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• Book Review: "Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject"

  "...Mahmood sets up an antinomy of her own that erases a broad range of complex historical struggles and alliances. She obliges the reader to choose between a western liberal feminism that has always been more or less associated with imperial interventions, and a recent Islamic piety movement that, according to Mahmood herself, is uninterested in challenging, indeed supports, patriarchal forms of oppression. But are these really the only positions available to progressive leftists, as she implies?"

  tags: book review books egypt islam feminism

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<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/235/book-review_politics-of-piety_the-islamic-revival-and-the-feminist-subject">Book Review: "Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject"</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">"...Mahmood sets up an antinomy of her own that erases a broad range of complex historical struggles and alliances. She obliges the reader to choose between a western liberal feminism that has always been more or less associated with imperial interventions, and a recent Islamic piety movement that, according to Mahmood herself, is uninterested in challenging, indeed supports, patriarchal forms of oppression. But are these really the only positions available to progressive leftists, as she implies?"</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/book review">book review</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/books">books</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/egypt">egypt</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/islam">islam</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/feminism">feminism</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">here</a>.</p>

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• Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts Reproduce Empire | Left Turn - Notes from the Global Intifada

  "Knowledge production, in other words, is never disinterested. It opens particular options while foreclosing others. In Pakistan’s case, journalists and analysts regularly elide the links among US foreign policy, the policies of successive Pakistani governments to use religion for political ends, and the hold of the Pakistani Army over the country. This offers only the most unsophisticated of explanations for the country’s ills—and pitiless, vulgar solutions."

  tags: pakistan media imperialism

• Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after informant infiltrates mosque

  The latest in this bizarre saga of the FBI spying on Muslims in Southern California and elsewhere in the US.

  tags: islamophobia

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<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.leftturn.org/Covering-Pakistan">Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts Reproduce Empire | Left Turn - Notes from the Global Intifada</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">"Knowledge production, in other words, is never disinterested. It opens particular options while foreclosing others. In Pakistan’s case, journalists and analysts regularly elide the links among US foreign policy, the policies of successive Pakistani governments to use religion for political ends, and the hold of the Pakistani Army over the country. This offers only the most unsophisticated of explanations for the country’s ills—and pitiless, vulgar solutions."</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/pakistan">pakistan</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/media">media</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/imperialism">imperialism</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/04/AR2010120403710.html?sid=ST2010120404317">Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after informant infiltrates mosque</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">The latest in this bizarre saga of the FBI spying on Muslims in Southern California and elsewhere in the US.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/islamophobia">islamophobia</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">here</a>.</p>

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• Bombings Hit Atomic Experts in Iran Streets - NYTimes.com

  Latest US/Israeli aggression against Iran: assassinating scientists. Imagine the outcry if Iran sent assassins to murder American nuclear scientists. This is terrorism, pure and simple.

  tags: iran imperialism

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<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/world/middleeast/30tehran.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a2">Bombings Hit Atomic Experts in Iran Streets - NYTimes.com</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Latest US/Israeli aggression against Iran: assassinating scientists. Imagine the outcry if Iran sent assassins to murder American nuclear scientists. This is terrorism, pure and simple.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/iran">iran</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/imperialism">imperialism</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">here</a>.</p>

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• Afghan Women Continue to Suffer Despite the West | CommonDreams.org

  Those who claim to be concerned about the plight of Afghan women should listen to what those women are saying: US and NATO out now, end the occupation.

  tags: afghanistan women imperialism

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. <ul class='diigo-linkroll'> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/13-1" rel="nofollow">Afghan Women Continue to Suffer Despite the West | CommonDreams.org</a> <p class='diigo-description'>Those who claim to be concerned about the plight of Afghan women should listen to what those women are saying: US and NATO out now, end the occupation.</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/afghanistan">afghanistan</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/women">women</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/imperialism">imperialism</a></p> </p> </li> </ul><br />Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">favorite links</a> are here.

