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    Aref, Tunis (2014), courtesy of the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Scarlett Coten, Mectoub: In the Shadow of the Arab Spring

    Author: Negarra A. Kudumu

    The negotiation of identity looms large at the nexus of the colonial past and the postcolonial reality, and it is an important exercise for nations and citizens seeking separation and[...]

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Dispatches from Lahore: The Importance of Politicized Ancestral Narratives

    Author: Sania N. Sufi

    Che Guevara once said that revolutions are driven by a deep sense of love.[1] I smile at these words, for I have witnessed such love of humanity in the pedagogical[...]

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Culture · Featured

    Colonialité du pouvoir, postcolonialité du rap : l’émergence et la répression d’un rap français structuré autour de la critique postcoloniale dans les années 2000

    Author: Keivan Djavadzadeh

    Cet article se propose d’interroger le tournant postcolonial opéré par le rap français dans les années 2000 en s’intéressant à la fois à l’émergence d’une critique postcoloniale dans cette musique[...]

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Braving Oceans: Migration and Subjective “Illegality” from the Pilgrim Fathers to Boat Migrants

    Author: Fodei Batty

    One of the greatest lies in the modern history of human migration is famously etched at the feet of Lady Liberty herself. The inscription boldly proclaims only a partial reality:[...]

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    Call for Papers, Spring/Summer 2015: “Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom”

    Author: The Editors

    The Spring/Summer 2015 issue of The Postcolonialist invites submissions that explore, analyze, challenge, and re-stage the complex power dynamics involved in determining “free speech,” “freedom of information,” and “radical speech,”[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Defending Charlie Hebdo? Secularism, Islam and the War on Error

    Author: Paul Giffard-Foret

    Photo Credit What postcolonial response can be made of the terrorist attacks on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which led to the brutal massacre of most its editorial board? On[...]

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    Culture · Featured · Magazine

    What does French National Unity Look Like? Personal Reflections on Charlie Hebdo

    Author: Laura Reeck

    On sabbatical in France, two days before the attacks in Paris I delved back into an essay in progress on immigrant and ethnic minority writing.  Writing it has required solving[...]

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    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Letter from the Editors: “Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis”

    Author: The Editors

    The year 2014 marked twenty-five years since Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality” to describe how social realities such as “class” or “race” should not be analyzed in isolation, but[...]

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Culture · Featured

    Intersectionnalité et féminismes arabes avec Kimberlé Crenshaw

    Author: Ines Horchani

    Dans « Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex : A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics[1]» (1989), Kimberlé Crenshaw explique pourquoi le féminisme afro-américain[...]

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Arts · Culture · Featured

    Mythology, Taboo and Cultural Identity in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul

    Author: Alissa Simon

    The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak, discusses the complexities presented by political upheaval and cultural stereotype. Shafak portrays two families, one Armenian and one Turkish, who share strong cultural[...]

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Creative · Featured

    Homes of Loss (spoken-word poetry by Maheen Hyder)

    Author: Maheen Hyder

      You are a body that needed a home / now you are ruins and home is wound Why I left when I did and could not say goodbye: The[...]

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    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives

    The Strategic Success of ISIS Propaganda (video lecture)

    Author: Amanda Rogers

    Dr. Amanda Rogers, a member of our editorial board, recently delivered a lecture titled “The Strategic Success of ISIS Propaganda” at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, where she is currently an[...]

    Hmland

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Framing Muslim Women: The Problem with Homeland’s Season 4 Campaign

    Author: Mariam Karim

    Image Credit: Wikipedia On my last trip to NYC, I was overwhelmed with Homeland season four’s new advertisement campaign plastered on almost every public bus in the city. The American[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Creative · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Refugees, Language, Family, and Cooking: Sermon Excerpt by Ashley Makar

    Author: Ashley Makar

    Everyday at IRIS, the refugee resettlement agency where I work, I can see the shape of justice in a photo that was taken by a volunteer who chartered a bus[...]

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    Call for Papers: “Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis” (Fall 2014)

    Author: Editors

      The past decade has seen a wave of socio-political and economic changes across the globe. We are witnessing geopolitical conflict on a local as well as international scale, intensified[...]

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    Creative

    Accidents Waiting to Happen (fiction)

    Author: Lina Sergie Attar

    I want to I want to be someone else or I’ll explode floating upon the surface for the birds                      [...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Mapping the Image of the Jew in Postmodern Arabic Fiction

    Author: Seddik Gohar

    “We aforetime grant to the children of Israel the Book (Torah)  the power of command,  and prophet-hood,  We gave them for sustenance, things good and pure, and we favored them[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives

    False Ideas About ‘Activism’ in Egypt and the Case of Egypt’s Copts: Outside the State and Within the Economy of Power

    Author: Karim Malak

    ‘Activism’[1] and the ‘human rights agenda’ as espoused by international and local organizations have created several norms about ‘advocacy’ and the ‘universality’ of ‘religious freedom’ in Egypt. Yet these concepts[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Arts

    Ibn Fadlan: Crossing Over and the Nature of the Boundary

    Author: Joy Hayward-Jansen

    “I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    The Wall (Egypt 2014)

    Author: Abu Bakr Shawky

    There is an old saying in Egypt: “Keep walking next to the wall.” If you want to stay away from problems, walk next to the wall. If you don’t want to[...]

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    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Cineasti afrodiscendenti in Italia: Un doppio campo di battaglia

    Author: Leonardo De Franceschi

    Il dibattito pubblico sui temi dell’immigrazione e dei diritti di cittadinanza ha catalizzato in Italia per mesi l’attenzione dei media. Diverse le ragioni: anzitutto, la campagna di odio scatenata dall’estrema[...]

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    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Haram: Staging Love & Revolution in Los Angeles

    Author: Ahmed Younis

    Article Photo Credits: Samira Idroos The Play There are moments in history when a single word can represent an existential struggle between self-perceived opposites. Haram is such a word in[...]

    Public-Humanities

    Arts · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    The Public Humanities and Academe: A Letter from the Editor of The Postcolonialist

    Author: Editor-in-Chief, Lara Dotson-Renta

    It is no longer possible to ignore the need for public and accessible avenues of discourse and debate. As the university model becomes further aligned with a corporate vision of[...]

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    Seeing Syria: Kinda Hibrawi’s Twitter Portraits

    Author: The Editors

    Photos Copyright: Kinda Hibrawi This piece is part of a continuing series in which The Postcolonialist seeks to highlight and engage issues of refugee status, conflict, and asylum. As the[...]

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    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Mockingjay Delusions: The Hunger Games and the Postcolonial Revolution to Come

    Author: Jamil Khader, Ph.D.

    An earlier, abbreviated version of this piece appeared previously on Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/12/when-revolution-comes-israel-2013121112851708923.html The Hunger Games franchise has been hailed for spreading a new hopeful message of revolution to millennials[...]

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