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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 […]
MoreThe Difference Between Rubies and Pomegranates i. Heaven is at the instep of a mother’s foot sharing the few inches with home. The faint fragrance of blood thick when we are near. ii. When they tilted their heads back, their open mouths tasted water in the blue. At 18, they were all like this, a […]
MoreMedina Mosque is mother too, beneath her arch is Zohra, age four, eyes darkened with Kohl, named after a star and existing as one of the ivory columns. Grandfather leans against the pale blue Honda, Lifts me to the sky, Reach! Reach! I am his telephone line to God. (copyright Zohra Saed)
MoreReview of Permanent Transit July 2008: Undisclosed Recipients: database documentaries and the Internet Dale Hudson Amherst College Abstract This article argues that new media disrupt the linear structures conventionally ascribed to documentary, emphasizing spatiality and relationality. On the Internet, ‘database documentaries’ facilitate selection and recombination of ‘documents’ (audio-visual evidence) through user acts, hypertext, algorithms and […]
MoreNew York Theater Review (2008) Full script of the Asian American “Undesirable Elements” that I was a part of can be found in the New York Theater Review. The theater work was part of the first Asian Pacific American Theater Festival (2007). Here is a description of the project: Theatrical innovator’s Ping Chong’s “Undesirable Elements” […]
MoreVoices of Resistance Muslim Women on War, Faith, and Sexuality Edited by Sarah Husain Voices of Resistance is a diverse collection of personal narratives and prose by Muslim women whose experiences and observations are particularly poignant in today’s politically and religiously charged environment. The women collected in this anthology hail from Yemen, Iran, Palestine, Afghanistan, […]
MoreThe Chosen Shore By Ellen Alexander Conley “This is a thoughtful, engaging, and well-written manuscript, replete with often fascinating vignettes, aptly chosen and full of irony and paradox, about the immigrant experience in the United States today as lived and reported by informants who hail from nearly a score of countries from around the world.”–Rubén […]
MoreReview in Al Ahram Weekly Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out Fawzia Afzal-Khan, ed. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch, 2005; 338 pp., $20 (paper) With the proliferation in the aftermath of 9/11 of popular, and sometimes injudicious, volumes on Islam and the Middle East, the present anthology, edited by Fawzia Afzal-Khan, is a welcome addition […]
Moresuture, the healing issue co-editors: Joseph Santarromana and Bruna Mori publisher: Joseph Santarromana writer: Bruna Mori designers: Juliette Trieu and Tony Yue copyright 2004 System Yellow System Yellow, publisher of custom DVDs that showcase video by individual media artists, introduces its first DVDjournal. suture, a compilation of contemporary visual artist and writer work, presents multiple […]
MoreThis Day: Diaries from American Women Ed. Joni B. Cole, Rebecca Joffrey, and B.K. Rakhra “What is a day in the life really like for a CEO, a single mom, a TV celebrity, an inmate?” This was the question that inspired This Day, a book project that invited a cross-section of women to create a […]
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