Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Counterpunch | 24 September 2002 The shockwaves of 9-11 have had a chilling effect on civil liberties in the form of the Patriot Act and the repressive measures taken by a plethora of government agencies. One must add to this the fallout from the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Will Youmans | Counterpunch | 23 September 2002 A Philadelphia-based pro-Israeli organization with the seemingly innocuous name, the Middle East Forum, began a website to monitor US college campuses for academic pro-Palestinian bias and happenings. Campus- Watch (http://www.campus-watch.org) publishes dossiers on professors, as well as some examples of their writings. It describes itself as
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Geoffrey Alderman | The Guardian | 22 July 2002 The demand by some British academics for a “boycott” of Israel is significant mainly for what it tells us about the prejudices and short-sightedness of the boycotters. As “gesture” politics I admit it has a certain interest, and it will undoubtedly provide material for scholarly
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Caroline Davis | The Times Higher Education Supplement | 19 July 2002 The sacking of two Israeli scholars from the boards of journals as part of an academic boycott highlights the question of whether such actions work and whether they do more harm than good. Caroline Davis reports. The organisers of the 1986 World
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rod Liddle | The Guardian | 17 July 2002 A young British lecturer working at the University of Tel Aviv decided he would like to take a post back home, in the United Kingdom. However, the head of the first university department to which he applied told him, charmingly: “No, we don’t accept any
» Read moreMona Baker interviewed by Morven Beaton-Thome in relation to the second, 2011 edition of In Other Words. Manchester 2010 Part 1 Part 2
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Jonathan Guyer Political cartoons present a daily snapshot of the gut reactions to current political and social issues. With each Egyptian newspaper publishing about five cartoons daily – and some papers up to a dozen – a range of perspectives is conveyed through punchy imagery and text penned in Egyptian colloquial Arabic. Since the 2011 uprising, a new cartoon renaissance
» Read more12 October 2015, Mada Masr By Jonathan Guyer “All comics are political,” wrote Allen Douglas and Fedwa Malti-Douglas in their seminal 1994 study Arab Comic Strips. But whether for children or adults, the forms of political expression in comics are never straightforward. Translated editions of Superman project cultural imperialism as well as the human need for heroes and villains. A comic advertising Stella beer
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