the context of the Egyptian revolution, and its later translation into a variety of languages, contributed to local and global understandings of that historical moment. This essay examines some of the ways in which new poetic production in 2013-2014 extends and reconfigures the revolutionary movement in Egypt, the difference between the
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Soraya Morayef This essay engages with the work of Alaa Awad, a prolific Egyptian street artist who drew graffiti on the walls around Tahrir Square between 2011 and 2013 using ancient Egyptian styles and themes. In replicating pharaonic murals in a space that was literally the epicentre of the political uprising in Egypt, Awad provided a quintessentially Egyptian narrative of
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Hoda Elsadda This essay offers an analysis of issues related to the translation of memories of resistance of women who participated in protests since 2011 in Egypt for inclusion in a web archive created and managed by the Women and Memory Forum. It argues that stories and testimonies are powerful modes of activism in the struggle over the collective memory
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Sherief Gaber Alongside the political transformations that Egypt has witnessed since 2011, there has been a concomitant transformation within Egyptian cities and a wealth of civil society initiatives seeking social justice in the urban environment. Architectural and planning practices, local NGOs and rights groups have sought new languages and new terminology to deal with the phenomena on the ground and
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Samah Selim This essay explores some of the problems associated with activist translating in revolutionary historical moments like the one that began in Egypt in 2011. Using my experience of working as a subtitler with the radical video collective Mosireen in 2012/13, I reflect on how the process and experience of translating in a state of emergency – when
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Deena Mohamed Experiencing the Egyptian revolution as a teenager meant living through a period of history that witnessed my generation both shaping and being shaped by momentous events. This dynamic also impacted a webcomic I created in June 2013, at the age of eighteen, originally in English and later in both English and Arabic. The current essay reflects on the
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