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• ei: Speaking out on Kashmir and Palestine in the US

  Important reading on the connections between occupied Kashmir and occupied Palestine, and the threats to those who speak out about either or both.

  tags: kashmir india palestine zionism hindutva south asia

• The Thirsty Fish - 5th Development Plan in Iran Further Privatizes Health and Education Sectors

  More evidence pointing to the disconnect between the Iranian state's anti-imperialist rhetoric (see here in which Ahmadinejad fraudulently claims to be "anti-capitalist": http://www.payvand.com/news/10/oct/1105.html) and its practice. It should be pointed out that president Ahmadinejad and opposition leader Mousavi are in complete agreement about pursuing a neoliberal economic agenda for Iran - they are both charlatans.

  tags: iran economics neoliberalism

• What in the fuck has Obama done so far?

  Site detailing Obama's exploits, from renewing and expanding the PATRIOT Act without reform, to refusing to sign a treaty banning the use of landmines, to ...

  tags: obama

• Sanctions widen gap between Iranian poor and rich | Reuters

  "While ordinary Iranians struggle to survive international sanctions and deepening economic uncertainty, the gap has widened between the disadvantaged and those who can afford to travel to Paris for a haircut."

  tags: iran sanctions imperialism economics

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. <ul class='diigo-linkroll'> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11615.shtml" rel="nofollow">ei: Speaking out on Kashmir and Palestine in the US</a> <p class='diigo-description'>Important reading on the connections between occupied Kashmir and occupied Palestine, and the threats to those who speak out about either or both.</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/kashmir">kashmir</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/india">india</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/palestine">palestine</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/zionism">zionism</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/hindutva">hindutva</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/south asia">south asia</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.kevanharris.com/post/1544977054/5th-development-plan-in-iran-further-privatizes-health" rel="nofollow">The Thirsty Fish - 5th Development Plan in Iran Further Privatizes Health and Education Sectors</a> <p class='diigo-description'>More evidence pointing to the disconnect between the Iranian state's anti-imperialist rhetoric (see here in which Ahmadinejad fraudulently claims to be "anti-capitalist": http://www.payvand.com/news/10/oct/1105.html) and its practice. It should be pointed out that president Ahmadinejad and opposition leader Mousavi are in complete agreement about pursuing a neoliberal economic agenda for Iran - they are both charlatans.</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/iran">iran</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/economics">economics</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/neoliberalism">neoliberalism</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://whatinthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com" rel="nofollow">What in the fuck has Obama done so far?</a> <p class='diigo-description'>Site detailing Obama's exploits, from renewing and expanding the PATRIOT Act without reform, to refusing to sign a treaty banning the use of landmines, to ...</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/obama">obama</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSHAF44441420101027?pageNumber=1" rel="nofollow">Sanctions widen gap between Iranian poor and rich | Reuters</a> <p class='diigo-description'>"While ordinary Iranians struggle to survive international sanctions and deepening economic uncertainty, the gap has widened between the disadvantaged and those who can afford to travel to Paris for a haircut."</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/iran">iran</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/sanctions">sanctions</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/imperialism">imperialism</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/economics">economics</a></p> </p> </li> </ul><br />Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">favorite links</a> are here.

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• Capital: a new Persian translation

  A new and very complete Persian translation of Karl Marx's "Capital", available online in a well-organized form. The very insightful translator's preface is worth reading to those interested; it's also available in English translation: http://iranianvoicesintranslation.blogspot.com/2009/07/translators-preface-to-new-persian.html

  tags: socialism translation persian

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. <ul class='diigo-linkroll'> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://kapitalfarsi.com" rel="nofollow">Capital: a new Persian translation</a> <p class='diigo-description'>A new and very complete Persian translation of Karl Marx's "Capital", available online in a well-organized form. The very insightful translator's preface is worth reading to those interested; it's also available in English translation: http://iranianvoicesintranslation.blogspot.com/2009/07/translators-preface-to-new-persian.html</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/socialism">socialism</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/translation">translation</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/persian">persian</a></p> </p> </li> </ul><br />Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">favorite links</a> are here.

