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Eid Mubarak! Hayit Muborak! Akhtar Di Mubaarak Sha!
Spent the day immersed in the loveliness that is Eid and NYC smiled at each sugary sweet step of the day! Here is a rare clip from a fabulous (as you can see in the moustaches of the wedding attendees) vintage 1976 Afghan film: The Statues Laugh (Mujasemeha Mekhandad) by Toryali Shafaq. It features the […]
More12/10 @ 7:00pm – Zero Film Festival Admission: $10
Conflict Nations Program: Afghanistan Zero Film Fest December 10, 2009 7 p.m. Issue Project Room 232 3rd Street Brooklyn, New York 11215 ArteEast is pleased to co-sponsor the Conflict Nations Program: Afghanistan at the Zero Film Fest. In a time when the majority of festivals are Hollywood marketing campaigns, and even “indie” and “underground” festivals […]
MoreGallerie Journal Issue #23: Understanding Afghanistan NYC Launch at AAARI April 9th
UNDERSTANDING AFGHANISTAN International Gallerie’s 23rd Issue: Vol. 11 No 2 Come join us for an evening of “Understanding Afghanistan” Date: April 9th Time: 6-8pm Hosted by AAARI (Asian/Asian American Research Institute) CUNY Co-Sponsored with The Association of Iranian American Writers 25 West 43rd Street 18th Floor New York, NY 10036 Phone: 212-869-0182 Fax: 212-869-0181 E-mail: […]
MoreThe Halalitization of Asian American Studies? AAARI Lecture Feb. 27, 2009
The Halalitization of Asian American Studies? by Zohra Saed What does it mean to be a hyphenated Muslim in a post-9/11 world? How do Muslim artists, writers and filmmakers address these issues of identity, exile, and assimilation in homes they have made in America? What was earlier Muslim Diaspora cultural production dealing with before 9/11 […]
MoreSalt of this Sea (2008) Directed by Annermarie Jacir
Up Set Press, which I co-founded with fellow poet Robert Booras in 2000, will be republishing Born Black, Born Palestinian, Suheir Hammad’s first book of poetry. I met Suheir when this collection was about to be released. Needless to say, after so many years of being inspired by her words, of learning from and teaching […]
MoreInterstitial Spaces
To be interstitial, therefore, is to operate both within and astride the cracks and fissures of the system, benefiting from its contradictions, anomalies, and heterogeneity. It also means being located at the intersection of the local and the global, mediating between the two contrary categories which in syllogism are called subalternity and superalternity. Hamid Naficy: […]
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