Oppression is not a point of view
Posted by Leil-Zahra on 12/29/14 * In response to a full-page ad running this week in The New York Times funded by Rabbi Shmuley, Stand with Us, and This World (Shmuley’s own); featuring political campaigner Rennick Remely. My name is Leil-Zahra Mortada. I’m an Arab Queer person. And I support justice. If I lived in Gaza or “Israel’s neighboring states”, I would be
» Read moreThe Department of English at the American University of Beirut is seeking to fill a position of assistant professor in translation studies to begin August 15, 2016. Candidates must have a Ph.D. by the time of appointment, in translation studies, comparative literature, or another field of literary study that reflects a clear focus on translation theories and practices. They must
» Read moreOpen Democracy NELLY BASSILY 23 July 2015 Yara Sallam is starting the second year of her sentence in Qanater Women’s prison outside Cairo. She says, “I do not feel any regret or self-defeat, the prison is not inside me.” Yara Sallam is starting her second year of detention in an Egyptian prison. No mother ever wants to see her child in
» Read moreThe American University in Cairo School of Humanities and Social Sciences 31 October 2015 “A Settler-Colonialism of Her Own: Imagining Palestine’s Alternatives” Lila Abu-Lughod Professor of Anthropology, Women’s and Gender Studies, Columbia University Saturday, October 31, 2015 • 6 pm Oriental Hall AUC Tahrir Square For more information Department of English and Comparative Literature eclinfo@aucegypt.edu • tel 20.2.2615.1628
» Read moreSecond International Conference on Translation Studies ICTS 21-22 June 2016, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand Research in translation studies in Asia has long been fruitful in partnership with the discipline of linguistics and its sub-disciplines such as applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, text linguistics, corpus linguistics, etc. Moreover, the interdisciplinary research has currently been enriched even more
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubmann, Haaretz Correspondent | Haaretz | 11 August 2007 The High Court of Justice on Tuesday rejected a petition by a group of Palestinian students from Gaza against Israel’s policy of barring students from the Gaza Strip from studying in the West Bank, even when there is no evidence that they pose a
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rebecca Spence | Forward (Jewish Daily) | 1 June 2007 Britain’s largest teachers union voted this week to press forward with a proposal to boycott Israeli academic institutions, setting the stage for a bitter struggle to reverse the decision. The University and College Union, representing more than 120,000 college-level educators, voted May 30 to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ANNIE SHUPPY | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 26 September 2006 The U.S. State Department has again denied a visa to Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss Muslim scholar who gave up a teaching appointment at the University of Notre Dame two years ago after he was first barred from residing and working in the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dan Glaister | The Guardian | 19 January 2006 It is the sort of invitation any poverty-stricken student would find hard to resist. “Do you have a professor who just can’t stop talking about President Bush, about the war in Iraq, about the Republican party, or any other ideological issue that has nothing to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alexander Joffe & Asaf Romirowsky | The Jerusalem Post | 19 October 2005 The problem of scholars injecting politics into their classroom and published works is an old one. But a powerful new article by Ofira Seliktar demonstrates that Israeli scholars – historians, political scientists, and others – have gone far beyond protesting against
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