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• The Veritas Handbook Home Page

  "The Veritas Handbook has one goal: to expose the truth and to educate the masses by educating ourselves. We are devoted to ensuring the elimination of oppression and the establishment of justice for peoples of the world in their common struggle against racism, marginalization, colonialism, and ethnic cleansing.
  
  The Veritas Handbook is an extensive handbook containing vital information and resources for anyone and everyone interested in the plight of Palestinians for justice and equality and is being distributed online, free of charge."
  
  This is a fantastic resource for anyone involved (or even just interested) in Palestine solidarity organizing. Download and share it now!

  tags: palestine activism

• YouTube - Students Protest IDF Soldiers Campus Visit - OFFICIAL

  We should always be seeking out new tactics in the struggle, like this one. I'm not sure it would be as effective on other campuses (UMich has one of the highest percentages of Arab and Muslim students in the US, so the couple of Zionists in the audience were vastly outnumbered) but I still think it's reproducable elsewhere.

  tags: palestine activism

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. <ul class='diigo-linkroll'> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.veritashandbook.org" rel="nofollow">The Veritas Handbook Home Page</a> <p class='diigo-description'>"The Veritas Handbook has one goal: to expose the truth and to educate the masses by educating ourselves. We are devoted to ensuring the elimination of oppression and the establishment of justice for peoples of the world in their common struggle against racism, marginalization, colonialism, and ethnic cleansing.<br /><br />The Veritas Handbook is an extensive handbook containing vital information and resources for anyone and everyone interested in the plight of Palestinians for justice and equality and is being distributed online, free of charge."<br /><br />This is a fantastic resource for anyone involved (or even just interested) in Palestine solidarity organizing. Download and share it now!</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/palestine">palestine</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/activism">activism</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPDkq2JHfA0" rel="nofollow">YouTube - Students Protest IDF Soldiers Campus Visit - OFFICIAL</a> <p class='diigo-description'>We should always be seeking out new tactics in the struggle, like this one. I'm not sure it would be as effective on other campuses (UMich has one of the highest percentages of Arab and Muslim students in the US, so the couple of Zionists in the audience were vastly outnumbered) but I still think it's reproducable elsewhere.</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/palestine">palestine</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/activism">activism</a></p> </p> </li> </ul><br />Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">favorite links</a> are here.

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• Ahmadinejad deserves fair reporting | Matthew Cassel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

  "The complicity of western media with their governments could not have been more clear this past week, when the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, came to Lebanon."

  tags: ahmadinejad iran lebanon media

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. <ul class='diigo-linkroll'> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/18/hezbollah-ahmadinejad-western-media" rel="nofollow">Ahmadinejad deserves fair reporting | Matthew Cassel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk</a> <p class='diigo-description'>"The complicity of western media with their governments could not have been more clear this past week, when the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, came to Lebanon."</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/ahmadinejad">ahmadinejad</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/iran">iran</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/lebanon">lebanon</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/media">media</a></p> </p> </li> </ul><br />Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">favorite links</a> are here.

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• Obama administration blasts state's pot measure

  Rather than decriminalize marijuana, the Obama administration wants to continue to use it as a pretext to lock up primarily black and brown youth. What better example than this of President Uncle Tom serving rich white interests?

  tags: obama

• Johann Hari: Obama's robot wars endanger us all - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent

  State Department adviser: 98 PERCENT of victims of US drone attacks in Pakistan are innocent civilians. Faisal Shahzad (attempted Time Square bomber) said he was acting in direct retaliation for the drone attacks. There is no logic to the murderous drone campaign-- not even an imperial logic, let alone a humanitarian one.

  tags: imperialism pakistan

• How White Is Your Neighborhood?

