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    The-Little-Book-of-Kabul

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    The Little Book of Kabul: a project by Francesca Recchia and Lorenzo Tugnoli

    Author: Francesca Recchia and Lorenzo Tugnoli

    With the impending presidential elections and the withdrawal of international forces, 2014 is a foreboding year for Afghanistan. However, there is more to the country than war and violence. There[...]

    Syria-Refugee-Children

    Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives

    A Day in Atmeh: Reflections and Images from Syria

    Author: Maysaloon and Mohamad Ojjeh

    Photo Credit:  © Mohamad Ojjeh, 2013 (Syria) Last December, we visited the Turkish town of Reyhanli, close to the Syrian border, to volunteer at a local Syrian school for refugee[...]

    Jilali-Hamham

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    Entretien avec Jilali Hamham, écrivain de MachiAdam (with English translation)

    Author: Laura Reeck

    (Read the English version below) J’ai rencontré Jilali Hamham à Angers quelques mois après la parution de son premier roman, MachiAdam chez Rivages/Noir. Il m’a fait visiter sa ville, il[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives

    “Woman Walking Heavy/Brown Worlds in her Face”: Global(ized) Identities and Universal Patriotism in the poetry of Suheir Hammad

    Author: Soraya Abuelhiga

    What if we declared ourselves perpetual refugees in solidarity with all refugees needing safe human harbor from violence and domination and injustice and inequality? …We are all refugees horribly displaced[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Feminist critique and Islamic feminism: the question of intersectionality

    Author: Sara Salem

    Introduction “Religion can contribute to a post-patriarchal world.” [1] The silence around feminism and religion is a profound one, and its roots lie in the metanarrative of secularising[2] that influences[...]

    AbuBakr

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    Egypt: Everyone is Right, But Everyone is Wrong

    Author: Abu Bakr Shawky

    “Civil War doesn’t start when countrymen raise their weapons against each other. It starts when they lose their humanity,” commented Egypt’s notorious political satirist Bassem Youssef, following the military dispersal[...]

    AmandaRogers-Featured

    Creative · Culture · Featured

    Picturing Legitimacy: Snapshots from the Arab World (Photo Series by Amanda Rogers)

    Author: Amanda Rogers

    These photographs arose out of a long-standing interest in the modes of authority—religious, economic, political and cultural—in visual culture across the world. This set of images, dated between 2010 and[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    EU Territorial Control, Western Immigration Policies, and the Transformation of North Africa

    Author: Kelsey Norman

    New countries of settlement On August 19th I observed as some three hundred people — migrants, activists and a few officials — gathered outside a morgue in Rabat to mourn[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts

    Le 1er festival de théâtre populaire des travailleurs immigrés de Suresnes : naissance d’une lutte et d’une esthétique postcoloniales

    Author: Jeanne Le Gallic

    L’étude des courants artistiques postcoloniaux dans le champ de la recherche scientifique se caractérise par une lecture relativement tardive des mouvements et de leurs contextes d’émergence. Si les Postcolonial Studies[...]

    Laa No

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    Egypt in Revolution: Painting Series by May Kaddah

    It has been a tumultuous and transformative two years for Egypt.  Since the revolution began in January 2011, the country has witnessed many political events and social upheavals. Facing a[...]

    Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Points de vue arabes sur le postcolonialisme : Pour en finir avec le choc des civilisations

    Author: Ines Horchani

    Dans notre monde multipolaire, il nous faut, pour espérer avoir une vue d’ensemble, multiplier les points de vue et appréhender la notion de « postcolonialisme »  selon des lieux – géographiques, linguistiques[...]

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