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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.

Diplomacy as Hypocrisy: The Biya System in Rome and at the Vatican

Ludovic Lado
May 1, 2017May 1, 2017

May the time come when every head of State who goes to meet the Pope and every bishop or priest fears hearing the prophetic message.

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