Oppression is not a point of view
Posted by Leil-Zahra on 11/12/13 • Categorized as English I was a bit disappointed when I read Žižek´s article on Syria. It is true that the people in Syria have no excuse for not making a revolution, but compassion is a virtue. Maybe if “comrade” Žižek could´ve taken the time to scribble them a manual of “Revolution 101″ they could´ve been brought to their senses.
» Read morePosted 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 moreNPIT3 Call for Papers Probably the most widespread form of cultural and linguistic mediation, non-professional interpreting and translation has slowly begun to receive the recognition it deserves within interpreting and translation studies. Pushing the boundaries of many definitions of translation and interpreting, it encompasses a dynamic, under-researched field that is not necessarily subject to the norms and expectations that guide
» Read morePublished on May 21, 2013 Reviving calligraphy and shaping the future of script through her students, Bahia Shehab, Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of the Arts, works on the first ever encyclopedia of the Arabic script.
» Read moreBY Nama Khalil 2 September 2014, Design and Violence From the curators: Using sexual violence to intimidate, crack down on dissent, or brutalize opposition is nothing new. Neither is graffiti—illicit drawings are older than Pompeii. However, such designs have taken on new life of late, paralleling an increased public and political focus on female sexuality. During the wave of disparate yet
» Read more24 March 2014, Louisiana Channel “Graffiti is like flowers. They are beautiful, but they don’t live long.” An interview with Lebanese-Egyptian street-artist Bahia Shehab about the role of art during the Arab spring: “You cannot resist ideas. They can travel into any mind.” “I am a quiet person, I don’t know how to scream”, says Bahia Shehab. “My contribution
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