  "Photographer Eric Fischer's color-coded maps of racial segregation are captivating, particularly once you find your own neighborhood. "

  tags: race

• The Associated Press: Administration lifts 6-month oil drilling freeze

  The BP spill was the biggest in history, maybe the next one will be even bigger and worse. Thanks Obama.

  tags: obama environment

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. <ul class='diigo-linkroll'> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F10%2F15%2FMNJS1FTFKC.DTL" rel="nofollow">Obama administration blasts state's pot measure</a> <p class='diigo-description'>Rather than decriminalize marijuana, the Obama administration wants to continue to use it as a pretext to lock up primarily black and brown youth. What better example than this of President Uncle Tom serving rich white interests?</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/obama">obama</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann--hari-obamas-robot-wars-endanger-us-all-2106931.html" rel="nofollow">Johann Hari: Obama's robot wars endanger us all - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent</a> <p class='diigo-description'>State Department adviser: 98 PERCENT of victims of US drone attacks in Pakistan are innocent civilians. Faisal Shahzad (attempted Time Square bomber) said he was acting in direct retaliation for the drone attacks. There is no logic to the murderous drone campaign-- not even an imperial logic, let alone a humanitarian one.</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/imperialism">imperialism</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/pakistan">pakistan</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://gawker.com/5643051" rel="nofollow">How White Is Your Neighborhood?</a> <p class='diigo-description'>"Photographer Eric Fischer's color-coded maps of racial segregation are captivating, particularly once you find your own neighborhood. "</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/race">race</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gjxiYwY4Gdm1yy6zej6obQ9D8s0AD9IQAD2G1?docId=D9IQAD2G1" rel="nofollow">The Associated Press: Administration lifts 6-month oil drilling freeze</a> <p class='diigo-description'>The BP spill was the biggest in history, maybe the next one will be even bigger and worse. Thanks Obama.</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/obama">obama</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/environment">environment</a></p> </p> </li> </ul><br />Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">favorite links</a> are here.

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• The Life of Frantz Fanon « P U L S E

  Documentary on the life of the great anti-colonial thinker, Frantz Fanon.

  tags: african diaspora colonialism race

• After two tragic deaths of promising N.J. students, two very different public responses | NJ.com

  "Why? Is it a matter of race, or class? Moore was an African-American from the rural south, shot and killed at a party in East Orange, where many poor blacks live. Clementi was white, raised in Ridgewood, one of the state’s wealthiest suburbs.
  
  “We have become tragically accustomed to the idea of African-Americans killing each other,” says James Harris, a dean at Montclair State University and head of New Jersey’s NAACP.
  
  Or, perhaps, were there elements of the stories themselves that led one to become grist for talk shows in a dozen languages throughout the planet, while the other grabbed headlines for a few days and then receded quickly into the back pages of memory?"

  tags: race violence lgbt queer homophobia classism

• The pitfalls of porn - RIZ KHAN - Al Jazeera English

  "On Wednesday's Riz Khan we look at the growth in power and reach of the porno industry and the impact it is having on society. Riz is joined by sociologist and author Gail Dines whose latest book is Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality."

  tags: sexism women pornography violence sexuality

• The true history of the Koran in America - The Boston Globe

  "There was another important group of Americans who read the Koran, not as a legal sourcebook, or a work of exoticism, but as something very different — a reminder of home. While evidence is fragmentary, as many as 20 percent of African-American slaves may have come from Islamic backgrounds. They kept their knowledge of the Koran alive through memory, or chanted suras, or, in rare cases, smuggled copies of the book itself. In the 1930s, when WPA workers were interviewing elderly African-Americans in Georgia’s Sea Islands, they were told of an ancestor named Bilali who spoke Arabic and owned a copy of the Koran — a remarkable fact when we remember that it was a crime for slaves to read. In the War of 1812, Bilali and his fellow Muslims helped to defend America from a British attack, inverting nearly all of our stereotypes in the process."

