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Something Else A’Comin’ . . .

J. Kameron Carter
May 31, 2019January 25, 2024

What might the future-now mean, where both “the now” and “the future” are unmoored from liberal humanist progressive narratives or temporalities (of death), unhooked from time schemes that presume the settler, or the sovereign, individuated subject?

From “Shooting and Crying” to “Shooting and Singing”: Notes on the 2019 Eurovision in Israel.

Gil Hochberg
May 17, 2019May 17, 2019

The days of shooting and crying are over. Shooting continues, but crying has stopped. It has been replaced with laughter: hysterical, cynical, crude, perhaps even desperate laughter.

Beyond Aztlán: Latina/o/x Students Let Go of Their Mythic Homeland

Jacqueline Hidalgo
April 11, 2019January 27, 2024

Names are always ambivalent, contingent, and contested, and utopias are always unfinished works-in-progress.

Freedom of Speech? Palestine as an Exception

Gil Hochberg
January 26, 2019February 20, 2019

Can a Jew speak about Palestine not as a Jew, but in the name of solidarity? Can the question of Palestine ever become more than essentially a Jewish question?

Border-Crossers: Interrogating Boundaries through Bodies

Series: Ansari Conference 2018

Lailatul Fitriyah
January 16, 2019August 23, 2019

What we can infer from this panel is that the political, racial, and religious markers which compose borders are also etched and negotiated on the bodies of the marginalized others as ‘border-crossers.’

Modernity, Women, and War: Struggles for Peace and Democracy in the Middle East

Series: Decolonizing Narratives

Nisa Goksel
May 25, 2018October 4, 2018

While the discourse of spreading democracy to the Middle East goes hand in hand with “saving” women victims of Islamic fundamentalism, current wars create a destabilizing terrain for existing modern gender discourses.

Modernity as Theater of the Absurd

Series: Jerusalem

Atalia Omer
May 18, 2018February 1, 2024

The embassy ceremony in Jerusalem embodied the merging of the cynical, ideological, and eschatological as well as Islamophobia (orientalism), Zionism, and antisemitism.

This City that Isn’t One: Fragments on a Fragmented City

Series: Jerusalem

Gil Hochberg
December 20, 2017October 4, 2018

The city that speaks its fragmentation and divide so clearly and loudly cannot be forced into coherence because “cities” do not cohere. Only people do.

The Role of Heritage and Tradition (Turāth) in the Search for Muslim Identity

Series: Beyond Coexistence

Ebrahim Moosa
November 2, 2017November 3, 2017

Without careful nurturing and dedicated attention to the past as well as the present, tradition becomes an instrument of power, and a source of learned ignorance.

Eternal Enmities: A Jewish Decolonial Re-Evaluation of Western Altruism

Series: Decolonizing Narratives

Santiago Slabodsky
October 31, 2017February 1, 2024

The Jewish-Muslim case is one of many that invite us to unveil what has been hidden, contest what has been naturalized, and move beyond modern/colonial liberal narratives.

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