Links of interest for the week ending in November 7, 2009. Shourideh Molavi, "Zionist Claims of Solidarity with the Iranian Protesters Are Absurd" Analysis of Zionist Claims of Solidarity with Iran. Marxism and the Orient: A Reading of Marx Good article on Marx's Orientalist racism. The point of this article (to me) is not to discredit or discount Marxism altogether, but to improve it by doing away with the Orientalist notion of the "Asiatic mode of production" and to analyze "the Orient" as subject to the same historical, dialectical processes as in the West. Aren Aizura, "Racism and the Censorship of 'Gay Imperialism'" "Gay Imperialism" uses the work of activist Peter Tatchell, founder of Outrage!, as an example of how white gay activists can become complicit with this agenda by painting Islam as inherently homophobic and misogynist, and appointing themselves as the saviours of non-white queers. The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: That thing called honor: from Hegel to now Thoughtful, well-written review of three books on "honor killing" - the full article is long but worth reading. My only criticism is that the review ( http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n21/jacqueline-rose/a-piece-of-white-silk ) does not really touch on "honor killings" carried out by Western men, which are frequent. Culture & Politics in the Arab World: The Last Iraqi Communist Comes to Heaven Demystifying Hasan in Three Parts | KABOBfest "Unlike the major Arab-American and Muslim organizations, I do not just condemn the killing spree, but I condemn the whole culture and industry of institutionalized violence Fort Hood is but one piece of. Major Hasan was part of that and acted under a similarly deadly logic of the righteousness of self-preservation." WATCH: Protesters breach West Bank separation barrier - Haaretz - Israel News "The weekly demonstrations against the West Bank separation barrier in the towns of Bil'in and Na'alin, which take place every Friday, reached new heights this week when activists, seeking to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall, knocked a part of the barrier over." ei: Book review: Orientalism and Islamophobia in the American left LAU | IWSAW: Al-Raida Issue # 116-117 Winter/Spring 2007 issue of Al-Raida Journal (Lebanese American University, Beirut). Issue exclusively focused on Arab women in diaspora. The Iranian: Arabs in Persian literature Some notes from a doctoral dissertation/book on the representation of Arabs and Islam in Persian literature. 'Salam alekum' Latinoamérica - ELPAÍS.com "Sin embargo, los atentados del 11 de septiembre reinvirtieron el proceso inicial de suicidio cultural. Según Akmir, el ataque contra las Torres Gemelas hizo que "muchos latinoamericanos descubrieran" a los árabes, especialmente en la zona de la triple frontera, entre Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay, donde "se asienta una emigración árabe musulmana reciente". Y de la marginación por motivos étnicos de principios del siglo XX se produce un salto a la marginación actual por motivos religiosos, que ha llevado a mezclar los conceptos de raza y religión y a no distinguir entre lo árabe y lo musulmán. Ha sido precisamente esta nueva forma de discriminación la que ha estimulado el despertar de las nuevas generaciones árabes latinoamericanas, que rechazan la identificación de islam y terrorismo y vuelven a reivindicar su identidad, a interesarse por su cultura y a sentirse orgullosos de la civilización de sus bisabuelos." altmuslimah.com - Book "Islam Needs a Sexual Revolution": Two views of a sexual revolution As if we don't have enough Irshad Manjis in the world already... ei: Book review: How aid hurt Palestine "Excluded from a political role by Israel and the United States, the European Union (EU) -- the largest aid donor -- hoped "that the provision of assistance and funds to the Palestinians would in turn give donors ammunition to influence American unilateral mediation efforts and Israeli policies on the ground" (173). But "courting the Americans and appeasing Israel" (173) did not have the desired effect. Instead, financial aid became a "fig leaf" (13) for the absence of a political process to resolve the underlying causes of conflict; it subsidized Israeli occupation and colonization, and donors knowingly bankrolled a Palestinian regime that was "authoritarian, unaccountable and repressive" (169) -- and completely dependent on subsidies." Saïd Mekki, "The Decolonizing Struggle in France: An Interview with Houria Bouteldja" Edgar Nkosi White, "Trance (Langston Hughes: In Translation)" Tasnim Qutait: Arab Poetry in Transition "Similarly, although less sympathetically, Syrian poet and critic Nouri Jarah points out that many poets rushed into translation are often "transformed from individuals fleeing repression into individuals benefiting from repression." In such a situation, being granted political asylum has more influence on translation than the merit of the poetry. This leads to the slightly ludicrous situation where someone completely unknown to Sudanese audiences, for example, can become Sudan's representative poet. And this poet is then assumed to be the best a certain culture has to offer. Because no one else has been translated."
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