  tags: islam america islamophobia black america qur'an race orientalism

• Arab Shorts - Independent Arab Film - Goethe-Institut

  Great collection of independent films from the Arab world.

  tags: cinema arabs art

• Joseph Massad at AUC: Translating Islam | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt

  "According to Massad, “any attempt to understand the current situation must start by examining the history of present uses of Islam, and how it has come to be ahistoricized. The term has become a repository of meanings. Without such history, we may fall into the traps set by the ongoing war of worlds, or war of words, about who gets to control what Islam means and what Islam should mean.”"

  tags: islam colonialism orientalism translation islamism imperialism arabic arabs

• Anis Shivani: What Is Distinctive About Arab-American Writing Today? Ten Leading Arab-American Writers Speak to the Huffington Post (PHOTOS)

  "Our past achievements were sometimes marred by self-exoticization: a focus on food ("Look, grape leaves! Baklava! Don't hate us--you love our food!") and the Arabian Nights ("Don't pay attention to these bearded weirdos--check out this hot chick in our past who told stories and saved 1,001 virgins! Including herself! She rocks!"). I'm hoping we'll continue our path away from these themes; away from convincing people that we're "universal"--last I checked, Arab-Americans are human beings and don't need to prove this fact to anyone." - Randa Jarrar

  tags: arab america literature

• Feminist Intersection: Indigenous Feminisms and Resources - Without Apology and More | Bitch Magazine

  "So why am I not apologizing for being a Native feminist? Because I get serious flack for it - from all sides. On the one hand I'm not Native enough if I call myself a feminist. On the other hand I'm not feminist enough since I'm pointing out there's a mainstream movement I really don't like.
  
  However I know that I'm speaking the language of the colonizer; English. So no matter what I say it's not going to do my identity and my politics justice. I translate "feminism" to mean what my people have believed in since time immemorial - balance. So if it takes y'all a few extra words to give me my right to self-determination of what I want to be called - DEAL WITH IT. "

  tags: feminism indigenous colonialism activism

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. <ul class='diigo-linkroll'> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://pulsemedia.org/2010/09/04/the-life-of-frantz-fanon" rel="nofollow">The Life of Frantz Fanon « P U L S E</a> <p class='diigo-description'>Documentary on the life of the great anti-colonial thinker, Frantz Fanon.</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/african diaspora">african diaspora</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/colonialism">colonialism</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/race">race</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://blog.nj.com/njv_bob_braun/2010/10/race_a_factor_in_drama_caused.html" rel="nofollow">After two tragic deaths of promising N.J. students, two very different public responses | NJ.com</a> <p class='diigo-description'>"Why? Is it a matter of race, or class? Moore was an African-American from the rural south, shot and killed at a party in East Orange, where many poor blacks live. Clementi was white, raised in Ridgewood, one of the state’s wealthiest suburbs.<br /><br />“We have become tragically accustomed to the idea of African-Americans killing each other,” says James Harris, a dean at Montclair State University and head of New Jersey’s NAACP.<br /><br />Or, perhaps, were there elements of the stories themselves that led one to become grist for talk shows in a dozen languages throughout the planet, while the other grabbed headlines for a few days and then receded quickly into the back pages of memory?"</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/race">race</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/violence">violence</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/lgbt">lgbt</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/queer">queer</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/homophobia">homophobia</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/classism">classism</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2010/09/2010915633660183.html" rel="nofollow">The pitfalls of porn - RIZ KHAN - Al Jazeera English</a> <p class='diigo-description'>"On Wednesday's Riz Khan we look at the growth in power and reach of the porno industry and the impact it is having on society. Riz is joined by sociologist and author Gail Dines whose latest book is Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality."</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/sexism">sexism</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/women">women</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/pornography">pornography</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/violence">violence</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/sexuality">sexuality</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/09/12/the_true_history_of_the_koran_in_america?mode=PF" rel="nofollow">The true history of the Koran in America - The Boston Globe</a> <p class='diigo-description'>"There was another important group of Americans who read the Koran, not as a legal sourcebook, or a work of exoticism, but as something very different — a reminder of home. While evidence is fragmentary, as many as 20 percent of African-American slaves may have come from Islamic backgrounds. They kept their knowledge of the Koran alive through memory, or chanted suras, or, in rare cases, smuggled copies of the book itself. In the 1930s, when WPA workers were interviewing elderly African-Americans in Georgia’s Sea Islands, they were told of an ancestor named Bilali who spoke Arabic and owned a copy of the Koran — a remarkable fact when we remember that it was a crime for slaves to read. In the War of 1812, Bilali and his fellow Muslims helped to defend America from a British attack, inverting nearly all of our stereotypes in the process."</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/islam">islam</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/america">america</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/islamophobia">islamophobia</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/black america">black america</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/qur">qur'an</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/race">race</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/orientalism">orientalism</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.goethe.de/ins/eg/prj/abs/enindex.htm" rel="nofollow">Arab Shorts - Independent Arab Film - Goethe-Institut</a> <p class='diigo-description'>Great collection of independent films from the Arab world.</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/cinema">cinema</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/arabs">arabs</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/art">art</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/joseph-massad-auc-translating-islam" rel="nofollow">Joseph Massad at AUC: Translating Islam | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt</a> <p class='diigo-description'>"According to Massad, “any attempt to understand the current situation must start by examining the history of present uses of Islam, and how it has come to be ahistoricized. The term has become a repository of meanings. Without such history, we may fall into the traps set by the ongoing war of worlds, or war of words, about who gets to control what Islam means and what Islam should mean.”"</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/islam">islam</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/colonialism">colonialism</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/orientalism">orientalism</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/translation">translation</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/islamism">islamism</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/imperialism">imperialism</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/arabic">arabic</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/arabs">arabs</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/arab-american-writing_b_741205.html" rel="nofollow">Anis Shivani: What Is Distinctive About Arab-American Writing Today? Ten Leading Arab-American Writers Speak to the Huffington Post (PHOTOS)</a> <p class='diigo-description'>"Our past achievements were sometimes marred by self-exoticization: a focus on food ("Look, grape leaves! Baklava! Don't hate us--you love our food!") and the Arabian Nights ("Don't pay attention to these bearded weirdos--check out this hot chick in our past who told stories and saved 1,001 virgins! Including herself! She rocks!"). I'm hoping we'll continue our path away from these themes; away from convincing people that we're "universal"--last I checked, Arab-Americans are human beings and don't need to prove this fact to anyone." - Randa Jarrar</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/arab america">arab america</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/literature">literature</a></p> </p> </li> <li> <p class='diigo-link'> <a href="http://bitchmagazine.org/post/indigenous-feminism-and-resources-without-apology-and-more" rel="nofollow">Feminist Intersection: Indigenous Feminisms and Resources - Without Apology and More | Bitch Magazine</a> <p class='diigo-description'>"So why am I not apologizing for being a Native feminist? Because I get serious flack for it - from all sides. On the one hand I'm not Native enough if I call myself a feminist. On the other hand I'm not feminist enough since I'm pointing out there's a mainstream movement I really don't like.<br /><br />However I know that I'm speaking the language of the colonizer; English. So no matter what I say it's not going to do my identity and my politics justice. I translate "feminism" to mean what my people have believed in since time immemorial - balance. So if it takes y'all a few extra words to give me my right to self-determination of what I want to be called - DEAL WITH IT. "</p> <p class='diigo-tags'> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/cloud/brownfolks" style="color:#000 !important;text-decoration:none !important;">tags</a>: <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/feminism">feminism</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/indigenous">indigenous</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/colonialism">colonialism</a> <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks/activism">activism</a></p> </p> </li> </ul><br />Posted from <a href="http://www.diigo.com">Diigo</a>. The rest of my <a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/brownfolks">favorite links</a> are here.